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NI MENTAL HEALTH ARTS FESTIVAL
2026
Northern Irelands longest running mental health arts festival. Join us in May 2026 for our 13th year celebrating the arts and breaking the stigma surrounding mental health. ​
SAVE THE DATE:
8th - 15th MAY 2026
SHORT FILM 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:
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Films must be under ten minutes long.
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Filmmakers must be living in Northern Ireland.
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Films may be fiction or non-fiction.
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Films must connect to our 2026 Festival theme, Belonging.
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Must relate to our organisational mission: to challenge the stigma around mental health and celebrate creativity.