As part of The Gathering Dark exhibition, on 13th November the Brewery Market (Twickenham UK) will be hosting a night of short films. If you have a film (15 min max) that explores themes associated with the darker part of the year (Winter rituals, seasonal animations etc) we’d like to include it in the programme. The screening be in the bar via Vimeo so please send a link to https://vimeo.com/clutterfox
Application deadline: Monday, 20 October 2025 (23:59, Berlin time)
EFS Film School (Experimental Film Society/Rouzbeh Rashidi) and Tehran Contemporary Sounds invite final applications for the two-day, tuition-free masterclass “Experimental & Personal Filmmaking.” Now in its third year, the Cinematic Synesthesia collaboration convenes a curated cohort for an intensive workshop focused on the poetic and philosophical dimensions of experimental practice.
Odds & Ends is an experimental film festival located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival will hold its fourth annual screening on February 21, 2026 at the Vinegar Hill Theatre and will be presented by Light House Studio.
How can film help us reflect on the urban age we inhabit, and on the ways cities and territories are shaped by today’s social, political, and environmental challenges?
The 8th edition of Braziers International Film Festival will run from Aug 28 - 30, 2026, with a 3 day programme of international films, along with installations, live performances, special focus screenings, workshops and discussions, at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK.
Filmmakers get a fresh chance to enter PXL THIS 35, one of the oddest, oldest, and most experimental film festivals here in L.A., a movie capital.
“Still NO entry fee,” PXL THIS founder Gerry Fialka said. “Our free, non-competitive, non-commercial film fest returns this fall for its 35th run. Email me <pfsuzy@aol.com>.”
As part of a curating course, Binghamton University’s Cinema Department holds this festival every year. This year’s festival will take place on Friday, November 7th, and the theme is Dwellings. SEFF focuses on experimental, student-made works that challenge the conventional cinematic experience, so our filmmakers are open to interpreting the prompt as they see fit and submit a film of their choice: When you hear the word dwelling, is there a time or place that sticks out to you as memorable? One that feels unforgettable, or runs through your mind?
GRAIN URBAIN is back after a successful first edition. This international experimental film festival, dedicated to urban spaces and aesthetics, is now launching its open call for the 2026 edition in Paris.
We are looking for formally inventive short-films that explore the complexity, diversity, and poetics of urban life.
LATERALE FILM FESTIVAL is an international non-competitive festival of cinematic art organized by the Associazione Culturale Laterale.
Its aim is to highlight the most innovative aspects of contemporary audiovisual languages and to bridge the gap between artistic research and public engagement. Particular attention is given to young and independent filmmakers, as well as to self-made, no-budget works that result from individual exploration.
The tenth edition of LATERALE will take place in Cosenza (Italy), at cinema San Nicola, in August 2026.
CineSalon Experimental Film Festival takes place in Cork City and Cobh, Ireland, and online.
It celebrates personal, poetic and formally experimental filmmaking from across the world, providing a platform for film artists to share and discuss their work with adventurous audiences in a relaxed atmosphere. Curated by filmmakers, this defiantly independent festival exists to showcase the wild reeds of visionary film that ignore accepted cinematic paradigms and are all the more inspiring for it.
