PLAY A PART IN THE 2026 MEMBRANA FILM FESTIVAL

Membrana is the Latin word for film, and we are incredibly excited to bring the Membrana Film Festival to you, and to dig deep into the roots of the magic that is filmmaking

Following a successful 1st edition, the 2nd edition will be held on August 1st/2nd 2026 at the CULTPLEX Cinema in Manchester, UK, a cinema at the forefront of the indie film scene

The festival's organiser is a filmmaker, and understands the love, care, passion, dedication, and hard work that it takes to create your film, and to bring it to the big screen

The festival will promote and celebrate the filmmaking process, and we are looking for arthouse, indie films that push boundaries, and that teach us about the world we live in

We want to be surprised by your films, and appreciate that we cannot build our festival without you, and that we will set ourselves apart by the quality of films we exhibit

We welcome shorts and features, across live-action narrative, animation, and documentary,

and we look forward to receiving, and considering your films for selection

We accept all genres, in any language, and enjoy to watch subtitled films that 

open us to new worlds, and take us to a land far far away 

Our 2025 selections were very eclectic, and included 

biopic, comedy, drama, experimental / abstract, factual, fantasy, horror, thriller, and more

Submissions are open for the Membrana Film Festival 2026 until May 17th 2026, and we are excited to announce that we have expanded the festival to include a Script Competition