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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- 10 Oct
Karama Human Rights Film Festival
The Karama HRFF was established in June 2009, sensing the need for human rights dialogue and advocacy in the Arab region. The founding committee named Ma'mal 612 consists of Sawsan Darwaza, Ehab Khatib & Ayman Bardawil. The main theme for the KHRFF is human rights in general; children, women, refugees, political, economic, social and civic rights, and the role of films and culture in creating social and political change. Recent massive upheavals in the Arab region since the first edition (in 2010) have made it imperative to seek the exchange of expression, ideas, opinions and experiences on human rights issues across the region and the world. The festival’s core theme is human dignity (Karama is Arabic for dignity).
Along with the film festival Ma'mal 612 creates parallel huma…
- 1 Nov
Movies that Matter Festival
Movies that Matter screens and promotes films that draws our attention to human rights and situations in which these are at stake. The foundation's peak activity is the annual Movies that Matter Festival, taking place in The Hague, International City of Peace and Justice. The Movies that Matter Festival is the Netherlands' main platform for engaged cinema, with over ninety documentaries, fiction and short films of inspired filmmakers being screened every year.
The festival features various competitions; Activist Lens, a documentary film competition that pays tribute to brave activists who defend human rights at the frontline, Justice Frame, which deals with international justice and the worldwide fights against impunity and Dutch Focus, a competition for…