🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁥 Fulldome UK 2026: Submissions Open — Cardiff, October 9–10

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📅 Key Dates 2026

• End of March 2026
  Early Bird Ticket Deadline
  Book before prices rise at fulldome.org.uk
• 4 May 2026
  Submission Deadline
  All categories — films, live performances, presentations
• Oct 9–10, 2026
  Festival Days
  CULTVR Lab, Cardiff, Wales

📬 How to Submit

FDUK 2026 accepts three types of work. You can submit more than one, and across different categories:

• Fulldome Films — Pre-rendered or linear fulldome works. Submit exclusively via FilmFreeway. Read the Film Submission Guidelines PDF carefully before submitting — it contains all technical specs.
• Live Setss — Real-time generative or interactive fulldome works. Submit via the dedicated form at fulldome.org.uk/submissions.
• Presentations — Talks, demos, workshops about your practice, tools or research. Submit via dedicated form.

Multiple submissions are welcome — for example, a film and a talk about the process behind it.

🏛️ Venue: CULTVR Lab, Cardiff

FDUK 2026 is hosted at CULTVR Lab in Cardiff, Wales — an immersive media and creative technology hub. This is the first time the festival returns to Wales, and only the second time it's been held at CULTVR (after previous editions there). Cardiff's creative sector and CULTVR's technical setup make it one of the more interesting venues in the UK for immersive work.

In addition to the main two-day programme, selected fulldome films will be screened for local Cardiff audiences — extending the reach of submitted work beyond the festival itself.

📖 Festival History

Fulldome UK is a not-for-profit organisation founded to promote fulldome as a creative and artistic medium. Its flagship event, FDUK, has been running since 2010, making it one of the longest-running fulldome festivals in the world. The mission: support artists, creative professionals and researchers working in immersive dome environments and frameless media.

Over the years FDUK has toured the UK's major immersive venues and co-hosted international events as far afield as Russia and Brazil:

• 2010 — IVT dome, University of Plymouth (inaugural event)
• Various — Thinktank Planetarium, Birmingham
• Various — National Space Centre, Leicester
• Various — Market Hall Dome, Plymouth
• Various — CULTVR, Cardiff, Wales
• 2026 — CULTVR Lab, Cardiff (current edition)

FDUK also has strong ties with the global fulldome community through international festival partnerships — including FullDome Festival Jena, Dome Fest West, and SAT Montréal.

🌐 Partners & Community

🔗 All Links

• FDUK 2026 official page
• All submission forms & guidelines
• Submit a film — FilmFreeway
• Film Submission Guidelines PDF
• About Fulldome UK
• Facebook · Twitter / X · Instagram

Published March 14, 2026 · Sources: fulldome.org.uk · Images © Fulldome UK