Festival de Cine Miradas Mayores (2)

Festival start: 20 October 2026      Festival end: 24 October 2026

The 2nd Miradas Mayores Film Festival is a space for dialogue, promotion, and reflection among filmmakers, their works, and audiences, with the aim of exploring the many ways of experiencing aging in contemporary society. Through the audiovisual medium, the festival seeks to bring forward stories that highlight the diversity of experiences, life paths, and realities of older adults, promoting a more human, inclusive, and respectful perspective on aging.

With a decentralized approach, Miradas Mayores brings cinema to different communities and regions, transforming each screening into an opportunity for community engagement and cultural participation.

The festival aims to challenge stereotypes that associate old age solely with dependency, illness, or unproductiveness, instead highlighting older adults as active participants in social, cultural, and community life.

Miradas Mayores is an invitation to build new narratives about aging, fostering recognition of the rights, dignity, and valuable contributions of older adults.

Through cinema, the festival seeks to contribute to a more inclusive society, where people's experience, memory, and diversity are valued as an essential part of our collective identity.

Miradas Mayores Award for Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Visual and Sound Design
Best Narrative
Best Performance
Audience Award

The Miradas Mayores Film Festival invites audiences to reflect on stories that portray different aspects of the experience of being an older person within the Chilean, Latin American, and Ibero-American social context. The festival promotes an active and empowering view of older adults, moving away from the stigmatization often associated with aging, by selecting works of outstanding artistic quality that highlight the diverse realities, memories, and future aspirations of older people.

Short fiction, documentary, and animated films by Latin American and Ibero-American filmmakers are eligible, as well as Chilean productions and international productions or co-productions involving Chile.

Both premiere and previously released films are eligible, including works that have been screened in commercial or alternative cinemas and/or made available on digital platforms. The maximum running time is 30 minutes.

A maximum of 10 films will be selected, with priority given to works by emerging filmmakers that feature older adults as their main characters or explore different perspectives on aging in Latin America and Chile.