After a very successful second year, the third edition of Elevation Film Festival will be based at Real Ideas Organisation in Plymouth, alongside artist installations and workshops running at Maker Heights across the water in Cornwall. The festival will take place on 2-4th October 2026.
Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.
Over the weekend of Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17, 2026, aCinema will present a spring screening series featuring six programs, at Woodland Pattern. Two of the six programs will be curated from works submitted through the aDifferent Program open call.
The 6th edition of the FECIMU International Film and Multimedia Festival invites artists and filmmakers to submit their experimental short films and multimedia art works.
FECIMU is a non-profit festival and platform dedicated to the exploration, promotion, and dissemination of short films and multimedia art, with a special focus on emerging creators and innovative artistic practices.
@protocole.hysterique collective has launched an open call for films (experimental, DIY, crashed, dirty & rowdy), open until January 19, in preparation for the first edition of its festival which will take place on March 28 and 29 in Paris.
CHROMA: Image & Sound is an experimental film and music festival based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
We present short and feature-length experimental films in conversation with hand-selected, carefully curated music. Rather than treating sound as accompaniment, each program is conceived as a dialogue between moving image and live ambient and experimental music, allowing both to shape the experience of time, space, and attention.
Submission fees:
Submission fees are charged
Location:
Knoxville, Estados Unidos
Deadline:
Repeats every month on the 1 of March, April, May 3 times.
Fugue State, presented by Disassociative Productions and Agitate21C, is a festival of experimental, radical, political, and avant-garde cinema of all sorts, including expanded cinema and VR experiments. The festival has traveled to multiple partner venues including The Film-Maker's Coop in NYC, Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Elastic Arts Foundation and Comfort Station in Chicago, and more.
Submission fees:
Fees charged - Waiver available
Location:
Chicago, United States
Deadline:
Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Thu Apr 23 2026, Tue Jun 23 2026.
ecoSYNTH² — Call for Films, VR & Digital Performances
Vorspiel 2026 · CTM × transmediale 30–31 January 2026 · Berlin
ecoSYNTH² returns for its second edition as part of Vorspiel 2026 (CTM × transmediale), hosted by TOP Lab, Berlin’s first biolab and transdisciplinary community space.
For Underneath the Floorboards' 15th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a four weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over Eleven thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more. We'll also have a live event in the South of France for this edition
