Calls for entries

  • Underneath The Floorboards Winter Open Call

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    After another amazing edition, Underneath The Floorboards' 15th Edition will continue our online event, which will be screened for a four weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more. We have a live event also in the South of France in the city of Tarbes.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    London, Reino Unido

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, January 4, 2026 (All day)
  • Open Call: The Oberhausen Seminar 2026, led by Linda Chiu-han Lai

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    The Oberhausen Seminar is an experimental course that examines moving images and contemporary artistic practices in the context of an international film festival. It operates on the boundary between film and art, between festival programming and knowledge production. Interested parties can now apply for the 2026 Seminar, which will be led by artist, curator and scholar Linda Chiu-han Lai (Hong Kong).

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Oberhausen, Germany

    Deadline: 

    Friday, February 27, 2026 (All day)
  • 2026 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival Call for Entries

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    The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions in video/film, animation, VR, video installation & performance to its 13th edition, which takes place March 4 - 8, 2026 on the campus of West Virginia University.  We’re looking for innovative, provocative, highly charged and deeply personal works in a variety of genres and themes. This year we also welcome submissions to a special thematic category, exploring new insights into evolving definitions and understandings of Time, in all of its many contexts.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Morgantown, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Friday, February 6, 2026 (All day)
  • Detour - Low-budget & Experimental Cinema

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    Detour is a film festival with a pure independent spirit. We believe true creativity and fine art is not entirely dependent on big budgets in order to flourish. Our aim is to support and promote films that are challenging and beautiful, those that speak to our hearts and make us think. We are looking for free-thinking films and filmmakers that create fantastic art despite the budgets and other limitations.

    We want to see your best films either following a traditional narrative or a more challenging and experimental one, with true grit and low-budget mindframe.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Leiria, Portugal

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, October 18, 2026 (All day)
  • Call for Entries: Altered Images Festival 2026

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    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, Reino Unido

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every month on the 16 of April, August 2 times.
    Thursday, April 16, 2026 (All day)
    Sunday, August 16, 2026 (All day)
  • Adriatikino 2026 - Call for entries

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    Adriatikino is the Adriatic Film Exhibition celebrating Analog Footage Film
    We are OPEN for NEW ENTRIES for our second edition on May 29-31, 2026

    Submit via FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/Adriatikino

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Fermo, Italia

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every day 1 times. Also includes Fri Mar 27 2026, Fri Apr 17 2026.
    Saturday, January 31, 2026 (All day)
    Saturday, March 28, 2026 (All day)
    Saturday, April 18, 2026 (All day)
  • Open Call: Soft Map of NYC

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    Open Call: Soft Map of NYC 

    Submissions are now open for Soft Map of NYC, a year-long project inviting artists living or working in New York City to create new Polaroid-based works exploring tenderness, place, and embodied memory.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    New York City, United States

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, January 1, 2026 (All day)
  • Pollen: Crystal Wind

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    Co-produced with LEIMAY, Pollen is a blooming program of video spells, shaken air, and channeled summonings drawing upon the venue's nearly thirty-year history of experimental art and performance curation. The first Pollen instance presented over thirty video works in a multiprojection environment, bringing intimate cross-disciplinary dialogue into the exhibition experience. 

    Submission fees: 

    Fees charged - Waiver available

    Location: 

    Brooklyn, NYC, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, January 1, 2026 (All day)
  • San Diego Underground Film Festival 2026 - Call for Entries

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    SDUFF is one of the West Coast's premier showcases of video, film, and audio based mediums. Selected MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, SDUFF has quickly risen the ranks to become one of the nation's most challenging, nurturing, and down to earth film festivals. Known for taking risks on young talent alongside showcasing legendary film makers, SDUFF prides itself on being a festival by and for disciples of the moving image.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    San Francisco, United States

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every month on the 31 of January 2 times.
    Wednesday, December 31, 2025 (All day)
    Saturday, January 31, 2026 (All day)
  • Premium Deadline OPEN CALL:

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    Premium Deadline OPEN CALL.

    Underneath the Floorboards, shows the best of experimental film, documentary, animation and video and digital art.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    London, United Kingdom

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, December 4, 2025 (All day)

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