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 original and creative videos focusing on the themes of migration, diversity, social inclusion, and the prevention of xenophobia.
By supporting the distribution of youth-produced media, PLURAL+ recognizes youth as powerful agents of positive social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions.
Benefits
- Recipients of the International Jury Distinctions and Special Recognitions are invited to the location of the PLURAL+ Ceremony, all expenses paid. (While the venue may occasionally change, most of the past Ceremonies have been hosted in New York.)
- The invitation covers the travel and accommodation expenses of 1 person per video only. If you submit a video as a group, only 1 person will be invited to receive the recognition on behalf of the entire group and therefore only 1 person will be covered to travel. Other members of the group are welcome to attend the Ceremony at their own expense. In the case of participants under the age of 18, the invitation will also cover the travel and accommodation costs of an adult chaperone (parent or legal guardian).
Eligibility
- Open to young people of all nationalities with a keen interest in the cross-cutting issues of migration, diversity, social inclusion, as well as broader narratives, perceptions, and identity dynamics shaping our societies.
- Entrants to PLURAL+ must be no older than 25 years old at the time of the production of their videos.
- Anyone can appear in your video, but it must reflect your perspective as a young filmmaker on migration, diversity, and social inclusion, as well as the special themes/categories of the current edition. While there is no age limit to the people appearing in the video (i.e. actors can be of all ages), the video must reflect the thoughts and opinions of the young filmmaker(s) about migration, diversity, social inclusion, intercultural and interreligious Dialogue, countering hate speech, disinformation and misinformation and combating xenophobia and discrimination. The person submitting the video (“the entrant”) must be actively involved in its making; e.g. either as a director, writer, camera person, editor, actor, coordinator, etc.
- Immediate family members of staff members of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), and members of the PLURAL+ International Jury are not eligible to enter the competition.
Application
Submissions must be completed by 30 June 2026, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT/ New York time). Late entries will not be accepted.
The form will ask you to submit your videos in one of two ways:
- Through a video-streaming website (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo). If submitting through this option, the entrant will be asked to include the URL of the video in the online form. The entrant must ensure that the video link is accessible and not private.
- Through a file-hosting website (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.) where the entrant’s video is saved. If submitting through this option, you will be asked to include the URL of the video in the online form. The entrant must ensure that the video link is accessible and not private.
For more information, visit PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival.
