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Submission dates

Please find below an overview of upcoming submission deadlines

The members of our network are all individual festivals with independent programming (procedures). A part of them work with submission deadlines. In case you would like to submit a film to one of the members, please contact them individually about your request. On their websites/via their contact details, you can find more information about their criteria, deadlines and regulations for submitting a film.

Submission dates

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  • 30 Nov

    ACT Human Rights Film Festival

    The ACT Human Rights Film Festival in Fort Collins, Colorado, showcases the best in human rights cinema from around the world. The festival convenes for one week every April on and off the campus of Colorado State University, uniting diverse audiences while inspiring them to awaken to human rights issues facing people around the world, to connect across the powerful medium of film and dialogue, and to transform their lives and communities. ACT is produced by the Department of Communication Studies housed within the College of Liberal Arts. ACT was founded in 2016.

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  • 21 Dec

    DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

    Docudays UA is the only international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine. It is a part of the international Human Rights Film Network. 

    After the end of the festival, Docudays UA traditionally presents the best films in Ukrainian regions during the Traveling Festival. Screenings and discussions of films with human rights experts last from October until December. Throughout the year, Docudays UA popularizes auteur documentary cinema in film theaters as a part of the DOCU/HIT project. It develops critical thinking among young people through its Docudays UA film clubs for media education in human rights. It presents the cultural diplomacy project SEE UKRAINE in Europe. It helps young Ukrainian documentary filmmakers to produce their films at the DOCU/PRO industry … Read more

  • 11 Jan

    Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos Donostia

    The Festival of Human Rights Film is an initiative that is part of the San Sebastian, Space for the Culture of Peace project. The aim is to promote greater awareness, as well as encourage debate and provide greater information to citizens about human rights, by promoting, through the cinema and other cultural and artistic expressions, the values of solidarity, respect for life, peace, freedom and social justice, among other things.

    Feature Films Official Selection

    A selection of feature films and documentaries, movies for kids and youths, aimed at making spectators aware of the need to protect human rights. A sample of some of the year’s most important titles, all candidates for the Audience Award to the Best Feature Film.

    Short Films Official … Read more