CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS

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CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS

MONTHDEADLINECALLS FOR APPLICATIONS
FEBRUARYFebruary 1st 2025 Festival Cine-Palestine
Short films that are directed by Palestinian filmmakers from all over the world.
When: June 2025
Where: Paris, France
Website: click here
February 1st 2025 Transilvania International Film Festival
Filmmakers can submit films for three competitive programs – Official Competition, What’s Up, Doc?, Romanian Days - and three non-competitional programs: Full Moon, Supernova, No Limit.
When: June 13th to 22nd 2025
Where: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Website: click here
February 7th 2025ZagrebDox Pro, training program
Documentary film in developpemnt
When: 2025
Where: Zagreb, Croatia
Website: click here
February 8th 2025Coup de pouce - FIGRA
Submit your documentary film project or reportage and meet producers during the festival.
When: 2025
Where : Douai, France
To submit : click here
February 9th 2025 Bellaria Film Festival
Independent film festival
When: May 7th to 11th 2025
Where: Bellaria Igea Marina, Italy
Website: click here
February 10th 2025Trento Film Festival
Films dealing with mountains, adventure and exploration.
Submission deadline is January 10th, 2025 for films released in 2023 and 2024.
Submission deadline is February 10th, 2024 for films released in 2025.
When: April 2025
Where: Trento, Italy
Website: click here
February 15th 2025 Festival d’Annecy
Short films, graduation films, commissioned films or television films.
When: June 2025
Where: Annecy, France
Website: click here
February 19th 2025 Très Court International Film Festival
Films less than 4 minutes long
When: June 2025
Where: Paris, France
Website: click here
February 19th 2025 Eurodoc Med
Training of producers and directors based in one of the Mediterranean countries and realization of a documentary project in development.
When: April 28th - May 2nd 2025
Where: Ajaccio, France
Website: click here
February 20th 2025 ESoDoc – European Social Documentary
ESoDoc - European Social Documentary is an 8-months long training initiative for media professionals who want to improve their storytelling and co-creative skills, to broaden the potential of their documentary and new media project gaining access to a larger market.
When : 2025
Where : Tromsø, Norway
Website: click here
February 21st 2025AGORA Doc Market
Each year the AGORA Doc Market hosts more than 400 films and invites more than 300 industry professionals and buyers to Thessaloniki to promote or buy documentary films.
When: March 6 - April 30 2025
Where: Thessaloniki, Greece
Website : click here
February 24th 2025 FEST - New Directors New Films Festival
Feature films (minimum length is 55 minutes) of fiction and documentaries by directors who are in their first or second production, regardless of age.
Short films (production up to 54 minutes) of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental cinema, made by directors aged 35 years or less at the end of production.
When: June 2025
Where: Espinho, Portugal
Website: click here
February 25th 2025 Côté Court
Film less than 60 minutes produced after January 1, 2024
When: June 2025
Where: Pantin, France
Website: click here
February 25th 2024Documenta Madrid
Documentaries
Quand: May 6-11 2025
Où: Madrid, Espagne
Website: click here
February 28th 2025Festival de Cinéma Africain-FCAT
Films made by African-e-s and/or diaspora filmmakers.
When: May 2025
Where: Sevilla, Spain
Website: click here
February 28th 2025 Les Mains Gauches
Films less than or equal to 50 minutes in length, directed by queer directors or dealing with feminist perspectives.
When: September 10-13, 2025
Where: Marseille, France
Website: click here
February 28th 2025 ECU – The European Independent Film Festival
Open to all films with less than 50% participation by a large studio or television broadcaster
When: May 9th to 11th 2025
Where: Paris, France
Website: click here
February 28th 2025Sheffield Doc Fest
This festival is interested in questioning the boundaries of documentary and expanding them. They accept non-fiction projects of all lengths and formats.
When: June 2025
Where: Sheffield, United Kingdoms
Website: click here
February 28th 2025 Cryptshow
Fantasy short films, less than 25 minutes long, made after January 2023
When: June 20th - July 5th 2025
Where: Barcelona, Spain
Website: click here
MARCHMarch 2nd 2025Festival International du Film Insulaire de Groix
Shorts and feature films shot on an island.
When: August 20th to 24th 2025
Where: Groix, France
Website: click here
March 4th 2025 CNC : Aide aux cinémas du monde
ACM Distribution is a fund intended to support and promote the distribution and international circulation of films co-produced between a European country and a non-European country.
Website: click here
March 10th 2025Les Nuits Med
Open to short films:
- products and/or products in a Mediterranean country
- on the initiative of a Mediterranean screenwriter or director
- Address one or more themes related to the Mediterranean
Where: Furiani, France
Website: click here
March 13th 2025 ACID Cannes 2025
Feature films (fiction and documentaries running time 60 minutes minimum).
When: from May 2025
Where: Cannes, France
Website : click here
March 14th 2025 Cannes - Semaine de la Critique
Eligibility requirements for feature films: to be the director's first or second film longer than 59 minutes.
Short and featuer films must have been completed within the 12 months prior to the date of the Festival.
When: Mai 14th to 22nd, 2025
Where: Cannes, France
Website: click here
March 14th 2025Festival Silhouette
Short films with a maximum duration of 59 minutes.
When: Upcoming dates
Where: Paris, France
Website: click here
March 14th 2025 La Quinzaine des cinéastes (ex-Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)
Short films completed in the last 12 months before the festival.
When: May 2025
Where: Cannes, France
Website: click here
March 15th 2025 Festival d’Annecy
Feature films lasting more than 60 minutes.
When: June 2025
Where: Annecy, France
