• Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival is currently open to submissions. 📽 Deadline: May 15th, 2023.

• Don’t miss the deadline for the Tokyo International Film Festival, one of the best Japanese and international film platforms in Asia. 🗼 Deadline is May 21st, 2023.

• Uppsala Short Film Awards is accepting submissions. 🏆 Deadline: May 31st, 2023.

• Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is based in Hungary, and open for submissions until May 31st.

• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival is now open for submissions! ⭐️ VC Essential members get 20% off and VC GOLD members get 50% off submissions; head to Member Resources to get your code! 📢 Late Deadline: June. 1st 2023

• Busan International Film Festival is accepting short documentary submissions (both Asian and Non-Asian). 🫰 Deadline: June 21st 2023.

• Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is accepting submissions and the time to submit is coming up soon!⏲️ Early bird deadline: June 30th 2023.

• FIDBA, the first International Documentary Film Festival in Argentina, is open for submission. Submit to include your work in the 10th International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires. Final deadline: June 30th 2023.

• International Ethnographic Festival OKO is a multicultural event where filmmakers, folklorists, anthropologists, and ethnographers will be able to better understand each other, share ideas, and agree on future cooperation. Submit your Ukrainian and International documentaries. Deadline: July 3rd, 2023

• If alternative Australian films is your latest films’ niche then head on over to Sydney Underground Film Festival and get your film submitted. 🇦🇺 Deadline: July 3rd, 2023

• The 20th edition of the Reykjavík International Film Festival will take place between September 28th and October 8th, 2023. 🎞️ Submit now to make the Regular Deadline: July 6th, 2023

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