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CARTOON CLUB - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION CINEMA, COMICS AND GAMES

Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema, Comics and Games, now at its 42nd edition, is one of the best known festivals on the Italian scene.

It is a remarkable window for animation, short films in particular, including fiction, educational, experimental, and computer graphic works, with a whole section solely dedicated to comics: Riminicomix.

The Festival features SHORT ANIMATED FILMS in various sections:

The CARTOON CLUB AWARD: open to short animated films made by professional filmmakers and production companies.

The SIGNOR ROSSI AWARD: open to animated shorts made by secondary school and university students, and by the students of animation film schools.

The CARTOON KIDS AWARD: open to animated shorts aimed at a children’s audience. Among the films [...]

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Published: 12 Mar 2026

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Lesfest Peru

Deadline: 24 Mar 2026

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LESFEST LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF PERU

LIMA - PERU, 2026

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Lesfest features four competitions:

Feature Film Competition: Productions from any country worldwide with a running time of over 60 minutes are eligible. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2024.

Short Film Competition: Films from any country worldwide with a maximum running time of 30 minutes are eligible. These films must have been produced after January 1, 2024.

Series Competition: Series from any country worldwide with a minimum running time of 1 minute and a maximum of 40 minutes in various production formats are eligible. The episodes must have been produced after January 1, 2024.

Tributes and Focuses: films selected by the programming team without an open [...]

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental

Lima, Peru

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Festival de Cine con Acento

Deadline: 31 May 2026

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The Accent Film Festival focuses on talent and projects made in Andalusia or by Andalusian creators. With an international look at other projects with roots.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

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Cortoons Festival Gandia

Deadline: 01 Sep 2026

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Cortoons Gandia is the International Animated Film Festival of Gandia, organized by Cortoons Festival, the city of Gandia, la Generalitat Valenciana, through the Institut Valenciá de Cultura (Culturarts), and the participation of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Campus de Gandia.

In the 2016, after 12 years of great success in Rome, Cortoons international festival of animated films, he moved to Spain in the beautiful town of Gandia in the province of Valencia.

The 22th Cortoons Festival Gandia edition will be a great festival of animated films for professionals, animation film funs and all the general public.

The competition categories are:

International animated short film from 1 to 4 minutes

International animated short film from 4 to 20 minutes

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Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental

Gandia, Spain

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35mm Film Festival

Deadline: 09 Aug 2026

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The 35mm Film Festival was born in Milan from our desire to share our love of cinema. We wanted to create a platform for talent, and an opportunity for artists and film enthusiasts to meet. The second edition of the festival was held on the 27th and 28th of September 2025, at the ‘Wanted Clan”, and was a great success. We are therefore excited to announce the third edition of the Film Festival, which will be held in MILAN, on October 3rd and 4th, 2026.

The festival takes place over two consecutive days. The first day is dedicated to the SCREENINGS of the projects selected to participate at the festival, while the second is comprised of PANELS with the directors in competition, the screenings of 35’’ Film Contest* selection, and finally THE AWARD CEREMONY.

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Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Other Experimental

Milano, Italy

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Published: 11 Mar 2026

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Fantosfreak Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Apr 2026

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The first and the most important Freak Festival in Spain. We also accept horror and fantastic film. With an audience of 2.000 people every day from monday to friday and we would love to screen your shortfilms.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

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Windsor International Black Film Festival

Deadline: 01 Jul 2026

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The Windsor International Black Film Festival (WIBFF) celebrates Black stories from Canada and around the world. Our 3rd annual event will take place on August 14-16th, 2026, to celebrate the contributions of Black filmmakers and storytellers internationally.

Festival days will include film screenings and premieres of our major category winners, alongside immersive discussion panels, followed by a red carpet awards night. PLEASE NOTE THAT AWARD WINNERS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT WILL HAVE TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO PICK UP THEIR AWARD. OR MAKE ALTERNATE ARRANGEMENTS TO GET THE AWARD MAILED OUT.

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental Music Video

Windsor , Canada

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Arco Iris

Deadline: 15 May 2026

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El premio de cortometraje Arcoris se enmarca en un proyecto europeo transfronterizo entre dos festivales hermanos que son Festival Internacionale de Film d’Environement y el Festival Transhumant de cinema compromès.

El objetivo del premio es valorizar la producción cinematográfica basado en temas medioambientales de ambos lados de los Pirineos.

Un eje importante es la relación entre la humanidad, naturaleza y transición ecológica.

Enlace Transhumant Festival: https://www.transhumant.com/
Enlace Festival International du Film d’Environnement: https://lefredd.org/

Fiction Documentary Animation Fantastic Terror Other Experimental Music Video

Ribes de Freser (Transhumant Festival), Spain

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Published: 10 Mar 2026

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Mecal Pro, 28º Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Y Animación De Barcelona

Deadline: 22 Mar 2026

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Mecal Pro, the Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival, will celebrate its 28th edition. The long history of MECAL PRO has consolidated it as one of the most important short film festivals in Europe and the world, thus receiving the support of local, national and international institutions. We have screened in 2025 more than 300 short films in 29 sections that we program.

Mecal is strongly committed to promoting the exhibition and dissemination of audiovisual creations in the short format, not only with the public, but also in having creators and distributors meet through different activities. Mecal is also devoted to foster emerging talent, by holding events and awards specially aimed at young creators. In this sense, it also works as a short film [...]

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Barcelona, Spain

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Inclus Festival Internacional de Cine y Discapacidad

Deadline: 07 Jul 2026

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Inclús is a festival of audiovisual productions, both documentary and fiction, focused on the theme of disabilities. It is an initiative of Associació Inclús, organized by the audiovisual company Fish Muvi.

The aim of Festival Inclús is to give visibility to audiovisual works about disability with a different point of view.

The 14th edition of Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival will be held from November 21 to December 1, 2026, in Barcelona. The audiovisual material of the finalists will be screened during this festival, according to each different category. There will be one award for the best submittals of each category.

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Barcelona, Spain

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Xxvi Festival Internacional De Cine Arqueológico Del Bidasoa

Deadline: 15 Jul 2026

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The Oiasso Roman Museum and the City Council of Irun organize the International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa.

The aim of the Festival is to present archaeology to the general public, through the diffusion of audio-visual material resulted from the work made by archaeologists, assuring the promotion and the spreading of these films.

The Festival is being celebrated since the year 2001 and from the year 2004 it has four prizes: the Grand Prize of the Festival, the Special Audience Prize, the Educational Values Prize and Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science. Since 2006, it’s inside Fedarcine, the European network of Archaeological Film Festivals.

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Irun, Spain

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Lesfest Peru

Deadline: 24 Mar 2026

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Lima, Peru

Festival de Cine con Acento

Deadline: 31 May 2026

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Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

Cortoons Festival Gandia

Deadline: 01 Sep 2026

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Gandia, Spain

35mm Film Festival

Deadline: 09 Aug 2026

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Milano, Italy

Fantosfreak Film Festival

Deadline: 22 Apr 2026

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Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Windsor International Black Film Festival

Deadline: 01 Jul 2026

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Windsor , Canada

Arco Iris

Deadline: 15 May 2026

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Ribes de Freser (Transhumant Festival), Spain

Mecal Pro, 28º Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Y Animación De Barcelona

Deadline: 22 Mar 2026

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Barcelona, Spain

Inclus Festival Internacional de Cine y Discapacidad

Deadline: 07 Jul 2026