Squeaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest! Celebrating its 23rd year, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing short films and artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques, including stop-motion, claymation, 3D animation, hand-painted film, motion graphics, and more. All genres are welcome. Past festivals have showcased work from both emerging and established artists.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is excited to announce an open call for the seventh season of Sight/Geist, a series that supports emerging NYC-based film and performance artists. Submissions will be accepted through July 5, 2026 for 2026/27 programming at The 8th Floor, the Foundation’s gallery near Union Square. Here: https://forms.gle/wn1cdxcLvDjXKHsJ6
RestFest Film Festival is a virtual film & video art festival created by/for Crip, Disabled, Deaf, Chronically ill, Neurodivergent, and/or Mad folks worldwide. RestFest is a festival entirely accessible from bed, embracing Crip Time.
RestFest is a community initiative, programmed & organized by a small team of Disabled, Neurodivergent, Chronically ill, Mad, and Queer artists.
Submission fees:
Fees charged - Waiver available
Location:
, Online
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sun Jul 26 2026, Thu Aug 27 2026.
The independent film festival Otherworldly 3.0 is now accepting submissions. This season's main theme is transition.
We are looking for films that take place on the threshold and linger in the gap between what is here, what is no longer with us, and what is yet to come. We want to see how transition grows through the very fabric of the image — in editing, rhythm, sound, silence, and in how the camera touches the world or averts its gaze from it.
Autumn/Winter Open Call - we are now accepting submissions for our next editions of MicroActs, evenings of artist short film!
This open call is for our next two editions of 2026, which will take place in September & December this year. Each edition will showcase a selection of exciting & inspiring Artist Film from all over the world; the selected submissions will be notified which edition they are curated in.
Liminal Archive is an experimental festival for moving images at the edge of memory, reality, and Asia's political histories.
The festival will take place in Autumn and includes a series of programs such as screenings, talks, and workshops.
We are seeking: * Short or feature-length projects * Experimental works that expand the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking * Artist film series / ongoing practices
“We step into and do not step into the same rivers; we are and are not.” Heraclitus ; if not our model, then the radiant thought, a precursor to the experimental work. Plato recounts this in the Cratylus: “Heraclitus says that everything flows and nothing remains; and, comparing things to the current of a river, he adds that you cannot step into the same river twice.”
Experimenta, the international festival for experimental film and moving image art in India, invites filmmakers from Asia to submit their films.
In its 13th edition, the festival seeks films that challenge conventional modes of cinema and extend the parameters of genre and form. Moving image works defined as fiction or non-fiction or hybrid or none of these are welcome.
Experimenta does not charge a submission fee.
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 5th July 2026.
We are pleased to announce that VISIONS is opening its call for applications for "Surrender as Process", a six-day immersive artist retreat taking place in rural Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Led by Cape Breton born filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills and hosted by VISIONS, with co-facilitator Benjamin R. Taylor.
The retreat is centered around 16mm filmmaking, but welcomes applications from creative practitioners working across disciplines and at all stages of work.
Emami Art’s Annual Open Call for Indian and International Experimental Film, Video, and Artists’ Moving Image works The fifth edition of the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF26) invites submissions from both Indian and international artists and filmmakers working in experimental film, video, and artists' moving image. EAEFF is a platform dedicated to curating and developing critical discourse around alternative and experimental practices.
