Festival de Cine de la Universidad de Chile (3)

Festival Start: 29 September 2025      Festival Ende: 05 Oktober 2025

FECIUCH is a public university film festival that aims to promote audiovisual and cinematographic culture on a national level, fostering the inclusion of regional schools. It values audiovisual works not only for their artistic and social content, but also for their approach to language, form, and the critical perspectives developed within educational establishments .


Through this festival, we seek to bring together a broad community of students, professors and graduates, creating a university-based, artistic, diverse, and community-oriented space. FECIUCH is a platform for exhibition, discussion, and development for emerging voices and perspectives that are arising in university and educational spaces. We strive to encourage a contemporary cinema that, shaped by the challenges of modernity and limited resources, embraces innovation and reinvention.


We believe in a kind of cinema that dares to find new viewpoints, languages, and narrative forms - one that, rather than replicating established formulas, grows from the authenticity of its voices -, creativity, and the need to express from within the learning process. It is a cinema that explores and breaks the boundaries imposed by the traditional industry, thriving despite a lack of access to conventional resources.


This festival seeks to highlight works born from an urgent need to create—engaging with the present and envisioning the future of cinema through the student’s gaze. We view this as a space for dialogue and exploration of experiences that exist outside industrial-level access and resources, encouraging and promoting a low-budget cinema that finds reformative and sustainable solutions—where form, narrative, and the synergy of all elements make a film worth watching.


In this and future editions, we are committed to expanding our reach to support works in various stages of production, acting as a bridge between university filmmaking and the broader industry. We also aspire to international growth, incorporating independent showcases as a step toward eventually integrating them into our official competition.

Award for Best Short Film

Award for Best Micro Short Film

Audience Award for Best Short Film/Micro Short Film per screening

RUCA Jury Award for Best Short Film/Micro Short Film

UNIVERSITY OF CHILE FILM FESTIVAL
FECIUCH - 2025 - 3rd EDITION
RULES

1. FECIUCH is a public university film festival that aims to promote audiovisual and cinematographic culture on a national level, fostering the inclusion of regional schools. It values audiovisual works not only for their artistic and social content, but also for their approach to language, form, and the critical perspectives developed within educational establishments.

Through this festival, we seek to bring together a broad community of students, professors and graduates, creating a university-based, artistic, diverse, and community-oriented space. FECIUCH is a platform for exhibition, discussion, and development for emerging voices and perspectives that are arising in university and educational spaces. We strive to encourage a contemporary cinema that, shaped by the challenges of modernity and limited resources, embraces innovation and reinvention.

2. DATES. The second edition of FECIUCH will take place from Monday, September 29 to Saturday, October 04, 2025, at the Faculty of Communication and Image of the University of Chile, Ñuñoa district.

3. CALL FOR ENTRIES. In its third edition, FECIUCH will open calls for two competitive sections. Students and graduates of film, audiovisual, and animation-related programs from institutions across the national territory may apply.

a. The works must have been produced in an academic context and by undergraduate students, which must be verified by attaching a certificate of regular student status or, failing that, a certificate issued by the institution.

b. The works must not have been screened nationally before March 01, 2024, nor have been previously submitted to previous editions of FECIUCH.

c. Works can be registered for free through the google forms’s registration or through the FECIUCH Festhome platform available on FECIUCH's social media until August 08, 2025, at 23:59, Chilean continental time.

4. SECTIONS. This year's sections are:

a. Micro Short Film Competition: Works with a minimum duration of 0 minutes and a maximum of 8 minutes.

b. Short Film Competition: Works with a minimum duration of 8 minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes.

5. PROGRAMMING. A programming team composed of 4 students, 2 academics, and 1 graduate of the University will screen and select the works that will compete in the sections. The selection will be announced internally to the applicants and then publicly communicated during the first week of September.

6. JURY AND AWARDS.
Each section will have a jury of three people. These will be composed of one graduate, and two academics or people related to the cinematographic craft.

a. The juries will watch the works and award a Best Short Film or Micro Short film Prize. The jury may also decide to award a Jury Prize if deemed necessary.

b. An Audience Award for Best Short Film/Micro Short Film will be granted per screening. To decide, mini-ballots will be handed out at the in-person screenings where viewers can vote for their favorite Short Film or Micro Short Film.

c. Invitations will be extended to the 13 schools that make up the University Film and Audiovisual Network to form a RUCA Jury, consisting of one representative per school (from their academic or staff bodies). At the closing ceremony, the jury will award a RUCA Prize for Best Short Film/Micro Short Film from all the films selected at FECIUCH.

7. Registering a work implies full acceptance of the rules and authorizes the screening of the work during the festival if selected in one of the competitive sections, and authorization for a possible screening in 2026 that includes the winning works of the second edition of FECIUCH. If the work is selected, registration also authorizes the use of stills and extracts for advertising and promotional purposes.

8. If the work is submitted from the Metropolitan Region and is selected in the competitive sections of FECIUCH, at least one representative of each work is requested to be present at the screening of the work and the festival's closing ceremony.

9. REGISTRATION MATERIALS. In the registration form, each applicant must attach:

a. 3 high-resolution stills from the work, as well as one (1) high-resolution photo of the director(s) of the work, which must be a front medium shot.

b. A private or unlisted YouTube or Vimeo link, which must be available for viewing until October 2025.

10. SCREENING COPY. If the work is selected, they will have until September 25 to deliver the screening copy in H264. The copy must meet the following requirements:

a. Minimum bitrate of 20 Mbps.
b. Minimum resolution of 1920x1080 pixels.
c. Subtitled in Spanish, with subtitles attached in SRT format.

11. Any inquiries can be made to the email contactofeciuch@gmail.com.