Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental - FINCA (8)

Festival start: 12 August 2026      Festival end: 19 August 2026

FINCA is a competitive, international film festival that has been held in Argentina since 2010. It serves as a meeting space for filmmakers, activists, communities, and specialists, aiming to promote critical cinema that contributes to social transformation and to the creation of new narratives around the environment and human rights.

In 2026, the eighth edition of FINCA will place particular emphasis on the Right to Land as part of global debates on the socio-ecological crisis, environmental justice, and development models, recognizing that territorial conflicts are complex assemblages in which multiple actors—human and non-human—interact to sustain life. In the Global South, these disputes intensify around the defense of commons, ecosystems, and territories in the face of extractivist logics, understanding territory as a dynamic network and a collective bond that articulates memory, identity, and ecological interdependence, from which it is urgent to imagine more just and sustainable futures.

International Feature Films Official Competition

International Short and Medium-length Official Competition

Latin-American Documentary Films Official Competition

National and international works completed on or after July 1, 2024 are eligible to apply, provided they address socio-environmental issues from diverse and original perspectives. FINCA accepts short films, medium-length films, and feature films, including documentary or fiction works, as well as experimental films, animation, video clips, work in progress projects, web series, and new audiovisual formats, with a broad human rights perspective.

Submitted works may address, among others, the following themes: Climate Change; Territories and Extractivism; Indigenous Peoples; Water; Food Sovereignty; Biodiversity and Conservation; Sustainability and Transitions; Ecofeminisms; Youth; Human Rights.