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Deadline: 1 July 2019

L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, celebrates its 26th edition in 2019. For 26 years we’ve been offering filmgoers, filmmakers and industry professionals a unique opportunity to discover and enjoy screenings and activities that value creative freedom, diversity, innovation, commitment and thought-provoking reflection.

The Call for entries for the next edition is now open!
International and national competition for feature and short films, including fiction, non fiction, animation and experimental.

All films submitted for selection must have been completed after 1 January 2018.

With the exception of films with English, Spanish or Catalan dialogue or text, all preview copies (online screeners) must include English subtitles.

L'Alternativa Official
International Feature Film (fiction, nonfiction, animation, experimental).
International Short Film (fiction, nonfiction, animation, experimental) with a maximum running time of 40 minutes.
Panorama Spanish Feature and Short Film (fiction, nonfiction, animation, experimental) with a maximum running time of 40 minutes for short films.

Entry fee:
Feature film: €10
Short film: €5

Prizes:
€4.000 International Feature Film Prize
€2.000 International Short Film Prize
€2.000 Panorama Spanish Feature or Short Film Prize

Festival info:
http://alternativa.cccb.org/2019/en
Submissions:
http://alternativa.cccb.org/2019/en/ficha

<Deadline: 15 November 2018>

Do you have a film on architecture or the city? Send it to us! The festival Budapest Architecture Film Days is now accepting submissions for its 11th edition, to be held in Budapest in March 2019. We are looking for works in every genre, form, and length, related to design, architecture, urbanism, urban activism, and built environment.

The mission of the film festival is to generate a dialogue between architectural practice that finds inspiration in cinema as well as cinema borrowing its subjects from architecture and the city.

No entry fee

Details:
http://filmnapok.kek.org.hu/en/

Deadline: 15 September 2018; November 1st, 2018 (for films finished between September and November 2018)


The 12TH edition of One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will take place in Prague, March 6 – 17, 2019,
followed by regional screenings in over 30 towns around the Czech Republic and Brussels.
We would like to invite you to submit your film to the 21th edition of the festival. One World has grown over the years to become the largest human rights film festival in the world. It is one of the leading cultural events in Prague and the Czech Republic.

Submitted films need to meet these criteria:

feature or mid-length (minimum length 40 minutes) documentary films
short documentary or animated films for children – films for Docs for Kids category only
virtuality reality documentary
provided with English subtitles or English-spoken films
films made in last 2 years (2017 - 2019)


Entry fee: 20 EUR (15EUR for Docs for Kids; virtual reality can be submitted without the submission fee)

Details:
http://my.oneworld.cz/film-submission/

Deadline:
15.04.2017



In its 19th year, Sidewalk Film Festival has perfected its own personal trifecta of hospitality, networking, and pure fun. Encouraging attendees to break out of their shells and get to know one another, Sidewalk likes to mix filmmakers and their audiences in an unusual town with unusual activities. The atmosphere at Sidewalk is electric with creativity and collaboration as filmmakers and film-lovers socialize between screenings and participate in panel discussions. Low-priced passes and a condensed footprint encourage filmmakers and attendees alike to connect during this 3-day, weekend festival with true southern hospitality.

Categories:
Animated Short
Documentary
Feature Film
Student

Short films up to 44 minutes accepted in student, documentary, animated, music, episodic, and narrative categories.

Feature films 45 minutes and up accepted in student, documentary, animated, and narrative categories.


Entry fee: 
$30-70

Details:
https://sidewalkfest.com/

Deadline:
28.07.2017

The world’s first moving images were shot in Leeds in 1888 by Louis le Prince. Today Leeds is a major centre for film production and exhibition. A qualifying event for the BAFTAs and the Oscars, Leeds International Film Festival is a national celebration of global filmmaking culture.

LIFF is a portal for discovery of the real world of filmmaking that exists beyond regular film exhibition. LIFF primarily supports outstanding new talent and established talent that has not received deserved exposure in the UK. LIFF considers narrative, documentary and animated films, in feature-length and short formats, in multiple genres and from all countries.

The 31st edition of Leeds International Film Festival will take place 2–16 November 2017.

Any genre and any length of film will be considered – anything under 45 minutes is classified as a short, anything over 45 minutes is classified as a feature.

Only films completed after 1st January 2016 will be considered for the competitive sections.

