Go Short Festival 2025

Festival Description:

Go Short is the main short film festival in the Netherlands. During the five festival days Europe’s best recent short films will be screened and the Go Short Awards will be presented. Aside from the competitions Go Short offers an extensive program of events, talks, workshops, parties and meeting points for the film makers, the public and other stakeholders.

The Go Short foundation aims to contribute to deepening and expanding the short film culture, nationally and internationally, by means of organizing an annual international film festival for short films. Go Short is founded on the principles of the Cultural Governance Code and consists of a board and two directors. The foundation has been registered as a charitable institution (ANBI in Dutch).

2025 Call for Entries

For the European Competition the festival accepts short fiction, documentary, animation and art films that have been made in (geographical) Europe. The films are eligible for the Go Short Award for Best European Short in three different categories (Live-action, Animation and Documentary).

The Dutch Competition is a selection of films made in the Netherlands, from which the best film will be awarded with the Go Short Award for Best Dutch Short.

Go Short is a recognized film festival for the Academy Awards, the European Film Awards and the BAFTA.

The Student Competition will consist of short fiction, documentary, animation and art films made in European film schools. The best film will be awarded with the New Arrivals Award. Go Short is recognized by the Student Academy Awards.

Films in the European, Dutch and Student Competition are competing for the Audience Award.

• Deadlines: 20 September 2024 for films completed between 1 December 2023 and 1 June 2024.
  22 November 2024 for all films completed on or after 1 June 2024.
  20 December 2024 for films that have been completed in November or December 2024.

Expanded Cinema: Music Video Competition and VR/XR
Besides the abovementioned competitions, Go Short makes space for different kind of cinematic forms to be showcased at the festival. In our Music Video Competition, we showcase the newest music videos in a space they’re not often seen: the cinema. With our XR/VR program, we explore works that go beyond the flat cinema screen and explore cinema in a three-dimensional reality.

• Deadlines:
  1 December 2024 XR/VR submissions
  1 January 2025 submissions for the Music Video Competition

Submission area and regulations

2019 Festival News:

• Full Schedule

2018 Festival News:

• Competition announced