Event Description: SMOF in Argentina is the only animation film festival with a focus on stop motion that is currently taking place in South America. An international and competitive festival, with a clear emphasis on audiovisual education and training, it promotes cinema and its creation as transforming tools for society. Every year SMOF offers short film competitions, industry panels, workshops, exhibitions, clinics, seminars, laboratories, meetings, conferences, courses, and talks given by leading figures in animation from Argentina and from different parts of the world, free of charge, to facilitate access to public to educational and training proposals of international quality.

2027 Stop Motion Our Fest Call for Entries

Eligibility criteria and awards:

1. Participants can present their work individually or collectively.
2. The works must be original with the free use of music rights.
3. Works made from 2025 to the present can participate.
4. Works with mixed techniques can participate where more than 70% is done in stop motion.

International Stop Motion Competition:
- SMOF Grand Prize for Best International Stop Motion Short Film
- Best Director
- Best Screenplay
- Best Art Direction
- Best Animation Direction

Latin American Stop Motion Competition:
- SMOF Grand Prize for Best Latin American Stop Motion Short Film
- Best Director
- Best Screenplay
- Best Art Direction
- Best Animation Direction

Other Categories:

- Best Animated Documentary Short Film (Works made using 2D, 3D, stop motion and other animation techniques are eligible)
- Best Commissioned Work (Stop motion music videos, series and commercials are eligible)
- Audience Award for Best Short Film

Important information

• Submission via FilmFreeway
• Deadline: 15 November 2026 (Earlybird), 30 January 2027 (Regular), 1 March 2027 (Late) (no entry fee for Latin America*)