For festival organisers


76% of last year’s most successful films and over 186000 films selected by the best film festivals use Festhome









Find the latest calls for entries for film festivals all over the world




The Dallas International Film Festival

Logo of The Dallas International Film Festival

Join Us for the Dallas International Film Festival 2025, April 25 - May 1, 2025!

The 19th annual Dallas International Film Festival (DIFF 2025) will present the finest narrative and documentary features, along with short films, from around the globe. DIFF offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to gain recognition on the international stage.

The 19th annual Dallas International Film Festival doesn’t just screen films. The interaction between story tellers, audiences and the Texas community is what we strive to develop both during the festival and throughout the year.

DIFF 2025 is a global adventure that features premiere screenings, nightly red carpets, eye-opening documentaries, intriguing short films, filmmaker panels, award presentations, daily filmmaker happy hours, and [...]








   Manage projection files of up to 20 GB


   Multilingual environment

   Notify your selection results easily and efficiently


   Filters (duration, production, country...)




Screening Room
Watch entries in the best possible streaming quality

Statistics
Check statistics about all your submissions

Film data
Watch each submitted film and check its basic information at a glance



























Powerful tools
Manage your festival selection process: Selection notification to all submitters, selection statuses, mass mailing...

HD streaming
Online HD streaming of all submitted films which may also be downloaded for offline curating.

Entry fee management
We take care of the accounting and send your entry fees each month, so that you can focus on evaluating films.

Download film data
Access data from submitters and their films in Excel, CSV, export to your database or even synchronised with Eventival.

Non exclusive
We do not require any kind of exclusivity, keep using any other submissions method, alongside Festhome.

Security
The latest security protocols to protect the privacy of our users and their films. We care about keeping it safe.

We dont sell your information
Festhome does not sell the data of its users to third parties for promotional or other activities.

Accounts for jurors and curators
Free accounts for all members of your festival, who may be assigned all or specific films, sections and even vote or tag films.

Excellent support
Quick, helpful and reachable support that keeps being praised by both festivals and filmmakers.







VoD platform for your festival online



   Set it up now!



















Find Academy Award, European Film Award, BAFTA, Goya, Méliès d’Or, Cartoon d’Or, and other FIAPP recognized festivals.



Most recent calls for entries and upcoming deadlines.


 
Logo of FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival
Published: 24 Aug 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films



FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Jun 2023

Call for entries

HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

In recent decades, and at one time to the emergence of new technologies that have ended up scanning most of the processes of the film, the documentary has known a notorious and systematic growth around the world. In our country, and for more than one decade, a production before linked almost exclusively to fiction has been swelling their ranks with new topics, new approaches, new geographies, new dilemmas.

It is in this context that FIDBA is proposed as the 1st. International Film Festival dedicated to this genre which films with the same fans - as long as we believe that the forms and the doings of the documentary film are different from those of the fiction - may meet and dialogue among them and with the public. If the documentary is a meeting point for the FIDBA, it is [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Other  Experimental



Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina



 
 
 
 
Logo of European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux
Published: 23 Aug 2022
Film festival
Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux

Deadline: 23 Jan 2023

Call for entries

HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

Short film festival

DATE AND LOCATION

The 28th edition of the European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux will take place from March 27th to 28th 2024. The projection nights will take place at the UGC Ciné-Cité cinema in Bordeaux.

GOALS

The European Short Film Festival of Bordeaux aims to promote the short film format to the Région Aquitaine's audience. It facilitates the access to cinema for a large public, from all ages. It also supports the discovery of talented directors coming from all over Europe.,It’s a way for the filmmakers to be appreciated by a jury, no matter if they are mere enthusiasts or professionals.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Talence, France



 
 
 

 
Logo of Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Published: 22 Jul 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films



Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

Deadline: 01 Mar 2023

Call for entries

HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

We are the U.S. west coast premier destination festival for films such as fest favorites like Damsel starring Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska, to world premiere new discoveries like Netflix favorite Abducted in Plain Sight and many more.

We are dedicated to discovering and supporting the next generation of filmmakers. There’s a reason MovieMaker magazine has named Mammoth Lakes Film Festival as one of the “Top 50 Film Festival’s Worth Your Entry Fee” for the last nine years in a row: We put our filmmakers first!

