9ªed. Ibicine, Festival De Cine De Ibiza - Premios Astarté (9)

Festival start: 07 January 2026      Festival end: 12 April 2026

DICHO Y HECHO PRODUCCIONES SL It is an entity whose corporate purpose is the production of all types of projects, including cinematographic works, as well as the organisation of events, among which the short and feature film festival called Ibicine Ibiza Film Festival stands out, which is planned throughout the year and held between January and April.

Ibicine is a festival that supports emerging national, international and Balearic talent, with the aim of promoting emerging filmmakers and generating links with established talent, placing special importance on short films and rewarding the technical and artistic aspects of these film productions with the Astarté Awards, a statuette created and produced in Ibiza in honour of the Phoenician goddess who left her mark on the island.

In addition to the SOC Official Short Film Section, the festival features Parallel Sections, as well as the SOL Official Feature Film Section and projects in development thanks to the Ibiza Film Market industry conferences held as part of the festival, to promote professional cinema on the island, creating a meeting point with the national and international industry to generate and strengthen relationships within the sector: creators, producers, platforms, buyers, etc.

All these activities come together in Ibiza as a setting for synergies, new projects and learning, with the signing of contracts and the generation of business for the film industry. And they are linked to their environment, their professionals and their audience.

Ibicine has been selected by UNESCO as the festival representing Spain in the Movie Travel film tourism routes, has received recognition from the Consell d'Eivissa, has been awarded the Business Excellence Award for Best Festival in the Balearic Islands by Acquisition International magazine and the 2023 Hospitality Award for Festival of the Year by LUXlife magazine.

Since 2022, the Festival has collaborated with the Spanish Film Academy, forming part of the list of festivals that give access to the Goya Awards in the categories of Fiction, Animation and Documentary, in this 9th edition for the 2026 Goya Awards, being the only festival in the Balearic Islands with this award.

This means that the fiction, animation and documentary short films awarded the Astarté for best fiction short film and the Astarté for best documentary short film will be directly eligible for the pre-selection of nominations for the Goya Awards. The short films selected in the Official National Section of Ibicine may be included in the list of nominees for the Goya Awards if, in addition to this selection, they are selected by six other festivals collaborating with the Academy. ***

***To consult the rules for participation in the 40th edition of the Goya Awards,
click on the following link (short films on page 40): /https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/bases-de-los-40-premios-goya/

***To consult the list of festivals collaborating with the Goya Awards:
/https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/bases-de-los-40-premios-goya/ Annex V


In addition, since 2023, Ibicine has been a qualifier for the Forqué Awards in the same categories and for the Fugaz Awards in the category of best fiction short film.

The Ibicine selection committee is made up of professionals from different sectors of the industry who work together to ensure that the selection is made carefully and always meets the criteria of professional quality, diversity and equality, with varied themes and genres, in order to achieve an annual programme that allows viewers to enjoy and learn about the seventh art through different stories and perspectives.

The jury for each edition of Ibicine is made up of an average of between five and seven professionals from the film industry, who also represent different guilds. The jury is chaired by a professional selected by the festival's board of directors, who has the power to break ties and speak to the media on behalf of the rest of the jury. The jury is composed mainly of members of the Spanish Film Academy, as well as international members.

Ibicine has been sponsored by actresses Kira Miró, Paz Vega, Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo, Nadia de Santiago, Inma Cuevas and Michelle Calvó and, since the first edition, by actor and comedian Jon Plazaola, who accompanies us in each edition as a lifetime sponsor of the festival.

To date, we have celebrated and recognised the talent of Spanish and international figures, awarding the Astarté de Honor prize for their film careers to: actress Terele Pávez, director Isabel Coixet, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA), actor and director Paco León, actress Yolanda Ramos, comedian Eva Soriano, journalist and film critic Cayetana Guillén-Cuervo, international producer and screenwriter Axel Kuschevatzky, FILMIN co-founder Jaume Ripoll, international actor Leonardo Sbaraglia, actor Javier Gutierrez, actress Cecilia Suárez, and director Carmen Vidal.

