The UNAOC PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2026 for young filmmakers worldwide (all expenses paid to PLURAL+ Awards Ceremony in New York, USA)

Application Deadline: 30 June 2026, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT/ New York time)

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival. The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is an initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) that invites the world’s youth to submit unique and artistic movies specializing in the themes of migration, range, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia. By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ acknowledges youth as highly effective brokers of constructive social change in a world typically characterised by intolerance, and cultural and spiritual divisions.

Requirements

The PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival (hereinafter “PLURAL+”) is open to young individuals of all nationalities with a eager curiosity in the cross-cutting problems with migration, range, social inclusion, in addition to broader narratives, perceptions, and identification dynamics shaping our societies.

Entrants to PLURAL+ should be no older than 25 years outdated on the time of the manufacturing of their movies.

PLURAL+ is organized into three age classes:

1. 12 years outdated and underneath
2. 13 to 17 years outdated
3. 18 to 25 years outdated

Anyone can seem in your video, but it surely should replicate your perspective as a young filmmaker on migration, range, and social inclusion, in addition to the particular themes/classes of the present version.

Benefits

• Recipients of the International Jury Distinctions and Special Recognitions are invited to the placement of the PLURAL+ Ceremony, all expenses paid. (While the venue could sometimes change, many of the previous Ceremonies have been hosted in New York.)
• The invitation covers the journey and lodging expenses of 1 particular person per video solely. If you submit a video as a bunch, just one particular person can be invited to obtain the popularity on behalf of your entire group and subsequently just one particular person can be lined to journey. Other members of the group are welcome to attend the Ceremony at their very own expense. In the case of contributors underneath the age of 18, the invitation can even cowl the journey and lodging prices of an grownup chaperone (father or mother or authorized guardian).

Video Types

PLURAL+ video entries should be:

• Between one (1) and 5 (5) minutes in size, together with title(s) and opening/closing credit. If an entry is barely beneath or above the aforementioned time restrict, will probably be reviewed and evaluated on a case-to-case foundation on the discretion of the PLURAL+ crew.
• In English or have English subtitles
• Created or produced after 1 January 2023.

Selection Criteria

• All entrants to PLURAL+ can be notified in regards to the consequence of their submissions by mid-October 2026, and the PLURAL+ recipients can be publicly introduced at a Ceremony which can happen in late 2026.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival