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Deadline
31 May 2021


Published: 11 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Wars & Peace Film Fest

Nettuno, Italy


Guerre & Pace Filmfest is a unique review in Italy with a recurring character dedicated to war and peace cinema with the screening of films, documentaries, shorts in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the presentation of books in collaboration with the main publishing houses.

The nineteenth edition will be held as in previous editions at the suggestive setting of Forte Sangallo in Nettuno from 26 July to 1 August 2021.



Short film festival


 Documentary



 
Logo of V International Archaeology Film Festival of Castilla y León

Deadline
30 Jun 2021


Published: 11 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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V International Archaeology Film Festival of Castilla y León

Zamora, Spain


SHORT FILM

In this category may participate any proyect relating to archaeological and historical topics. The Projects will be limitated at a maximun time of 30 minutes. May be presented in any language. All those films wich aren’t made in Spanish must be presented with the corresponding subtitles.

DOCUMENTARY

In this category may participate any proyect relating to archaeological and historical topics. The Proyects will last more than 30 minutes and not more of 90 minutes. May be presented in any language. All those films wich aren’t made in Spanish must be presented with the corresponding subtitles.


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 Documentary



 
Logo of SiciliAmbiente Film Festival

Deadline
30 Apr 2021


Published: 10 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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SiciliAmbiente Film Festival

Palermo, Italy


The 16th annual SiciliAmbiente Film Festival will take on July 15-20, 2024.

The aim of SiciliAmbiente Film Festival is to promote independent cinema and documentary cinema, and to encourage creative exchange and networking among the directors.

This Festival is organized and sponsored by Demetra Produzioni SAS and CANTIERE 7 Cultural Association, and made possible by public and private partners and sponsors who share in the same ethical principles of the Festival.
Films dealing with the following themes may participate: Environment, Anthropology, Human Rights, Biodiversity, War, Integration, Civil Rights, Sustainable Development and the Relationship between Man and the Environment.

The Festival is divided into different sections:

Documentary Film contest (minimum rt: 31 minutes)

Fiction Feature Film contest (minimum rt: 70 minutes)

Short Film contest for Fiction and Documentary shorts (maximum rt: 31 minutes)

Animated short film contest (maximum rt: 31 minutes)

Overview of documentaries, fiction, short films and several tributes, retrospectives, seminars and panel discussions
The Selection Committee will choose based on the quality of writing and images and the general use of a creative language identifying artistic documentary cinema.

DOCUMENTARY CONTEST – FICTION FILM CONTEST - SHORT FILM CONTEST - ANIMATED FILM CONTEST

Submission requirements

Documentaries (31’ or more), Feature films (70’ or more), Short and Animated films (31’ or less) of any nationality may be submitted for the selection process, provided that they were completed after January 1, 2023.

If selected, the format for the projection of the film may be:
· Unencrypted DCP
· Blu-ray DVD
· Apple ProRes File
· File H264

Other formats must be approved by the Festival Management.
Screening fees may not be requested and will not be paid for the contests.

Films in any language other than Italian must be subtitled in English or Italian and, if selected for the final phase of competition, they must be sent to the festival with the requested presentation materials and the English dialogue list.

Films to be presented in the Short film and Animated film sections must be shorter than 31 minutes or they will be excluded.

No screening fees can be requested by the representatives of the films submitted for the contest.
The Festival may choose to invite selected films into the contest.

Some of the films not selected for the short film and animated film contests may be selected for a non-competitive section.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Hacer Encima

Deadline
01 Jul 2021


Published: 10 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Hacer Encima

Statte, Spain


For the year 2021, the Association for Cinematographic Culture “MOONWATCHERS” of Statte (Taranto, Italy) organizes the “Moonwatchers Film Festival” contest, which rewards the best short films.

It is important for us to mantain the continuity of our Festival, even in these hard times.
In the last edition we attended to every law and health reccommendation to ensure a safe and joyful vision of the movies we received.

This contest is for Directors and Film-makers from all the
world, who produced their works from January 1st, 2018 onwards. The deadline to send the movies is set to July 1st, 2021.


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 Experimental



 
Logo of Laberinto Independent Film Festival

Deadline
30 Apr 2021


Published: 10 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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Laberinto Independent Film Festival

Tunja, Colombia


Only for Colombian Film-makers. FESTIVAL LABERINTO is a film festival for those who live and breath cinema, wether as film critics, productors or cinephiles. We want to build new possibilities for audiovisual arts in general, so the inherent diversity of our ideas and sensibilities can be expressed. Open social environments are required to reach the objectives of this festival; our purpose is to create such environments, especially in Boyacá, and potentially in the rest of the country. Coming from a formative, divulgative and creative standpoint, we extend an invitation to all of the people interested in filmaking.

