Festival Internacional de cine de Ensenada (7)

Festival start: 02 October 2025      Festival end: 05 October 2025

The Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) invites you to participate in its 7th edition. It will take place in the City of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires on October, 2025.

FICE's search will focus on cinematographic works that address a critical, poetic or aesthetic reflection around water. In this sense, water may appear as a central or tangential element in the development of narratives.

Because we are inhabited, stirred and agitated by this river that feeds us, from the FICE, we are looking for those works that, like water, can poetically penetrate all the reality that we are able to cover.

All those selected will receive a Certificate of Participation. Those who are winners in the National Competition will also receive a statuette and a diploma of recognition.

1. CALL FOR ENTRIES

A. Dates and location
The 7th edition of the Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) will be held from October 2 to 5, 2025 in the city of Ensenada, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

B. Objectives
Because we are inhabited, stirred and agitated by this river that feeds us, from FICE, we are looking for those works that, like water, can poetically penetrate all the reality we are capable of encompassing. FICE's search is focused on cinematographic works that address a critical, poetic and/or aesthetic reflection on water. In this sense, water may appear as a central or tangential element in the development of the narratives.

C. Sections

- International Short Film Competition with a maximum duration of 25 minutes (including credits).

- International Competition of feature films with a minimum duration of 60 minutes.

- FICE SCHOOLS: Exhibition of short and feature films for Ensenada schools.

2. GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

A. International Short Film Competition.

A.1) Participation in FICE is open to filmmakers over 18 years of age.

A.2) All productions no longer than 25 minutes, completed after January 1, 2023, may participate in the Short Film Competition.

A.3) Audiovisual works of all genres may participate.

A.4) The works may have been originally produced in any medium.

A.5) The works must have water as a tangential or central element in its range of possibilities.

B. International Feature Film Competition.

B.1) Participation in FICE is open to filmmakers over 18 years of age.

B.2) All productions longer than 59 minutes and 59 seconds, completed after January 1, 2023, may participate in the Feature Film Competition.

B.3) Audiovisual works of all genres may participate.

B.4) The works may have been originally produced in any medium.

B.5) The works must have water as a tangential or central element in its range of possibilities.

C. Sections

- International Short Film Competition with a maximum duration of 25 minutes (including credits).

- International Competition of feature films with a minimum duration of 60 minutes.

- FICE SCHOOLS: Exhibition of short and feature films for Ensenada schools.

2. GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

A. International Short Film Competition.

A.1) Participation in FICE is open to filmmakers over 18 years of age.

A.2) All productions no longer than 25 minutes, completed after January 1, 2023, may participate in the Short Film Competition.

A.3) Audiovisual works of all genres may participate.

A.4) The works may have been originally produced in any medium.

A.5) The works must have water as a tangential or central element in its range of possibilities.

B. International Feature Film Competition.

B.1) Participation in FICE is open to filmmakers over 18 years of age.

B.2) All productions longer than 59 minutes and 59 seconds, completed after January 1, 2023, may participate in the Feature Film Competition.

B.3) Audiovisual works of all genres may participate.

B.4) The works may have been originally made in any medium.

B.5) The works must have water as a tangential or central element in its range of possibilities.

C. FICE Schools

C.1) Participation in the FICE Schools section is open to filmmakers from all over the world.

C.2) All audiovisual productions may participate in the FICE Schools section.

C.3) Feature films and short films of all genres can participate.

C.4) The works may have been originally made in any medium.

C.5) The works must have water as a tangential or central element in its range of possibilities.

*FICE has a section called ‘FICE from the river’, where every year, some of the works of the International Competition of Feature Films and Short Films are selected to participate in these sections in a screening from the Ensenada River. By registering your work, you accept the possibility of participating in this screening format.

3. REGISTRATION and RECEIPT OF WORKS

In order to participate in any of the sections, the following information must be completed.

As indicated, a private link for on-line viewing of the work must be attached.

The registration form and sending of the link corresponding to the work must be completed between May 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025, inclusive.

The selection of selected works will be notified via e-mail.

Once registered, the audiovisual work may not be withdrawn from the Festival.

4. SELECTED WORKS

A. The Festival program includes competitive and non-competitive sections. The selected feature and short films will be programmed in the section that FICE considers appropriate.

B. The participants selected to be part of the National and International Competition of Short and Feature Films must send one (1) copy in digital file, preferably .MOV, for the screening. Copies in BLU RAY, H.264, or mp4, bitrate higher than 10 mb, 25fps will also be accepted.

C. The deadline for receipt of this material will be August 1, 2025. Otherwise the works will be excluded from the program.

D. Non-Spanish speaking feature films and short films must include Spanish subtitles. The Festival does not assume the cost of subtitling the films.

E. The participants authorize the organizers of FICE, without any type of compensation, payment and/or indemnification, to publicly broadcast their name and/or voice and/or image in any media, including: television, graphic media, internet and/or any other media created or to be created, at their discretion, without limitation of time or territory, for the promotion of their exhibition within the Festival. The material received may be used for non-profit promotional purposes in exhibitions, forums, festivals, among others, only partially, not exceeding three (3) minutes of the work.

The producers and distributors of the films participating in the Competitions undertake to include the phrase “FICE Official Selection” in all their publicity and press material, using the Festival logo.

F. The mere fact of participating in the call for entries implies knowledge and acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

JURIES

Juries will be appointed for the International Competition of feature and short films. They will be composed of three or more personalities from the audiovisual, cultural, artistic and scientific fields and will be in charge of choosing the winning films of the Competition.

Persons who are directly related to the works participating in the current Festival will be disqualified from being part of the Jury.

The decisions made by the Jury are final.

The award cannot be left vacant.

6. Awards

All those selected will receive a Certificate of Participation. Those who are winners in the National Competition will also receive a statuette and a diploma of recognition.


7. NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS

The works received that do not comply with the general conditions of participation and the pre-selection requirements will not be evaluated.

8. ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES AND CONDITIONS - ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS

Registration in FICE implies the acceptance of these rules and conditions and the assignment of the screening rights of the material submitted for the purpose of disseminating this edition.

Likewise, together with the registration, those who own the work agree to transfer the rights of projection and reproduction of the same for the purpose of its exhibition as well as for its advertising diffusion.

9. RIGHTS OF THE PARTICIPATING WORKS

The participants declare that they are the sole and real owners of the audiovisual works submitted to the Festival, both as authors and as assignees. In case of falseness in the affidavit, as they are not the owners of the same, the responsibility for any third party claim will be exclusively of the participant who submits the work, without FICE or its organizers having any responsibility towards third parties.

The participants declare that they have all the rights involved in the work.

The participants declare to hold harmless the organizers of the Festival and the Municipality of Ensenada for any claim regarding the ownership of the work and/or lack of authorization regarding the rights contained therein.