Ibicine is made possible thanks to the support of island institutions such as the Consell d'Eivissa, Ibiza Travel, Eivissacultural.es and Adlib Ibiza; l'Ajuntament d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament de Santa Eulària des Riu and l'Ajuntament de Sant Antoni de Portmany, as well as sponsoring companies, collaborators and media partners such as IB3, Diario de Ibiza, TEF, Cadena SER, Noudiari and Periódico de Ibiza. It is thanks to them and the Ibicine team that this cultural event in Ibiza is possible and has become an essential annual fixture.

Cash Prizes: 2,000€

AWARDS AND CATEGORIES

All the awards for the official sections will be presented at the Astarté Awards Gala, which will be held at the closing ceremony of the 9th edition of Ibicine on Saturday, 11 April 2026, in the city of Ibiza, at the Can Ventosa Cultural Centre Auditorium.

The event will open with the Ibicine Red Carpet, which pays tribute to Adlib Ibiza fashion, to welcome the nominees, as well as renowned filmmakers from our country, and will be attended by local, national and international media. Summary of the 2025 Astarté Awards:



During the Astarté Awards Gala, we will enjoy different performances by national and local artists, and a statuette will be awarded to each of the following categories:

SOC
OFFICIAL SHORT FILM SECTION:

Astarté Award for Best Fiction Short Film - Qualifier for the Goya (Fiction and Animation), Forqué and Fugaz
Astarté Award for Best Documentary Short Film - Qualifier for the Goya and Forqué Awards
Astarté Award for Best Animated Short Film - Qualifier for the Forqué Awards
Astarté Award for Best Foreign Short Film
Astarté Award for Best Short Film by the Audience (national and international)
Astarté Award for Best Director
Astarté Award for Best Screenplay
Astarté Award for Best Cinematography
Astarté Award for Best Art Direction
Astarté Award for Best Editing
Astarté Award for Best Sound Design
Astarté Award for Best Original Soundtrack
Astarté Award for Best Actress
Astarté Award for Best Actor

SOL
OFFICIAL FEATURE FILM SECTION:

Astarté Isasi-Isasmendi Award for Best Film
Astarté Award for Best Feature Film by the Audience
Astarté Award for Best Feature Film Direction
Astarté Award for Best Feature Film Screenplay
Astarté Award for Best Feature Film Cinematography
Astarté Award for Best Actor in a Feature Film
Astarté Award for Best Actress in a Feature Film


*In addition to the official sections, there may be other awards for collaboration with other entities.

HONORARY AWARDS
Each year, the Festival honours prominent figures in cinema for their career or for some special reason it considers relevant. The choice of the award winner is the responsibility of the festival's board of directors.

The history of Ibicine's Astarté Awards of Honour to date is as follows:
2017 – Terele Pávez (posthumously)
2018 – Isabel Coixet
2019 – CIMA, Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media of Spain
2021 – Paco León
2022 – Yolanda Ramos
2023 – Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
2023 – Eva Soriano
2024 – Jaume Ripoll
2024 – Leonardo Sbaraglia
2024 – Axel Kuschevatzky
2025 – Carmen Vidal
2025 – Javier Gutierrez
2025 – Cecilia Suárez

The honourees will receive the Astarté de Honor '26 award and will be honoured at the events and in the manner deemed appropriate by the festival management.


FINANCIAL AWARDS

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Fiction Short Film, in addition to being directly eligible for nomination for the Goya Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Madrid in the category of Fiction Short Film or Animated Short Film at the 2027 Goya Awards, the 2026/7 Forqué Awards and to participate directly in the 2026 Fugaz Awards, will receive a cash prize thanks to the collaboration of DAMA, the Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity, with the Festival. *The amount will be announced at the nominees' reading in February 2026.

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Documentary Short Film, in addition to being directly eligible for nomination for the Goya Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Madrid in the Documentary Short Film category at the 2027 Goya Awards and the 2026/7 Forqué Awards, will receive a cash prize thanks to the collaboration of DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity, with the Festival. *The amount will be announced at the nominees reading in February 2026.

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Animated Short Film will receive a cash prize thanks to the collaboration of DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity, with the Festival. *The amount will be announced at the nominees reading in February 2026.

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Director will receive a prize sponsored by Visual in Law, a law firm and consultancy with extensive experience in various fields, including intellectual property, personal data protection and new technologies, consisting of one year of legal consultations in the audiovisual field. This prize is valued at €1,000.

