The 3rd Queer Audiovisual Residency 2026, organized by Fundación Cuórum, is accepting applications until October 13, 2025. It is aimed at filmmakers and visual artists of any nationality with projects in development—including fiction, documentary, audiovisual essay, experimental, or hybrid formats, whether short, medium, or feature-length. The main goal is to strengthen project portfolios through conceptual, creative, and technical support, with a focus on inclusion, sexual and gender diversity, social justice, empathy, and critical thinking.
The program comprises two phases: a virtual phase from February to March 2026 with lectures and one-on-one mentoring; followed by a five-day in-person phase in November 2026 in Mexico City, offering professional guidance, specialized training, and networking opportunities. During this in-person segment, the Foundation will cover accommodation and meals for up to two people per project; travel to Mexico City is the responsibility of the participants. Additionally, selected projects must pay a one-time administrative fee of USD 200.
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Queer Audiovisual Residency
The Extremadura Film Residency is an international development lab for feature film projects in the development stage. The program is open to filmmakers from Spain, Extremadura, Portugal, and Ibero-America, accepting fiction, documentary, and animation projects. Over the course of one year, participants receive tailored mentoring, script and project development support, in-person residencies, online consultations, and access to industry activities, including participation in MAFIZ at the Málaga Film Festival and other professional events.
The 2026–2027 call for applications is open from July 1 to September 1, 2026. The residency program runs from November 2026 through November 2027, combining on-site sessions with online mentoring. The program is exclusively focused on feature-length projects in development and is designed to strengthen their creative vision while supporting financing, production planning, and international market positioning.
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Extremadura Film Residency
Som Cinema Lab/Pro 2026 is a training and professional laboratory aimed at screenwriters and directors from the province of Lleida or Terres de Ponent, Spain. The call will be open from June 14 to September 6, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
Four short-film scripts written in Catalan will be selected. Projects must have at least a completed, sequenced, and dialogued first version, be unpublished, and not have been filmed. The script may have a maximum of 20 pages. No specific film genre is specified.
The program aims to improve scripts through working sessions and provide tools to present and defend projects before production companies. Finalists must participate in all Lab/Pro activities and selected Som Cinema 2026 activities. The festival will take place in Lleida from October 21 to 25, 2026, but the exact dates of the Lab/Pro within that period are not specified.
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Som Cinema Lab/Pro
CIIF Market 2026 (Canary Islands International Film Market) will take place from October 26 to 30, 2026, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. It is an international co-production market designed to connect audiovisual projects with producers, distributors, sales agents, funding organizations, and investors through pitching sessions, one-on-one meetings, and networking activities.
The call is open to international submissions and welcomes fiction and documentary projects, as well as transmedia, crossmedia, and multiplatform proposals whose main component is a cinematic work. Eligible formats include feature films, series, miniseries, and docuseries in development.
The submission period runs from July 8 to September 6, 2026, with September 6, 2026, as the final application deadline.
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CIIF Market
The 9th Bilbao Professional Documentary Film Forum – ZINEBI Networking 2026 will take place in Bilbao, Spain, from November 23 to 26, 2026. The call for applications will be open from June 25 to September 9, 2026.
The call is aimed at filmmakers from the Basque Country and the rest of Spain, meaning it accepts national applications. It focuses on documentary feature film projects, both at an early stage of project development and at the completion stage, provided that projects in the latter category already have a preliminary cut.
ZINEBI Networking operates as a professional forum for documentary projects, covering project development and Work in Progress/completion. The accepted format is a documentary feature film project.
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ZINEBI Networking
