La mida no importa (14)

Festival start: 29 January 2026      Festival end: 31 January 2026

The main purpose of La mida no importa-Size Doesn’t Matter is to promote short film production and culture.

Sometimes we are warned that if “size doesn't matter” we would have to select and show audiovisual works with no length limit, and perhaps they are not wrong. However, we like to think that things do not have to be too big to be important, beautiful, necessary or decisive, and this is the philosophy that we have been applying since almost the first edition of this Festival.

We vindicate the works of short duration because we believe that it is possible to discover the ingenuity concentrated in a short space of time. This objective is the reason that moves us and drives us to continue searching and rummaging through the proposals that reach us to make a selection of quite different themes, typology and genre to show the range of expressive possibilities of the short story.

Further information: www.lamidanoimporta.cat

Cash Prizes: 1,500€

Two awards free of subject:

● First prize: 1000 eur
● Second prize: 500 eur
● Youth Prize: 400 eur (in kind)

RULES FOR PARTICIPANTS TO THE 14th SHORT FILM COMPETITION
LA MIDA NO IMPORTA-SIZE DOESN’T MATTER
From January 29th to January 31th, 2026

1 - PURPOSE
The main purpose of La mida no importa-Size Doesn’t Matter is to promote short film production and culture.

2 - ORGANIZATION
La mida no importa- Size Doesn’t Matter is a Short Film Competition organized by SLOWCUrT with the support of Fundació Tot Raval, and the collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) as well as some other associations and collective organizations from Raval Neighborhood (such as Ateneu del Raval) in Barcelona.

3 - GENERAL CONDITIONS
All those shorts of fiction, animation, experimental or documentaries, accepted by the Selection Committee, may be included. The subject matter is free of choice. However, films containing commercial or tourism contents or those whose content violates human dignity and/or promotes hatred, contempt or discrimination on grounds of birth, race, sex, religion, nationality, opinion or any other personal or social circumstance will be deemed ineligible and thus refused.

Entry requirements:
● Films must have been produced after January 1st, 20224.
● There is a registration fee for each short film, which is independent of the registration platform service: until September 14, 2025, the fee will be €2. Starting from that date, it will increase to €3.
● For public screening purposes, those films the original version of which are not in Catalan or Spanish language must be subtitled in one of these two languages; and films in original version in Catalan or Spanish must be subtitle in English.
● Music, images and other artistic resources included in the film should be free of copyright.
● Films may not exceed 10 minutes in duration.
[The Selection Committee has the right to exceptionally choose a film even in cases when it does not accomplish all general conditions mentioned above]

4 - ENTRIES
Registration will be done online through the Festhome platform by completing gits mandatory sections. The participant will be responsible for any charges related to this platform as well as the Festival registration fee.
Periode for inscription is from June 9th up until October 12th, 2025.
5 - SUBMISSION OF THE COPIES (FILES)
Works, which do not offer necessary technical quality for a good public screening, may be rejected.
Projection Format:
Full HD
H264 encodings in .mov or .mp4 content, at 1080i/p resolution at 30 Mbps CBR.

The copies (or files) selected with the embedded subtitles required for the screening will be sent via the Internet through any online platform (such us WeTransfer, Smash, Dropbox, etc.) one month before the screening takes place. In the event of any inconvenience by this means, please contact the organization: lamidanoimporta@gmail.com

6 - PUBLICATION AND BROADCASTING AUTHORIZATIONS
Participation in La Mida no matter-Size does not matter implies permission to broadcast excerpts from the film on Spanish television and Internet channels.
Once the Festival is over, some selected films might be included in special non-profit educational and cultural programs. The organization guarantees, though, the appropriate communication to the authors and their authorization to do so.

7 - JURIES AND AWARDS
Professional Jury
Among the selected films in competition, a Jury composed of three professionals will decide the awarding of the first and second prizes (as well as the Mention, if applicable).
Young jury
A jury made up of at least 3 young people from the Raval neighborhood will award the third prize or youth prize.
The prizes may not be ex-aequo or declare unawarded.

Three awards free of subject:
● First prize: 1000€
● Second prize: 500€
● Third prize | Youth Prize: rental of audiovisual material worth €400 (VAT included); sponsored by 16nou with effectiveness of one year from the end date of the festival.

Awards are conferred to film directors, except in the case of works produced by film academies, schools, or other audiovisual teaching institutions.
Participation in La mida no importa-Size doesn’t matter implies acceptance of all the aforementioned rules and regulations. The organizers of the festival shall resolve any situation not covered by these guidelines and their decision will be final.

[These regulations are published in Catalan, Spanish, and English. The Catalan text will be considered the reference text whenever any interpretation doubt may arise]