Elevation Film Festival

6 - 7 September 2025

Now open for submissions

Deadline 31st March 2025

Elevation Film Festival

Elevation Film Festival logo with stylized letters "E" on the left.

Join us in celebrating the very best in artists’ moving image and experimental film culture from around the world.

Featuring short films, features, installations, workshops and filmmaker talks, over two days.

6 - 7 September 2025

After a very successful first year, the second edition of Elevation Film Festival will return to Maker Heights (Cornwall, UK) on 6-7 September 2025.

Elevation celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.

We welcome filmmakers to showcase their work across a weekend of screenings, talks and workshops, connecting regional and international artists in a vibrant community celebration of moving image culture.

Elevation is an in-person film festival with screenings held at Patchwork Studios and other spaces in the historic Barrack Block.

Taking place from 6 to 7 September 2024, Elevation is supported by Patchwork Studios, Maker Camp, Rame Conservation Trust, and the wider community of artists based at Maker Heights

We welcome submissions of artist films, moving image proposals and expanded cinema events. The submission deadline for our second edition closes on March 31st 2025.

To submit, please follow our listing on Film Freeway:

Come and visit us soon!