Logo of Aswan International Women Film Festival

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Aswan International Women Film Festival مهرجان أسوان الدولي لأفلام المرأة

ASWAN, Egypt


Aswan International Women Film Festival (est. 2017) is the first annual Egyptian film festival that focuses on cinematic works representing women’s issues, celebrating their success stories and supporting female filmmakers in Egypt and the MENA.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Film Festival Of Mumbai

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Film Festival Of Mumbai

Mumbai, India


In the city of culture, art, and Bollywood. FFM is dedicated to celebrating world-class cinema.

Film festival of Mumbai is home to independent cinema from around the world. FFM puts filmmakers first and provides the opportunity for recognition and publicity for quality films and documentaries. Our aim is to be an advocate for filmmakers with a unique vision and to promote their work by showcasing it to a large audience. which is why our mission is to carefully consider and select a wide range of films to promote to the indie film-loving crowd.

FFM will be a global adventure of the premiere, screenings, nightly red carpets, daring documentaries, eye-opening short films, We also focus films under special categories such as LGBTQIA+ films, Women Empowerment films, Students Films,

We invite you to add your voice to the conversation. At FFM filmmakers are invited to the festival to participate in a variety of programs, Q&A sessions and a series of panel discussions, Press Conferences. masterclasses where filmmakers have the opportunity to discuss their work and careers with a new generation of content creators.

FFM will be host to Opening & Closing Night Gale, Opening & Closing night Red Carpet , Press Interaction for participants, Official Portraits for nominated filmmakers, Festival Interviews of Nominated filmmakers, nightly parties, live music performances, filmmaker panels, award presentations, and an enhanced filmmaker hospitality program that includes city tours and more.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Jhajha International Film Festival

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Jhajha International Film Festival

Jhajha, India


Jha Jha International Film Festival brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away.

From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #JhaJhaIFF brings the Nouthern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Halo International Film Festival

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Halo International Film Festival

Saint-Petersburg, Russia


HALO International Film Festival is festival with live screenings. Every season we're selecting best works that will run in program and screened in the famous cultural space of Machty in Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg


On December 22, the Halo Festival will host a screening in Sevkabel port

The main goal of the Halo Festival is to create a space for introductions and future collaborations.

We want viewers and filmmakers to meet in person, so every season we hold Q&A sessions with the authors of the films. And after the screenings, we organize after-parties, where you can socialize and make new connections in an informal atmosphere.

Submit your applications and we'll see you at the festival!

●❂ IMDb Qualifying Festival ❂●
https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0032078/2023/1


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of FescinePielagos

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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FescinePielagos

Renedo de Piélagos, Spain


XVI Piélagos Short Film Festival "Piélagos en Corto"

The Piélagos City Council presents the 16th edition of its film festival, a showcase for local and international talent.

With competitive categories for Cantabria, Spain, International, and the UNESCO Costa Quebrada Geopark, the event celebrates the best in short films (fiction, up to 30 minutes).

Selected films will compete for awards including Best Cantabrian, National, and International Short Film, along with technical recognitions and the prestigious Geopark Award, honoring works connected to this natural heritage.

Submissions open until December 20, 2025 via Festhome.

The 2026 closing gala will feature screenings, professional meetings, and accommodation for nominees.

An essential event for emerging cinema, where landscape and storytelling come together!


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary



 
Logo of Porto Femme - International Film Festival

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Porto Femme - International Film Festival

Porto, Portugal


Porto Femme - International Film Festival is a place for the exhibition and dissemination of multiple and diverse artistic visions. A concrete action in the struggle for equal representation, focusing on new identity representations that seek to deconstruct stereotypes and erase invisibilities. The Festival aims to create a visibility space for women and/or non-binary identities in the cinematographic world, uniting them internationally.
Feminist solidarity is our guiding thread, and we want to continue creating feminist spaces through an innovative, intersectional, and intergenerational way of working characterized by support, diversity, creativity, and experimentation, serving as a point of sharing, debate, and creation for all those who love cinema.

These films intend to educate and inform the public about social and political issues that affect women and minority identities worldwide and give voice to several groups and struggles.

