TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE Festival will take place in Tranås (Sweden) from 15 to 18 July 2025. 
The film screening is focused on experimental films and videopoems from all over the world and we are happy to open the new call for films!

Submit your film in one of these two sections: 



EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS 
We are looking for magmatic forms of audiovisuals, unconventional moving images that burn on the screen, breaking with common rules of aesthetics and narrative. The festival is open to national and international filmmakers. Any film with no limitation of duration or genre is welcome to apply. 



VIDEOPOEMS 
We are looking for videopoems, those films that stand on the border between audiovisual languages and words - written or performed. The festival is open to national and international filmmakers. Any film with no limitation of theme or duration is welcome to apply.

As this is a free-entrance festival, we ask you to pay a small fee for the submission of your film, in order to support the festival and make it possible to happen.
And please don’t forget to check our “Rules & Terms” below before submitting.

And there will be two more opportunities for filmmakers:

1. FILMMAKERS' RESIDENCY: For the fifth year we will offer an artistic residency for filmmakers that will take place in Tranås during the festival period. Filmmakers who submit their film to our festival will have the opportunity to apply to this residency too and share an intensive creative experience with a small group of fellow artists, both locals and from around the world. Two places are available, we look forward to your application!
The residency's call will be opened on the 1st of January 2026, STAY TUNED!!

2. A POET'S RESPONSE TO A FILM: Some of the selected films will have the possibility of receiving a poetic response from one of the poets participating in the festival;

Looking forward to watch your films!

Rules & Terms

1. Dates and Place
Tranås At The Fringe - International Film Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems is an international film and video screening that will be held from the 15th to the 18th of July 2026 in Tranås (Sweden), within the context of the international arts festival Tranås At The Fringe. In case of force majeure making it impossible to run the screenings as live events, these will take place only online, on Tranås at the Fringe YouTube channel. The author is free to deny approval to the temporary online publication of his film.

2. Purposes
Tranås At The Fringe - International Film Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems wants to bring in Tranås, a small town in Sweden, a quality selection of experimental films and videopoems and aims to become a cultural gathering for film lovers and professionals, to support the creation of networks between filmmakers and the local communities and to inspire exchanges between filmmakers and professionals coming from different artistic disciplines.

3. Sections of the festival

International experimental films
The experimental films submitted must have a duration of maximum 40 minutes (opening and ending credits included). They must include subtitles in English or Swedish (where the original language is not one of these two). There is no limitation for the number of works that each author can submit.

International videopoems
The videopoems submitted must have a duration of maximum 30 minutes (opening and ending credits included). They must include subtitles in English or Swedish (where the original language is not one of these two). There is no limitation for the number of works that each author can submit.

4. Deadlines
Submission from: 1 October 2025
Deadline for submission: 1 April 2026
Notification date: 30 April 2026
The selected artists must send a screening copy of their films by: 1 June 2026

5. General dispositions
The authors and/or the production companies authorise the publication of their personal data as well as of the ones of their artwork on the festival’s website and on the festival’s catalogue and their related diffusion to press media and/or social media for promotional sakes.
They also agree that an extract of their work (up to a maximum of 30 seconds) may be used with the aim of promoting Tranås At The Fringe - International Festival of Experimental Films and Videopoems, in any context and language, by traditional and new media platforms.

Films and videos will be screened, when it is possible, in the screening format specified in the entry form. The organisation, even though being rigorously committed in the safekeeping of the artworks (in digital format), will not respond for any damage or loss that these could be subjected to, from the moment of the arrival on. The participation to the festival imply the entire acceptance of these regulations.

Though the submission of the entry form, the authors and/or the production companies authorise:
- to be included in Tranås At The Fringe - International Festival of Experimental Films and Video poems archive;
- the screening of their film (without screening fee) during the festival and in any future event linked to the festival Tranås At The Fringe for cultural sakes (reviews, retrospectives, cine-forums...) or educational ones.
There is no such case in which films and videos will be screened with profits.

BY SENDING A FILM OR VIDEO SUBMISSION TO THE FESTIVAL, ONE ACCEPTS THE PRESENT DOCUMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY.