Filmserè - Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges de La Florida (7)

Festival start: 23 May 2025      Festival end: 01 June 2025

At the end of May 2025, the Florida neighbourhood will host the 7th edition of the FILMSERÈ – International Short Film Festival of La Florida.

This project is conceived by students from the Cinema course at the Eduard Fontserè Institute in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with guidance from teachers and professionals linked to the film industry, alongside collaboration from local residents, social entities, and associations, among others.

This is an event organised by local people for local people, with everyone from L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, and beyond invited to attend! It is an international festival featuring short films submitted from around the world, supported by the Les Planes-Blocs Florida Integrated Plan from the L'Hospitalet City Council.

Short films of all kinds are selected, with a single criterion: they must be of the highest quality and highly entertaining. Fiction shorts, documentaries, animations, music videos, etc., are all welcome.
Various awards are presented, some of which are monetary.

In addition to a student jury made up of 4th secondary school year (Y11) students organising the festival, we also have an official jury comprising individuals connected to film and the arts, local residents, young people, seniors, and social associations from the neighbourhood.

The festival features outdoor screenings as well as events in indoor spaces across the La Florida area. Attendance in 2021 was 400 spectators over 5 sessions, 2022 saw over 500 attendees across 5 sessions, and in 2023 nearly 1,000 spectators attended across 5 sessions, with more than 1,000 expected in 2024!

This year, we hope to break the record again. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Cash Prizes: 1,000€

The festival will feature the following awards:

Monetary Awards:

Award for Best Short Film as judged by the official jury: €400.

Award for Best Social Theme Short Film as judged by the social jury + official jury: €200.

Award for Best Catalan Short Film as judged by the Catalan jury + official jury: €200.

Award for Best Animation Short Film as judged by the official jury: €200.

Other Awards (non-monetary): Award for Best Cinematography, Award for Best Sound/Score, Award for Best Editing, Award for Best Performance, and Award for Best Screenplay, all awarded by the official jury.

1. The festival is open to filmmakers from around the world. Any short film with a maximum duration of 20 minutes, completed after 1 January 2022, can participate.

2. Registration for the festival will be conducted via the platform www.festhome.com until 30 November 2024.

3. Selected short films will receive an official notification from the festival via email and must be submitted in the exhibition format (digital H264 1920x1080) via a private download link (Vimeo, WeTransfer, or similar), along with any other requested documents (dialogues, images, technical sheets, etc.) by 30 April 2025.

4.Short films whose original language is not Catalan or Spanish must have subtitles in either Catalan or Spanish.

5. Short films of all kinds or genres (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, etc.) are accepted.

6. The festival will feature the following juries: an official jury composed of members from the film and arts community; a social jury made up of associations and cultural institutions from the Florida neighbourhood; and a student jury consisting of secondary school students.

7. The festival will offer the following awards:

Monetary Awards:

Award for Best Short Film as judged by the official jury: €400.

Award for Best Animation Short Film as judged by the official jury: €200.

Award for Best Social Theme Short Film as judged by the social jury: €200.

Award for Best Catalan Short Film as judged by the official jury: €200.

Other Awards (non-monetary): Award for Best Cinematography, Award for Best Sound and Score, Award for Best Editing, Award for Best Performance, and Award for Best Screenplay, all awarded by the official jury.

8. The festival may edit and use printed materials from the works exhibited. Additionally, you may use a segment of the work for dissemination in media, on its website, or on social networks.

9. During the festival, the organisation reserves the right to screen the selected films at all public sessions it deems appropriate. In this regard, the producers will grant rights for the public exhibition of their films during the festival without any cost. The festival also reserves the right to screen some of the selected short films at travelling sessions of the Filmserè – International Short Film Festival of La Florida after the festival, which will be communicated in advance to the responsible parties of the affected short films.

10. The directors of the short films must grant rights for their works to be exhibited on local television (Televisió de l'Hospitalet). By accepting these terms, these rights are granted.

11. The organisation reserves the right to modify these terms partially or entirely at any time. Any disputes will be resolved by the festival organisation.

12. The finalist short films, selected by the student jury, will be screened only once in different spaces. This distribution will be carried out according to the convenience of the organisation, depending on the projection time and theme.

13. The winner of each category (from among all the finalists selected by the student jury) will be judged by a professional jury, who will assign up to 5 stars to each short film. In the event of a tie, the winner will be the piece that has obtained the highest five-star ratings. If the tie remains, whoever has obtained four, three, etc.

14. Only the winning short films in any of the categories will receive the recognition laurel. Not to the finalists.

15. Participation in the festival implies full acceptance of these terms, which are subject to change.