This year’s submissions and release of the competition programme

PHOTOGRAPHY: HÅKON BORG, DESIGN: JOSEFINE BRUBAKKEN / THE NORWEGIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

BY: THE EDITORIAL TEAM • 7th APRIL 2025

The Norwegian Short Film Festival wishes to thank all the filmmakers who have submitted films this year!

This year’s competition programme will be announced on Thursday the 10th of April.

Our three pre-selection juries have been persistently working for weeks, watching and selecting films for this year’s competition programme.

Everyone who has submitted a film will get their final response simultaneously as the programme’s publication on our website.

The festival takes place in Grimstad from the 11th to the 15th of June, as well as on The Norwegian Short Film Festival’s digital platform.

Facts about this year’s film submissions

NORWEGIAN SHORT FILM: 290 submissions
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM: 2392 submissions
NORWEGIAN SHORT DOCUMENTARY: 99 submissions
INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY: 443 submissions
MUSIC VIDEO: 64 submissions

In total there are as many as 3 288 submitted films, and we can’t wait to share which of these were selected to be screened at this year’s edition of the festival.

Digital festival pass

Did you know that you can access the complete competition programme, even though you’re not able to make it to Grimstad this year?

For only NOK 275,- you can keep yourself updated on the latest and the greatest within the short film format, with over 140 short films from a broad range of genres and forms of expression, available anywhere and all the time, from the 11th of June to the 22nd of June.

NOTE: The digital version of the festival is only available from Norway.

If you have an ordinary pass, you will of course also have access to the digital platform.

Festival passes, including the digital edition, can be purchased here.