Our curation aims to reflect the diversity of genres, themes and languages. PORTO FEMME is a festival with a varied and appealing offer to the public, including competitive sessions, exhibitions, workshops, debates, Q & A sessions, exhibitions, among others.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



 
Logo of Skyline Benidorm Film Festival

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films

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Skyline Benidorm Film Festival

Benidorm, Spain


The 9th edition of the Skyline Benidorm Film Festival will take place in the city of Benidorm, from March 29 to April 5, 2025, in the city of Benidorm (Spain).


GOYA!

International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror



 
Logo of Saturnalia Fest 6

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Saturnalia Fest 6

Parana, Argentina


Saturnalia Fest, the last international film festival of the year, will take place on December 27th and will feature Uruguayan, Paraguayan, Venezuelan, Colombian, Chilean, and Argentine productions. One or two local productions (short films and feature films) will also be screened daily, directed by and starring Paraná residents.

Screenings will begin at 9:00 PM in a climate-controlled theater. There will also be a cafeteria service, and a specialized collectors' fair will be held daily, where the public can purchase records, comics, and toys from Marvel, DC, and Star Wars.


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Feature film festival


 Other



 
Logo of Celebrate the World

Deadline
20 Dec 2025


Published: 18 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Celebrate the World

Popayán, Colombia


We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for entries for the film festival "Celebrate the World: Holidays in Film". This festival aims to explore and celebrate the diversity of festivities and rituals around the world through the art of cinema.

We are looking for films, documentaries and short films that capture the essence of celebrations and traditions from different cultures, showing how people from different regions of the world commemorate their most significant events. Whether it is a traditional festival, a vibrant carnival, an ancestral ritual or a religious holiday, we want your work to be part of this unique experience.


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Boca International Jewish Film Festival

Deadline
19 Dec 2025


Published: 17 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Boca International Jewish Film Festival

Boca Raton, United States


This is our 12th Year running Jewish Film Festivals. Veteran Film Festival Directors Wendy Honig, Lesley Rich and Arleen Roberts invite you to join our new International Jewish Film Festival. We started our Jewish film adventure in 2014 at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, moving our group of dedicated screeners and patrons thereafter in 2017 to create the Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival with a commitment to grow the festival into one of the largest in the nation, and thereafter becoming the 2nd largest in the US in 2023.

WE DO NOT CHARGE A SUBMISSION FEE, UNLIKE OTHER MAJOR FESTIVALS IN FLORIDA. One of our purposes is to support filmmakers to get exposure for their films and find distribution opportunities.

We have now expanded to become a new International Jewish Film Festival that will be held in February and March with film programs planned year-round. Our large selection of exciting premiere films will be screened at Cinemark Palace 20 and Movies of Delray and Lake Worth. The Festival is a 501(c)3 charity organization formed as a celebration of Jewish / Israeli cinema. It is a gathering of filmmakers, film enthusiasts, and industry professionals who come together to appreciate and showcase the art of filmmaking. We reach out, excite and bring together our community with and through the power of films that showcase Jewish spirit, culture, traditions and humor.

The Festival features many World and US Premieres. The Festival is proud to introduce new films and filmmakers to distributors and its audiences, including both full length and short films. The Festival is run by Wendy Honig and Lesley Rich

Submissions are for consideration the festival to be held early 2026.


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Fantastic  Terror  Other



 
Logo of Bucharest Short Film Festival

Deadline
18 Dec 2025


Published: 16 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Bucharest Short Film Festival

Bucharest, Romania


Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF]

Independent is the key word for Bucharest Short Film Festival [BSFF], as it is founded by independent film professionals and focuses on independent artists in cinema, from all over the world. Bucharest Short Film Festival aims at recognizing, showcasing and spreading-out the most professional, most innovative, and most interesting fresh short international films, while always prioritizing independent short films.

Bucharest Short Film Festival will showcase some of the finest short international film in Narrative, Animation, Student, Experimental, Documentary, Music Video and Human Rights. We take to heart the amount of work put into each film. Therefore, the festival rules ensure that each movie is reviewed at least two times and well-debated by our team. Some of the awarded films will also be screened at other international film festivals.