We want you to put your imagination in motion.

Bolder and more complex ways of living and exploring cinema are just around the corner. We would like to explore those new possibilities with you. Those who are interested in our event will be able to submit their work in the folllowing open calls.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Alberoandronico Award

Deadline
30 Jun 2021


Published: 10 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Alberoandronico Award

Roma, Italy


In section M you participate with a free themed short film lasting no more than 15 minutes including titles.

Films are allowed in both Italian and foreign languages; the latter must be subtitled in Italian.

  The author assumes all responsibility for the filming carried out including the use of non-original music protected by copyright, all civil and criminal liability of the film produced and declares to have the legal availability of the film, authorizes its public screening without claiming no compensation, freeing the Alberoandronic Association from any present and future liability.

The Association reserves the right to use the works sent for exclusively cultural purposes, without claiming anything from the Author. For this section it is necessary to attach the specific completed and signed release form.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Al Este International Film Festival

Deadline
14 Mar 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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Al Este International Film Festival

Lima, Peru


Al Este is a festival coming out from the french festival A l'Est du Nouveau. Present in Peru since 2008, the mission of the festival is to promote film culture of the other Europe, that relegated to independent circuits, owning however, an invaluable wealth and tradition. Thus, Al Este seeks to spread the filmography of Europe, Latin America and Asia.


HIGHLIGHTED!

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of AVANCA - International Meeting of Cinema, Tv, Video and Multimedia

Deadline
15 Apr 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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AVANCA - International Meeting of Cinema, Tv, Video and Multimedia

Avanca, Portugal


AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.

An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.

The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.

AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.

Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.

The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.

AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.

Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked these last 10 years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of Holland short Film Festival

Deadline
18 Jun 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
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Holland short Film Festival

Bergen, Netherlands


Holland Film Festival 2024 is open for submission. The festival accepts all genres and styles as long as they are short. (max 30 min.)

Hollan Film Festival takes place in the beautifull town of Bergen north of Amsterdam. It is a small yet prestigious and well visited festival. We love fresh, new and original films of high quality.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
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Deadline
20 Jun 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Butoni Film Fest

Valencia, Spain


The Butoni Fest is an international cultural festival that will be held in Valencia on September 14 to September 22, 2024.

The main objective of Butoni Fest is to be a festival for everyone, a festival of synergies, a meeting place where young filmmakers project their works together with established filmmakers from the industry and exchange concerns, where emerging musicians share their music supported by illustrations by young people. artists, where children who dream of being actors learn how to make a movie. A place where present and future go hand in hand. That's Butoni Fest.

In addition to providing an opportunity to different artists in other cultural branches: musicians, actors, writers, painters, sculptors... for the exhibition, recognition, dissemination and enhancement of their works.

The festival, founded in 2021, is directed by Javier Guillot and organized by Butoni Films, with the support of the CCCC and a selected group of private sponsors.


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 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of The Big Filón

Deadline
20 Dec 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
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The Big Filón

gandia, Spain


This is our fourth edition of the Festival.

It is going to be hold annualy, in December.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of International Cine a la calle Short Film Festival

Deadline
08 Apr 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films

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International Cine a la calle Short Film Festival

Barranquilla, Colombia


This call addresses every person, collective, agencies, exhibitions and producers that have produced and/or own the exhibition rights of audivisual pieces of short length and of documentary, argumentative, experimental and videoart nature; on movie film, video or animation formats.

In 2024, this event will take place from August 13 to 17 in Barranquilla, Colombia. You are all welcome to visit us!


HIGHLIGHTED!

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Robinson Film Awards (Monthly Film Festival)

Deadline
27 Jan 2022


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Robinson Film Awards (Monthly Film Festival)

Naples, Italy


Robinson Film Awards also know as RFA is a monthly International Film Festival designed for filmmakers to promote their work through an online platform. "RFA" is an opportunity for filmmakers to present their films to the general public, to receive an assessment and feedback by a professional jury, and to attract the attention of the mass media, movie producers and sponsors.

Our goal is to planning live screenings in Italy for monthly winners after the pandemic issues.

We accept all kind of short films. Each 2 months our judges, watch, review and rate the submitted films. The Best Films announced as the winner of the month.

The jury is composed by award winning filmmakers, actors and journalists.

RFA gives an opportunity for each filmmaker to find their shortcut to fame and recognition. You won’t have to wait for a professional assessment for the whole year: we announce the winners every 2 months.

Official Selected movies receive an official Laurel and the Monthly Winner an official digital certificate. All the selected movies will be scheduled and posted on our website and social pages!


