Phantom Film Lab, an independent streaming and distribution platform dedicated to underground, hidden and independent cinema from Colombia and beyond, has opened a free international call for films.
We are looking for experimental films, as well as fiction and documentary work that lives outside the mainstream: shorts, medium-length and feature-length films. Works on the margins, hybrid forms, artist's cinema and films that rarely find a screen are especially welcome.
Queer Valley Screening Series is an artist-run screening series based in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, programmed by Michelle Trujillo and Stephen Wardell. We program underground, experimental, and avant-garde work by both local and international queer artists. We screen in both institutional venues like theaters and galleries, and in makeshift event spaces as wide-ranging as bodies of water, street-corners, and basements.
The Cosmic Rays Film Festival is now accepting submissions from August 24 - November 16, 2026.
Now in its ninth year, Cosmic Rays is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be.
The Festival presents several programs of experimental short films that are formally inventive; that explore hybrid forms and the hard-to-describe spaces between filmmaking modes and genres; that speak with a personal voice; and that are inspired by the possibilities of film as art.
Chicago Filmmakers is currently taking entries for the 37th Onion City Experimental Film Festival, which takes place April 8-11, 2027. The regular deadline is October 22 and the late deadline is November 19.
Onion City was founded in the 1980s by the Experimental Film Coalition.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Chicago, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Wed Nov 18 2026.
It is an online exhibition, in its first edition, that seeks to present a cross-section of moving-image production that has an intrinsic relationship with the element of sound, sound understood as a materiality that is also an image, a sonic image.
Works in which sound is not a soundtrack, but rather the materiality that sustains and guides the eye and the gaze, unfolding into an imbricated relationship of sonic and visual image layers.
Submissions are now open for the Paris editions of Voyage in Time Film Festival.
A non-competitive, artistic film festival dedicated to independent cinema, artistic freedom, and the experience of time through film.
There are three separate Paris editions, each with its own submission and screening event. You can submit your film to any edition or to all three through FilmFreeway, with three separate opportunities to be part of the festival.
LATERALE FILM FESTIVAL is an international non-competitive festival of cinematic art organized by the Associazione Culturale Laterale.
Its aim is to highlight the most innovative aspects of contemporary audiovisual languages and to bridge the gap between artistic research and public engagement. Particular attention is given to young and independent filmmakers, as well as to self-made, no-budget works that result from individual exploration.
The eleventh edition of LATERALE will take place in Cosenza (Italy), at Cinema Italia, in August 2027.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Cosenza, Italy
Deadline:
Repeats every day 1 times. Also includes Sun Nov 29 2026, Wed Dec 30 2026, Sat Jan 30 2027, Sat Feb 27 2027, Tue Mar 30 2027, Thu Apr 29 2027.
CALL FOR INDEPENDENT, EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF ALL GENRES
Pebbles Underground film and video art platform is focused on showcasing experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget independent films and video art projects from all over the world.
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF) is a festival organized by the Film Department at Oklahoma City University. Inspired by Oklahoma’s wide-open landscape, we showcase experimental films that will open peoples’ eyes to the alternative forms, structures, and styles of film.
