Façade Video Festival
Фасада видео фестивал
Also known as: Facade Video Festival
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Façade Video Festival turns the walls of Plovdiv’s Old Town into outdoor screens for video art. Organised by Art Today Association – Center for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, The Ancient Bath, it places artists’ moving-image work in direct contact with the city and its public spaces. Media and video artists from around the world participate in a juried selection without thematic restrictions.
The festival presents single-channel works lasting no more than ten minutes and maintains a publicly accessible archive of submitted videos. Its programme combines screenings with a jury-selected Façade Prize. The dates for the seventeenth edition are 18–19 September 2026, at the Lapidarium in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Country
Bulgaria
Focus
Art, Experimental
Categories
Experimental, Short
Awards and prizes
The 2026 regulations specify a €1,000 Façade Prize for the best video and membership of the following edition’s jury for the winning artist. The jury also selects nominees for honourable mention.
Festival rules
2026 regulations: artists may submit up to three single-channel video-art works completed after 1 January 2023 and controlled by the artist. Works must not exceed ten minutes and must be supplied in HD or 4K with H264 compression. Works in languages other than English require English subtitles. Online submissions must include a signed application form, synopsis, an artist biography of 50–100 words and three JPG or TIF stills. Streaming-platform links are not accepted. Selected works join the public festival archive.
Contacts
- facade.arttoday.org
- office@arttoday.org — Festival submissions and general enquiries