Festival start: 11 November 2025
Festival end: 15 November 2025
Start of Festival: November 11, 2025 End of Festival: November 15, 2025
Short films of any genre, with a duration between 7 and 30 minutes, addressing themes such as human rights, friendship, the environment, territory, youth, the future, and tradition, with openness to diverse perspectives, genres, and formats.
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PLACE AND DATE
The Itinerant Festival Cine en Mi Barrio – FICEMB holds its central week in the city of Popayán, Cauca. It is a space for meeting, circulation, and film training which, in its 12th edition, aims to bring together a diverse selection of short films that combine narrative quality, aesthetic freshness, thematic depth, and territorial authenticity.
For this edition, the festival opens its call to works from community and social cinema, as well as independent and commercial cinema, including proposals of high technical and creative level that connect with the audience through entertainment, emotion, or reflection.
SUBMISSION CONDITIONS
Producers or filmmakers from any part of the national territory or Ibero-America who hold the rights to the submitted works may participate.
FICEMB Popayán 2025 will have 3 categories:
National Short Films. All animated, documentary, or fiction short films produced after June 30, 2023 will be accepted.
Regional Perspectives Short Films. This section pays tribute to the voices, faces, and landscapes of southwestern Colombia. Regional Perspectives brings together short films created by filmmakers from Cauca and neighboring departments, who tell intimate, everyday stories deeply connected with local identity.
Ibero-American Short Films. All animated, documentary, or fiction short films produced after June 30, 2023 will be accepted. The registration of international short films will have a fee of €2, payable through the Festhome submission platform.
The duration of submitted works may not exceed 30 minutes.
Each participant may submit as many films as they wish.
Short films that have been submitted in previous editions may not participate.
Participants authorize the FICEMB organization to use extracts from the short films for dissemination in any media in order to promote the festival. Likewise, FICEMB may use photographs of the films and directors in the press and other media, as well as in the preparation of the festival catalog.
SUBMISSION
Submissions must be made through the Festhome platform.
Any questions will be addressed at: festcineenmibarrio@gmail.com
Submission deadline: until October 17, 2025.
SELECTION
A selection committee composed of professionals from the regional film sector will select, from among all submitted short films, those works that will participate in FICEMB Popayán. The festival organization will determine the order and screening date of each short film, reserving the right to modify such date depending on the needs of the event.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
Participation in FICEMB Popayán implies acceptance of all the provisions of these regulations, as well as the resolution, by the organization, of any unforeseen issues.
PARTICIPATION COMMITMENT
The person submitting the work declares to be authorized by the production company to provide a copy of the short film and to accept the rules of the festival.
CATEGORIES
Best Regional Production
National Fiction – Short Film
Ibero-American Fiction – Short Film
National Documentary
Ibero-American Documentary
University Production
Music Video
Animation – National / Ibero-American
Children’s Film
Accessible Cinema (subtitled and with audio description)
Selección Relatos Nacionales
Short Films >7' 30'< (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
17 Oct 25
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Desde la costa hasta la selva, desde las grandes ciudades hasta los territorios rurales, "Relatos Nacionales" reúne una muestra diversa del cortometraje colombiano actual. Son historias que revelan las múltiples caras de nuestro país: sus contrastes, sus heridas, su belleza y su infinita capacidad de reinventarse.
En esta selección convergen miradas jóvenes y consolidadas que, a través del lenguaje cinematográfico, exploran problemáticas sociales, memorias colectivas, imaginarios populares y expresiones culturales que conforman el alma de Colombia.
"Relatos Nacionales" es una invitación a recorrer el país a través de su cine, a reconocernos en otras voces, a abrir los ojos a nuevas perspectivas, y a celebrar el poder narrativo que emerge desde todos los rincones del territorio.
Selección Miradas Regionales
Short and Feature Films (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
17 Oct 25
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Esta sección rinde homenaje a las voces, rostros y paisajes del suroccidente colombiano. "Miradas Regionales" reúne cortometrajes o series creados por realizadores del Cauca y departamentos vecinos, quienes desde sus territorios cuentan historias íntimas, cotidianas y profundamente conectadas con la identidad local.
Es una invitación a vernos desde adentro: a reconocer la riqueza cultural, la diversidad étnica, las luchas sociales y los sueños colectivos que habitan nuestras montañas, veredas y ciudades. Aquí, el cine se convierte en una herramienta de memoria, resistencia y creación comunitaria.
"Miradas Regionales" no es solo una muestra geográfica, sino un espacio para descubrir cómo se transforma el lenguaje audiovisual cuando nace desde las raíces.
Selección Viestos del sur (Cortometrajes de Iberoamérica)
Short Films >7' 30'< (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
17 Oct 25
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Desde los Andes hasta la Patagonia, del Caribe a la Península Ibérica, "Vientos del Sur" trae consigo un soplo de historias que cruzan fronteras y lenguas, pero que comparten un mismo pulso: el de nuestra Iberoamérica diversa, creativa y profundamente humana.
Esta selección reúne cortometrajes de distintos rincones del mundo iberoamericano, en los que convergen las voces de cineastas que, desde sus territorios, nos invitan a mirar otras realidades, a sentir otros acentos y a compartir emociones universales.
"Vientos del Sur" es un encuentro de culturas hermanas a través del cine: un puente entre lo local y lo global, entre lo íntimo y lo colectivo. Una travesía por imágenes que dialogan con nuestras propias luchas, sueños y formas de habitar el mundo.