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Sound Design will receive a prize for the production company sponsored by Pecera Estudio, specialists in sound post-production, consisting of the sound post-production of a short film with a maximum duration of 20 minutes. This prize is valued at €1,500.


*The festival will issue a certificate for the payment of each cash prize, which the winner must fill in with their personal and bank details and send back duly signed.

*The amount is subject to 19% income tax withholding. The obligation to withhold tax on prizes is regulated independently in Article 128 et seq. of the Tax Law. Failure to withhold tax by Dicho y Hecho Producciones, S.L. may be subject to penalties by the Tax Administration (ranging from 50% to 150% of the amount not withheld), as it is an autonomous obligation and independent of the recipient's obligation to pay tax.

*If, one month after the award certificate has been delivered, the winner has not returned it duly completed in order to make the transfer, the award will be considered rejected and may be offered to the next short film with the most votes from the jury.

SUMMARY OF THE CALL

The call for entries in the OFFICIAL SECTION - SOC - is now open to national and international short films. *All films entered are eligible for the official sections, although they may also be selected for parallel sections.

Participants in the 9th edition of the Ibicine Film Festival of Ibiza must submit audiovisual productions with the following characteristics:

1. Participants who wish to compete for the Goya Awards must, in addition to
reading these rules, consult the Academy's rules and comply with its requirements.

Short films that do not meet these requirements will not be eligible for the Astarté awards for best fiction, animation or documentary short film, although they may be selected for Ibicine and compete for the other awards given by the festival in the different categories.

2. Maximum duration of short films: 30 minutes (including titles and credits)

3. Certificate of Spanish nationality issued by the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts or by the competent body of the respective Autonomous Communities, dated between 1 January 2023 and 30 September 2025.

4. The festival awards prizes by category but screens films by theme, referred to as sections on the registration platform. All short films that are not correctly registered in their corresponding section will be excluded from participation in the edition. If a film could be registered in several sections, the section that best fits the theme must be chosen. Registration in one section does not limit nominations; all national short films will be eligible for the usual categories (best short film, photography, screenplay, etc.). In the case of short films produced in the Balearic Islands, they must be registered in the Balearic section, regardless of the themes of the short film, as a Special Mention from the jury for Best Balearic Short Film may be awarded, although they will also participate in the Official Section of the Festival and all its categories.

5. Creators from the Balearic Islands must certify that they are indeed residents of the islands and on which island (either directors or the production company).

6. Distributors, associations and schools requesting fee waivers must submit official incorporation documents in order to receive discount codes for registrations.

7. If the original language is not Spanish, under no circumstances will works without Spanish subtitles (or dubbing if necessary for children's audiences) be accepted.

8. For public screening, the short film must be accessible to both Spanish speakers and foreigners (English). If you have any questions regarding subtitling, please contact us at contact@ibicine.com.

9. In order to schedule and screen the short films, we will request materials such as:

High-quality .mp4 file without subtitles
High-quality .mp4 file with embedded subtitles
Subtitle file (str)
Synopsis of the short film
Information about its creators
Poster
3 stills
Trailer
Making of .mp4 (2 min maximum) with images from the shoot.

10. If a work is selected and does not submit the requested materials, by the requested means and on the requested dates, it may be disqualified, even if it has been previously selected and even nominated.

11. The following are expressly excluded from this call for entries:

a. Pre-edits and advertising edits.

b. Partial edits from feature films.

c. Television episodes, including series pilots or montages from them.

d. Short films entered in more than two previous editions, even if they were not selected.

e. Short films selected in previous editions.


Registration fee:

● €8 per short film registration
*Distributors, associations and schools should send an email to contact@ibicine.com with their incorporation documents to obtain fee waivers.

Call dates:

● From 15 August 2025 to 15 September 2025 inclusive.


Selection processes:

● Approximately 40 short films selected for the SOC Official Section.

● Between 10 and 15 short films with at least one nomination for the 2026 Astarté Awards.


Dates for announcement of selections and nominations:

● SOC short films: November-December 2025 - Through a PRESS RELEASE and the festival's social media @festivalcineibiza

● Announcement of nominees: February 2026 (date to be confirmed)


Screenings:

● Six SOC official section screenings divided by theme in the municipality of Ibiza, at the Can Ventosa Auditorium on 7, 14, 21 and 28 January and 4 and 11 February 2026, with a subsequent discussion with professionals on the theme of each screening. *These screenings will be the ‘Semi-finals for the audience award’. The most voted film in each semi-final will go through to the Audience Final, which will take place on 8 April 2026.