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of CineSmart - International Film Festival with Cell Phones

Deadline
04 Mar 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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CineSmart - International Film Festival with Cell Phones

Arequipa, Peru


We seek to democratize cinematic creation. You just have to have a smartphone, want to learn, create and share your stories.

We invite you to be part of the first version of CineSmart - Film Festival with Cell Phones that will be held from June 06 to 09, 2022 in Arequipa, Peru.

Created and presented by Anaqueronte Cultural Association.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of On the Road Film Festival

Deadline
15 Sep 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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On the Road Film Festival

Rome, Italy


“A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken on all the consistency
and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own” G. Deleuze, F. Guattari, 1987

Based at the legendary DETOUR Arthouse Cinema, in the heart of Rome since 1997, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema - fiction, documentary and experimental - presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism.

We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination.

The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area.

OTRFF competition consists of two sections: THE ROAD (Features and Mid-length films =>30') and SHORT>CUTS (short films <30')

Features and Short Films in competition will be screened in late 2021 or in early 2022 at Detour Cinema in Rome, depending on the progress of the covid pandemic. 

In respect of impediments resulting from the persistence of the pandemic emergency, the main festival events, the award ceremony and the screenings of the winning films will take place live online in "virtual cinema" mode.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Ull Nu Festival Audiovisual Andorra

Deadline
11 Apr 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Ull Nu Festival Audiovisual Andorra

Andorra la Vella, Andorra


Festival Ull Nu:

It is a space to encourage, spread and fertilize creativity, art, culture and young talent.

It is a meeting point, exchange and dialogue between young creators coming from all over the Pyrenees and professionals from the film and audiovisual industry.

It is an alternative, original and innovative leisure proposal that aims to promote and bring to Andorra new proposals and audiovisual trends.

It is a unique experience, a festival of cinema and audiovisual.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Festival of Fine Shorts

Deadline
07 Mar 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Festival of Fine Shorts

São Paulo, Brazil


The Fine Shortfilm Festival is a non-competitive shortfilm event, hosted in São Paulo, addressed to the works of the new generations of Brazilian filmmakers.


Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Experimental



 
Logo of 50 edition FILMETS Badalona Film Festival

Deadline
31 May 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films

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50 edition FILMETS Badalona Film Festival

Badalona, Spain


FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, is an international short film festival with 50 years of history. It is a reference festival in Catalonia awarded by the Barcelona Provincial Council and is a prescriber of the Goya awards.

Badalona celebrated the first edition of the old festival in 1971, on a biennial basis. The Amateur Cinema Section of the Museum was the entity that organized that international contest with the name 'Badalona World Amateur Cinema' and also held other contests such as Images (for members of the entity), the National Festival of Filmed Song (state wide) and the Religious Film and Human Values Contest (state wide). The entity collaborated with the main amateur film festivals in Catalonia, such as those held in Barcelona (Union of Amateur Filmmakers, the Catalonia Excursionist Center or the Barcelona Photographic Association) and others in Figueras, Terrassa, Valls, Mataró, Manresa, Vilanova i la Geltrú, etc.

These festivals screened films in 8 mm, Super8, Single 8 and 16 mm, where works by amateur filmmakers Tomàs Mallol, Rafael Marcó, Enric Menal, Miquel Esparbé, Jan Baca, Toni Garriga, Tomàs Freixas, Arnal S. Licer, Josep Parra, Enrique Montón, Agustí and Rafel Argelich, Joan Vidal, etc. At the end of the 1980s, a new association was created, with the name of Badalona Independent Filmmakers, which took charge of the new festival, the Badalona International Film and Video Festival, until the end of the 1990s.

In 2001, the Badalona City Council and Badalona Comunicació SA, with the support of historical members of the festival, launched the 27th edition of the new festival, under the name of FILMETS Badalona Film Festival. That new edition had 400 registered short films and 2,000 viewers and was the starting point and the new benchmark for short film festivals in Catalonia.

From then on, FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has been a benchmark not only for the short film festivals with the most international coverage and echo, but it is also a meeting point for filmmakers and, above all, for the most loyal public. Since its recovery, it has had the participation of the main short filmmakers from Catalonia and from the rest of the state and in its twenty-two years of the new stage, true film talents have participated who have subsequently stood out with the production of feature films with worldwide impact.

