Festival Internacional De Cine De Almagro (8)

Festival start: 01 August 2025      Festival end: 10 August 2025

In 2018, Almagro International Film Festival -AIFF- born with the aim of establishing a useful platform for the promotion of the audiovisual industry: a space and time for dissemination and promotion of audiovisual content, transforming the city of Almagro into a meeting point for filmmakers, favoring the exchange of initiatives and promoting a market open to the development of new projects.

AIFF will provide a showcase for the most interesting short format projects done within the last recent months, constituting an standard of quality and high level of commitment to the society & culture of Audiovisual Arts. In addition, the Festival has opened an important window to formats created for online distribution, bringing support to one of the most active and emerging sectors of the audiovisual industry: Internet.

Cash Prizes: 1,500€

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Best International Short (Cash Prize of €500.00)

Best Spanish Short (Cash Prize of €1000.00)

8th ALMAGRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

1. The eighth edition of the Almagro International Film Festival -AIFF- is open to filmmakers from all over the world and will take place in the city of Almagro, Spain from 1st to 10th August 2025.

2. The works may be made using any filming system, either Fiction, Animation, or Documentary.

3. The maximum duration can not exceed 20 minutes, including credits.

4. The short films submitted must have finished production after January 1, 2024.

5. The deadline for submitting short films will be April 20th, 2025.

6. It is essential that short films whose original version is not in Spanish be submitted with subtitles in that language.

7. All short films must be subtitled in English, including those whose original version is in Spanish.

8. The selection will be carried out by a committee of AIFF experts, and the results will be published on our website at the beginning of June 2025.

9. Works nominated in previous editions of the AIFF will not be considered for the festival.

10. The short films selected to participate in the festival may be screened within the section determined by the selection and programming committee. The Festival management and its Advisory Committee will establish the order and date of exhibition of each film. Once a film has been registered, it cannot be withdrawn.

11. The short films that participate in any section of the festival may not have been screened in any exhibition or festival within the province of Ciudad Real.

12. The organization may use fragments of the selected works (maximum 1 minute) to promote them and the festival.

13. The short films may only be sent online through the platforms enabled for this purpose.

14. All screenings will be done in digital format, regardless of the filming system in which the work was produced.

15. The screening files of the selected projects must be sent to program@internationalfilmfestival.es by June 15th, 2025 at the latest. The organization will contact all those selected to ensure that they are sent within the deadline.

16. Files in any of the following formats will be accepted, in the same order of preference: DCP, MOV ProRes422HQ or H.264; 2k or FullHD. The selected works must have a DCP copy for exhibition.

17. The Official Jury, made up of professionals from the film industry, will be in charge of awarding the prizes, and their decision is final.

18. The short films will be eligible for the Best Short Film Award, both in the National Section and in the International Section. The prizes will be announced at the time of their presentation, and a condition for obtaining the prize is that it is received in person by a member of the team of the winning work.

19. The authorization of the authors or the owners of these rights for the screening by the festival of the selected works during the festival is implicit, without there being any contractual obligations on the part of the AIFF organization towards the material or intellectual author of the work, or any other management company. The organization assumes that the persons who register the works have the rights to exhibit the works they present, as well as the authorization to receive a prize. In any case, the organization is exempt from any liability that may arise from the infringement of these rules. The selected films will be obliged to include in their press dossiers and publicity for the short film the selections and prizes obtained in this competition.

20. Participation in the Festival implies full acceptance of these rules.