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.
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CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS
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| MARCH | March 2nd 2025 | Festival 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 |
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| March 10th 2025 | Les 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| March 14th 2025 | Festival Silhouette Short films with a maximum duration of 59 minutes. When: Upcoming dates Where: Paris, France Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| March 15th 2025 | Festival d’Annecy Feature films lasting more than 60 minutes. When: June 2025 Where: Annecy, France Website: click here |
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| March 15th 2025 | Documed - Festival du cinéma documentaire méditerranéen Documentary from Mediterranean countries produced after January 1st 2022. Where: Tunis, Tunisie Site Internet: click here |
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| 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 |
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| March 15th 2025 | FID Marseille Films produced in 2024 and 2025 Short films : under 60 minutes Feature films : films from 60 minutes in length When : 8-13 July 2025 Where : Marseilles, France Website: click here |
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| March 17th 2025 | Athens 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| March 28th 2025 | Festival 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 |
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| March 29st 2025 | Mediterranean 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| March 31st 2025 | JI.HLAVA Emerging Producers When : Octobre 2025 to february 2026 Where: Jihlava, Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany Website: cliquez ici |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| March 31st 2025 | PALARCTIC PALARCTIC is a filmmaking program that aims to bring together aspiring filmmakers from Palestine and Norway to provide them with opportunities to learn from each other and share their experiences. Website: click here |
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| AVRIL | April 1st 2025 | Astra 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 2025 | AFAC - Documentary Film The Documentary Film program supports creative documentary films in the Arab region. Website: click here |
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| April 10th 2025 | Lucania 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 |
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| 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 |
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| April 15th 2025 | Olhares do Mediterraneo – Women’s Film Festival Documentary, fictional, animated or experimental film produced by a woman (producer, director, screenwriter, editor) who comes or works in a Mediterranean country. When: November 2025 Where: Lisbon, Portugal Website: click here |
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| April 17th 2025 | Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival Any type of film less than 40 minutes is eligible. When: July 2025 Where: Athens, Greece Website: click here |
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| April 18th 2025 | Motovun Film Festival Short films of up to 20 minutes, produced after 1st January 2024 and never screened in Croatia. When: July 2025 Where: Zagreb, Croatia Website: click here |
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| April 20th 2025 | Bueu International Short Film Festival Film not exceeding 30 minutes When: September 2025 Where: Bueu (Galicia), Spain Website: click here | |
| April 20th 2025 | Almagro International Film Festival Film up to 20 minutes long, of any genre, produced after January 1st, 2024. When: August 2025 Where: Almagro, Spain Website: click here |
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| April 24th 2025 | Ortigia Film Festival Three competitions : A national competition of first and second fiction films by Italian directors. An international competition of documentaries, and an international competition of short films. When: July 2025 Where: Syracuse, Italy Website: click here |
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| April 27th 2025 | PriMed – International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage Reportages and documentary films about the Mediterranean produced after January 1st 2024. When: November-December 2025 Where: Marseille, France Website: click here |
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| April 30th 2025 | Beyond 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 |
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| April 30th 2025 | Curtas 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 |
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| April 30th 2025 | The 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 |
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| April 30th 2025 | Film Festival Della Lessinia We are seeking documentaries, feature-films, shorts and animations with themes related to mountain life, history and traditions. When: August 2025 Where: Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy Website: click here |
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| MAY | May 1st 2024 | Golden Apricot - Yerevan International Film Festival Fiction films, short films, documentaries. When: July 13rd to 20th 2025 Where: Yerevan, Armenia Website: click here |
| May 1st 2024 | Foça Film Days Documentaries dealing with archaeology and cultural heritage. When: 15-19 October, 2025 Where: Foça, Turkey Website: click here |
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| May 2nd 2025 | International 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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| May 7th 2025 | Cartoon Forum Cartoon Forum is a co-production forum for animated series, intended for television and new platforms. When: September 2025 Where: Toulouse, France Website: click here |
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| May 8th 2025 | Drama International Short Film Festival Drama International Short Film Festival is one of the world’s oldest short film festivals! When: September 2025 Where: Athens, Greece Website: click here |
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| May 8th 2025 | Aegan Film Festival The Aegean Film Festival has the mission to explore, discover and promote films, ideas and stories that further our kindness and tolerance, our understanding and sensitivity towards each other and towards the environments that surround us. When: July 2025 Where: Spetses, Greece Website: click here |
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| May 9h 2025 | États généraux du film documentaire Documentary produced after January 1st 2024 When: August 2025 Where: Lussas, France Website: click here |
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| May 10th 2025 | Giffoni Film Festival Animated short films for children aged 3 to 5 and short and feature films (fiction and animation) for audiences aged 6 to 12 are accepted. A section accepts feature-length documentaries on the theme of childhood and maturity. Short films must be no longer than 30 minutes, while feature films must be at least 60 minutes long. When: July 2025 Where: Salerno, Italy Website: click here |
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| 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 |
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| 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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