One steep street.
One long weekend.
Nearly a hundred short films. — the Snake Alley Festival of Film, a short-film festival at the Capitol Theater in Burlington, Iowa, July 9–12, 2026.

July 9–12, 2026

Held annually at the Capitol Theater in Burlington, Iowa — a historic single-screen cinema five blocks from the actual Snake Alley.

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129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●129 short films●14 blocks●Four days●One theater●July 9–12, 2026●Burlington, Iowa●

About the festival

SNAFF is a short-film festival. Audiences buy tickets to blocks — curated programs of seven to eleven shorts running roughly ninety minutes — not to individual films.

The festival runs over one long weekend each July. Fourteen blocks. Around 129 films from 16 countries. One theater, one street, one bar across the street to argue at after.

Film blocks

129

Short films

Countries

Days, one theater