XVI Festival De Cortometrajes Visualízame. Audiovisual&mujer (16)

Festival start: 14 September 2026      Festival end: 31 May 2027

The Visualízame festival began in 2011.

Organized by Fundación Inquietarte, the main objective of Visualízame is to serve as a platform for the dissemination of cinematographic works in which women participate in the direction, script and/or production.

Likewise, serve as a dissemination platform for short films that promote equality, in addition to respect for Human Rights. That is why we have two special awards for short films committed to the 2030 agenda of Sustainable Development Goals, and films whose plot addresses the topic of death and mourning.

Cash Prizes: 2,000€

AWARDS

A jury, made up of professionals from the world of culture, image, journalism and teaching, will be responsible for choosing the winning films. His ruling will be final.

• VisualízaMe, will award the following prizes:

Best Short Film (Fiction or Animation), endowed with €1000,00

Best Documentary. Awarded a plaque and certificate.

Best Direction, endowed with €500,00


Special Awards

UNESCO Peace, Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue Chair Special Prize for the short film that best addresses the treatment of the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN, challenges 2030. Endowed with 500,00 euros.

Premio Especial editorial ScriptaNeo escritura de guion para guionista nobel, dotado con la corrección, edición y envío masivo del dossier de venta a productoras audiovisuales y un curso de guion literario Online.

The jury may consider the prizes in any of the categories void if it deems it necessary.

The 16th Visualízame Audiovisual & Mujer International Short Film Festival, organized by Fundación Inquietarte, is now open for submissions. Screenings will take place in October 2026 at various venues.

Short films directed or co-directed, produced or co-produced, and/or written by women are eligible.

A maximum of two short films per category may be submitted.

It is organized by Fundación Inquietarte.
The maximum duration will be 20 minutes for the Fiction and Animation categories, and 30 minutes for the Documentary category, including credit titles.

If the original language of the short film is not Spanish, the film must include subtitles in Spanish.

All the short films presented must have been produced after January 1, 2026

The original recording format is free.

For the screenwriting competition: one screenplay per participant. The work must be original; if it is an adaptation of a literary work, the corresponding authorization from the original work must be included. Submissions must be in PDF format as a screenplay, with a maximum of 15 pages and a synopsis of no more than 200 words. A photograph of the author's ID and their contact information must also be included. Submissions must be sent in duplicate to visualizame@inquietarte.es and scriptaneo@gmail.com

Failure to comply with any of the above rules will result in disqualification from the competition.


REGISTRATION

Registrations will be made online through Festhome.

The deadline, on September 10, 2026.

The audiovisuals admitted to the competition will remain in the possession of the organization and may be used by the Festival in the media to promote the Festival's programming, as well as in the itinerant educational activity of the Visualízame Festival organized by Fundación Inquietarte, manager, promoter and producer of the Visualize Me Festival. These activities can be carried out in person or online.
The short films must have the option to download them at the time of registration, if they cannot be downloaded they will not be admitted to the competition.

The short films may also be used for educational activities to spread the award organized by one of the promoters of the special awards, always in collaboration with Fundación Inquietarte.

Registration implies acceptance of these participation rules.

SELECTION
Short filmmakers whose films are admitted to the competition or selected for participation will be informed of the change in the status of their film on the platform through which registration was made. The jury will choose the finalist films, from among those selected, which will be the ones that will be screened to the public during the days of the festival.

The list of finalist short films, as well as the date and time of their screenings, will be published on the Fundación Inquietarte website and on the festival's social media channels. The winner of the screenwriting competition will be announced along with the festival's awards sometime in October (date to be determined)

The finalist short films will be screened in Almería at the headquarters of the Press Association, the Almería Journalists Association; the El Acebuche prison; the Galileo High School; and the town of San José, Níjar. The organizers reserve the right to also screen the films online via the Fundación Inquietarte YouTube channel, in a single showing after the screening schedule has been published.