Festival Internacional de cine de Chivilcoy ’Raíces’ (8)

Festival start: 24 September 2025      Festival end: 28 September 2025

Cinema as a social phenomenon has become one of the most innovative and enriching cultural consumptions and practices of the XX century. Clearly, cinema changes us but this transformation that film provokes is not just individual. We’re also asking for as a community. Therefore, cinema must be understood as a social phenomenon, as a cultural vehicle, as a complex device which catalyze the yearnings and portraits of a society, as a producer of subjectivities.

For the city of Chivilcoy the launching of an international film festival represents a chimerical cultural proposal. Its background is based on previous experiences that bond these individual and collective practices: shootings, film’s retrospectives, workshops, festivals and other events that take place in our community. This whole set of inputs is a key component, coupled with the suitable reaction of the local public who are eager to rejoice at the "seventh art" and to enjoy a festival as a space for exchange, dialogue and circulation of cultural goods.

Best short film

Public Prize

Mentions of the Jury

1. Fiction and documentary films produced only after January 1st, 2023 are eligible for submission at the Second International Film Festival "Raíces".

2. The participation categories will be: medium-length films and short films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes. Films of any nationality may participate. Works that are not in Spanish must be subtitled in this language. Institutional, television or advertising works will not be accepted.

3. Registration is free.

4. The selected works will be screened at the edition of the festival that will take place in September 2025. The producers will cede the rights of public exhibition for the date on which the event takes place. The costs of shipping or transferring the copy will be borne by the participants. Once a film has been selected, it cannot be withdrawn from the festival.

5. The works may be sent through the Festhome platform, or a private link on Vimeo or YouTube to the email address: cineraices@gmail.com.

6. Any situation that is not contemplated in these regulations will be resolved by the organizers.