Festival Internacional BioBioCine (11)

Festival start: 26 August 2025      Festival end: 30 August 2025

The BioBioCine International Festival is an intercultural gathering of knowledge and wisdom expressed through cinema. Its goal is to become a space for dialogue and reflection while promoting, supporting, and valuing national and international cinematography from a territorial and identity perspective, within the framework of its annual meeting.

The BioBioCine International Festival invites submissions from all countries and cultures for its eleventh edition. The festival's program includes competitive and non-competitive categories for feature films and short films, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on auteur cinema, emerging filmmakers, experimentation, intercultural dialogue, and first nations.

Cash Prizes: 1,400$

The juries for the different categories will be persons linked to the national and international audiovisual and cultural industry, who will be disqualified from submitting works to the competition.

The juries of each category will issue an unappealable and final decision, awarding the "Tokicura", BioBioCine's highest award, to the winners of the prizes listed below.

Feature Film Competition
- Best Feature Film: "Tokicura" Trophy
- Special Jury Mention

Short Film Competition
- Best Short Film: "Tokicura" Trophy
- Special Jury Mention

1. DATES OF THE FESTIVAL
The festival will take place in person in the city of Concepción, Chile, in August 2025.

2. COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES
Feature Film Competition: Chilean or international films, spoken or subtitled in Spanish, with a minimum duration of 60 minutes.
Short Film Competition: Chilean or international films, spoken or subtitled in Spanish, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes.

3. NON-COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES
Made in Chile: National films from any region of the country, spoken or subtitled in Spanish, with a maximum duration of 120 minutes.
Made in BioBio: Films made in the BioBio region, spoken or subtitled in Spanish, with a maximum duration of 90 minutes.
Made for Children: Chilean and international films, spoken in Spanish, aimed at a young audience and focused on values such as equality, respect, integration, and self-acceptance. Films must have been completed after December 2021, in fiction, documentary, or animation genres.
Cin(E)xperiences: Chilean and international films aimed at exploring dialogues between artistic languages such as dance, visual arts, and performance. Films must have been completed after December 2022, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes.

4. SUBMISSION PROCESS
All films completed after December 2023 are eligible, except for those in the Made for Children and Cin(E)xperiences categories.
All submitted films will undergo a pre-selection process conducted by the festival’s programming team.
Participants must submit their films via the FESTHOME platform.
The submission fee is USD $4.00 for both feature and short films. Chilean films can submit free of charge.
Films not originally in Spanish must include subtitles in Spanish or English during the selection period. If selected, the film must be subtitled in Spanish, with all associated costs covered by the submitter.
Any shipping costs must be borne by the submitter.
Materials received will not be returned.
Submissions close on February 14, 2025, at 11:59 PM (Chilean Continental Time).

5. SELECTION AND PARTICIPATION
Selected films will be chosen by the festival’s programming team.
Filmmakers will be notified of their selection via email and FESTHOME during the second week of June 2025.
By accepting the rules, filmmakers authorize the festival to hold up to three non-commercial screenings outside the main festival under the "Official Showcase of the BioBioCine International Festival 2025" brand. The organization will notify filmmakers of the date, time, and context of these screenings in advance.
The festival reserves the right to use excerpts from selected films for promotional purposes while retaining the authors' copyright.
Exhibition copies of films in languages other than Spanish must include Spanish subtitles.
Promotional materials for selected films (trailers, stills, social media links, director photos, and bios) must be submitted by May 30, 2025.