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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 Jan

    Human Rights Film Festival Zurich

    Born in 2015, the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich takes place every year. Over seven days, we show artistically strong feature-length documentaries and fiction films that explore human rights issues – avoiding stereotypes or moralistic finger-pointing. Afterwards there are discussions with directors, protagonists and experts. In this way, what we have seen can be placed in a larger context. The programme reflects a variety of human rights themes in different geographic and social contexts. Topics include flight and migration, the war in Syria, women’s rights, LGBTI-rights, responsibilities of multinationals as well as the relation between resources, energy and human rights. Panel discussions after the screenings widen the scope of the programme and offer the possibility to contextuali… Read more

  • 15 Feb

    Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos

    The International Film Festival on Human Rights is one of the most important events on human rights cinema, is founding member of the Human Rights Film Network and Red de Cine Social y Derechos Humanos de América Latina y el Caribe, promoting human rights issues in the world through cinema.

    Organised by the Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC, is held in Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero. The festival presents long feature, short and medium length, narrative, documentary films, essay, animation, experimental or videoclip for a variety of non-competitive sections, like Memory, Gender Views, Childhood and Youth, Migrants, Panorama, Environment and Native Cultures, and three competitive sections, International Feature Films, Short and Medium Films Competition, Latin American Documenta… Read more

  • 16 Mar

    HUMANS Fest - Festival Internacional de Cine y Derechos Humanos

    Humans Fest is, in terms of audience, the most important human rights film festival in Spain and the largest audience film festival in its region. Its main event takes place every year in Valencia but the whole year is full of activities not just in Valencia but in the whole region and there are some international screenings. Around 130 entities are attached to the festival and one of its most successful activities is the Resistances, weekly online screenings. 

    The festival is not only a festival but also a project starter in which many projects are concurrently developed such as Humans World, Humans Films- Zero or Future(s) for the kids and teenagers and since 2020 there is a program for serious games, Humans Gamers. They feed eac… Read more

  • 15 Jul

    Bergen International Film Festival

    BIFF is a leading film festival in Norway, with admissions around 60.000 annually and around 120 feature length films, half being documentaries, making us one of the biggest documentary festivals in the Nordic Region. The human rights festival Checkpoints started in 2007 and is an integral part of BIFF. In collaboration with the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, Checkpoints consists of 20 films, of which 8 are in competition.

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