Bcn Sports Film Festival (16)

BCN Sports Film – 16th Barcelona International FICTS Festival



Deadlines

01 May 2025
Call for entries

30 Sep 2025
Final deadline

4
mths

15 Oct 2025
Notification date

23 Feb 2026
03 Mar 2026

Address

Varias sedes,  08038, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain


Festival description
Sports
Short film festival 90'<
Feature film festival 90'<


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Themes
 Does NOT have submission fees
 International Festival
 Online and Physical Location
 January 2023
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  90'<
 Feature Films  90'<
 Any language
 Any language
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Festival start: 23 February 2026      Festival end: 03 March 2026

The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2026 – 16th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2026.

The BCN Sports Film 2026 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during the first quarter of 2026. In this sixteenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature.

The sixteenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings. The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform.

These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2026 Organising Committee. Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2026 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.

Cash Prizes: 5,000€

PRIZES

Selected Films will be competing for:

•The City of Barcelona Amphora for the best film, gifted with 1000 €

•Jury Special Award, gifted with 750 €

•Award for the best Catalan production, gifted with 500 €

•Award for the best adventure sports film – Álvaro Bultó, gofted with 500 €

•Award for the best fiction film, gifted with 500 €

•Award for the best documentary, gifted with 500 €

•Award for the best animated film, gifted with 500 €

•Award “Sport and society”, gifted with 500 €

On the other hand, the selection jury of the BCN Sports Film 2026 may award a total of up to two special mentions. These mentions will not be financially endowed. The sponsors of the festival may provide other cash prizes or other benefits.

Withholding will be applied to this amount according to current legislation.

AIMS

One of the principal objectives of BCN Sports Film 2026 is to bring the general public into contact with sports-orientated audiovisual content and the values that they represent.

Whilst offering the media, film directors, producers and specialised distributors a meeting place in which they can exchange views and information.

CONTENT

The BCN Sports Film 2026 is open to all those productions in which the principal subject matter is that of sport in all its forms and disciplines.

Genres included: animated films, documentaries and fiction, from shorts to feature length films.


GENERAL RULES

BCN Sports Film 2026 is open to both professional and independent productions.

BCN Sports Film 2026 will admit all films produced from 1st January 2023. When registering the film, it will be necessary to specify whether it is a premiere at the Catalan, Spanish or international level. And, similarly, whether it is a debut film considered as such, the first or second work of the director of the work.

The maximum length of the works presented at the BCN Sports Film 2026 will be 90 minutes.

Each producer may present as many films as he wishes as long as they comply with all other regulations.

Therefore, the participant guarantees that he has all the exploitation rights over the work to be able to participate in the competition and the participant exempts the organizers from any claim that may arise from third parties in relation to intellectual property rights.

BCN Sports Film 2026 Organising Committee may programme non-competing films of general interest whatever their date of production or their length.

JURY

The BCN Sports Film 2026 Organizing Committee will appoint members to both the festival’s selection jury and official jury. Each jury of the BCN Sports Film 2026 will comprise individuals connected to sports, cinema, the audiovisual sector, and culture.


INSCRIPTIONS

Inscriptions will be accepted from 1st May 2025 till 30th September 2025, both inclusive.
Each participant shall have submitted the registration form and video through:

https://festhome.com/ or using the festival website www.bcnsportsfilm.org

Registration implies acceptance of these rules and the conditions of use of the web pages.

SELECTED WORKS

The Organizing Committee will notify participants by email and before 29th October 2025 should film have been selected for the BCN Sports Film 2026 official competition.
Other promotional material may be requested by the organization.

The organization will provide the subtitles in Catalan or Spanish for exclusive use during the event.

All selected works will be included in the schedule of the sixteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival and will be screened either in person or virtually during one or more sessions of the festival:

•Educational sessions for schools.

•General and/or special screenings of the sixteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.

•Sessions for penitentiary centres.

ON-SITE SCREENINGS

General and/or special schedule of school sessions of the sixteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.

•All screenings will be part of one or more sessions of the BCN Sports Film Festival with open access for school audiences or the general audience.

Some in-person sessions may require a symbolic price for public access in the form of an entrance ticket as a way of ensuring capacity.

Sessions for prisons

•Selected films for prison sessions will be screened in private sessions, not open to the general public. These sessions will only be available during the running dates of the sixteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival.

VIRTUAL SCREENINGS

Educational sessions for schools

•Selected works for virtual school sessions will be screened in password-protected virtual sessions accessible to schools that request access via the website. These sessions will take place during the first quarter of 2026, with a maximum duration of three months. They will be exclusively offered to educational and/or training centers and will be supported by educational materials developed by Filmclub to assist educators.

General and/or special schedule of the fifteenth edition of the BCN Sports Film Festival

•All productions will be available on the virtual platform Festhome during the 10 days of the festival, with free access. After the festival concludes, the productions will no longer be available.


SCREENINGS

Those films selected to participate will be screened as scheduled in the 2026 Festival Programme.

The films selected for the competition will be integrated into the documentary and videographic collection of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation and may be shown publicly in the screening spaces of the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum, headquarters of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation exclusively for pedagogical or didactic purposes, and always as a means of promoting the festival, thus ceding to the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, only the exploitation rights in the indicated mode of reproduction and public communication.

Awarded films and special mentions

•Only films awarded in the 2026 edition and approved for the prize may be screened as promotion for the 2027 edition, with a single airing on a channel of public tv. Any other potential screening on different channels will require negotiation of rights between the involved entities. The BCN Sports Film Festival organization may assist in this negotiation process.

•Winning productions will enter the final phase of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE international circuit. Winners authorise the BCN Sports Film Festival 2026 Organising Committee to share their contact details to the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE festival organizing committees. The organizers will not distribute any copies of the film to third parties without prior authorization from the producers or legal representatives.

•Awarded films and special mentions from the 2026 could be featured on the FILMIN platform (Spain) until 30 days after the end of the 2026 edition. Profits derived from their streaming on FILMIN will be remitted, via the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica (FBO), to the LICENSOR (producer or director of the screening). The FBO will act solely as an intermediary in processing these benefits.

As established by FILMIN:

1.The net revenues (the Recommended Retail Price after VAT deduction) obtained from the online exhibition of the CONTENT in the specified forms of dissemination, terms, and characteristics shall be distributed as follows:

•The LICENSOR shall receive 60% of the net revenue generated by sales in TVOD format.
2.For SVOD format, net revenues shall be calculated by aggregating the total number of accesses to THE CONTENT made by all FILMIN subscribers, their applications, channels, and FILMIN-operated services during the settlement period, and multiplying by the established price per access.

•The LICENSOR will receive 60% of the net revenue generated by SVOD sales.

3.Payment will be made by the FBO upon receipt by FILMIN of the viewing report and payment, and once the invoice has been processed.

Participants also authorise the Organising Committee to partially reproduce their films in the media with the aim of promoting the 2026 BCN SPORTS FILM festival.

Consequences of non-acceptance of these bases
In the event that participants do not accept the full content of these rules, they will not be allowed to take part in the competition.


  

 
  

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