Festival Gollut (13)

Festival start: 03 July 2026      Festival end: 11 July 2026

PRESENTATION

The ‘Amics del cinema de la Vall de Ribes’ Association presents the 13th edition of the Gollut Festival.

The Gollut Festival is committed to auteur cinema, social cinema and new narratives, promoting inclusion, critical reflection and the collective experience of cinema from a decentralised perspective.
It also supports experimental cinema in its short film section as a gateway for new talent and groundbreaking proposals.

It also aims to support emerging filmmakers and peripheral proposals that are often marginalised by commercial circuits and canonical film narratives.
Finally, it seeks to promote creativity and audiovisual research, promoting works that review, rethink and experiment with the possibilities of cinematic language, both in terms of form and content.

Each edition is defined by a central theme consistent with the festival's identity and its desire to encourage a critical reading of the world. This year, under the title ‘Out of Focus’, the festival focuses on stories and realities that are often invisible, offering narratives that propose new ways of observing, inhabiting and relating to the world, with transformative views of society. This approach allows us to escape from contemporary social fatigue, creating spaces for reflection and dialogue.

The festival awards several prizes that recognise the creativity, formal risk-taking and social commitment of the selected works.

In this edition, entitled ‘Fora de focus’ (‘Out of focus’), the festival focuses on stories and realities that are normally invisible. It offers narratives that propose new ways of observing and relating to the world. Transformative views of society that generate spaces for reflection and dialogue.

Cash Prizes: 250€
Screening Fee Shorts: 75€
Screening Fee Features: 140€

AWARDS.

-Best Feature Film Award (length over 30 min., maximum 140 min.)*

-Best Short Film Award (length under 30 min.)*

-Best Experimental Short Film Award (length under 30 min.)*

-Youth Award: the best work produced by filmmakers between the ages of 16 and 30.

*These awards come with a cash prize of €250 each.

Special Awards:
-Audience Award: chosen based on votes cast by viewers.

-Award for Professional Career in the Field of Cinema -Miquel Porter i Moix Award.

These awards do not have a cash prize, with the exception of the Miquel Porter i Moix Award, which is awarded to the Film Clubs of the Catalan Federation of Film Clubs and has a cash prize of €150.

The Gollut Awards consist of the presentation of an original statuette of the winning design created for this purpose, and are a public recognition of the creativity and social values they convey.

PARTICIPATION

The GOLLUT FESTIVAL is aimed at producers, filmmakers and distributors, both national and international, who hold all the rights to the works they submit to the competition, as well as the images and audio of third-party images that comprise them.

Films may be shot in any language and must be subtitled in Catalan or Spanish, provided that the audio language is not one of these languages. All subtitles, including those in the English version, must meet quality standards and be non-automatic translations. Otherwise, they will be rejected.

REGISTRATION.

Maximum submission of 2 works per participant.

In addition to the Festhome platform, entries may be submitted by email to administracio@amicscibevallderibes.com or on the website www.festivalgollut.com

The following information must be included:

• Title of the work submitted
• Author's first and last names, ID number, telephone number, email address
• Date of creation of the work submitted
• Brief introduction
• Image/poster representing the work
• Download link (WeTransfer, Dropbox, etc.)

COMPETITION SECTIONS.

. Feature Film Section
Works with a duration of more than 30 minutes and a maximum of 140 minutes.

. Short Film Section
Works with a duration of less than 30 minutes..

. Experimental Short Film Section
Works with a duration of less than 30 minutes that stand out for their formal risk-taking, expressive research or narrative and visual experimentation.

Priority will be given to works that have a connection with rural life or that straddle the line between fiction and non-fiction.

AWARDS.

-Best Feature Film Award (length over 30 min., maximum 140 min.)

-Best Short Film Award (length under 30 min.)

-Best Experimental Short Film Award (length under 30 min.)

These awards come with a cash prize of €250 each.

