Olar (3)

Festival start: 12 November 2026      Festival end: 23 November 2026

The Latin American Women Filmmakers Observatory (Observatório Latino-Americano de Realizadoras, OLAR) is a platform that fosters dialogue between critical thought and audiovisual production across Latin America through a gender perspective. It supports initiatives dedicated to the circulation, preservation, and memory of films made by women, non-binary, and trans filmmakers from all countries and territories of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The third edition of our biennial festival, OLAR 3 – Latin American Women Filmmakers Observatory, will take place in November 2026 as an in-person event in the city of Carpina, Pernambuco, Brazil. The program will include open-air screenings, cinema screenings, school screenings, as well as educational activities and panel discussions.

OLAR does not provide airfare for participating filmmakers. However, we will seek to host filmmakers who are in Carpina during the festival screenings.

O Festival de Cinema OLAR conta com a Mostra Competitiva Sara Gómez e com mostras paralelas. Juntas elas compõem uma programação que percorre espaços públicos e escolas da cidade de Carpina, na zona da mata pernambucana. A Mostra Competitiva tem o objetivo de premiar, incentivar e reconhecer o trabalho de realizadoras que estão transformando o audiovisual latinoamericano e caribenho com o Troféu Sara Gómez. A sessão referencia esta realizadora afrocubana, que através de sua obra promoveu reflexões sobre o impacto da revolução cubana nos setores marginalizados da sociedade.

### What do I need to participate?

To be eligible, you must be a Latin American filmmaker and have a short film of up to 30 minutes directed by cisgender or transgender women, travestis, non-binary people, transmasculine people, or trans men. Co-directed films with cisgender men are also eligible.

Films of any genre and subject are welcome, provided they were completed between 2025 and 2026.