We focus on bringing top-level press and industry professionals to the festival to get maximum exposure for our filmmakers. Past attendees included Variety, Hollywood Reporter, The LA Times, A24, Greenwich Entertainment, MovieMaker Magazine, and more.

The 11th [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Mammoth lakes, United States



 
 
 
 
Logo of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival
Published: 20 Jul 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films



Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Apr 2023

Call for entries

OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film festivals in Portugal, reaching its 33rd edition in 2025.

Assuming as the main objective the promotion and diffusion of cinematographic and audiovisual works, selected according to quality criteria, Curtas Vila do Conde focuses on the discovery of new films and filmmakers and also on the recognised legacy of Cinema.

Short film competitions with animations, documentaries, fiction films, experimental films, and music videos, produced in 2024 or 2025, no longer than 60 minutes (exception made, under 30 minutes of duration, for Curtinhas – youth and children; My Generation – competitive section aimed for teenagers; Take One! – student films; and Music Videos), preferably with subtitles in [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Vila do Conde, Portugal



 
 
 

 
Logo of Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Versión Española – La 2 / SGAE
Published: 14 Jul 2022
Film festival
Does NOT have submission fees
Short films



Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Versión Española – La 2 / SGAE

Deadline: 01 Jan 2023

Call for entries

HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

Short film festival

El programa “Versión Española” (TVE) y la Fundación SGAE (SGAE), convocan el XXII Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes “Versión Española / SGAE”, orientado a la difusión y fomento de los nuevos autores en el sector de la creación audiovisual

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Madrid, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of Brussels Short Film Festival
Published: 08 Jul 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films



Brussels Short Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Jan 2023

Call for entries

OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Brussels Short Film Festival is an exhibition intended for cinema lovers, both audience and professionals. The purpose is to promote and circulate short films and to generate contacts between audience, young directors and professionals.

Since 2018, the winner of the Great Prize of the International competition will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/ Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Brussels, Belgium



 
 
 

 
Logo of INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival
Published: 30 Jun 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films



Intersección - Festival Internacional de cine de A Coruña

Deadline: 15 Jul 2022

Call for entries

GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival is committed to the freest currents of auteur cinema. Its program welcomes independent films created from risk and innovation and offers the public the chance to see groundbreaking and vibrant works.

The festival explores new cinematographic languages and defends courage, diversity and curiosity in creation.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



A Coruña, Spain



 
 
 
 
Logo of Festival de Málaga
Published: 02 Jun 2022
Film festival
Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films



Festival de Málaga

Deadline: 15 Nov 2022

Call for entries

GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

1. OBJECTIVES

The objectives of Festival de Malaga are to disseminate and promote Spanish films and their general cultural sphere. In this sense, the Festival is also a platform for Latin American film productions. Its functions include hosting an event for the different professional sectors of films in Spanish (construed as films produced in Spain and all of Latin America, including Brazil) to boost their development and promote international sales.

In compliance with these objectives, the 28th Edition of Festival de Málaga will be held from 14th to 23rd March 2025.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Málaga, Spain



 
 
 

 
Logo of Alexandria Short Film Festival
Published: 02 Jun 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films



Alexandria Short Film Festival

Deadline: 15 Oct 2022

Call for entries

OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

- The festival provides accommodation and internal transportation during the festival period

Alexandria short film festival ( Egypt ) was founded by Alexandria Art Circle Association in order to give a chance for filmmakers to present their work to the public and this in the heart of Alexandria to be a lighthouse of cinema in the world.

The festival is held annually and its first edition was in 2015.

The festival aims to provide a suitable atmosphere to exchange experiences between filmmakers from all over the world and give opportunities for short filmmakers to present their films whether narrative, documentary, or animation in front of the audience, with the aim of conducting fruitful discussions between the filmmaker and the audience and providing a safe platform for [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Alexandria, Egypt



 
 
 
 
Logo of INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival
Published: 30 May 2022
Film festival
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films



Intersección - Festival Internacional de cine de A Coruña

Deadline: 31 May 2022

Call for entries

GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival is committed to the freest currents of auteur cinema. Its program welcomes independent films created from risk and innovation and offers the public the chance to see groundbreaking and vibrant works.

The festival explores new cinematographic languages and defends courage, diversity and curiosity in creation.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



A Coruña, Spain