CALL FOR ENTRIES
The 31st edition of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) will take place from October 31 to November 9 and the Geneva Digital Market will be held from November 3 to 6, 2025.
You would like to submit a work to be considered for the official selection of GIFF 2025?
Complete our submission forms via the MyGIFF platform from April 17 until July 31, 2025.
Please note: Feature and short films are not eligible for submission.
For more information about the sections, awards, or eligibility criteria, please refer to the regulations.
1. SERIES
Submitted series are eligible for:
• The Convergent Sections (non-competitive)
• The International Series Competition
• The Future Is Sensible Award (convergent competition)
2. IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
The call for immersive experiences is open to XR creations in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR); digital installations, including interactive and/or performative works; as well as realtime narratives and video games.
Submitted immersive works are eligible for:
• The Convergent Sections (non-competitive)
• The International Immersive Experiences Competition
• The Future Is Sensible Award (convergent competition)
Works in progress are accepted for consideration; however, all works must be finalized for presentation at GIFF. If your immersive project will not be completed in time for the Festival, we encourage you to submit it to the Geneva Digital Market (call for projects to open in spring 2025).
The 13th edition of the Geneva Digital Market (GDM) will be held from November 3 to 6 as part of the 31st edition of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) which will take place from October 31 to November 9, 2025.
Finance, coproduce, distribute: bring your projects to life with the opportunities offered by our market modules.
- XR COPRODUCTION SESSIONS: Immersive projects in development – international coproduction sessions
- SWISS INTERACTIVE SESSIONS: Swiss digital projects – targeted professional meetings
To submit your project complete our submission forms via the MyGIFF platform from May 8 to September 2, 2025.
For more information please refer to the regulations.
1. SWISS INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Presentation of Swiss digital projects / matchmaking sessions with institutions and distributors.
Since 2019, this program allows Swiss digital artists to meet with representatives of international institutions and art centers to facilitate the dissemination of their projects abroad.
The call is opened to Swiss producers, creators, or filmmakers, or be based in Switzerland. All genres (documentary, fiction, animation, experimental) are accepted, except those created to promote a service or product.
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
⮕ Submit a Swiss interactive sessions project
2. XR COPRODUCTION SESSIONS
Presentations of XR projects and immersive technologies / co-production market.
Organized since 2019, these sessions allow 15 of the most innovative European project developers to present their work in progress to European producers. The day is divided into two parts, starting in the morning with pitch sessions and continuing in the afternoon with one-on-one meetings between participants.
The call is open to producers, creators, and filmmakers active in Switzerland and/or Europe in the fields of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality.
THE 15 PROJECTS PRESENTED IN 2024
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
⮕ Submit a XR Coproduction sessions project
PARTICIPATE IN TALKS
Every year, the Geneva Digital Market (GDM) invites companies, startups, international experts, artists and other creative industry players to present the latest digital solutions and reflect on their challenges.
CONNECTING TO THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
A professional meeting platform, GDM offers on-site and online. More than 100 personalized meetings are organized each year.
JOIN / GET ACCREDITED
The full content of the 13th edition of the Geneva Digital Market will be announced in October 2025. Accreditation will open in September 2025.
Following the success of its first edition, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) continues to support Swiss audiovisual creation with the second edition of the Swiss Series Storytelling Award. This one-of-a-kind award in Switzerland, dedicated to series screenwriting, will honor the best national script with a prize of CHF 20,000, thanks to the support of the SSA and Suissimage cultural funds.
With around thirty international series featured in its program, GIFF stands as a key launch platform for series in Switzerland, in collaboration with RTS, SSR SRG, and SRF.
SWISS SERIES STORYTELLING AWARD:
- All Swiss fiction series broadcast (on TV or online) between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2025 are eligible.
- For the 2025 edition, only fiction projects (including animation) will be considered. Documentary series will be eligible for the 2026 edition.
- Submission deadline: August 20, 2025.
- An independent jury made up of international personalities from the series industry will award the prize.
- The award will be presented on November 6, 2025.
Regulations & registration: French, English, German, Italien
We invite you to read the regulations in full before completing the submission form.
Refer to the GIFF regulations
Submission deadline: July 31, 2025
Refer to GDM regulations
Submission deadline: September 2, 2025
Refer to Swiss series storytelling award regulations
Submission deadline: August 20, 2025
Mathieu Gayet, Head of Industry – GDM
mathieu.gayet@giff.ch
Lucie Emch
Head of the Programming Office – GIFF
lucie.emch@giff.ch