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.
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.
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, Germany
Deadline:
Repeats every day 1 times. Also includes Sun Jan 18 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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:
The annual seven-day event returns November 3 - 9, 2025; there are no entry fees, and artists worldwide are invited to submit through September 19, 2025.
Submissions for the 9th edition of FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter are now open!
FRACTO will take place in Berlin at the end of May 2026. We invite artists and filmmakers from all backgrounds to share their recent film works with us.
Submission Guidelines: – Each filmmaker may submit up to two works – We accept short and mid-length films ( approx. 40 minutes) and performance-based expanded cinema proposals – Eligible works must be completed after January 1, 2024 – The submission deadline is March 1, 2026
