Welcome to the page dedicated to the current calls for applications concerning festivals, writing workshops, productions, co-productions, co-funding in the Mediterranean. This list is updated monthly by our editorial staff and offers you a selection of the most important calls.
All ads are therefore concentrated in this table. A device that simplifies life and has now become the benchmark of professionals in the Mediterranean audiovisual industry.
To post a call for proposals please write to the editor : click here
CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS
| MONTH | DEADLINE | CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS |
|---|---|---|
| JUNE | June 9th 2025 | Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux International feature films of a minimum duration of 60 minutes. French short films of less than 30 minutes. When October 7-12 2025 Where: Bordeaux, France Website: click here |
| June 13th 2025 | Venice International Film Festival Feature Films - Deadline 13 June Short Films - Deadline 31 May Immersive Projects - Deadline 8th May When: August 27th to September 6th, 2025 Where: Venice, Italy Website: click here |
|
| June 13rd 2025 | AFAC - Arab Fund for Arts and Culture The Cinema grant is open to all kinds of fiction film projects. The program welcomes submissions of short and medium-length narrative films in production and post-production and feature narratives that are in development, production or post-production phases. Website: click here |
|
| June 14th 2025 | Tripoli Film Festival Feature Film - 80 - 105 min / Short film - less than 20 min / Animation - less than 20 min / Feature Documentary - from 50 to 90 min / Short Documentary - less than 20 min. When: September 2025 Where: Tripoli, Libanon Website : click here |
|
| June 15th 2025 | Montreal International Documantary Festival Works must have been produced after December 1, 2023. When: November 2025 Where: Montreal, Quebec Website: click here |
|
| June 20th 2025 | Visione Corte Festival International du Court-Métrage Short films When: October 4th to 11th 2025 Where: Gaeta, Italy Website: click here |
|
| June 20th 2025 | Crossroads Co-production Forum The Crossroads Co-production Forum selects projects in development and its objective is to support fiction films which have a link to the Mediterranean regions and Southeastern Europe. When: November 2025 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece Website : click here |
|
| June 20th 2025 | International Alexandria Short Film Festival The Festival accepts submissions of films in the following sections: Feature - Documentary – Animation. When: September 2025 Where: Alexandria, Egypt Website : click here |
|
| June 21st 2025 | TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Short and feature films When: September 2025 Where: Tirana, Albania Website: click here |
|
| June 30th 2025 | BIRN - Open Call for journalists Journalists covering EU member countries and EU aspiring countries are invited to apply for grants to produce investigations shedding light on critical social, political and economic issues. Website: click here |
|
| June 30th 2025 | Job Film Days Documentaries lasting over 30 minutes, produced after 30th june 2023, in Italy or abroad, addressing labor issues. When: From October 2025 Where: Turin, Italy Website: click here |
|
| June 30th 2025 | El Gouna Film Festival Short and feature fiction or documentary films When: October 2025 Where: El Gouna, Egypte Website: click here |
|
| June 30th 2025 | MEDIMED The Euromed Docs Market Productions must be recent and originating from a European or Mediterranean country. When: October 2025 Where: Sitges, Spain Website: click here |
|
| June 30th 2025 | Zagreb Film Festival International Short and feature-length fiction made in 2024 or 2025. When : From November 10th to 16th 2025 Where Zagreb, Croatia Website : click here |
|
| JULY | July 1st 2025 | Fabbrica Culturale Casell’arte - Résidences Fabbrica Culturale organizes two sessions of two writing residencies per year, for authors and directors with feature film projects. Where: Venaco, Corse Website: click here |
| July 10th 2025 | IDFA - Festival International du Film Documentaire d'Amsterdam When: November 2025 Where: Amsterdam, Pays-Bas Website : click here |
|
| July 18th 2025 | TIFF Thessaloniki Film Festival TIFF has four competition sections: International Competition, Meet the Neighbors Competition (with a first or second feature film from Greece's neighbors), the Film Forward Competition section and the VR Competition section. When: October 30th to 9th November 2025 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece Website: click here |
|
| July 23rd 2025 | Festival de la fiction TV French Competition, Francophone Competition and European Competition - Series less than 20' : deadline June 25 - Other categories : deadline July 23 When: September 2025 Where: La Rochelle, France Website: cliquez ici |
|
| July 25th 2025 | Arab Film Festival Films must have been produced between 2023 and 2025 When: November 2025 Where: San Francisco, United States Website: click here |
|
| July 30th 2025 | Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival Feature and short film competitions When: September 28 – October 2, 2025 Where: Alexandria, Egypte Website: click here |
|
