Call for Videos: PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2026 – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2026

Submit a Video to the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival 2026. PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival is an initiative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) that invites the world’s youth to submit authentic and inventive movies specializing in the themes of migration, variety, 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 usually characterised by intolerance, and cultural and spiritual divisions.

Benefits

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

Eligibility

• Open to younger individuals of all nationalities with a eager curiosity within the cross-chopping problems with migration, variety, social inclusion, in addition to broader narratives, perceptions, and identification dynamics shaping our societies.
• Entrants to PLURAL+ have to be no older than 25 years outdated on the time of the manufacturing of their movies.
• Anyone can seem in your video, nevertheless it should mirror your perspective as a younger filmmaker on migration, variety, and social inclusion, in addition to the particular themes/classes of the present version. While there is no such thing as a age restrict to the individuals showing within the video (i.e. actors might be of all ages), the video should mirror the ideas and opinions of the younger filmmaker(s) about migration, variety, social inclusion, intercultural and interreligious Dialogue, countering hate speech, disinformation and misinformation and combating xenophobia and discrimination. The individual submitting the video (“the entrant”) have to be actively concerned in its making; e.g. both as a director, author, digicam individual, editor, actor, coordinator, and so on.
• Immediate members of the family of workers members of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), and members of the PLURAL+ International Jury will not be eligible to enter the competitors.

Application

Submissions have to be accomplished by 30 June 2026, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT/ New York time). Late entries is not going to be accepted.

The kind will ask you to submit your movies in one in every of two methods:

• Through a video-streaming web site (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo). If submitting via this selection, the entrant will likely be requested to incorporate the URL of the video within the on-line kind. The entrant should make sure that the video hyperlink is accessible and never non-public.
• Through a file-internet hosting web site (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and so on.) the place the entrant’s video is saved. If submitting via this selection, you may be requested to incorporate the URL of the video within the on-line kind. The entrant should make sure that the video hyperlink is accessible and never non-public.

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For extra data, go to PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.