Independent artists and their short films will meet an effervescent, and a quite experienced with cinema and film festivals audience, ensuring quality networking, and engaging opportunities, while the selected films will be determined by a panel of industry experts.

Bucharest Short Film Festival is building a strong community of interest around international independent film professionals and film lovers, in the heart of one of the most interesting emergent capitals of arts and culture, a city that never sleeps – Bucharest.

The festival will run film screenings, preceded or followed by artists Q&A, or networking side events, and, surely, parties, that all take place in various conventional and unconventional stages around Bucharest, as in cinemas, open spaces, and even summer theatres. Bucharest, you’ve heard about it, eventually – a city for young people. Well known for different things – like “Old Paris” nickname, in its bourgeois times, before the communism decades, or the world’s biggest parliamentary building [and one of the largest buildings of any kind], from its communism times, new architecture, or the explosive contemporary art scene, and the also quite impressive underground arts and music and nightlife communities, in its current times.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of 2026 ARFF Barcelona // International Awards

Deadline
18 Dec 2025


Published: 16 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films

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2026 Arff Barcelona // International Awards

Barcelona, Spain


Around International Awards ✈ Barcelona ✈ Paris ✈ Amsterdam ✈ Berlin.

Annual Independent event with 4 major programs for all Features, Shorts, Documentaries, Experimental, Commercial, Music Video, Animations, Student Films, TV, Series, and New Media. The international community evaluates the all-genre creations to serve ARFF Official Laurels and to certify the awarded filmmakers at the end of the annual festival run. Thus, all the ARFF Finalists will be mentioned multiple times to have the best out of the entire year altogether.

Submit today to participate in all 4 programs, regarding the unique system of ARFF International.

Submissions made via Festhome are getting evaluated and selected, directly for the yearly festival run and participating in the Official Certificate Program exclusively. Monthly selection is available on other associated platforms.

See you Around & Fest Regards


International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Quillota International Film Festival

Deadline
17 Dec 2025


Published: 15 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films


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Quillota International Film Festival

Quillota, Chile


The 6th Quillota International Film Festival is a film festival that, in its sixth edition, includes three short film competitions. Through film, the festival carries out training, production, and distribution activities in the city and province of Quillota throughout 2025 (April 20 to December 30). Its objective is to professionally promote high-quality cinematic content in various public spaces, cinemas, cultural centers, and schools in the province of Quillota, Valparaíso Region, Chile. This year, the festival again includes the final screening at the Leopoldo Silva Cultural Center in the city, screenings at the Health and Culture Promotion Center, and outdoor screenings and exhibitions in public spaces throughout the city of Quillota.


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation



 
Logo of Irreverent Film Festival

Deadline
17 Dec 2025


Published: 15 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Irreverent Film Festival

Los Angeles , United States


What Is the Irreverent Film Festival?

Have you made something bold? Awkward? Hysterical? Emotionally scarring in the best possible way? Perfect. You exactly what we’re looking for!

This is the film festival for creators who color outside the lines.

We celebrate the absurd, the offbeat, the unhinged, and the unexpectedly brilliant. We enjoy the unapologetic, cinematic chaos, and filmmakers who bend the rules. So if your film makes people laugh, think, gasp, squirm—or call their therapist—send it in.


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Feature film festival


 Other



 
Logo of Valèiff • València Indie Film Festival

Deadline
16 Dec 2025


Published: 14 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Valèiff • València Indie Film Festival

València, Spain


¡Hola! We are VALÈIFF • València Indie Film Festival, an international film festival with quarterly screening events in València - Spain, and member of the IBERIFF • Iberia Indie Film Festivals, which celebrates and showcases new productions and independent artists from all over the world in Madrid (MADRIFF), Barcelona (BARCIFF), València (VALÈIFF), Seville (SEVIFF), Lisbon (LISBIFF) and Montpellier (MONTIFF), that you can also find them here, in Festhome!

VALÈIFF shares the mission of its associate festivals of supporting emerging talents, encouraging artistic exploration, fostering networking, promoting cultural exchange and engaging the local community by providing a platform to present the work of independent filmmakers.

