CANEX Shorts Competition 2025 for Young Filmmakers in Africa – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the CANEX Shorts 2025. Afreximbank, by its Creative Africa Nexus programme (CANEX) is worked up to announce the third version of CANEX Shorts. This quick movie competitors for younger filmmakers in Africa and the Diaspora. CANEX Shorts has been established in order to additional interact with the movie group forward of CANEX at IATF2025.

CANEX at IATF2025 and can as soon as once more host a fascinating and thrilling programme of artistic business conversations, masterclasses, deal rooms, market and exhibition and extra. CANEX Shorts is a brief movie competitors that may culminate in screenings and an award ceremony at CANEX at IATF2025 going down in Algiers, Algeria from 4 – 10 September 2025.

Prizes

Three excellent filmmakers will every obtain:

• $2,000 Cash Prize for:
  • Best Fiction
  • Best Documentary
  • Best Animation
• Screening of their movie at CANEX at IATF2025 in Algiers, Algeria
• Invitation to attend CANEX at IATF2025 (flights and lodging offered)
• Networking alternatives with traders, companions, and the continent’s main artistic minds
• Global recognition and an opportunity to attach with the most important gathering of creatives in Africa

Eligibility

• Open to Africans residing on the continent and in the diaspora.
• Films have to be now not than 5 minutes in size.
• The filmmaker should at present be between the ages of 18 – 35. The movie should have been made in 2023 or after and on the time of constructing the movie the filmmaker should have been between the ages of 18-35. Substantiation could also be requested.
• The filmmaker should personal all rights – together with music and should have supporting documentation.
• Films could be in any language however these not in English, have to be subtitled in English.
• A digital hyperlink to the movie have to be offered in the submission.
• Only one movie per filmmaker.
• Selected filmmakers shall be required to signal a launch / rights settlement.
• Entrants should have a checking account the place they will obtain worldwide funds.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to CANEX Shorts.