Calls for entries

  • Early Bird Deadline 7th Edition Screener Short Films

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    We are a short film Screening Night based in Hackney, London. We will screen the finalist films on a specific Hackney venue. 

    At Screener Short Films we showcase the best and most outstanding international short films.
    Our mission is to encourage and support filmmakers throughout their creative process in order to provide the recognition they deserve.
    We are a platform whose main goal is to provide a space for short independent films which create their own unique language and content.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Monday, March 31, 2025 (All day)
  • New York City Independent Film Festival 2026 - Experimental Section - Call For Entries

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    The New York City Independent Film Festival - Experimental Section is now accepting submissions for its 18th edition.

    The festival screens in central Manhattan (Times Square) and welcomes work by artists of all nations.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, August 31, 2025 (All day)
  • 9th Festival ECRÃ - Call for entries

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    Festival ECRÃ is an Experimental Art and Cinema event that, through experiences that question the notion and production of the moving image, seeks to stimulate audiovisual culture. By showing Films, Games, Installations, Interactive Arts, Performances and Videoarts, ECRÃ encourages new formats for the production and exhibition of these works.

    This project arose in 2016 from the desire to question the film industry and its “primordial elements” and to give space for filmmakers and artists to experiment freely in audiovisual production and thinking.

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    Submission fees are charged

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    Repeats every week 1 times. Also includes Sat Feb 22 2025, Fri Mar 14 2025, Fri Apr 04 2025.
    Monday, February 3, 2025 (All day)
    Sunday, February 23, 2025 (All day)
    Saturday, March 15, 2025 (All day)
    Saturday, April 5, 2025 (All day)
  • EXiS 2025 Call for Entries

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    EXiS 2025 Call for Entries!
    22nd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS)

    Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, a.k.a EXiS is now calling for entries to the competitions of its 22nd edition. We value artists’ films made with an original vision that take challenges and aesthetic adventures.

    Entry deadline is 23rd March 2025. To submit your work, please check the regulations and use the entry form on the festival's website.

    Submission fees: 

    Free submissions

    Deadline: 

    Sunday, March 23, 2025 (All day)
  • Marienbad Film Festival 2025 - Call for entries

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    The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival based in Mariánské Lázně (Czechia) focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. It creates an opportunity for independent and experimental filmmakers and artists using the moving image to meet, but also aims to make more challenging films accessible to a wider audience.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Monday, March 31, 2025 (All day)
  • 12th West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

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    The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions in video/film, animation, VR, video installation & performance to its 12th edition, which takes place April 10 – 12, 2025 on the campus of West Virginia University.  We’re looking for innovative, provocative, highly charged and deeply personal works in a variety of genres and exploring multiple themes. This year we also welcome submissions to a special thematic category, exploring new insights into evolving definitions and understandings of Space, in all of its many contexts.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, March 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Open Call Underneath the Floorboards 2025

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    For our 14th Edition we will be continue our online event, which will be screened for a two weeks by our online platform: https://www.visualcontainer.tv/ which screens worldwide to maximises our international exposure. We got over ten thousand views last time around, and this time we're aiming for more.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Saturday, February 1, 2025 (All day)
  • Elevation Film Festival Call for Submissions 2025

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    After a very successful first year, the second edition of Elevation Film Festival will return to Maker Heights (Cornwall, UK) on 6-7 September 2025. Earlybird submission deadline January 31st 2025, final submission deadline March 31st 2025.

    Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Monday, March 31, 2025 (All day)
  • HEAR HERE Open Call for Submissions

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    Our themed screenings continue @fabricagallery in 2025 with an invite for emerging, established and award winning filmmakers to share their films for our April programme HEAR HERE
    In public or personal ways, by natural or manmade means, how do we listen - and what do we hear ? ‘Hear Here’ could be an instruction, a celebration of listening or a lamenting of sound and noise. We look forward to seeing your submissions and listening in on your world.

    Submission fees: 

    Submission fees are charged

    Deadline: 

    Friday, February 14, 2025 (All day)

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