Festival Internacional De Films de Futur Font D’en Fargues ()

Festival start: 29 March 2025      Festival end: 29 March 2025

F5 is an international short film festival organized by FFCINEMA in Barcelona in which filmmakers of any nationality can participate. The projections and the awards ceremony will take place on March 29, 2025 at the Casal de la Font d'en Fargues.

Cash Prizes: 800€

The competition will deliver two prizes, taxes included:

• The Jordi Torra Prize, decided by a jury (€ 500)
• The Audience Award (€ 300)

The Jury of the Jordi Torra Prize will make its decision public during the Closing Ceremony of the Festival. The Audience Award will be awarded to the most voted short film during the screening sessions and will be awarded during the Closing Ceremony.

In the event that the two awards coincide for the same short film, the Audience Award will be given to the second most voted short film.

Conditions for admission to the contest

The Festival Selection Committee will choose the participating short films, which must comply with the following conditions:

• Have been made after 30/11/22.

• Short films submitted to the previous editions of the F5 Festival will not be admitted.

• The duration will not exceed 25 minutes including the opening and closing credits.

• Short films should deal with any subject related to projections for the future: of work, of knowledge, of the environment and sustainability, of mobility, of space exploration, of the effects of climate change, of artificial intelligence, of the gender perspective, of social relations, etc.
• All film genres are admitted: fiction, nonfiction and animation.

• Short films that have not been made in Catalan or Spanish must be presented with subtitles in Catalan, Spanish, english or French.

Inscriptions

They will be carried out through the FESTHOME platform and will follow the procedure specified by it.

Participation will be completely free, except for the fees that, if applicable, must be paid to the platform when registering.

Registration will begin on 29/11/2024 and will close on 29/01/2025. The selection of short films will be notified to their authors on 28/02/2025. A projection copy in HD quality (file type: MP4, codec: H264) of the selected short films must be sent before 14/03/2025 using WeTransfer or Filemail to the organization for the screening in the official section, as well as the supplementary material requested at the time of notification.

Rights and duties

The Festival organization reserves the right to resolve any eventuality not specified in the rules.

Submitting to the contest implies full acceptance of these rules.