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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.








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Published: 16 Mar 2024
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IBIZACINEFEST

Deadline: 12 Jan 2025

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The 8th edition of the International Independent Film Festival of Ibiza has developed several seus in the 5 municipalities of the Island, for first time with institutional support from the 5 City Councils, and the online version on the Filmin platform. The institutional support in Ibiza is total by adding the Departments of Culture and Tourism of the Consell Insular of Ibiza more various private sponsors in the Island.

Ibizacinefest has renewed its commitment to Ibiza and culture with a program of 132 national and international titles, exclusive premieres in Spain and with 90% of premieres in the Balearic Islands, targeted activities to professionals, shortfilms contests to discover and boost the local and Balearic talent, educational program with special screenings per [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



Ibiza, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 15 Mar 2024
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TEHRAN International Short Film Festival

Deadline: 05 Sep 2024

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In the name of the most supreme artist, the loving God.

TISFF, known as one of the world's most significant, renowned, and prestigious short film events and also an OSCARS® Qualifying short film festival, has been held for 40 consecutive years by IYCS.

IYCS is probably the world’s biggest and most comprehensive center for short film production and filmmaking training, with over 80 branches and a family of 250 thousand filmmakers and film graduates! Many of its graduates, rank among the top celebrated filmmakers in the world.

IYCS supports the production of more than 1,000 short films annually and trains more than 7,000 young filmmakers annually.

It has been winning numerous awards at prestigious international film festivals over the past four decades.

After holding and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



Tehran, Iran



 
 

 
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Published: 02 Mar 2024
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Cinergias, I Festival De Cine Iberoamericano - Edición Lanzamiento

Deadline: 10 Mar 2024

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La asociación cultural “Festhome con la cultura” con sede en Madrid, España, organiza la Edición Lanzamiento de Cinergias Festival de Cine Iberoamericano, que tiene como objetivo la promoción, difusión y reconocimiento de cineastas iberoamericanos para dar impulso a los jóvenes talentos con la divulgación de sus obras en formato corto, o de sus óperas primas de largometraje.

En esta primera edición de 2024 el festival busca generar una programación a partir de la reflexión, la multiplicidad de voces y discursos, y la diversidad de miradas.

El festival quiere constituirse en un espacio trascendente para un cine que sea relevantemente contemporáneo y que no tenga miedo de mirar al pasado ni al futuro.

Se trata de un festival no competitivo en su sección oficial de [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Madrid, Spain



 
 
 
Logo of Cortogenia International short film festival
Published: 14 Feb 2024
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Cortogenia

Deadline: 10 Sep 2024

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Cortogenia is short film festival held all year along.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Madrid, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 08 Feb 2024
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Grimmfest

Deadline: 02 Aug 2024

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Grimmfest 2024 is scheduled for 3rd to 6th October, teaming up with our regular venue partner Odeon Great Northern, for a live event.

Submissions will open from 1st November 2023 and all awards still apply.

Grimmfest has fast become one of the ‘go to’ genre film festivals in the World, now in its 16th year, the festival will see thousands of fans attend in early October at the Odeon Great Northern in Manchester UK. Hosting a plethora of horror, dark fantasy and sci-fi movie premieres alongside Q&As from many of the film makers and stars of the films; Grimmfest 2024 will be a massive celebration of genre cinema on the big screen.

The festival seeks the very best cutting edge and exciting new horror and genre movies to premiere in the north of the UK. Every selected film will [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Manchester, United Kingdom



 
 
 
 
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Published: 04 Feb 2024
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Fidba, Festival Internacional De Cine Documental de Buenos Aires

Deadline: 12 Aug 2024

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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  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina



 
 
 

 
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Published: 02 Feb 2024
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Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei

Deadline: 18 Aug 2024

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Molins Film Festival was established in 1973 in Molins de Rei (Barcelona). In November 2024 we will hold the 43rd edition.

Known as TerrorMolins, the Festival consists of a competitive Feature Films Official Sections, Short Films Official Section, Retrospectives, Documentaries, Live shows, Workshops, Networking/Pitching, projections for high-schools, projections for children... and one of the oldest horror movies marathon in the world, our 12 Hours Horror Movies Marathon (1973) ...

MHFF - Molins Horror Film Festival is one of the oldest festivals dedicated solely to horror in Spain and in Europe. The Festival is a member of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF).

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Molins de Rei, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 17 Nov 2023
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Festival de Málaga

Deadline: 22 Dec 2023

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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



Málaga, Spain



 
 
 

 
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Published: 03 Nov 2023
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Screamfest® Horror Film Festival

Deadline: 19 Aug 2024

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Calling all independent filmmakers! Screamfest® Film Festival is back for its 24th annual 10-day event, showcasing the best in horror cinema from around the world. Held this October at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Los Angeles, our festival is a must-attend event for horror fans and industry professionals alike.

Don't just take our word for it - some of the biggest horror publications have dubbed us the 'Sundance of Horror.' Our festival has also been featured in Moviemaker Magazine's lists of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee for 2023, 50 Best Genre Fests in the World 2021, 25 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee & 13 Film Festivals to Die For, and 30 Bloody Best Genre Fests in the World 2019.

As the largest and longest-running horror film festival in the United States, we [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Beverly Hills, United States



 
 
 
 
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Published: 19 Sep 2023
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Festival Internacional De Cine De Gijón / Xixón

Deadline: 25 Sep 2023

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GIJÓN/XIXÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FICX) aims to showcase a wide and varied selection of auteur cinema currently being produced worldwide and especially focused on innovative films and emerging filmmakers. High quality, personal, young in its shape, edgy and independent cinema at a creative level. During its selection process, the Festival will prioritise those works of interest that have their World, International, European or Spanish premiere at FICX as well as those that do not have commercial distribution agreements in the Spanish territory.

Acknowledged as “Specialized Festival” by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association)

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



Gijón, Spain