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The 26th annual Screamfest® Horror Film Festival will take place at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.

Some of the largest horror online publications have called it the "Sundance of Horror."

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Screamfest® Horror Film Festival is the largest and longest running horror film festival in the United States. Paranormal Activity was discovered and premiered at the festival in 2007.

The festival showcases new genre [...]








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Published: 19 Jan 2023
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Message To Man

Deadline: 18 Jun 2023

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HIGHLIGHTED

International Festival

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Feature film festival

The 36th Message to Man International Festival of documentary, short fiction, animated, and experimental films will take place from 16 to 24 October 2026 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Over the years, the Festival has hosted distinguished figures of world cinema, including Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Claude Lanzmann, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Paolo Sorrentino, Alan Berliner, Eric Roberts, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Abdellatif Kechiche, Udo Kier, and many others.

With its history spanning three decades of cinema development, Message to Man was founded in 1989 in Leningrad by filmmaker Mikhail Litvyakov, who now serves as the Honorary President of the Festival.

In 2010, Alexei Uchitel, a renowned director of documentaries and feature films, assumed the role [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



Saint-Petersburg, Russia



 
 
 
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Published: 19 Jan 2023
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GFFF - Galician Freaky Film Festival

Deadline: 12 Jun 2023

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MELIES Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

The Galician Freaky Film Festival is the ultimate freak film and culture event. International in scope and specialised in fantasy cinema with themes of horror, science fiction or any subgenre that can be framed within the “freak” concept.

Founded in 2017 and based in Vigo, the GFFF showcases carefully selected films that are usually excluded from conventional distribution, presenting world and international premieres never before seen in Galicia, and also offering parallel activities such as workshops, professional meetings and special sessions for new talents.

The GFFF is a Competitive Member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF), a global network of genre film festivals spanning 21 countries and more than 800,000 attendees per year. This membership allows [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



Vigo, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 17 Jan 2023
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Caostica International Shortfilm and Music Video Festival

Deadline: 10 Apr 2023

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GOYA Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

Caostica International Short Film and Music Video Festival has been recognized by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain as a qualifying festival in the short film categories for the Goya Awards.

Prizes: 6.500 euros (check the rules).

Caostica is an International Shortfilm an Music Video Festival that takes place in Bilbao (Basque Country) with these sections: Videozinema (Fiction Shortfilms), Animation and Videoclip (Music Video).
All prizes are given by a professional jury except of Bizarre Prize. The Caostica Association will award the Bizarre Prize to the participant whom best represents the fresh, innovative, quirky, irreverent, Martian, jokester, weird, risky, brave and daring spirit that characterizes this festival, regardless of the section in [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bilbao, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 17 Jan 2023
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FESTIVAL COURT METRANGE

Deadline: 14 May 2023

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Short film festival

In 2003, the non-profit created the International Strange and Unusual Fantasy Short Film Festival, Court Métrange.

The event offers a creative harbor for authors wherein to expose and endorse their ideas. With an irrefutable penchant for a different form of filmmaking, these motion picture partisans fascinate countless audiences, the latter of whom paradoxically struggle to reap the same attention.

The purpose of the Court Métrange Festival is, ultimately, threefold, boasting: a place to screen, a place to scream, letting its "cult" shorts thrive, and a place whose limitless resources endeavor to not only emphasize the credentials of those having fought to make Fantasy film what it is today, but also attribute to them what is rightfully theirs. Court Métrange has become [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



RENNES, France



 
 
 

 
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Published: 16 Jan 2023
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11th Galapán Film Festival Santiago-Pontones

Deadline: 31 May 2023

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QUALIFYING FESTIVAL FOR THE GOYA AWARDS OF THE SPANISH FILM ACADEMY.

Santiago-Pontones International Short Film Festival (Jaén).

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Santiago de la Espada, Spain



 
 
 
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Published: 10 Jan 2023
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LA Shorts International Film Festival

Deadline: 02 Jun 2023

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LA Shorts International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious and largest international short film festivals in the world.

The Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences OSCAR®, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) presenters of the Canadian Screen Awards and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain (Goya Awards).

We are proud to have 68 filmmakers from LA Shorts earned an Academy Award® nomination.

Celebrating 30 years, LA Shorts is the longest-running short film festival in Los Angeles. The festival screens 400 films and attracts over 10,000 attendees each year including Hollywood industry professionals and emerging independent filmmakers.

LA [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Burbank, United States



 
 
 

 
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Published: 31 Dec 2022
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Московский международный кинофестиваль - Moscow International Film Festival

Deadline: 17 Feb 2023

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Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is one of the oldest world film forums (the second after the Venice Film Festival). The Moscow International Film Festival has been leading its history since 1935. Then the chairman of the jury was Sergey Eisenstein, and the film Chapaev opened the first festival. However, in subsequent years the festival was not held regularly.

Therefore, the Moscow International Film Festival has officially counted down since 1959, when it was renewed and turned into a regular event - it was carried out over odd years, alternating with the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 1999 MIFF became an annual event.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Moscow, Russia



 
 
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Published: 31 Dec 2022
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Fascurt, Festival de cortometrajes del Masnou

Deadline: 15 May 2023

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ONLY FOR FILM-MAKERS FROM SPAIN // SOLO PARA CINEASTAS ESPAÑOLES

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



EL MASNOU, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 21 Dec 2022
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Festival Internacional De Cine Y Derechos Humanos De Valencia - Humans Fest de Fundación por la Justicia

Deadline: 20 Mar 2023

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The International Film and Human Rights Festival - HUMANS FEST, held in Valencia since 2008, is one of the main initiatives promoted by the Fundación por la Justicia. Its aim is to bring audiovisual culture closer to both the general public and especially vulnerable audiences, while advocating for human rights and denouncing their violations worldwide. Additionally, it features a series of activities with a social focus.

The 17th edition of HUMANS FEST will take place from May 28 to June 6, 2026.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Valencia, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 18 Dec 2022
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Cerdanya Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Apr 2023

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Cerdanya Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Cerdanya, is a Festival specialized in the documentary, fiction and animation genre, short and feature films, consisting of competitive international sections, non-competitive sections and parallel activities. All the films that are part of the different sections will be selected by the Festival programmers.

Cerdanya Film Festival qualifies for Premios Goya – Spanish Film Academy in Best Spanish Shortfilm, in Fiction, Animation and Documentary categories.

The 16th edition of the Cerdanya Film Festival will be held from 1st to 17th August 2026.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Puigcerdà, Spain