Open call for filmmakers
Screening and residency
Deadline: May 1st
Screening
TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE Film Festival will take place in Tranås (Sweden) from 3 to 6 September 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. Please don’t forget to check our “Rules & Terms” on FilmFreeway before submitting.
And for all the filmmakers submitting to the festival there will be two more opportunities which are mentioned bellow.
Looking forward to watch your films!
Apply here!
Residency
FILMMAKERS' RESIDENCY: For the fourth 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!
Kultivera and Region Jönköping invite two filmmakers of various styles, backgrounds and nationalities and two artists from Jönköping region to apply for a nine-day funded residency in the Swedish town of Tranås!
The residency will start on the 30th of August 2025 and will end on the 7th of September 2025. Much of the residency period will coincide with the multidisciplinary arts festival TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE, which will take place between the 3rd and the 6th of September. At the festival you can expect to meet artists, poets, writers, musicians, dancers and other filmmakers. If selected, you will be encouraged to work on your projects during the residency. In conversations with other interdisciplinary artists, you may share your own creative process and gain inspiration from processes learned from other disciplines. You will have an opportunity to share and present some of your film projects during the festival. Accommodation and subsistence costs will be covered by the host organisations. The residency participants will need to provide for their own technical needs such as computer and camera equipment. Working language is English.
Residency dates: 30th of August to 7th of September 2025
Deadline for submission: 1 May 2025
To submit for the residency send a one page motivation letter to spegelfilm@gmail.com.
Poets Responce
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.