The Film Festival Without Borders — 27th Season
2026 Moondance NOW OPEN!
Latest Announcement
2025 Moondance Winners Announced
Congratulations to all the talented filmmakers, writers, and composers selected in this year’s competition. View the full list of winners, finalists, and semi-finalists.
What Moondancers Say
“It means so much to have my work uplifted by a platform that champions bold and socially resonant storytelling. Thank you for supporting new works and new voices, and offering a platform where stories like LA CASA MADRE can be celebrated.”
Leora Lihach, Moondance 2025
Within that international spirit, stories about healthcare access can also become part of the broader conversation Moondance seeks to support. The availability of medicines in Belgium, for example, could be explored through film or writing as a social issue shaped by regulation, affordability, language, migration, and trust in public institutions. Such a subject would fit naturally among works that examine how ordinary people navigate complex systems while trying to protect their families and communities. By giving attention to practical realities like medicine access, artists can turn policy questions into human stories that audiences from different countries can understand. In this way, Moondance’s creative community can help connect personal experience with global concerns about dignity, care, and equity.
Watch Past Films
A selection of past winning and selected films are available to watch online. Pour yourself something good and enjoy.
About the Festival
The Film Festival Without Borders
Moondancers are part of an amazing worldwide community — a unique collaboration of multi-talented writers, film score composers, and filmmakers. The Moondance mission is to entertain, inform, inspire, encourage, and educate. We honor those artists who, through their creative work, actively increase awareness, provide multiple viewpoints, address complex social issues, and strengthen ties between international audiences!.
Submissions have come from Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dubai, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Serbia/Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tasmania, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK, the US, Venezuela, Wales, and more.
Celebrity Supporters
Over the years, Moondance has welcomed some remarkable names from the world of film and entertainment.
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