Website: click here
March 15th 2025Documed - Festival du cinéma documentaire méditerranéen
Documentary from Mediterranean countries produced after January 1st 2022.
Where: Tunis, Tunisie
Site Internet: click here
March 15th 2025 Festival Cinémas d'Afrique
Call for films is open to fictions, documentaries, animations, experimentals, virtual realities and of all kinds.
When: August 14-17, 2025
Where: Lausanne, Switzerland
Website: click here
March 17th 2025Athens Short Film Festival
Short film competition. Films submitted must be no longer than 30 minutes in length.
When: August 30-31 2025
Where: Athens, Greece
Website: click here
March 19th 2025 Biografilm Festival
Films (fiction or documentary) of at least 50 minutes, produced after January 1st 2024 and never screened in Italy.
When: June 6th to 16th, 2025
Where: Bologna, Italy
Website: click here
March 21st 2025 La Quinzaine des cinéastes (ex-Quinzaine des Réalisateurs)
Feature films completed in the last 12 months before the festival.
When: May 2025
Where: Cannes, France
Website: click here
March 25th 2025 Sunny Side of the Doc
Looking for partners and funding for your next documentary? Submit your project to the Sunny Side of the Doc pitch sessions and join one of the most important markets in documentary and storytelling.
When: June 23rd to 26th 2025
Where: La Rochelle, France
Website: click here
March 28th 2025Festival CinemAmbiente
Italian and international feature-length and short documentaries produced from January 1st 2023 onwards on the theme of the environment.
When: June 5th to 10th 2025
Where: Turin, Italy
Website : click here
March 29st 2025Mediterranean Film Festival
Feature and short films from Mediterranean countries and short and medium length films from Croatia.
When: From June 12th to 21st 2025
Where: Split, Croatia
Website: click here
May 30th 2025 International URTI Radio Grand Prix
Theme: "Radio: A century informing, entertaining and educating"/ Confidence and accessibility of radio in all circumstances. Duration of programs: 52 minutes maximum.
Website: click here
March 30th 2025 DokuFest
Registration for the Festival is open to short and feature-length documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental short films. The duration of short films is limited to 30 minutes and that of short documentaries to 40 minutes. There is no time limit for feature-length documentaries.
When: August 1st to 9th, 2025
Where: Prizren, Kosovo
Website: click here
Submission: click here
March 31st 2025 La Guarimba
Short films of all kinds and of all nationalities. The maximum permitted length is 30 minutes. Films must have been produced after January 1st 2023
When: August 7th to 12th, 2025
Where: Amantea, Italy
Website: click here
March 31st 2025JI.HLAVA Emerging Producers
When : Octobre 2025 to february 2026
Where: Jihlava, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany
Website: cliquez ici
March 31st 2025 Nouvelles Vagues - Festival International du Film de Biarritz
Feature films (fiction, documentary, animation) with a youth theme.
When: June 24th to 29th 2025
Where: Biarritz, France
Website: click here
March 31st 2025 CourtMed - Mediterranean short films competition
Open to students at universities, film schools and journalism schools, as well as to young filmmakers who have recently graduated, this competition aims to promote the work and vision of young mediterranean filmmakers by offering them the opportunity to share their creations more widely.
- Short films up to 15 minutes long
- completed after 1 January 2024
Website: click here
AVRILApril 1st 2025Astra Film Festival
Documentaries above 50 minutes and produced after January 1st, 2024.
When: 19-26 Octobre 2025
Where: Sibiu, Romania
Website: click here
April 4th 2025AFAC - Documentary Film
The Documentary Film program supports creative documentary films in the Arab region.
Website: click here
April 10th 2025Lucania Film Festival
Feature films (120 minutes max) and short films (30 minutes max) of fiction, documentary and animation.
When: August 2025
Where: Matera, Pisticii, Italy
Website: click here
April 15th 2025 Cisterna Film Festival
Any short film produced after January 1st, 2023, and under 20 minutes.
When: 18-20 July 2025
Where: Cisterna di Latina, Italy
Website: click here
April 17th 2025Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival
Any type of film less than 40 minutes is eligible.
When: July 2025
Where: Athens, Greece
Website: click here
April 20th 2025 Bueu International Short Film Festival
Film not exceeding 30 minutes
When: September 2025
Where: Bueu (Galicia), Spain
Website: click here
April 30th 2025Beyond Borders
The Festival’s objective is to promote the most important documentary productions worldwide that focus on history, culture, politics and other social issues.
When: August 24-31 2025
Where: Castellorizo island, Greece
Website: click here
April 30th 2025Curtas Vila Do Conde
Short and medium-length films produced in 2023, 2024 with a maximum duration of 60 minutes.
When: July 12 to 20, 2025
Where: Vila do Conde, Portugal
Website: click here
April 30th 2025The International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania
IHRFFA includes in its program documentary, fiction and animated films dealing with human rights that are sensitive especially for the Albanian society.
When: September 15th to 20th 2025
Où : Tirana, Albania
Site Internet : cliquez ici
MAYMay 1st 2024Golden Apricot - Yerevan International Film Festival
Fiction films, short films, documentaries.
When: July 13rd to 20th 2025
Where: Yerevan, Armenia
Website: click here
May 1st 2024Foça Film Days
Documentaries dealing with archaeology and cultural heritage.
When: 15-19 October, 2025
Where: Foça, Turkey
Website: click here
May 2nd 2025International Short Film Festival of Cyprus
The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus is the official competition festival for short films in Cyprus, showcasing and celebrating an outstanding narrative, animated, documentary and experimental original short film content.
When: October 11th to 17th 2025
Where: Limassol, Cyrpus
Website: cliquez ici

 

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