After last year's success, we are back for another SPRINGSTOF Parkour Film Festival.
By organising this festival, we aim to continue to spark motivation and give birth to some cool films, showcasing the movement and filmmaking talent within the parkour community.
Categories
Main competition
All submissions are automatically part of this category, and will be judged according to the judging criteria listed under the Submission Requirements section.
Best Belgian Project
To support our local Belgian community, we want to give an award to the Best Belgian submission.
Young Talent Award (-18y)
To encourage our younger audience to create something as well, a special Young Talent Award will be given to the best project where everyone involved is younger than 18 at the time of submission.
Audience favourite
We plan to have a voting system at the screening, to vote for your favourite film of the evening!
Prizes
to be announced
Join the screening!
Just like last year, a top selection will premiere at a screening at Swings 'N Other Things in Hal 5.
This means a handful of unreleased projects will be screened, a lot of them for the first time!
We will also announce the winners after the screening.
SCREENING INFO
When? Saturday August 29th, 20h30-22h00
For who? Open to everyone interested in watching some cool unreleased parkour projects.
Price? Free entry / donation based
We are still looking for sponsors!
Are you a brand interested in supporting the film festival? We are still looking for sponsors to contribute to prize money or parkour clothing/goodies. Please contact us for more information.
Judges
To be announced
Submission requirements
Submission deadline
Sunday August 23rd 2026, 23:59 GMT.
! IMPORTANT ! Submissions must be kept private until August 29th 2026.
On Saturday evening at the Swings 'N Other Things event at Hal 5, the top submissions will premiere during a public screening, and the winners will be announced.
Screenings of your project at other events is allowed, but your film cannot be published publicly on YouTube, Vimeo, ... before August 30th 2026.
Project length
3-30 minutes
Participating countries
Participation is limited to countries part of the European Union and the United Kingdom. Of course we hope to organise many more editions of the film festival in the future, and open it up to the whole world!
Full country list: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Wales.
Judging criteria
The judges will be scoring your submission according to multiple criteria.
They will be looking for well crafted, original, entertaining and interesting projects featuring parkour movement.
- Cinematography
- Editing, colour grading, sound design
- Storytelling
- Creativity & originality
- Movement
- Overall impression
- ...
Submit your project
Submissions are not open yet.
You've got to create your project first! Good luck!