CineSalon Experimental Film Festival is thrilled to announce that short film submissions for its third annual festival are now being accepted.

To submit, please use the CineSalon FilmFreeway page. The deadline for entries is Monday July 27th.

CineSalon is a festival celebrating personal, poetic and formally experimental filmmaking that takes place in venues across Cork City, Ireland September 12th – 13th 2026 and online.

CineSalon accepts films with a running time of 15 minutes or less and only considers films that are experimental in form. While it interprets ‘experimental’ in a broad sense, it does not accept conventional narrative or documentary work.

The festival will screen an in-person programme of shorts selected from this open call and also a series of short film programmes that will stream online between September 12th and 26th 21st.

For a full list of entry rules and regulations, see the CineSalon FilmFreeway

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