8ªed. Ibicine, Festival de Cine de Ibiza - Premios Astarté (8)

Festival start: 08 January 2025      Festival end: 12 April 2025

Ibicine Asociación Cinematográfica de Ibiza (IACI) was born out of love for cinema and the island of Ibiza with the firm commitment to provide the island with activities related to cinema as well as a film programme that opens the range of cultural activities on the island to new audiences and thus turn Ibiza into a meeting point for the national and international film sector.

Ibicine, Ibiza Film Festival, is one of the annual activities of IACI, organized by the Association and by the production company Dicho y Hecho Porducciones.

Ibicine is a festival that is committed to emerging national, international and Balearic Island talent, which seeks to enhance emerging filmmakers and generate links with established talents, giving special importance to the short film and its technicians, rewarding by categories the technical and artistic aspects that have a place in these film productions with the Astarté awards. a statuette created and made in Ibiza in honour of the Phoenician goddess who left her mark on the island.

In addition to the Official SOC Short Film Section, the festival also has Parallel Sections, as well as the Official SOL Feature Film Section and the projects in development thanks to the creation of the Ibiza Film Market Project Forum, organized by BIAM (Balearic Islands Audiovisual Market) within the framework of the festival, to promote professional cinema on the island, so that a meeting point is generated with the national and international industry to generate and strengthen relationships within the sector: creators, producers, platforms, buyers, etc.

All these activities come together in Ibiza, a perfect place to disconnect from the routines and stress of the big cities and, in this perfect setting, synergies, new projects and learning take place, closing contracts and thus generating the film industry in an unparalleled environment.

Ibicine has been selected by UNESCO as the representative festival of Spain in the Movie Travel film tourism routes, has received recognition from the Consell d'Eivissa, has been awarded the Business Excellence Award as Best Festival in the Balearic Islands by Acquisition International magazine and Festival of the Year 2023 - Spain by LUXlife magazine.

Since 2022 the Festival has been a collaborator of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, being part of the list of festivals that qualify for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Fiction, Animation and Documentary, in this 8th edition for the Goya Awards 2026.

In this way, the fiction, animation and documentary short films awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film and with the Astarté for best documentary short film, will opt directly for nomination for the Goya awards, and those selected in the Official Section of Ibicine will be able to opt to enter the list of qualified for the Goya if they add, along with this selection, six other selections in festivals collaborating with the Academy. ***

To consult the rules of participation in the 39th edition of the Goya Awards
Click on the following link (short films on page 39) : https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/bases-39-premios-goya/

To consult the list of festivals collaborating with the Goya awards:
https://www.premiosgoya.com/pdfs/listado-festivales-39-premios-goya/

In addition, the short film awarded with the Astarté for best fiction short film will be qualified for the Fugaz 2025 awards of Cortoespaña.

Ibicine's selection committee is made up of professionals from the sector from different guilds: editing, directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, acting and production; and works together so that the selection is careful and always responds to the criteria of professional quality, diversity, equality with varied themes and genres, to achieve an annual program that manages to take viewers to enjoy and learn from the seventh art through different stories and perspectives.

The jury of each edition of Ibicine is made up of an average of between five and seven professionals from the film sector, also representatives of the different guilds. The jury is chaired by a professional selected by the board of directors of the Association, who has the power to break the tie in the event of a tie, in addition to attending to the media on behalf of the rest of the jury, it is always made up of a large part of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain, as well as international members.

Ibicine has been sponsored in each of its editions by the actresses Paz Vega, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Nadia de Santiago, Inma Cuevas and Michelle Calvó and sponsored, since the first edition, by the actor and comedian Jon Plazaola, who accompanies us in each edition as a lifetime sponsor of the festival.

To date, we have celebrated and recognized the talent of national and international talents, rewarding their film careers with the Astarté de Honor award to: the actress Terele Pávez, the director Isabel Coixet, the Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media CIMA, the actor and director Paco León, the actress Yolanda Ramos, the comedian Eva Soriano, the journalist and film disseminator Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, the international producer and screenwriter Axel Kuschevatzky, the co-founder of FILMIN Jaume Ripoll and the international actor Leonardo Sbaraglia.

Ibicine is possible thanks to the support of island institutions such as the Consell d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament d'Eivissa, l'Ajuntament de Santa Eulària and l'Ajuntament de Sant Antoni de Portmany, as well as that of sponsoring companies, collaborators and the media dissemination of media partners such as IB3, Diario de Ibiza, TEF, Cadena SER and Periódico de Ibiza. It is thanks to them, the passionate team and the volunteers who join every year, that this cultural meeting in Ibiza is possible and has become an essential annual event for all film buffs.