Some of the directors who have participated in the festival are Álex de la Iglesia, Fernando Trullols, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Kiko Maillo, Judit Colell, Mar Coll, Javier Fesser or Àlex Pastor among others, as well as the participation of prominent international filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Pedro Almodóvar. It has also given way to the new current generations of short filmmakers such as Bill Plympton, JA Bayona, Ari Sandel or Carla Simón, among others. The international jury has been made up of people of recognized prestige in the audiovisual scene such as Manuel Huerga, Josep Maria Forn, Roland Nguyen, Joao García, Ventura Pons, Antoni Verdaguer, Lluís Marco, Roger Coma, Romà Gubern, Florence Keller, Judit Colell, Jaume Figueras, Llorenç Soler, Sílvia Quer, Carles Bosch, Albert Solé and Oriol Sala-Patau, among others. In recent years, professionals from the short film distribution sector have attended, such as Marvin&Wayne, Freak, Kimuak, Catalan Films, Agence du Court Métrage, Nikita Distribution, France TV, RTP, or festival programmers such as Medit, Mecal, Fec Cambrils-Reus , Cittadella di Corto, Biennale di Vicenza, Off Courts Trouville L'Alternativa, My first festival, OH, LA LA!, BCN Sports Film. They have also played an important role in the film schools of Catalonia (ESCAC, Bande à Part, CECC, 9 Zeros, ECIB, FX Animation, EMAV) or the renowned Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany, ESRA, ESMA, Arte FX, Les Gobelins of France USC California, etc.

The festival is also a platform for our filmmakers, since the presence of the festival in the main international markets (WSFF Toronto, Regard Saguenay Quebec, Short Film Corner Cannes, Tous Courts Aix -en-Provence, Off-Courts Trouville, Clermont-Ferrand , BISFF Brussel·les, etc) has made it possible for FILMETS Badalona Film Festival to be a catalyst for the genre, also promoting its own productions. Directors and producers of short films that have subsequently won the Oscar, or Goya, Gaudí, César, Donatello, etc., have attended and participated.

FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has maintained relationships and collaborations with the main festivals in the world since its origins, from the USC of Southern California, the New York Film Institute, the London Film School, among others, but mainly the most important producers and distributors of independent short films (Premium Films, European New Sales, Marvin&Wayne, Freak, Agencia du Cortmétrage, Interfilm Berlin, Kurtz Film Hamburg, Ouat Media, etc.)

In this regard, the festival is active throughout the year and beyond the dates of the celebration it has organized sessions all over the world, with anthological sessions in several European cities. FILMETS develops year after year a pedagogical work of the best cinema, with contents that have been carefully worked on by the programming team. At the same time, members of the organizing committee of the festival have actively participated in different conferences, round tables, professional meetings and as members of the official jury of the festivals: ImagineNative Toronto, WSFF Toronto, Regard Saguenay Quebec, Off-Courts Trouville/Deauville, Très Courts Aix -en-Provence, Short Film Corner Cannes, Huesca International Festival, Docs Barcelona, Cryptshow Badalona, BISFF Busan South Korea, Clermont-Ferrand, etc. On the other hand, they have also participated as speakers or moderators in: Short Film Corner, Clermont-Ferrand, Quebec, Trouville, and in different exhibitions and festivals in Catalonia, as well as a member of the short film commission of the Gaudí Award by the Catalan Cinema Academy.

FILMETS Badalona Film Festival has promoted all over the world not only the festival brand, but also the main short film festivals of Catalunya Film Festivals CFF (founding member).


GOYA!

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Logo of Fantosfreak Film Festival

Deadline
18 Apr 2021


Published: 09 Feb 2021
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Fantosfreak Film Festival

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain


The first and the most important Freak Festival in Spain. We also accept horror and fantastic film. With an audience of 1.800 people every day from monday to friday and we would love to screen your shortfilms.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other



 
Logo of Sopot Film Festival

Deadline
15 Apr 2021


Published: 08 Feb 2021
 Does NOT have submission fees
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Feature films


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Sopot Film Festival

Sopot, Poland


Sopot Film Festival is an international film festival that has been organized since 2001. The Festival's rich programe consists of numerous film shows, meetings with filmmakers, exhibitions, workshops, silent cinema live concerts and music events. The Festival presents works of the European cinema as well as the recent and most interesting world cinema productions and world cinema classics. It introduces a variety of film productions as well as renowned directors and their work to the public. It also outlines some of the latest cinema trends. Each year movies awarded at the most well-known film festivals in the world such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Sundance and Toronto are being presented at the Festival.

The Festival aims at familiarizing the public with film premieres as well as those pictures that have never been broadly distributed in Poland or have only been screened at film festivals. Filmmakers, industry reps and cinema lovers from Poland and abroad come to the Festival each year. With each edition it has been more and more widely commented on by the local media and Poland-wide as well as abroad and by the film industry media. It also attracts more and more accredited journalists.

Different Sopot Film Festival events are taking place simultaneously in some of the most important cultural venues of the city. Film screenings, meetings with filmmakers and workshops are organized in Multikino, Sopot National Art Gallery, Scena Kameralna Theatre, Na Plazy Theatre and in the Sopot Forest Opera.


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 Fiction