| NewImages Festival is excited to welcome you to its 8th edition, taking place from April 9 to 13th, 2025, at the Forum des images in Paris. Join our event 100% dedicated to immersive creation and virtual worlds by taking part in our international XR Competition or by registering your projects at the XR Development Market or XR Distribution Market. With between 40 and 50 projects selected each year for the XR Development Market and over 60 for the XR Distribution Market, the XR Market showcases more than 100 projects each year. This establishes it as the world’s largest market dedicated to immersive creation, offering unparalleled opportunities for financing, co-production, and distribution of XR projects. Submit your projects now and take part in the NewImages Festival 2025, a unique opportunity to network and create international partnerships across all XR sectors: audiovisual, video games, museums, cultural venues, sound and the performing arts. |
| Key figures 2024: |
| + 2,000 meetings + 80 speakers 150 producers *48 countries represented | 126 projects selected 160 Decision Makers 900 accredited participants +3,000 visitors |
| XR Competition Showcase your bold, innovative projects in this international competition. From immersive video games to reinvented storytelling and daring VR/AR works, the immersive scene is waiting for you!All the works selected for the XR Competition are accessible to the general public free of charge. Open to any work: Narrative and Immersive (XR, video games, film, virtual worlds, hybrid shows or any other innovative device) – Completed in 2024 or before March 2025 – Competing for 3 prizes of between €3,000 and €6,000 Register your project until December 31st, 2024 (11:59pm, GMT) |
| XR Distribution Market Meet curators, distributors, programmers and buyers to expand your professional network and find new distribution opportunities. Open to all finalized project: – Immersive and Original (XR, video games, virtual worlds, hybrid shows or any other innovative device) – Finalised and Ready for distribution (online or physically) Register your project until January 15th, 2025 (11:59pm, GMT) |
| XR Development Market Showcase your current projects and connect with potential partners, producers and investors to help finance and bring your project to fruition. Open to any work project: – Immersive and original (XR, video games, virtual worlds, hybrid shows or any other innovative device) – In development (all stages) Register your project until January 15th, 2025 (11:59pm, GMT) |
About NewImages Festival
Dedicated to digital creation and to virtual worlds, NewImages Festival combines a rich professional component with a program open to all audiences. With prizes at stake, its international XR competition is submitted to a jury of creators and professionals. Its XR Financing Market brings together leading actors in the XR industry around a selection of projects open to all immersive formats.
NewImages Festival is produced and organized by the Forum des images, the cultural institution of the
City of Paris, dedicated to cinema and digital creation.
Hosted by the Forum des images (a cultural institution subsidized by Paris City Hall), NewImages Festival was born in January 2018, when the Paris Virtual Film Festival (created in June 2016) and l Love Transmédia (launched in 2011) merged into a single entity.
Website: https://newimages-hub.com/en/about/