Cash Prizes: 5,000€

AWARDS AND CATEGORIES

All the awards in the official sections will be presented at the Astarté Awards Gala, which will presumably be held at the closing of the 8th edition on Saturday, April 12, 2025 in Ibiza Town (to be confirmed)

The event will be inaugurated with the Ibicine Red Carpet in which Adlib Ibiza fashion will be honored, to receive the nominees, as well as renowned actors, actresses and filmmakers from our country, producers, televisions or platforms, and will be attended by local, national and international media.

During the Astarté Awards Gala we will enjoy different performances by national and local artists, and a statuette will be awarded to each of the following categories:

SOC
OFFICIAL SHORT FILM SECTION:

Astarté Award for Best Fiction Short Film - Goya Qualifier
Astarté Award for Best Documentary Short Film - Goya Qualifier
Astarté Award for Best Animated Short Film
Astarté Award for Best Foreign Short Film
Astarté Award for Best Short Film of the Audience (national and international)
Astarte Award for Best Director
Astarte Award for Best Screenplay
Astarte Award for Best Cinematography
Astarte Award for Best Art Direction
Astarté Award for Best Editing
Astarte Award for Best Sound Design
Astarte Award for Best Original Score
Astarte Award for Best Actress
Astarte Award for Best Actor

SUN
FEATURE FILM OFFICIAL SECTION:

Astarte Isasi-Isasmendi Award for Best Film
Astarte Award for Best Audience Feature Film
Astarte Award for Best Feature Film Director
Astarte Award for Best Feature Film Screenplay
Astarte Award for Best Cinematography
Astarte Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Astarte Award for Best Leading Actress

HONOR AWARDS
Every year, the Festival awards figures of our cinema for their career or for some special reason that it considers relevant. The choice of this winner is the responsibility of the Association's board of directors.

The history of the Ibicine Astarté de Honor to date is as follows:
2017 – Terele Pávez (posthumously)
2018 – Isabel Coixet
2019 – CIMA, Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media of Spain
2021 – Paco León
2022 - Yolanda Ramos
2023 - Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
2023 - Eva Soriano
2024 – Jaume Ripoll
2024 – Leonardo Sbaraglia
2024 – Axel Kuschevatzky

In the 8th edition, three honorary awards are expected to be awarded: national, international and Balearic.

The honorees will receive the Astarté de Honor '25 award and will be honored at the events and in the way that the festival management deems.


FINANCIAL ENDOWMENT OF THE PRIZES
Short films with at least one nomination will receive €200 per short film, not per nomination, so that at least one representative of the short film is encouraged to attend the Astarté awards gala. Even if the same short film obtains more than one nomination, it will receive the same amount indicated above.

The short film that receives the Astarté award for best Fiction short film, in addition to being directly eligible to be qualified for the nomination for the Goya awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Madrid in the category of Fiction Short Film at the Goya 2026 awards, and to participate directly in the Fugaz 2025 awards, will receive the amount of €1000 thanks to the collaboration of DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity, with the Festival.

The short film that receives the Astarté award for best Documentary Short Film, in addition to directly opting to be qualified for the nomination for the Goya Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Madrid in the category of Documentary Short Film at the Goya Awards 2026, will receive the amount of € 1000 (taxes included) thanks to the collaboration of DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity, with the Festival.

*In the event that the economic prizes are ex aequo, the amount will be divided.
*The festival will issue a certificate for the payment of each economic prize that the winner must fill in with their personal and bank details and send it duly signed.
*The amount is subject to a 19% withholding of Personal Income Tax. The obligation to withhold for prizes is regulated independently in article 128 et seq. of the Tax Law. The non-practice of withholding by Ibicine may be subject to a sanction by the Tax Administration (ranging between 50% and 150% of the amount not withheld), as it is an autonomous obligation and independent of the obligation of the recipient to pay it.
*If, one month after the award certificate is delivered, the winner has not submitted it duly filled in to be able to make the transfer, the prize will be considered rejected and may be offered to the next short film with the most votes by the jury.

SUMMARY OF THE CALL

A call is open in the OFFICIAL SECTION - SOC - for national and international short films. *All registered films are eligible for the official sections, although they can also be chosen for parallel sections.

Participants in the 8th edition of Ibicine will have to submit audiovisual productions with the following characteristics:

1. Participants who wish to opt for the Goya awards must, in addition to
read these rules, consult the rules of the Academy and comply with their requirements.

Short films that do not meet these requirements will not be eligible for the Astarté awards for best Fiction or Documentary short film, although they may be selected at Ibicine and opt for the rest of the awards given by the festival to the different categories.

2. Maximum duration of short films: 30 minutes (including titles and credits)

3. Certificate of Spanish nationality issued by the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts or by the competent body of the respective Autonomous Communities, dated between 1 January 2023 and 30 September 2024.

4. All short films that are not correctly registered in their corresponding theme on the registration platform will be excluded from participation in the edition, if they can be registered in several themes, they must choose in which of them, only one.

5. *Creators from the Balearic Islands must certify that they are indeed residents of the islands (either directors or the production company)

*Distributors and associations requesting fee waivers must present the official incorporation documents to receive the discount codes for registrations.

