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.
We are looking for completed moving image works ranging from 2 to 10 minutes in length, that explore:
the experience of being seen, the act of witnessing, surveillance, or observation.
The selected works will be shown in a curated screening, as a featured event of Art Weekend Budapest in late November. If selected, you will need to provide a downloadable mov or mp4 file of the work for the screening.
Media artists from around the world can now enter their work to be considered for the 2026 European Media Art Festival. The online platform is already open at https://emaf.filmchief.com/entry-forms
This year's deadline for entries is 22 December 2025.
We welcome current works in the categories Film (experimental short and feature films), Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media art works), and Expanded (performances, live events, or workshops).
The Punto y Raya 2025 call for entries is still open. We are inviting filmmakers and visual artists from around the world to submit short, abstract films made entirely of non-figurative images. It's all about colour, form and sound: art in motion in its purest form!
CAULDRON is an international film and video festival based in Salt Lake City that is dedicated to challenging and innovative motion-picture works in any genre or format. Unorthodox film narratives, rogue documentaries, avant-garde cinema, video mashups, abstract video art, genre-bending storytelling... We accept all categories with an eye towards innovation, iconoclasm, personal visions, and any/all unique motion picture experiences.
The Hudson Milliner Art Salon is seeking art that speaks to America—not just the political body—but the place, the culture, and the feeling, interpreted across time and by distinct peoples. America can be a frontier plain or a gilded skyscraper, and it belongs to everyone.
