Calls for entries

  • Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2026

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    Co-founded by Golden Bear winning director Adina Pintilie in 2010, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival is an annual event dedicated to experimental films and visual arts. BIEFF aims to promote highly innovative films and filmmakers with strong personal views on contemporary reality, which also daringly explore the boundaries of cinematic language.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Bucharest, Romania

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Jun 04 2026.
    Friday, May 15, 2026 (All day)
    Friday, June 5, 2026 (All day)
  • Artificial Imagination - Open Call

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    Artificial Imagination — A growing archive of video works about creativity and artificial intelligence. An open call dedicated to video works exploring the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Brescia, Italia

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, June 14, 2026 (All day)
  • Festival of (In)appropriation #14 Open Call

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    The Call for Entries for Festival of (In)appropriation #14 is now OPEN!

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Los Angeles, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Friday, May 1, 2026 (All day)
  • Submission to Fundraiser at Millenium Film Workshop (Identity/Documentary/Unrealized dreams)

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    This is a call for submissions of your films (or also a performance of performance art, music, poetry). Could even be other visual forms of art but need to be easily installed and de-installed. 

    Submission deadline is April 27th. The event is April 10th and we invite all the artist to please come to the show.

    All submissions will be emailed to: antifamillennium@gmail.com

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    New York, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (All day) to Friday, March 27, 2026 (All day)
  • Hotel Carrousel - Open Call for Emerging Video and Media Artists

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    Hotel Carrousel is a nomadic exhibition platform dedicated to video and media art, founded in 2024 by artist Lupe Arens. The project emerged from a personal search for more engaged, accessible and porous ways to present experimental moving image works within a cultural landscape that often overlooks video art, especially for artists at the start of their career. 

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Brussels, Bélgica

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, March 29, 2026 (All day)
  • WNDX now open for submissions!

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    Submissions for the 21st WNDX Festival of Moving Image are now open!

    The festival will be held in Winnipeg, Canada, Nov 12-15, 2026.

    We have three open calls:

    - An International Open Call, which considers short works (up to 15 mins) made in 2025 or 2026 by international directors from anywhere in the world

    - A Canadian Open Call, which considers works of any length made in 2025 or 2026 by Canadian directors

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Winnipeg, Canada

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, April 30, 2026 (All day)
  • Climate Film Festival Open Call 2026

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    The Climate Film Festival (CFF) is New York City’s first city-wide film festival dedicated to climate in all its forms. From narrative and documentary features to experimental shorts and music videos, CFF harnesses the transformative power of motion pictures, showcasing new and established voices, classic climate films, and energizing human stories.

    CFF promotes climate storytelling across genres and from a broad range of perspectives. We welcome features, shorts, and TV & Internet episodes across formats, including:

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    New York, Estados Unidos

    Deadline: 

    Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu May 14 2026.
    Friday, March 27, 2026 (All day)
    Friday, May 15, 2026 (All day)
  • OPEN CALL - Pollen: Bloomdances

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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. Pollen programs 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: 

    Sunday, May 10, 2026 (All day)
  • 25 FPS Festival 2026

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    25 FPS Festival is an annual international film festival dedicated to showcasing innovative cinema and its expanded forms. It honors recent works reflecting the world around us while fostering a dialogue with the rich history of the avant-garde. The festival highlights original and expressive concepts, explores advancements in thematic, conceptual, and aesthetic approaches, and embraces works that expand the notion of film as art.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Zagreb, Croacia

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, May 30, 2026 (All day)
  • Experimental Superstars 12

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    Experimental Superstars is an international festival of experimental films.

    We accept experimental films, experimental documentaries, and music videos that utilize film techniques, including dance film, animation, and other experimental approaches.

    Only works suitable for screening will be considered for selection; video installations are not accepted. 

    The festival takes place in Novi Sad, Serbia in mid November. 

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Novi Sad, Serbia

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, June 30, 2026 (All day)

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