OBA 2026 Film & Video Submission Form
Unheard Stories: Music, Dance, Memory and Living Heritage Across the Turkic World

Submission Deadline: 15 August 2026

Notification of Acceptance: 3 September 2026

Festival Dates: 19–23 November 2026

Location: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Türkiye

Thank you for your interest in OBA Film & Video Festival 2026. We invite original film and video works that explore stories carried within music, dance, ritual, archives, and lived experience. We look forward to learning about your work and the story behind it.



Before You Begin


OBA welcomes original film and video works that engage with music,

dance, ritual, cultural memory, archives, lived experience, and embodied knowledge across the Turkic world and its diasporas. We are interested not only in completed films but in the stories, practices, relationships, and questions from which they emerge.


Technical sophistication and production value are not primary selection criteria. We value thoughtful, story-centered works that demonstrate care, cultural rootedness, and meaningful engagement with people, place, memory, and practice.


Please complete all required fields before submitting your application.

Accepted running times:


• 1–5 minutes

• 5–15 minutes

• 15–30 minutes


The working languages of the 2026 pilot edition are English and Turkish.

How would you describe your primary practice? (Select all that apply.)Many contributors work across multiple disciplines. Please select all practices that best describe your work.
Year of Completion or Current Stage
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English Subtitles
Which category best describes your work?
Brief Synopsis (Maximum 200 words)Please provide a concise description of your work. This synopsis may be used for festival programming and publications if your work is selected.
We are interested not only in the finished film but also in the journey that led to it. What inspired the work? What questions, encounters, memories, relationships, traditions, or lived experiences shaped its development? How did the project evolve through your creative process?
We are interested in understanding how this project emerges from your ongoing practice, fieldwork, collaboration, creative inquiry, or lived experience.
How does your work connect with the cultures, communities, or lived experiences of the Turkic world and its diasporas? Your response may address language, place, migration, lineage, memory, music, dance, ritual, shared histories, or other cultural relationships. Connections may be direct or indirect.
Within OBA, archives are understood in their broadest sense. Alongside institutional collections, archives may include personal or family archival materials, community collections, photographs, recordings, manuscripts, oral histories, field documentation, embodied memories, ritual practices, songs, dances, gestures, and other forms of cultural transmission. If archival materials or living forms of memory play a role in your work, please tell us how they informed your creative process.
Please ensure your viewing link remains active until 30 November 2026.
Please list the principal contributors, including (where applicable): Director, Producer, Camera, Editor, Sound, Music, Performers, Researchers, Community Collaborators, and Other Contributors.
Declaration
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Is there anything you would like the selection committee to understand that may not be immediately visible in your film?You may wish to share cultural context, community relationships, ethical considerations, accessibility information, ongoing research, future directions, or any other aspect that helps us better understand the work and its place within your broader practice.
Thank you for your submission.
All applicants will be notified of the selection results by 1 September 2026.
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