6. If the original language is not Spanish, in no case will works be accepted without having been subtitled into Spanish (or dubbed if necessary for children's audiences)

7. For the screening to the public, the short film must be accessible to both Spanish speakers and foreigners (english), please if you have any questions regarding subtitling you can contact us: contact@ibicine.com and we will provide you with the subtitling.

8. In order to program and screen the short films, we will request materials such as: .mov file in high quality without subtitles, file with subtitles, subtitle file (str), synopsis of the short film, information about its creators, poster, stills, trailer, .wav track with the soundtrack and short film without the soundtrack.

9. If a work is selected and does not submit the materials that have been requested, by the means that have been requested and on the dates requested, it may be disqualified, even if it has been previously selected and even nominated.

10. The following are expressly excluded from this call:

to. Pre-montages and advertising montages.
b. Partial montages from feature films.
c. Television episodes, including series pilots or montages from them.
d. Short films registered in previous editions even if they were not selected.
and. Short films participating in previous editions.


Registration Fee:

● €5 for short film registration
*Distributors and Associations write an e-mail to contact@ibicine.com sending the incorporation documents of the same to obtain the "fee waivers".


Dates of the call:

● From August 15, 2024 to September 15, 2024


Selection processes:

● Approximately a total of 30 short films selected for the Official SOC Section.
● Between 10 and 15 short films with at least one nomination for the Astarte awards.


Dates of communication selected and nominated:

● SOC Short Films: November 2024 - Through a MEDIA RELEASE and the festival's social networks @festivalcineibiza
● Nominees Announcement: February 2025 (date to be confirmed)


Projections:

● 6 screenings of the official SOC section divided by theme: from January 2025 to March 2025 with subsequent colloquium with professionals of the theme of each screening. *These screenings will be "Semifinals for the Audience Award". The most voted in each semi-final will go on to the audience final, which will take place during the closing week of the festival.

● The closing week of the 8th edition of the Ibiza Film Festival, Ibicine will be in April 2025, provisionally from April 6 to 12, 2025.

● The selected feature films will be screened during the week of the festival with a subsequent discussion and questions from the media and attendees.


Closing Gala and awards Ceremony:

● The Astarté 2025 awards gala will take place on April 12, 2025, as the closing of the edition.

A total of 22 Astarte awards will be awarded

● Short films: (max 4 nominees per category)

1) Astarté Award for Best Fiction Short Film - Goya Qualifier in Fiction and Animation

2) Astarté Award for Best Documentary Short Film - Goya Qualifier

3) Astarté Award for Best Animated Short Film

4) Astarté Award for Best Foreign Short Film

5) Astarté Award for Best Short Film of the Audience (national and international)

6) Astarte Award for Best Director

7) Astarte Award for Best Screenplay

8) Astarte Award for Best Cinematography

9) Astarte Award for Best Art Direction

10) Astarte Award for Best Editing

11) Astarte Award for Best Sound Design

12) Astarte Award for Best Original Score

13) Astarte Award for Best Actor

14) Astarte Award for Best Actress

● Feature films:

1) Astarté Isasi-Isasmendi Award for Best Film

2) Astarte Award for Best Feature Film by the Audience

3) Astarte Award for Best Director

4) Astarte Award for Best Screenplay

5) Astarte Award for Best Cinematography

6) Astarte Award for Best Leading Actor

7) Astarte Award for Best Leading Actress

● Honorary awards: (decided by the Association's board of directors)

1) National
2) International
3) Balearic Islands


awards:

● An Astarte statuette or prize will be awarded per category, not per awardee. If the winners want copies of the prize because there are more than one, they must request a quote from the organization.

● €200*- to each short film that receives at least one nomination for the Astarté 2025 awards. *The taxes will be those applied to each production company that issues the invoice.

The main prizes will be sponsored by DAMA, Audiovisual Media Copyright Management Entity:
● 1000€ - Best Fiction Short Film
● 1000€ - Best Documentary Short Film

*In the event that the economic prizes are ex aequo, the amount will be divided.
*The festival will issue a certificate for the payment of each economic prize that the winner must fill in with their personal and bank details and send it duly signed.
*The amount is subject to a 19% withholding of Personal Income Tax. The obligation to withhold for prizes is regulated independently in article 128 et seq. of the Tax Law. The non-practice of withholding by Ibicine may be subject to a sanction by the Tax Administration (ranging between 50% and 150% of the amount not withheld), as it is an autonomous obligation and independent of the obligation of the recipient to pay it.
*If, one month after the award certificate is delivered, the winner has not submitted it duly filled in to be able to make the transfer, the prize will be considered rejected and may be offered to the next short film with the most votes by the jury.

Special Mentions:

● If there are special mentions, they will be communicated when agreed by the organization and the jury.

● A diploma will be awarded to each Special Mention, if any.