Calls for entries

  • FRACTO 2026 – Submissions Now Open!

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    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

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Berlin, Alemania

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, March 1, 2026 (All day)
  • Écran Libre - New Media festival 2025

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    The Écran Libre New Media Festival is now accepting submissions for its 2025 edition. We're seeking innovative, experimental, and genre-defying work at the intersection of image, sound, and technology — with a primary focus on video-based practices. This year's program will be largely dedicated to screen-based works, including video art, digital storytelling, experimental film, and other time-based media.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Chelsea, Canada

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, September 14, 2025 (All day)
  • Living With Buildings VIIII - Submissions Open

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    LIVING WITH BUILDINGS – VIIII
    – SUBMISSIONS OPEN –

    We are looking for short films that explore themes of People / Poetry / Place

    – Rules –
    Films can be Poetry / Documentary / Experimental
    We prefer shorter, sharper films — 10 Mins Max –  Mp4 Format – Include title screen and credits

    https://filmfreeway.com/LivingWithBuildings-VIIII

    Deadline – 1 Sept 2025

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Experimental Loop 2026

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    Experimental Loop 2026
    International Video Art Festival — New York

    This special edition will focus exclusively on works created in 16mm format.

    A unique opportunity to exhibit your work in New York City, on Governors Island, during Fall 2026 — in collaboration with the New York Latin American Art Triennial (NYLAAT) @nylaat_org | Sponsored by Toroide Foundation @toroide.foundation

    Application period
    July 1 – September 30, 2025
    Application Fee: $0
    Results Announcement: March 1, 2026

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    New York, United States

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)
  • Call for submissions - VIDEOAKTION #6

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    Call for submissions
    VIDEOAKTION #6

    VIDEOAKTION is a two-day screening event where the latest developments in experiments with moving images will be presented and discussed. The next VIDEOAKTION will take place in October 2025 at Raum für drastische Maßnahmen in Berlin.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Berlin , Germany

    Deadline: 

    Thursday, August 7, 2025 (All day)
  • Open Call: Skin in the Game

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    Skin in the Game is a group exhibition, screening, and risograph poetry collection, exploring what it means to put your body—your real, pulsing, breakable body—on the line. In love. In labor. In protest. In performance.

    The works in this show will speak from the surface of the skin and the space just beneath it: the site of contact, vulnerability, memory, and commitment.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Brooklyn, United States

    Deadline: 

    Friday, August 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Invisible Load

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    Call for Video Screening

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Kinesthetic Cinema - Open Call for Interactive Films/Videos/Performative Media

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    We are seeking submissions of "kinesthetic" or, interactive media that invites audiences to kinesthetically engage and/or participate beyond a single-channel theater-viewing experience. This open call welcomes film, video, and/or performance works that prompt or engage the viewer kinesthetically—through spoken word, sound, song, gesture, or full-body movement.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Location: 

    Columbus, United States

    Deadline: 

    Monday, September 1, 2025 (All day)
  • 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival

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    Call for Entries for the 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival opens July 1 and runs through September 30, 2025.

    The 64th Ann Arbor Film Festival will take place in person March 24–29, 2026, with Awards Programs online March 30 - April 13.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Location: 

    Ann Arbor, United States

    Deadline: 

    Tuesday, September 30, 2025 (All day)

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