Calls for entries

  • Found Footage Magazine - Call for Contributions

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    The call for contributions for the 2026 edition of the film studies journal Found Footage Magazine is now open, and submissions for essays, interviews, video-essays, film and book reviews will be accepted through June 1st, 2026.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    , Online

    Deadline: 

    Monday, June 1, 2026 (All day)
  • Late Deadline Screener Short Films Festival 7th Edition

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    7th EDITION SSF is open for submissions!!
    And the LATE deadline is around the corner....LAST CALL!!

    We are a short film festival based in Hackney, London. We will screen the finalist films on a specific Hackney venue. 

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    London, Reino Unido

    Deadline: 

    Monday, October 20, 2025 (All day)
  • 27th dresdner schmalfilmtage

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    27th dresdner schmalfilmtage
    Festival for 8 and 16mm film
    12 - 15 March 2026
    deadline: November 30, 2025

    Online registration: (Code 27SFT for free submission)
    https://schmalfilmtage.de/call-for-entries/

    IMAGE: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION SUPER8/16 Award Winner (Jury prize) 2025: Guillaume Anglard @guillaumeanglard – DECADENTIA (09:35 min, 2024, Super 8, Frankreich)

    Submission fees: 

    Fees charged - Waiver available

    Location: 

    Dresden, Germany

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, November 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Open Call for 2026 Cosmic Rays Film Festival: A Festival of Experimental, Essay, First Person, and Artists' Film

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    Celebrating its 8th edition, Cosmic Rays Film Festival is an annual celebration of non-commercial short films that extend the idea of film as art. We are accepting submissions August 22 - November 16, 2025.

    Cosmic Rays screens work that:

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Chapel Hill, United States

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, November 16, 2025 (All day)
  • Call for Submissions: WOEFF 2026

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    Wide Open Experimental Film Festival 2026 is seeking submissions for screenings in Spring 2026 in Oklahoma City. Regular deadline October 15; late deadline November 30.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Oklahoma City, United States

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, November 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Submissions for Oberhausen 2026 are now open

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    72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 28 April – 3 May 2026
    Submit now to the competitions of the 72nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Oberhausen, Alemania

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every day 1 times. Also includes Sun Jan 18 2026.
    Friday, October 10, 2025 (All day)
    Monday, January 19, 2026 (All day)
  • OPEN CALL: Exquisite Corpse - A Video Sculpture

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    We’re seeking submissions for Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative video installation reimagining the Surrealist drawing game. Artists are invited to submit silent video works (1–3 minutes) inspired by one of 12 body parts — eyes, mouth, hair, shoulders/arms, hands, chest, belly, back, butt, genitals, legs, feet. Each piece should offer a personal, political, poetic, or abstract interpretation of the assigned part through your own aesthetic lens. Excerpts of previous work are allowed.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    New York, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, August 14, 2025 (All day)
  • OPEN CALL - Pollen: Video Spells

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    A curated program showcasing experimental and avant garde explorations of music, movement, and moving images. send your gnarled poems and whispered spells to join a chorus of queer chromatic seers. Video Spells will program open call film submissions alongside dance and sound performances. stemming from over 25 years of community curation as part an experimental art venue located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Brooklyn, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)
  • the8fest Small Gauge Film Festival: 2025 call for submissions

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    The 8fest call for submissions for 2025 festival are now open until 11:59pm EST, August 17th. This year's festival will take place on November 28th - 30th 2025, in Toronto.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Toronto, Canadá

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, August 17, 2025 (All day)
  • PRISME #8

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    PRISME #8 – Argentique du futur is on its way!

    The next edition of Mire’s annual festival, which aims to highlight inventive and engaging contemporary analog film,will this time take place as winter nears its end, upon light’s return : from Thursday, February 26 to Sunday, March 1, 2026.

    To fuel the programming of this 8th edition, we are looking for:

    • recent works shot on film (2023 and later)
    • expanded cinema performances
    • installations

    DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 1st, 2025!

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Nantes, Francia

    Deadline: 

    Wednesday, October 1, 2025 (All day)

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