Get Lost in the Wonder of Film
Festival Name: Wunderground Film Festival
Organizing Body: Verbeke Foundation
Location: Belgium (A 12-hectare site featuring open spaces, architecture, and art installations)
Dates: May 2–30, 2027
About the Festival: This festival celebrates cinema as an art form, offering an experience that extends beyond traditional cinema settings. Films are placed in dialogue with contemporary art, installations, architecture, nature, and unexpected spaces. The festival aims to bridge diverse artistic disciplines; where moving images encounter sculptures, dreams meet landscapes, and stories intersect with artworks. It provides a unique environment where culture, ecology, experimentation, and imagination intertwine.
Awards:
- Main Award: Presented to a film that embodies the festival’s spirit through artistic vision, originality, and a meaningful dialogue with the festival’s values.
- Wunderground Favourites: A selection of films that left a lasting impression on the jury through their creativity, imagination, or unique cinematic language.
- Special Mentions: Awarded at the jury’s discretion for works deserving particular recognition.
Accepted Genres: Experimental, hybrid works, video installations, narrative, documentary, animation, and works that challenge traditional categories. The festival is specifically seeking poetic, visually adventurous, playful, dreamlike, or thought-provoking works that defy easy categorization. (Particular focus on emerging artists, students, and first-time directors).
Runtime: No restrictions.
Production Year: No restrictions (Films may have premiered elsewhere).
Language & Subtitles: Non-English films must include English subtitles.
Deadline: February 15, 2027
Submission Fee: Submission fees apply. (As an independent festival, fee waivers are rarely granted).
Other Details:
- The festival is a non-profit cultural initiative and does not provide screening fees.
- Rough cuts and works-in-progress are not accepted.
- By submitting, you grant the festival the right to screen the work in various settings (including traditional screenings and alternative exhibition spaces) and to use stills and clips for promotional and communication purposes.
- The filmmaker must hold all necessary rights for the work’s exhibition.
- Multiple entries are permitted, provided each film is submitted separately.
