The Marienbad Film Festival is an international film festival based in Czech Republic focusing on works of an experimental nature, marginal forms of cinema, contemporary moving image, and artistic & challenging films. The festival is dedicated to analog filmmaking on 16mm and 8mm, to film performances, videoart, videographic criticism and contemporary moving image.
→ https://marienbadfilmfestival.com/program/en/open-call-copy-2/ ←

The Marienbad Film Festival invites authors and authors' collectives to submit audiovisual works to two separate competitions.

 1. International Competition for Films of an Experimental Nature:

→ the call is open to projects within the broader definition of experimental film from the Czech Republic and abroad
→ the runtime of the films must not exceed 60 minutes
→ the work can and must be able to be screened in a cinema
→ the production year must not be earlier than 2025

→ https://forms.gle/zgThKcd5g5DDRp5p7 ←

2. International competition of audiovisual essays and videographic criticism

→the competition is open to audiovisual essays from the Czech Republic and abroad that meet the definition of an audiovisual essay that develops a form of academic research or film criticism through film.
→ the call is opened also for the works of practice-based research that take a reflexive approach to audiovisual culture, technologies, and materiality
→ the aim of the section is to support videographic film studios and video essayists
→ the production year must not be earlier than 2024

→ https://forms.gle/fjMUXvGmRyrXS3Cz8 ←

Selected projects will be presented in the Forum Marienbad section, which aims to expand the awareness of peripheral forms of film and the contemporary moving image in the following subsections: Forum Marienbad: Main Competition, Forum Marienbad: Audiovisual Essays.

Entry fee 13 €.

The deadline for entries is 31th of March 2026.

More information:
Contact: festival@marienbadfilmfestival.com