Call for Applications:

Animation Festival of Halifax #15 • May 2026

Submissions are OPEN

We program new animation:

independent Canadian short films

& international feature films

Submissions Form


Participate in the festival’s 5th AniJam collaborative short animation ‘Planting Seeds’

Start & end with the shape of a WATERMELON SEED

Submissions have been extended for ‘Planting Seeds’ AniJam #5. They are being accepted through to March 2026

Submissions and questions: animationhalifax@gmail.com

Thank you to all who have submitted. Your submission will be included in this project - with the aim to release it in the spring of 2026.

Check out this short how-to from 2024’s festival for an example of what to expect:

Submissions to the Animation Festival of Halifax are considered for additional screenings in the Kootenay region of British Columbia’s southern interior !

Salmo, BC Outdoor Screening

The Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX) takes place in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq. We are all Treaty People who are responsible for enacting peace and friendship in this magnificent land.