All films must be about Human Rights.

• The Festival will subtitle selected films professionally into Spanish and will offer these subtitles with no charge for the director to use.

Films of all kinds of genres, durations and years.

Festival start: 19 November 2019      Festival end: 29 November 2019

To show films that make us think, awaken our conscience, denounce injustice and reflect the social and cultural diversity of humanity. This is the objective of The Human Rights Film Festival, which will celebrate its 13th annual festival this year.

The Human Rights Film Festival, with headquarters in Barcelona and offices in Paris and New York, is the most important festival on Human Rights in Catalonia, one of Spain’s most important and widely internationally established festival.

Among the Festival in Barcelona, the simultaneous venues at Paris and New York and especially more than 20 screenings in different countries, after the Festival.

Competitive Section:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Medium-Length Film
- Best Fiction Short Film
- Best Documentary Short Film

Non-competitive Section:
- Special Award by Institute of Human Rights of Catalonia

Special Awards by the Organization:
- Human Rights Award
- Human Rights and Journalism Awards:
- Letters Award (Written media)
- Voices Award (Radio)
- Look Award (TV)

CONDITIONS OF THE BARCELONA HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
XVIº Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Barcelona


RULES

All films must be about Human Rights.
The Festival will cover the travel expenses, meals and lodging only for filmmakers invited to the Festival.
The Festival will subtitulate the selected films professionally in Spanish and offers these subtitles with any charge to the director to be used.
Submission fee of Short films 6€ and Feature films 8€.
If your film is selected in some cases you will have to send the film in digital format with high definition to the subtitles department.
The Festival will do international shows of the official section films in Spain and in
countries of the global south in the world, with the aim to spread human rights themes before the
beginning of the next edition.
If the Festival don't answer one time you know the reception of the material was done is because your film has not been selected.
Not all the films will be screened in the three cities.
Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these rules.
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AWARDS

Competitive Section:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Medium-Length Film
- Best Fiction Short Film
- Best Documentary Short Film

Non-competitive Section:
- Special Award

Special Awards by the Organization:
- Human Rights Award
- Human Rights Awards:
- Letters Award (Written media)
- Voices Award (Radio)
- Look Award (TV, film)



The Festival will be on the last quarter of the year.
Submissions closes June 1.
Films of all kinds of genres, durations and years.




XVIº Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival
info@festivaldecineyderechoshumanos.com