| July 31th 2025 | Middle East Now Middle East Films produced between 2023 à 2025. When: October 2025 Where: Florence, Italy Website: click here |
|
| July 31st 2025 | Festival international du film de Marrakech Feature films (fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental films) of more than 65 minutes. The competition is reserved exclusively for the first and second international films, presented in MENA premiere. When: November 28th to 6th December, 2025 Where: Marrakesh, Morocco Website: click here |
|
| July 31st 2025 | Festival des 3 continents Films from Africa, Latin America or Asia. When: November 21st to 29th 2025 Where: Nantes, France Website: click here |
|
| July 31st 2025 | MedFilm Festival Fictions and documentaries, long or short, produced in a Mediterranean country after 1st January 2024. When: November 6th to 16th, 2025 Where: Rome, Italy Website: click here |
|
| July 31st 2025 | Porto/Post/Doc - International documentaries lasting more than 50 minutes - Documentary short films lasting less than 40 minutes directed by Portuguese students. Films produced in 2024 or 2025. When: November 20 – 29, 2025 Where: Porto, Portugal Website: click here |
|
| AUGUST | August 1st 2025 | Cairo International Film Festival Postproduction projet When: Novembre 12th to 22nd 2025 Where: Cairo, Egypt Website : click here |
| August 3rd 2025 | Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest explores “the dark side of movies” in its broadest sense When : October 21th to 25th 2025 Where: Ravenna, Italy Submission: click here |
|
| August 10th 2025 | TiSFF – Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival When: October 1st to 15th 2025 Where: Thessaloniky, Greece Website: click here |
|
| August 15th 2025 | Rabat International Author Film Festival Author films produced after November 1st 2023 and never screened in Morocco. When: From November 7th to 14th 2025 Where: Rabat, Morocco Website: click here |
|
| August 15th 2025 | i-Fest - International Film Festival The Fest International Film Festival is an international event whose main theme is cinema in all its forms. When: September 4-14, 2025 Where: Calabria, Italy Website: click here |
|
| August 18th 2025 | Thessaloniki Locarno Industry Academy This initiative aim to give a significant boost to the careers of new film professionals from Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries. When: November 1st to 6th 2025 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece Website : click here |
|
| August 21st 2025 | Cinemed Short Film -> 7th July 2025 Documentary full length -> 18th July 2025 Development Grant -> 18th July 2025 Fiction feature length -> 21st August 2025 When : October 2025 Where: Montpellier, France Website: click here |
|
| August 24th 2025 | Roma Creative Contest Short fiction or documentary film When: September 25th to 28th, 2025 Where: Roma, Italy Website: click here |
|
| August 25th 2025 | ReAnimania Int. Short or feature-length animated films produced after January 1st, 2024. When: October 19-25, 2025 Where: Yerevan, Armenia Website: click here |
|
| August 25th 2025 | Lebanese Independent Film Festival (LIFF) When: September 25th to 28th 2025 Where: Beirut, Libanon Website: click here |
|
| August 26th 2025 | Un Court Tournable Short film of 30 minutes maximum in French, or with French subtitles. When: September 26th 2025 Where: Bobigny, France Submission: click here |
|
| August 31st 2025 | Festival International de Cinéma et de Mémoire Commune The films in the official competition (documentaries) must be related to the memory of immigrants (Africans, Europeans, Latin Americans, Asians...) who have decided to return to their countries of origin, whatever the reasons for this return. When: November 2025 Where: Nador, Morocco Website: click here |
|
| August 31st 2025 | Global Non Violent Film Festival All films submitted must be in English and MUST BE NONVIOLENT: the Festival does not accept films presenting explicit or graphic violence; Implicit acts of violence may be accepted if justified by the message of the film. When: September 25th to October 12th, 2025 Where: Online Website: click here |
|
| SEPTEMBER | September 5th 2025 | TIFF - Podcast Section The Thessaloniki International Film Festival is happy to invite podcasters from Greece and abroad to submit their works at the Podcast section. When: November 2025 Where: Thessaloniki, Greece Website: click here |
| September 10th 2025 | Cannes Indie Shorts Awards Short film of a maximum duration of 40 minutes. When: November 5th to 9th 2025 Where: Cannes, France Website: click here |
|
| September 25th 2025 | Eureka Series Intensive 14-week full-time training for screenwriters and series producers from all over Europe. When: 2026 Where: Lille, France Website: click here |
|
| DECEMBER | December 15th 2025 | ZagrebDox, International documentary film festival Documentary films produced after January 2025. When: April 19th to 26th 2026 Where: Zagreb, Croatia Website: click here |
Created by www.cmca-med.org
The Mediterranean Centre for Audiovisual Communication is a network to encourage broadcasting cooperation, bringing together television companies, producers and others working in broadcasting within the Mediterranean cultural area.
Founded in 1995, the CMCA is a non-governmental organization with headquarters in Marseille.