Fiction films, animation, documentary and experimental works of any genre and subject are welcome!


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Les Regards de l`Icart 2026

Deadline
16 Dec 2025


Published: 14 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Les Regards de l`Icart 2026

Paris, France


The unmissable event celebrating young filmmaking talents is back for its 8ᵗʰ edition!
Created by true cinema enthusiasts, Les Regards de L’ICART honors the creativity and boldness of new voices in short filmmaking.

For this new edition, our goal is to highlight emerging directors from around the world who present innovative, activist, and committed cinema through an original international selection.

The winner of the Grand Prix will receive a €1,500 grant to support the continuation of their film projects.

The Event :

Join us on March 10, 2026, at Le Chaplin Cinema for an exceptional evening of screenings, encounters, and discoveries.

For this edition, we are introducing two competitions:

A Very Short Film Competition, short films between 1 and 5 minutes,

A Short Film Competition, short films between 5 and 20 minutes.

Awards will be presented to the winners after the screenings, during a special evening at Le Chaplin Cinema.

Les Regards de L’ICART — where tomorrow’s talents are born.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Animation



 
Logo of One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival

Deadline
15 Dec 2025


Published: 13 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival

Apchat, France


Unique Location :

ONE Country ONE Film is a unique festival festival taking place in two different venues located in the same beautiful countryside area in the heart of France.

Unique Concept :

Every film selected is the sole representative of its country in each of the following categories : Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films. Every year a Country is honored and several films are selected from that country. Since its creation in 2010, ONE Country ONE Film has selected 120 countries.

Send your film (short or feature, animation, fiction, experimental or documentary) and be the only one to represent your country at ONE Country ONE Film 2026 -17th edition!!


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Feature film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Other  Experimental



 
Logo of Nawada International Film Festival 6th Season

Deadline
15 Dec 2025


Published: 13 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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Nawada International Film Festival 6th Season

Nawada, India


Nawada International Film Festival 5th season held on 27th October 2024 brings to its audience, acclaimed documentary works from across the world of different region. Audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. From the peak of Everest to the penguins of Antarctica, #NIFF2020INDIA brings the Northern and Southern hemispheres together. Because the love for cinema stretches beyond borders. The focus is to showcase unseen stories from across the regions to our viewers. Rahul Verma Film Production presents this festival with Pragati Foundation, Festival Supported by SYSKA Lights PVT LTD. presents a curated selection of films acclaimed for its artistic merit.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of Liberamente Short Selection 3

Deadline
15 Dec 2025


Published: 13 Dec 2025
 Does NOT have submission fees
Short films


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Liberamente Short Selection 3

Cavaion V.se, Italy


The third edition of the Short Selection will take place as part of the new Cavaion Film Festival, organized by Liberamente Cavaion APS from January 17 to 18, 2026, at the E. Turri Civic Hall in Cavaion Vicenza.
The films in competition will be divided into three categories: local, international, and young. The selection will be made after the nominations are closed and at the discretion of the event's artistic director.
The evening of Saturday, January 17, will be dedicated to the local selection, while the evening of Sunday, January 18, will be dedicated to the international selection.


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Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



 
Logo of The Storyteller Universe

Deadline
15 Dec 2025


Published: 13 Dec 2025
 Has submission fees
Short films
Feature films


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The Storyteller Universe

New York, United States


The Storyteller Universe is a global celebration of cinema that honors the soul of storytelling. Rooted in the belief that stories can transform lives, our festival shines a light on bold, original voices from every corner of the world.

We welcome all forms: narrative features, shorts, documentaries, experimental, animation, and web series that reflect powerful storytelling, emotional depth, and creative vision. Whether you are a first-time filmmaker or a seasoned creator, if your story has something to say, this is your stage.

Our mission is to build an inclusive, accessible platform where fresh talent meets opportunity. Selected films will receive widespread recognition, with press coverage, virtual showcases, and awards in categories like Best Feature, Best Short, Breakthrough Storyteller, and Audience Choice.

We are not just a festival. We are a movement. A universe where your voice matters, your story counts, and your film inspires.

Submit your work and become part of The Storyteller Universe, where stories live forever.


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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video