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CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS
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| MAY | May 19th 2025 | Fenêtres sur Courts The Festival is open to all short films of less than 30 minutes and completed after January 1, 2024. When: November 2025 Where: Dijon, France Website: cliquez ici |
| May 27th 2024 | AJB DOC Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival announces a Call to authors and production companies to participate in the sixth edition of the Festival When: September 2025 Where: Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Website: click here |
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| May 30th 2025 | Clorofilla Film Festival Italian documentaries and one-minute short films are accepted. The maximum length of documentaries is 80 minutes. For the section devoted to the De Seta Prize, the works must have a maximum duration of 30 minutes. When: August 2025 Where: Grosseto, Italy Registration: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | Arab and Mediterranean Film Festival of Catalonia Director and directors, producers of an Arab country. When: November 2025 Where: Barcelona, Spain Website: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | AJD Industry Days This is the right address for your unique documentary project ideas in various stages of production. We offer you the opportunity to pitch your project to Al Jazeera Media Network decision-makers and many other leading industry professionals from around the globe. When: Septembre 2025 Where: Sarajevo, Bosnia Website: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | PERSO - Perugia Social Film Festival Italian and international documentaries over 30 minutes Short documentary of less than 30 minutes "Umbria in celluloide"on social issues in the Umbria region When: September 26th to October 8th, 2025 Where: Perugia, Italie Website: cliquez ici |
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| May 31st 2025 | Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur Open to directors and producers of a French-language feature or short film. When: October 2025 Where: Namur, Belgique Website: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | Visioni dal Mondo International Documentary Film Festival Documentaries completed after January 1, 2024 and not yet projects in Italy can participate in the Italian competition. The international section is open to feature films over 65 minutes in length. When: September 2025 Where: Milano, Italy Website: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | Festival International de la Création Documentaire de La Rochelle Creative documentaries produced after June 1st, 2024. When: November 2025 Where: La Rochelle, France Website: click here |
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| May 31st 2025 | TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVAL We accept narrative, documentary, experimental, animated films of feature and short lengths. We seek films made by Arab or Arab American filmmakers or films relevant to these communities. When: September 24th to 28th 2025 Where: St Paul, United States Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| June 20th 2025 | Visione Corte Festival International du Court-Métrage Short films When: October 4th to 11th 2025 Where: Gaeta, Italy Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| June 21st 2025 | TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Short and feature films When: September 2025 Where: Tirana, Albania Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| June 30th 2025 | El Gouna Film Festival Short and feature fiction or documentary films When: October 2025 Where: El Gouna, Egypte Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| July 31th 2025 | Middle East Now Middle East Films produced between 2023 à 2025. When: October 2025 Where: Florence, Italy Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| AUGUST | 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 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 |
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| SEPTEMBER | 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 |
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