CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Knoxville, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 1 of March, April, May 3 times.
After a very successful second year, the third edition of Elevation Film Festival will be based at Real Ideas Organisation in Plymouth, alongside artist installations and workshops running at Maker Heights across the water in Cornwall. The festival will take place on 2-4th October 2026.
Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.
Named one of "the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World" by MovieMaker Magazine in 2021
The Oak Cliff Film Festival was established in 2012 as a regional film festival in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas. The festival has received national acclaim from prominent sources including The New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, and Moviemaker Magazine, as a festival that aims to showcase brave and independent filmmaking of all stripes in an atmosphere that encourages and fosters filmmaking in Dallas and beyond.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Dallas, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sun Mar 22 2026, Sun Apr 12 2026.
Call for Films Now Open! We're excited to announce that Altered Images is now accepting submissions — and our Early Bird period has officially begun!
Altered Images is a project dedicated to film and music experimentation, bringing together artists from diverse disciplines to create original, boundary-pushing works showcased at our upcoming event in London (UK).
We are seeking bold, innovative filmmakers from around the world whose work engages with New Media Arts, Sound, Performance, Inclusivity, Feminism, and Queer Activism.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 16 of April, August 2 times.
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, Estados Unidos
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Apr 23 2026, Tue Jun 23 2026.
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 tenth edition of LATERALE will take place in Cosenza (Italy), at cinema San Nicola, in August 2026.
9th BEAST IFF – Festival of Central & East European Film June 3 - 7 2026 Porto, Portugal
Submissions: until April 30
Entering its 9th edition, BEAST International Film Festival is returning to Porto, turning it into the centre of Central & Eastern European cinema culture through screenings, masterclasses, workshops and several industry-related events.
CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.
Media City Film Festival’s call for entries for its 28th edition is now open. The festival will take place in person in Windsor–Detroit, September 15–19, 2026.
Follow this linkto fill out MCFF’s online entry form (or click the icon below). 2026 Guidelines and detailed instructions are available as you navigate the form. An additional FAQ is available at right.
