Calls for entries

  • Celluloid Now 2025

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    The Chicago Film Society is proud to announce dates for the third edition of Celluloid Now. From October 9th and through the 12th, CFS will present Celluloid Now 2025, a series of screenings, workshops, and other events showcasing working analog filmmakers and artists alongside archival rediscoveries and restorations.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Chicago, United States

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, July 13, 2025 (All day)
  • International Film Festival The Hague 2025

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    IFFH International Film Festival The Hague, now in its 7th year, is inviting experimental, poetic, dance and films pushing the format of cinema.

    more information and submissions via Film Freeway.

    https://filmfreeway.com/Internationalfilmfestivalthehague

    Looking forward to receiving many wonderful films!

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    The Hague, Netherlands

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Tue Jul 15 2025, Tue Aug 12 2025, Thu Sep 11 2025.
    Wednesday, June 18, 2025 (All day)
    Wednesday, July 16, 2025 (All day)
    Wednesday, August 13, 2025 (All day)
    Friday, September 12, 2025 (All day)
  • Call for Submissions - The 19th Busan International Video Art Festival

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    The Busan International Video Art Festival (BIVAF) is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the upcoming 19th International Video Art Festival. The submission period will be open from June 9 to June 22, 2025.

    ​Starting this year, the Busan International Video Art Festival will conduct separate reviews and selection processes for the "International Competition" and "Korean Competition" sections. A final prize winner will be chosen from a combined shortlist of both sections.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Busan, South Korea

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, June 22, 2025 (All day)
  • Moscow International Video Art Exhibition: Visible / Invisible

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    Visible / Invisible

    For the second year we are pleased to announce our 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 seen and unseen, what is revealed and what is concealed.

    The exhibition aims to explore not only what is captured through the lens but is interested in what is missing, lost or out of shot. What the moving image chooses to show and what it refuses to reveal.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Moscow, Russia

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Extended deadline Open - Underneath the Floorboards

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    Extended Deadline Open:

    For the 14th Edition of Underneath the Floorboards 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 wil also be showing our event online in Tarbes in August!

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    , Online

    Deadline: 

    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 (All day)
  • Submissions Open for Analog Cookbook Issue 8: All Recipes

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    We are thrilled to announce that we’re now accepting submissions for the next issue of Analog Cookbook.

    This “All Recipes”  issue will serve as a collective resource: a curated compilation of analog media recipes, techniques, and tutorials. Drawing inspiration from Helen Hill’s legendary text Recipes for Disaster—which brought together 37 experimental filmmakers to share handcrafted, home-grown processes—we aim to foster a similar spirit of generosity, experimentation, and open exchange.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, June 15, 2025 (All day)
  • BIDFF #11 OPEN CALL: Short Dance Films

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    Filmmakers, dance artists, animators, visual artists and digital art makers are invited to submit their works for the International Short Film Competition of Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (September 11–14, 2025)

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Bucharest, Romania

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, July 12, 2025 (All day)
  • Videomapping and Light Art Event "Freiheitsleuchten"

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    The City of Mühlhausen invites you to creatively reinterpret its historic old town through light art, projections, and videomapping — as part of the 2025 commemorative program "freiheyt 1525 – 500 Years of the Peasants’ War."

    The light art event "Freiheitsleuchten" will take place during October 17–18, 2025, transforming six locations — including churches, squares, and alleys — into artistic installations. We are seeking contemporary visual works that engage with themes of freedom, resistance, social transformation, and memory.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Mühlhausen, Germany

    Deadline: 

    Monday, June 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Diametrale 2026 - Experiment & Humour/Absurdism

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    Diametrale. Film Festival for Experiment & Humour/Absurdism in the Alps of Austria (Innsbruck)
    Call for Submissions! Deadline: Sept 01, 2025

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Innsbruck, Austria

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)

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