Key dates for Tempo Documentary Festival. Don’t miss deadlines for submissions, events, or discounted tickets. Updated regularly–please reach out if you have any questions.
Tempo Documentary Festival accepts open submissions for Swedish productions. We do not have an open submission process for our international program. The curation of our international program is done by the international editor and the artistic director in close collaboration.
Please note: To be eligible for the competitions listed below, the film must have a Swedish main production company.
September 10
Registrations open for Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Short Award and New Doc. Tempo Documentary Award recognizes Sweden’s best documentary film of 50 minutes or longer. Tempo Short Award is open to short documentaries with a maximum length of 30 minutes. New Doc is a competition for emerging directors and welcomes documentaries in all formats. To be eligible, films must be produced no earlier than April 2025.
Rules, regulations and sign up form. (In Swedish.)
November 1
Submissions for Tempo Pitch open. Tempo Pitch is aimed at professional producers and directors, where at least one team member must have produced a film previously distributed in cinemas, on TV, or via VOD platforms. Eligible projects should be intended as feature-length documentaries, be in a presentable stage of development, and actively seeking financing. This is a unique opportunity to present your project to key decision-makers in the documentary industry.
Submissions for Short Dox Radio open. All short audio documentaries, max 3 minutes, are eligible.
November 12
Deadline for entries to the Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Short Award and New Doc.
January 8
Deadline for Tempo Pitch and Short Dox Radio.
February 4
Program and ticket release!
March 2-8
Tempo Documentary Festival 2026.