We are proud to announce the Open Call for the fourth Alternativa Film Festival, which will take place in Africa in late 2027. Submissions run from October 29, 2026, to March 1, 2027, and are free of charge.
The Alternativa Film Festival 2027 welcomes fiction, documentary, animation, and hybrid films of all genres completed after January 1, 2026. Feature-length films (40 minutes or longer) are eligible from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Short films (up to 40 minutes) are accepted exclusively from Africa, the festival’s focus region for this edition.
The festival’s $120,000 prize fund will be distributed across seven awards. Three of these, the Focus Award for a feature film and two Shorts Awards, are reserved exclusively for African filmmakers. The full list of eligible countries and submission requirements is available on the Open Call page.
The previous edition welcomed submissions from Asia and Latin America and received 1,831 entries from 55 countries: 22 in Latin America and 33 in Asia. Latin America accounted for the vast majority, with 1,499 submissions led by Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. In Asia, India, Iran, and China submitted the most films. Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines led in Southeast Asia, and Kazakhstan topped the list in Central Asia.
