Finding your way

As a filmmaker, two things are very important: making films, obtaining funding and showing the film to the rest of the world out there! Around the globe there are so many great festivals and events that it is easy to lose track of what is happening. Among everything that is going on, it can be difficult to realistically assess which festival is the right one for your film.

Because of that CineSud Magazine started publishing monthly articles with the most interesting and promising international film festivals that you can submit to the following months. Next to that we give an overview of interesting funding options in the heart of the Netherlands, Belgium as well as Germany.

Film Festivals

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Submission deadline: February 1
Festival dates: May 13 - May 18

The world's oldest short film competition is a forum for experiments, unusual content and formats, and the place for cinematic discoveries. Every year, filmmakers from all over the world present themselves here. [Read more]

LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International 

Submission deadline: February 2
Festival dates: April 21 - April 26

The LICHTER Film Festival Frankfurt International is a celebration of and for film. Carried by a high-quality regional as well as international programme, it shines a light on the facets of film art that too often miss out in the everyday of cinema and television. [Read more]

Edinburgh International Film Festival

Submission deadline: February 6
Festival dates: June 17 - June 28

Inaugurated in 1947, the same year as the Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world's longest continually-running film festival. [Read more]

Zuidelijk Film Festival

Submission deadline: February 7
Festival dates: May 15 - May 16

The Zuidelijk Film Festival is a festival that focusses on short films by makers from North-Brabant, Limburg, Zeeland and Vlaanderen. A festival that brings together the living film culture of these regions in a special way. [Read more]

Newport Beach Film Festival

Submission deadline: February 7
Festival dates: April 23 - April 30

Founded in 1999, the Newport Beach Film Festival has emerged as the largest international cinema event in Southern California, attracting over 56,000 attendees to Orange County, CA. [Read more]

BIF&ST - Bari International Film & Festival

Submission deadline: February 21
Festival dates: March 21 - March 28

Bif&st-Bari International Film Festival reaches 75.000 spectators every year, and in just ten editions, with its broad offer of the highest cultural level, it has become one of the leading cinematic events in Italy. The main venue of Bif&st is one of the most beautiful theatres in the world, the Teatro Petruzzelli. [Read more]

Moscow International Film Festival

Submission deadline: February 21
Festival dates: April 22 - April 29

The Moscow International Film Festival is one of the oldest in the world. For the first time it was held in 1935 with Sergei Eisenstein as chairman of the Jury. [Read more]

Palm Springs International ShortFest

Submission deadline: February 24
Festival dates: June 16 - June 22

The Film Society produces The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) every January, and Palm Springs ShortFest in June. In addition to curating the best in international cinema, PSIFF has come to be known as the first stop on the road to the Academy Awards® and our Oscar®-qualifying ShortFest is the largest short film festival and market in North America. [Read more]

Funding

Dutch Deadlines

CineSud:
- Film Talents to Cannes (February 1)
- Writers Room - Fictie (extra edition) (February 10)
- CineSud Pitching Forum 2020 (February 14)
- Script Lab 2020 (February 20)

Nederlands Film Fonds:
- De Oversteek 14 (February 4)
- Talentontwikkeling in Internationale Context (February 10)
- De Straat (February 18)

Belgian Deadlines

Flemish Audiovisual Fund:
- Filmfonds Fictie korte film (February 18)
- Filmfonds Animatie: minoritair (February 18)
- Filmfonds: Documentaire (February 20)
- Internationale promotiesteun Filmfonds (February 21)

German Deadlines

Medienstiftung NRW:
- Production Distribution / Sales (February 6)