Konstloop Film FestivalFocus
AI-assisted cinema, generative image work, hybrid animation, experimental narrative, audiovisual essays, and moving-image art.
Konstloop as concept
In love with the strange loop between image, machine, perception and art.
Konstloop is built around recurrence, mutation, innovation, and the beauty of the strange. The festival welcomes work shaped by lust for innovation and experimentation, hybrid storytelling, and unexpected cinematic form.
The word konst in swedish, signals art but also the strange. Loop points to creative iteration, feedback, recursion, and regenerative innovation. Together defining a space for short films that feel exploratory, alive, and formally adventurous.
The festival
Short-form cinema at the edge of image culture.
Explore experimental filmmaking, AI and new visual languages. We are drawn to works that are precise, strange, poetic, bold, unsettling, playful, or radically new. The first edition of Konstloop Film Festival, taking place 23-26 October 2026, will be held online. Selected films will be screened as part of a curated digital programme hosted through the festival website, with support from Vimeo, and available during a limited festival window only. From 2027 onward, the festival aims to expand into a physical event as well, with in-person screenings and a live audience in Malmö.
Format
An online presentation with curated selections, juried awards, filmmaker visibility, and a clear emphasis on discovery and form.
Screening
The selected films will be screened online during the time of the festival.
Festival23-26 October 2026
Opening1 May 2026
Deadline15 August 2026
NotificationNotification date: 10 September 2026
Submit your film
We are open to bold, short, and original work.
Submissions are free and open until 15 August 2026
Ready to submit?
Upload your film, synopsis, credits, and screening link through FilmFreeway. Include a note about how AI, algorithmic workflows, or experimental methods were part of the creation if relevant to the work.
Criteria & categories
Rules, categories, & eligibility.
Eligibility
- Short films up to 20 minutes.
- Any country of origin.
- Completed after 1 January 2024.
- English subtitles required when dialogue is not in English.
Categories
Short (5 - 20 min). Anything goes.
AI short (5 to 20 min), made fully with generative AI.
Hyper short (up to 5 min)
Awards
- Official Konstloop statuette
- Official selection and winner laurels
- Winner certificate
- Featured presentation on Konstloop’s website and social channels
By submitting a film to Konstloop Film Festival, the submitter confirms that they hold the necessary rights and permissions for the work, including music, images, and all third-party material included in the film.
The filmmaker retains all ownership and copyright to the submitted work.
By submitting, the filmmaker grants Konstloop Film Festival the non-exclusive right to screen the film as part of the festival programme, including online screenings during the festival period and future physical screenings directly related to the festival.
The filmmaker also grants Konstloop the right to use stills, excerpts, trailers, and limited clips from the film for festival promotion, press, social media, website use, and related publicity.
Konstloop Film Festival will not sell, distribute, or otherwise commercially exploit the submitted film outside the context of festival screenings and promotion without the filmmaker’s separate permission.
Selected filmmakers may be contacted if any additional screening or promotional use is proposed beyond these terms.
Contact
Get in touch.
For programming, partnerships, press, and general questions, contact the festival directly.