FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CORTOMETRAJES VILLA DE AYERBE `PREMIOS CAJAL´ (18)

Festival start: 08 July 2025      Festival end: 12 July 2025

The Ayerbe Film Festival Association launches this second stage of the "Villa de Ayerbe International Short Film Festival".

Since the 18th edition, with new members in the organization, we want to give a great boost to the festival. In addition to the international competition, we have created a new section dedicated to Science and Research to give greater visibility to the event and from this edition onwards, the awards are now called "CAJAL Awards".

We want to continue with the idea of ​​collaboration with neighboring towns.

This collaboration is carried out in this way: All the selected short films may be screened locally collaborator simultaneously with the development of the Festival and their votes will serve to award the public prize.

JURY PRIZE

SPECIAL PUBLIC PRIZE

SPECIAL PRIZE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

XVIII VILLA DE AYERBE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL “CAJAL awards”

THE AYERBE FILM FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION calls for the 18th Villa de Ayerbe International Short Film Festival for the year 2025 and establishes that the new bases with which to govern said festival are the following:

RULES OF THE XVIII EDITION OF THE VILLA DE AYERBE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2025

The festival is organized by the Ayerbe Film Festival Association, it is an international festival.

Fiction, Animation and Documentary short films are accepted.

The topic is free, although a special section dedicated to science is established

The Villa de Ayerbe International Festival will be held from July 8 to 12, 2025

The selected productions will be publicly screened on July 8, 9 and 10 in the towns of Ayerbe, Agüero, Ardisa, Biscarrues, Loarre, Loscorrales, Lupiñen, Murillo de Gállego, Nueno, Las Peñas de Riglos, La Sotonera and Santa Eulalia de Gállego, understanding that their authors and producers authorize their screening.

In all these municipalities, a vote will be held that will serve to award the public prize.

The closing ceremony and the awards ceremony of the Festival will take place on July 12 at the SENPA in Villa de Ayerbe

Any natural person or legal entity can participate, individually or collectively, without age limit. The works can be presented in format: digital HD 1920 x 1080,in codec MP4 (H264) stereo sound.

Productions must have been made after January 1 of 2022.

They can be made in any language, but necessarily subtitled in Spanish.

The duration of the productions in any of the modalities must not exceed 20 'including credits.

Registrations will be made through these platforms used by the Festival

festivals.festhome.com


The period for registration and reception of productions begins on February15, 2025 and ends on May 11, 20245.

Works that use non-original material in more than 10% of the entire work will not be admitted.

Authors must ensure that the content of their work does not infringe the intellectual property rights, image rights and other rights of third parties, exonerating the organizing committee from any legal responsibility.

The festival may use the images of the short films as promotion of the Festival regardless of the year of presentation.

The Festival organizing committee will appoint a jury made up of five people linked to the cinematographic world.

The prizes will be the following:

▪ CAJAL PRIZE for the best production
▪ Special CAJAL AWARD from the public.
▪ Special CAJAL PRIZE on science and research.

The festival will value the presence of the winners on the day of the gala, although it does NOT commit to travel expenses, it WILL provide dinner, accommodation and breakfast for two people, in the event that the winners or their representatives decide to attend the gala. same.

The jury will have the power to leave void the prize or prizes it deems appropriate, as well as award a special trophy to highlight technical and/or artistic aspects of any of the works in competition. Their decisions will be final.

The production companies accept that, if they obtain any of the prizes, they will include a reference to the award of the prize at the beginning of each and every one of the copies of the film that they distribute for exhibition in theaters and/or audiovisual competitions. . This reference will consist of the image of Palmares provided by the organizing committee.

Any issue that arises at the Festival, not contemplated in these RULES, will be decided by the organizing committee and the jury.

Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these RULES.