Short Short Story Film Festival

Festival Description

The Short Short Story Film Festival celebrates brevity in filmmaking, featuring films from across the globe, lovingly harvested by the folks here at MergingArts Productions. From mini-documentaries to sentimental melodramas to black comedies to animated horror, the festival features succinct presentations of all kinds of short film stories.

2025 Call for entries (Archive)

The festival will be accepting submissions for the 2025 edition of the festival

• The length of the film including all credits must be at least 1 minute (1:00:00) and shorter than 6 minutes (5:59:xx).
• The film must tell a story; this excludes public service announcements, trailers, music videos, non-narrative experimental pieces, etc.
• Whether a piece is truly narrative is at the discretion of the submission review panel.
• All genres and styles are considered, including live action and animation, documentary and fiction, drama and comedy, etc.
• For 2025, the festival prefers films completed in 2025 or 2024. Films completed in 2023 may also be considered. Earlier films are ineligible.

• Regulations
• 2025 Submission form
• Deadline: 3 November 2025 
  

NB: 2026 Festival Dates are tentative