Open Call: Submissions for 2025 Festival

April 1, 2024–
August 31, 2024

Submissions for the 38th Images Festival are open! The festival will take place from April 10-16, 2025.


For film submissions, click here. The submission fee is $15.


For student submissions please click here. Student submissions are free.


Distributors submissions can be sent to submissions@imagesfestival.com.


Deadline: August 31, 2024.


We understand that many are facing economic hardship, and can offer submissions fee waivers to those currently facing financial barriers. For questions or to request financial assistance please contact us at submissions@imagesfestival.com by August 5, 2024.

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Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and MĂ©tis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 


As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 


Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.