● The 9th edition of the Ibiza Film Festival, Ibicine, will be held from 9 to 12 April 2026, with the Ibiza Film Market industry activities and the awards ceremony.

● The feature films in the Official Selection will be screened from 18 February to 1 April 2026 in the municipalities of Santa Eulària des Riu and Sant Antoni de Portmany.


Closing gala and awards ceremony:

● The 2026 Astarté Awards ceremony will take place on 11 April 2026 at Can Ventosa, Ibiza, as the closing event of the festival.

A total of 26 Astarté Awards will be presented

● For short films:

1) Astarté Award for Best Fiction Short Film - Qualifier for the Goya Awards in Fiction and Animation.

2) Astarté Award for Best Documentary Short Film - Qualifier for the Goya Awards

3) Astarté Award for Best Animated Short Film

4) Astarté Award for Best Foreign Short Film

5) Astarté Award for Best Short Film by the Audience (national and international)

6) Astarté Award for Best Director

7) Astarté Award for Best Screenplay

8) Astarté Award for Best Cinematography

9) Astarté Award for Best Art Direction

10) Astarté Award for Best Editing

11) Astarté Award for Best Sound Design

12) Astarté Award for Best Original Soundtrack

13) Astarté Award for Best Actor

14) Astarté Award for Best Actress

15) Astarté Award for Best Short Film chosen by the public


● For feature films:

1) Astarté Isasi-Isasmendi Award for Best Film

2) Astarté Award for Best Feature Film chosen by the public

3) Astarté Award for Best Director

4) Astarté Award for Best Screenplay

5) Astarté Award for Best Cinematography

6) Astarté Award for Best Leading Actor

7) Astarté Award for Best Leading Actress

8) Astarté Award for Best Feature Film chosen by the audience


● Honorary Awards: (decided by the festival board)

1) National Astarté Award of Honour
2) International Astarté Award of Honour
3) Balearic Astarté Award of Honour


Awards:

● One Astarté statuette or award will be presented per category, not per winner. If the winners wish to have copies of the award because there is more than one, they must request a quote from the organisation and abide by the production times. The organisation will not be responsible for the loss or misplacement of the statuette once it has been delivered. If the winner does not collect the award, they will be responsible for the shipping costs. If the statuettes are not claimed within 3 months, they may be recycled.

● The organisation will facilitate attendance at the festival as follows:

- Each short film that receives at least one nomination for the Astarté 2026 awards will be entitled to one night in a hotel room.

The cash prizes will be sponsored by DAMA, the Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Organisation, and will be awarded in the following categories:

● Best Fiction Short Film
● Best Documentary Short Film
● Best Animated Short Film

Other prizes:

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Director will receive a prize sponsored by Visual in Law, a law firm and consultancy with extensive experience in various fields, including intellectual property, personal data protection and new technologies, consisting of one year of legal consultations in the audiovisual field. This prize is valued at €1,000.

The short film that receives the Astarté Award for Best Sound Design will receive a prize for the production company sponsored by Pecera Estudio, specialists in sound post-production, consisting of the sound post-production of a short film with a maximum duration of 20 minutes. This prize is valued at €1,500.

*The amount of the cash prizes will be announced on the day the nominees are read out in February 2026. If the nominees are eligible for a fee for their participation in the festival, this will also be announced on that day.

*The festival will issue a certificate for the payment of each cash prize, which the winner must fill in with their personal and bank details and send back duly signed.

*The amount is subject to 19% income tax withholding. The obligation to withhold tax on prizes is regulated independently in Article 128 et seq. of the Tax Law. Failure by Ibicine to withhold tax may be subject to penalties by the Tax Administration (ranging from 50% to 150% of the amount not withheld), as it is an autonomous obligation independent of the recipient's obligation to pay tax.

*If, one month after the award certificate has been delivered, the winner has not returned it duly completed in order to make the transfer, the award will be considered rejected and may be offered to the next short film with the most votes from the jury.

Special mentions:

● There may be special mentions such as: best comedy short film or best Balearic short film.

If there are special mentions, they will be announced when agreed by the organisation.

● A diploma will be awarded to each special mention, if any.