Special Awards:

-Audience Award: chosen based on votes cast by viewers.

-Youth Award: the best work produced by filmmakers between the ages of 16 and 30.

-Award for Professional Career in the Field of Cinema -Miquel Porter i Moix Award.

These awards do not have a cash prize, with the exception of the Miquel Porter i Moix Award, which is awarded to the Film Clubs of the Catalan Federation of Film Clubs and has a cash prize of €150.

The Gollut Awards consist of the presentation of an original statuette of the winning design created for this purpose, and are a public recognition of the creativity and social values they convey.
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

Registration fees are:

•Standard: €20 per feature film and €15 per short film (until 29 March 2026).

•Late registration: £30 for feature films and £25 for short films (from 29 March to 18 May 2026).

Maximum of two entries per participant.

The date for notification of selected entries will be 24 May.


Maximum of two entries per participant.

Films may be shot in any language and must be subtitled in Catalan or Spanish, provided that the audio is not in either of these two languages.

The deadline for submitting audiovisual works is 5 June 2026.

Entries must be submitted to Festhome.

REGISTRATION FORM FOR SUBMITTED WORK

1. Author's full name, tax identification number, telephone number, email address and postal address.
2. Title of the work.
3. Title of the section to which it is being submitted (Feature Film, Short Film).
4. Synopsis of the work.
5. Cover image.
6. Place and date of creation.
7. Download link (Google Drive, WeTransfer, Dropbox).

Proof of payment.

The registration fee can be paid through the Festhome platform or:

1. Payment with PayPal account info@amicscinevallderibes.com

2. Transfer to BBVA: ES81 0182 3141 1102 0152 3730

Payments made via PayPal or bank transfer must include the title of the work submitted and notification of payment must be sent to: administracio@amicscinevallderibes.com


PUBLICATION OF SELECTED WORKS.

Once the works have been selected, their owners or representatives must provide the following:
Material dated prior to 8 June 2026:

-High-resolution photos of the director and the film.
-Trailer in digital file format, on hard drive or via download link.
-The format of the works will be in DCP 2K (Flat or SCOPE) or in MP4 format, 2K resolution, and H264 compression at 8 MB/s or higher.

The address for hard drive submissions is:

Cine Catalunya de Ribes de Freser
FESTIVAL GOLLUT
Carrer Major 19
17534 Ribes de Freser, (Girona.)

Receipt of the material will be confirmed and communicated to each participant by email.

JURY

The Jury will be composed of professionals from the audiovisual world and representatives of civil society. The awards may be declared void or not awarded if the jury so decides.

The awards will be presented at the Festival's Closing Ceremony, at the Cinema Catalunya in Ribes de Freser, with the corresponding publication on the website (www.festivalgollut.com), social networks and media.

The Jury will award the prizes by unanimous decision. It may also award Honourable Mentions, where appropriate.


SCREENING OF SELECTED WORKS.

The selected works will be screened at the Cinema Catalunya in Ribes de Freser during the 13th GOLLUT FESTIVAL.

Amics del Cinema de la Vall de Ribes will pay the authors or producers the following amounts for public screening rights:

€140 per feature film
€75 per short film.

The organisation reserves the right to screen all winning and selected works in their original format, in subsequent editions and/or retrospectives, always within the framework of the GOLLUT FESTIVAL.

The authors therefore waive their commercial exploitation rights only in these circumstances. Outside this scope of screening, the organising entity will pay the corresponding exhibition rights and in all cases copyright will always be guaranteed.

RESPONSIBILITIES, MODIFICATIONS AND ACCEPTANCE.

Contestants are responsible for any claims by third parties regarding the works submitted, as well as for any allegations of violations of social values of coexistence.

The Festival Organisation declines any legal responsibility in relation to the feature films and short films submitted to the competition and their content.

The Organisation reserves the right to change or modify the Rules if circumstances so require.

Submitting a work to the competition implies acceptance of all the points in these Rules.