Stockholm Short Film Festival awaits you for an evening of independent short films!
Our festival was founded to support and promote independent short films from all around the world. We recognize how difficult it is to get your short film ’out there’, and find a platform where your film can reach the right audience. We aim to promote and provide exposure to these films and organize a fun and culturally diverse night of indie cinema for filmmakers and cinephiles alike. Our program will reflect the diversity and opportunities within the short film genre, and our goal is to show films that the audience would otherwise have not seen, and leave a lasting impact.

We look forward to seeing your submissions and welcoming you to Stockholm Short Film Festival! Our submission window for our 1st edition is now open!

For each season, the official selection will be carefully picked by our panel of expert judges and will consist of the films nominated for an award. The movie that got an award will have the option to be screened online during our annual event if they get into the next round; they will also be promoted on our social media platforms and website.

Best European Short
Best International Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Animated Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Student Short
Best First Time Filmmaker Short
Best Women’a issue Short
Best Actor in Short
Best Actress in Short
Best Female Director in Short
Best Male Director in Short
Best Producer in Short
Best Original Screenwriting
Best Unproduced Short Script
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Horror
Best Thriller
Best Comedy
Best Micro Short
Best Pilot
Best Web Series
Best Dance


✓ All films must be submitted in English or with English subtitles (if in a different language).
✓ All films must have been made in or after 2018.
✓ Short films must not exceed 40 minutes.
✓ Filmmakers are responsible for sorting out the copyright on their own materials.
✓ By submitting to us, you give us the right to screen your film.
✓ Nominations: These are all the films that have been nominated for an award in a category. Not all nominated films will be screened.
Official Selection: These are all the nominated films selected for screening, which will be notified via email. If you received a Nomination email, but no Official Selection email, it means your film will not be screened, but is still a contender for an award in its category.
Award Winners: Chosen from the Nominations (which includes the Official Selection).
✓ We may promote clips from your film on social media, based on the press kits you provide us with.
✓ We retain the right to change the date of the festival under special circumstances.
✓ We place no restrictions on your work in terms of premiere status or whether your work has been made available online.
✓ Any technical issues with the submitted films are 100% the responsibility of the filmmakers. If, at the time of judging, your video file doesn’t work or doesn’t have English subtitles (if in a language other than English), it will be automatically rejected, without a refund. Please contact the festival team ASAP if there are any issues with the submission process, and a solution will be found.
✓ We cannot provide refunds.
✓ If you have submitted your project in the previous year, please do not resubmit the same project to current edition.
✓ By submitting to us you agree to our terms and conditions and to receiving marketing newsletters and discounts about film festivals in the form of emails.
✓ We reserve the right to update our terms and conditions.

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  • lori zozzolotto

    While we were happy to be nominated as semi finalist, the communication from this festival was terrible. They did not keep to their own deadlines, nor did we ever receive an invite to the supposed " fun and culturally diverse night of indie cinema for filmmakers and cinephiles alike." Nor could I find evidence that the festival occurred.

    April 2024
  • John johnson

    This is a festival that I will submit to again and again!
    FANTSTICO!

    March 2024
  • Nicola La Porta

    It is a great honour for us to get Stockholm Shorth Festival positive evaluation for our Docufilm. Your kindness, encouragement, enthusiasm gave us a lot of gains. We definitely keep your Festival on our short list and hope to attend it again in the future

    March 2024
  • Happy that we were selected as a semfi-finalist, but disappointed no final judging results have been posted yet. Email indicated it would be on March 18.

    March 2024
  • Georgios Iosefides

    Art film festivals helps arts and cinema to be global. If there is a better festival I don't know about it.

    March 2024