Festival Description (Edition: 9)
Festival Start: May 30, 2025 Festival End: June 2, 2025
The F I C S J. (San Jorge International Film Festival) is an event that will take place from May 30 to June 2, 2025 in the cities of Pueblo Nuevo, Planeta Rica, Buenavista, La Apartada, Ayapel, Puerto Libertador, San José de Ure and Montelíbano, which make up the San Jorge subregion, located in the south of the department of Córdoba, Colombia. The main objective of this festival is to promote regional, national and international film production and to promote the region as an epicenter of the seventh art.
The festival seeks to promote the circular economy around audiovisual production, generating a greater supply of employment and economic development in the region. In addition, the F I C S J proposes new expressions of culture and folklore in the region, through the presentation of films that address issues related to the identity and cultural diversity of the region.
The event will have a varied program that will include the screening of national and international films, short films, documentaries, conferences, workshops, round tables and cultural activities in general. Competitions will also be held between filmmakers, with the aim of awarding the best audiovisual productions.
In short, the F I C S J is a film festival that seeks to promote audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, Colombia, and contribute to its economic and social development.
In addition to promoting audiovisual and cultural production in the region of Córdoba, the F I C S J also has a social focus on different communities, through the strategy "The backpack of cinema." This strategy seeks to reach different sectors of society, including the rural student community, the religious community, the community of women heads of household, Afro-descendants, indigenous people, peasants, people displaced by violence and the disabled.
For these communities, audiovisual training workshops have been planned to allow them to learn new skills and develop their capacities in this area, as well as film screenings with motivating themes that relate to entrepreneurship to create a new socio-economic dynamic in the territory.
