dokumentART — European Film Festival in Neubrandenburg (Germany) is now accepting submissions for its 2026 edition. With a 30-year history of presenting European short films (up to 30 minutes), the festival places special emphasis on socially engaged cinema and formally daring works, including hybrid, experimental, and boundary-blurring forms.
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.
What's Your Flavor? is relaunching its annual call for films for LGBTQIA+ filmmakers whose films fit within the spectrum of experimental or alternative cinema and video art.
What's Your Flavor? is part of Collectif Jeune Cinéma, a cooperative of experimental filmmakers which organizes monthly screenings and the annual Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. The selected films will be screened in Paris in June 2026 and will be added to our distribution catalogue.
We are very excited to announce the opening of submissions for the 13th Festival Gollut, which will take place from July 3 to 11, 2026, in Ribes de Freser.
Rooted in the Pyrenean territory and faithful to its independent spirit, Festival Gollut is a space where cinema is experienced as a shared and transformative experience. A place for perspectives that dare to shift the focus, for narratives that question, explore, and open new paths, and for voices that often remain outside the usual circuits.
For our 15th Edition we will be 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 will also be doing a live event in the South of France.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Deadline:
Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 17:30 to Wednesday, March 4, 2026 - 17:30
InShadow is an international festival dedicated to screendance and moving image, held annually in Lisbon from mid-November to mid-December. We celebrate bold, innovative and hybrid works at the intersection of dance, cinema and visual arts. The festival program includes International Competitions in Videodance, Documentary and Animation, as well as performances, exhibitions, installations, workshops and masterclasses.
The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival based in Czech Republic focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. The festival is dedicated to analog filmmaking on 16mm and 8mm, to film performances, videoart, videographic criticism and contemporary moving image. → https://marienbadfilmfestival.com/program/en/open-call-copy-2/ ←
The Marienbad Film Festival invites authors and authors' collectives to submit audiovisual works to two separate competitions. 1. International Competition for Films of an Experimental Nature 2. International competition of audiovisual essays and videographic criticism
Every fall for the past twenty-five years, the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival has occupied the Casino de Montbenon (which is actually NOT a casino - but this almost-120 years old building is simply named that way) and various other places in Lausanne. During five days, the festival commits to offering an avant-garde and outside of the mainstream artistic programme, combining films screenings, sound performances, workshops, exhibitions, and book launches.
KINOSKOP - 7TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANALOG EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - CALL FOR ENTRIES STRICTLY ACADEMIA - SPECIAL EDITION
8-9 March 2026
Kinoskop, Belgrade’s indie/niche festival dedicated to analog cinema, announces its ad hoc 7th edition, different in scope and style from the previous editions, which reflects and ponders on the current situation of film festivals and cultural events in Serbia and the absence of our 2025 edition.
