CINETORO EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL (19)

Festival start: 13 October 2026      Festival end: 18 October 2026

CINETORO 2026
Converging Boundaries
#MIRAYESCUCHADIFERENTE

Under the concept of Converging Boundaries, CINETORO 2026 proposes a curatorial framework inspired by the force of tectonic collision. Just as, in geology, a convergent boundary is the space where two plates collide to destroy the old and raise new mountain ranges and volcanoes, this edition seeks films in which the impact between languages generates new ways of seeing and hearing. We move away from the static reading of maps — those arbitrary divisions of dots and lines — to focus instead on the energy that emerges within the zone of contact, where the friction between the human and the non-human, or between the here and the elsewhere, constructs new narrative geographies.

CINETORO 2026 calls for works that explore processes of collision and emergence. We seek films that use experimentation as a tool to blur political and social boundaries, proposing perspectives that recognize the continuity of the jungle or the vastness of the desert beyond geographical fictions. How does perception transform when cinematic form itself becomes the result of a clash of forces?

In this edition, the border is not an impenetrable wall, but a living zone of creation; a space of formal risk that challenges pre-established categories and allows us to understand, through cinema at the margins, what new unions emerge when we dare to inhabit the liminal state. We seek films that inhabit the interstice: the space that exists precisely in the middle of the line, inviting audiences into a cinematic experience where genres do not simply intersect, but transform one another. We are interested in a cinema of hybridization where documentary, animation, and fiction function like tectonic plates in constant motion.
This is an invitation to a cinema unafraid of crossing and dissolving boundaries; a cinema that inhabits the periphery and the frontier in order to raise, from the margins, new and necessary mountains of imagination.

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Totem Awards for Best film in the follow categories:

Imagined Vector / National Official Competition
Interlined Curves / Emerging Official Competition
Vanishing Points / Mid-Length Competition
Geometry of Difference / International Official Competition

RULES & REGULATIONS

Films submitted to the 19th edition of CINETORO Experimental Film Festival must comply with the following requirements:

Films must be between 1 and 50 minutes in length (please check the duration requirements for each section).

Films must have been completed between 2024 and 2026.
International films in languages other than Spanish must include subtitles.

Submissions must be made online exclusively through Festhome.

Filmmakers must hold all rights to the artistic material included in the work.

The festival prioritizes national and international premieres.

Films not properly registered through the current open call will not be accepted.

Owners of selected films authorize in-person screenings during the festival dates.

CINETORO understands that the person responsible for the work (director, producer, distributor) owns the distribution and copyright rights. The festival operates in good faith regarding submitted materials and is under no circumstances responsible for disputes concerning music rights, image rights, authorship, or any elements composing the work.

The festival pays screening fees to national works.

Upon selection, Spanish-language films must include english subtitles. The festival does not provide subtitling services.