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Calling all independent filmmakers! Screamfest® Film Festival is back for its 25th 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 2024 New York Times at Top 5 Halloween Festivals Worth Traveling For. 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.

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Published: 17 Jan 2025
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Avanca 2025

Deadline: 17 May 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

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 [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental



Avanca, Portugal



 
 
 
 
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Published: 17 Jan 2025
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FIXION Fest, Festival de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Chile

Deadline: 30 Jun 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

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Feature film festival

Entrance to the festival is free.
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FIXION Fest (A.K.A. FIXION-SARS) is Chile's first Fantastic and Terror Film Festival. The first one was organized 14 years ago. Diverse sections and activities, will show to the last and best exponents of the cinema of Chilean, Latin American and world genre.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Santiago, Chile



 
 
 

 
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Published: 17 Jan 2025
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Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca

Deadline: 13 Feb 2025

Call for entries

OSCAR Qualifiers

International Festival

Short film festival

The Hollywood Academy supports Huesca International Film Festival by recognizing it as shortlisting for the Oscar Awards within Best Short Fiction Film category, also the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes it for the Goya Awards.

http://www.oscars.org/sites/default/files/88aa_shorts_festival_list.pdf

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Huesca, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 17 Jan 2025
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Short films
Feature films



We Cam Fest

Deadline: 10 Jun 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

Feature film festival

WE CAM FEST is the first inclusive film festival in Colombia. It brings together the cinematographic content related to disability in the world. An innovative proposal that, in addition to showing other perspectives of life through cinema, seeks to be a platform for the creation of content made by and with people with disabilities, in order to recognize their contribution and talent for the environment and society.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Bogotá, Colombia



 
 

 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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T-Short Animated Film Festival

Deadline: 30 Apr 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

FROM NOVEMBER 28 TILL NOVEMBER 30, 2025, THE T-SHORT FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD AT THE KINEMATHEK KARLSRUHE CINEMA, IN KARLSRUHE, GERMANY.

FROM DECEMBER 1 TILL DECEMBER 14, 2025, THE FESTIVAL WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY FOR RESIDENTS OF GERMANY, AS WELL AS FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS.

THE DEADLINE FOR FILM SUBMISSION IS UNTIL APRIL 30, 2025.

------- JURY OF THE FESTIVAL 2025 ---------

- Koji Yamamura (Japan)

- Che Marcheti (Brazil) - Winner of the 2024 festival competition program in the “Best Debut” category.

Additionally, negotiations are underway with three more jury members.

The Participant winning in competitive program of the festival 2024 in nomination "Best Debut" becomes the member of jury of following festival.

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 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Karlsruhe, Germany



 
 
 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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Me Mondo Fest

Deadline: 15 Apr 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

We are a small festival that started with the sole objective of supporting and disseminating the many short films that are created year after year all over the world. To support new and not so new authors.

We are a group of film fanatics and our festival is not for profit but to enjoy and have a good time, that's why we have chosen Humour, Comedy and Smile as the genre to take the reins of our adventure. This is our first edition, we hope there will be many more.

Me Mondo Fest. seeks to share audiovisual creation in short film format with as many people as possible and to support the short film as a form of creativity in itself and not just as a means to reach feature films.
We seek to bring film screenings and audiovisual art closer to the general public by trying to move [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Murcia, Spain



 
 

 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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Ficcions de Ciència

Deadline: 15 Apr 2025

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International Festival

Short film festival

The FICCIONS DE CIÈNCIA festival aims to promote dialogue between science and society. With an interdisciplinary approach, it highlights cinematic works that explore science from diverse perspectives, including its social, ethical, and emotional implications, as well as its connection to fields such as art, health, and culture. The festival seeks to foster public debate on the scientific and technological challenges of our time and to emphasize the role of science in culture, showcasing how it can inspire narratives in both fiction and documentary formats that bring science closer to the public.

Furthermore, during the first edition of "Ficcions de Ciència," there will be a thematic section dedicated to mental health. This section aims to address one of the most urgent and [...]

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Barcelona, Spain



 
 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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10º Galapán Film Festival Santiago-pontones

Deadline: 31 May 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

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: 16 Jan 2025
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Festival Atlántico De Género Negro Tenerife Noir 2025

Deadline: 07 Mar 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

It is the regional event of festivals of the noir and policial genre of the Canary Islands.

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Sta. Cruz de Tenerife, Spain



 
 
 
 
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Published: 16 Jan 2025
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6th International Short Film Internet Festival Diogenes 2025

Deadline: 15 Nov 2025

Call for entries

International Festival

Short film festival

The announcement of the international internet film festival "Diogenes 2025" for short films
Slogan: "New Horizons, Creative Boldness, and Innovation."

The short film festival "Diogenes 2025," which features innovative projects, represents itself as a festival with short films on the internet globally. It holds four seasons of screenings, each in four different countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia and Israel. The innovation in Diogene's short film festival is the automatic submission of the film's announcement once, and the automatic participation in the festival in Diogenes four autonomous seasons -

1. "Diogenes Odesa"
2. "Diogenes Tbilisi"
3. "Diogenes Tallinn"
4. "Diogenes Haifa"

 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Fantastic  Terror  Other  Experimental  Music Video



Tbilisi, Georgia