Co-founded by Golden Bear winning director Adina Pintilie in 2010, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival is an annual event dedicated to experimental films and visual arts. BIEFF aims to promote highly innovative films and filmmakers with strong personal views on contemporary reality, which also daringly explore the boundaries of cinematic language.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Bucharest, Romania
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Jun 04 2026.
SET Film Festival is a grassroots, international platform for contemporary, artist and archival film run by SET, a London-based contemporary arts organisation and registered charity.
Founded in 2023 and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe, the festival presents experimental practices and emerging voices outside conventional exhibition and distribution contexts.
Saint Petersburg International Experimental Film Festival (SPIEXFF) is now calling for entries to the competitions of its 1st edition. The festival focuses on new works that develop their own visual language and explore unconventional perspectives and forms. SPIEXFF is conceived as an open platform for innovative, unexpected, and original approaches in experimental cinema.
Artificial Imagination — A growing archive of video works about creativity and artificial intelligence. An open call dedicated to video works exploring the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.
Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. The festival has traveled to multiple partner venues including The Film-Maker's Coop in NYC, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Elastic Arts Foundation and Comfort Station in Chicago, and more.
Submission fees:
Fees charged - Waiver available
Location:
Chicago, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Apr 23 2026, Tue Jun 23 2026.
Experimental Superstars is an international festival of experimental films.
We accept experimental films, experimental documentaries, and music videos that utilize film techniques, including dance film, animation, and other experimental approaches.
Only works suitable for screening will be considered for selection; video installations are not accepted.
The festival takes place in Novi Sad, Serbia in mid November.
The Institute for Applied Creativity (IAC) at Texas A&M University proudly announces the call for submissions for Texas Inter-Media Experience (TIME) Fest!
TIME Fest exists at the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling. Our mission is to showcase innovative film and media through screenings and live experiences, fostering community, experimentation, and bold creative risk-taking across Texas and beyond.
L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, celebrates its 33rd edition this year. We offer filmgoers, filmmakers and industry professionals a unique opportunity to discover and enjoy screenings and activities that value creative freedom, diversity, innovation, commitment and thought-provoking reflection.
For the third year Moscow International Video Art Exhibition is pleased to announce the OPEN CALL to all artists working with video art, experimental film and filmed performance. Artists are invited to submit their works related to the subject of the LOST & FOUND.
