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Secondary festival

Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival

General information

Dates
13–21 December 2026
Location
CA
Submission deadline
26 September 2026
Eligibility
Not available
Subtitles
Subtitles required in EN
Submit your film
Submit your film — via FilmFreeway
Official website
https://pebblesunderground.art/
Last checked
24 September 2026

News

After the Image is the Present – Screening at VISUALCONTAINER[.BOX]
13 September 2026
AFTER THE IMAGE IS THE PRESENTProgram of experimental short films curated by Pebbles Underground and Les Boîtes Explosives Presented by Visualcontainer[.BOX] September 26, doors at 18h00, program duration: 1hr Via Passerini 18, 20162 Milan, Italy PROGRAM GET READY AGAIN by Andreas Savva | Cyprus | 2011 (02m20s)Silent, Color The video performance is
Winter 2026 Applications Open
12 July 2026
♫ CALL FOR INDEPENDENT, EXPERIMENTAL WORKS OF ALL GENRES ♫ Winter Edition 2026 will stream from December 13 to 21 on our platform! ✧ FORM/GENRE CRITERIA: ~ Experimental, expanded, artistic documentaries, and mockumentaries (any topic)~ Experimental, avant-garde, underground, surrealist films, animation, cgi, video art, screenlife, and mixed techniq
Summer 2026 – Award Winning Films
16 June 2026
Handing out awards is an inherently paradoxical act, trying to measure something as subjective as art. Yet, since launching this initiative in 2022, we have come to see this process not as a definitive judgment, but as an essential extension of artistic practice itself.
Summer Screenings 2026
7 June 2026
Summer 2026 edition of Pebbles Underground features 48 films made by artists from various backgrounds, and involving 21 different countries. All the six editions are freely available from 14th to 22nd of June!
RETENTIVE MOVEMENT
5 June 2026
summer 2026 DAYSHIFT by Zéré Turlykhanova | USA | 2026Duration: 00:03:05While cleaning a pole dance studio, a middle-aged woman drifts from routine into reverie. HigH by Carlo Magrì | Italy | 2026Duration: 00:02:47Unlike a sporting competition, there is no room for error on a construction site.
Summer 2026 edition coming soon
5 June 2026
Dear viewers, filmmakers, and artists. We thank everyone who had sent their work for consideration.
Award Winning Films of 2025
10 January 2026
The award winning films of our Summer and Winter 2025 editions streaming on VisualcontanerTV from January 15 to February 15, 2026. Streaming schedule: – January 15-31 — Summer 2025 award winning works;– February 1-15 — Winter 2025 award winning works.
Winter 2025 – award winners
21 December 2025
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all the artists and filmmakers who participated in this edition. Determining the awards was an especially challenging task for the jury, as each film holds a special place in our hearts.
Winter Screenings 2025
13 December 2025
Winter Screenings 2025 feature experimental, surrealist, and underground cinema, documentaries of all types, essay films, screendance, video art, and animation. The programs resist fixed categories, moving fluidly between abstraction, documentary, and hybrid forms.

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