February updates

Hi all-
Currently working on the next round of updates. For now, these are the February listings.

best of luck,
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Kristiansand International Childrens Film Festival (Norway) 2/1/24
Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF) is Norway’s largest film festival aimed at children and youth. The target group is age 3-19. The festival takes place in Kristiansand, Southern Norway. The festival accepts features, documentaries, animation films and short films from all over the world. Deadline is for: Norwegian short films (up to 30 min.), completed in 2023 or 2024. If you have a Norwegian short film that is not quite finished 1st of February please contact us at festival@bff.no. Submission is done via the festival platform Filmchief.

Transilvania International Film Festival (Romania) 2/1/24
(TIFF) is organized by Romanian Film Promotion and it is the first international feature film festival in Romania. The main objective of Transilvania IFF is to promote the cinematic art by presenting some of the most significant films of the moment, films which exhibit not only originality and independence of expression, but also unusual forms of cinematic language and modern trends of the young culture. Please note: *** no entry fee for Romanian films only

Animafest Zagreb 2/1/2024
World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb invites you to submit your film. Short films (maximum running time 40 minutes) can be submitted to following competition categories: 1. Short Film Competition, 2. Student Film Competition – films produced in an educational institution (art schools and film schools), 3. Films for Children Competition< 4. Croatian Film Competition – films whose majority producer is Croatian and/or films by Croatian directors. Submission deadline for short films in all categories

Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival 2/4/24
Horror or Fantasy genre. Submit through Festhome or Moviebeta

Hamburg International Short Film Festival 02/7/24
Triple Axel Competition. The Triple Axel Competition is excluded from the fee. We are also accepting submissions for the Triple Axel Competition which have to be shorter than three minutes and need to deal with the topic “Salt“. The Axel is one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating. And in our competition, it’s a matter of getting a spin on a given theme in no more than three minutes. Whoever manages to do this goes into the race for the audience’s prize and 1.000 € in a legendary short night.

Annecy International Animated Film Festival (France) 02/15/24
Submit short films, commissioned films, TV series and specials and graduation films.

Dead by Dawn ongoing
Dead by Dawn is the UK’s longest running genre film festival, established in 1993. It is a unique festival, celebrating the finest independent film-making with a focus on emerging talent. Our approach to horror is broad; story is paramount, as are humour, suspense and atmosphere. We welcome lifelong fans and the genre-curious to discover the breadth of unusual stories lurking under the ‘horror’ banner! Note- festival is postponed so will continue to accept entries for now- check site.

Minute Festival (Brazil) 2/29/24 online submission
Various themes, categories. One Minute Festival was created in 1991 and has inspired the breeding of over 50 “one minute festivals” all around the world. One Minute Festival also could be called Ideas Festival, once idea is the most relevant criterion used in the vídeos evaluation.

Animayo  2/29/24
Animayo, first Spanish animation Festival names “Qualifying Festival” for the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the OSCAR® AWARDS. The winners of Animayo may be taken into account in the category of “Animation Short Film” will be eligible for consideration in the “Animated Short Film” of the Academy Awards® Exclusive for applying to works of 2d animation, 3d animation,special effects, experimental, advertising, animation spots, videoclips, video games cinematic, special effects series and animation series