Entry fee:
From $25 USD to $80 USD.

Prizes
• Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition (£1,000 winner prize)
• World Animation Competition (£1,000 winner prize)
• British Short Film Competition (£1,000 winner prize)
• Yorkshire Short Film Competition (£500 winner prize)
• Leeds International Screendance Competition (£500 winner prize)
• Leeds International Music Video Competition
• Leeds Short Film Audience Award
• Leeds Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature
• Leeds Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Dark Owl International Fantasy Short Film Audience Award
• Dead Short Audience Award

LIFF is a qualifying film festival for the Academy Awards and the BAFTAs. The winning shorts in LIFF's Louis Le Prince International Short Film Competition and World Animation Competition are eligible for the Academy’s Short Film Awards. British shorts selected for LIFF may be considered for nomination for the BAFTA Short Film Awards.


Details:
http://intercompetition.com/index.php/film/ad/31st-leeds-international-film-festival,776

Deadline:
First Deadline: December 15, 2016 (for works completed by October 31, 2016)
Second Deadline: April 15, 2017 (for works completed after November 1, 2016)
New Asian Currents: May 15, 2017


Everyone is welcome to submit their work, provided that the following conditions are met:
Producers intend that the work is a documentary.
The final form of the work is 16mm or 35mm film print, or video/digital format (DCP, Blu-ray, video files etc).
The work has not been released publicly in Japan (screenings in theaters or TV broadcast) prior to being presented at YIDFF 2017. Japanese films are exempt from this rule.
The work is produced after April 1, 2015.
Shorts will not be accepted.


No entry fee

Prizes:
The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (The Grand Prize): 2,000,000 yen
The Mayor’s Prize: 1,000,000 yen
Two Awards of Excellence: 300,000 yen each
Special Prize: 300,000 yen

Details:
http://www.yidff.jp/2017/entry/17entry1-e.html

Deadline:
31.12.2016

The Jewish Motifs Film Festival is among the many international festivals focused on the Jewish nation, its tradition, identity and history, both past and present.
All forms of films may participate in the Festival (narrative, documentary, shorts and animation films), the running time of which is at least 4 minutes in the autonomic form or in the form of the so called compilation. Films should be sent in DVD PAL format. Only the films made within the two years preceding a given edition of the Festival and in a current year shall be accepted for the Festival. In exceptional cases, upon the request of the Program Board or Selection Commission, an exception from the above requirements will be accepted.

Three categories:
(a) a narrative film,
(b) a documentary
(c) short film.

Entry fee:
No entry fee

Prizes:
Cash awards and the statues of the Warsaw PHOENIXES: Grand Prix for the best film of the Festival irrespective of the category, and Phoenixes in each of the three categories.

Details:
http://jewishmotifs.org.pl/index.php?s=en

deadline:
31.07.2016

The International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, organized in Kraków since 1994, is the oldest film festival in Poland which juxtaposes the achievements of students of film and art schools from all over the world, as well as works of fine-art animation films creators: professionals, students, as well as independent producers.

The main events of every annual festival are the two contests which give the festival its name, and during which the following prizes are awarded:
in the student competition, comprising feature and documentary etudes, the Golden, Silver and Bronze Dinosaurs, as well as the Special Golden Dinosaur Award for the best film school of the festival; in the anima contest, Golden, Silver and Bronze Jabberwocky, as well as the Special Golden Jabberwocky for the student creating the best animated etude of the festival. The annual Special Golden Dinosaur is also awarded to an outstanding pedagogue who is at the same time a successful, active artist.

Since the beginnings of the Festival, the main points of the programme are accompanied by a vast range of other events. They provide a chance to get acquainted with world-class animation artists and the most interesting phenomena of this sphere of art. The accompanying events provide a chance to recall the most interesting works in the history of cinema, especially animations and documentaries. They also enable to get acquainted with contemporary short films and feature animated films which don’t reach the mainstream.

The Festival, growing bigger and bigger every year, is in its 19th, anniversary edition a great success of art cinema. To a growing extent, it encompasses other fields of art as well: the visual arts and music, along with workshops and discussions on the most current issues, not necessarily connected with filmmaking.

The International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima has been for years one of the most ambitious film festivals in Poland, and one that has been an inspiration for the organizers of other events of this kind throughout the country.

Details:
http://etiudaandanima.com/en/