NIMHAF 2026 Short Films Open Call
The NI Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) is a festival dedicated to challenging the stigma about mental health, empowering and celebrating creativity, with compassion and dignity across communities, one conversation at a time. NIMHAF is currently operating a call for short films to be screened at our 2026 festival. This year the festival runs from the 8th-15th of May and centres on the theme of Belonging.

The open call will close on the 20th of March.

Eligibility criteria:
  • Films must be under ten minutes long.
  • Filmmakers must be living in Northern Ireland.
  • Films may be fiction or non-fiction.
  • Films must connect to our 2026 Festival theme, Belonging.
  • Films must relate to our organisational mission: to challenge the stigma around mental health and celebrate creativity.
If you have any queries, please email info@nimhaf.org
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