Festival de Cine y Artes Visuales Bugarte (18)

Festival start: 17 October 2026      Festival end: 22 October 2026

Born in 2009 in order to highlight and encourage artistic expression, film and cultural identity of the region. Promoting the permanence of cultures and strengthening the cultural policies of the city as a mechanism for citizen and community participation; thus supporting the development, exhibition and dissemination of film and the visual arts in the city of Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca; proposing dialogue between the various expressions of art today and their participation mechanisms mainly in the youth population. This festival seeks to create spaces for discussion, artistic and audiovisual creation in a participatory manner.

The festival became the first event of its kind in this area, for display, training, capacity building and collective on the subject of film and visual arts in Guadalajara de Buga and Valle del Cauca.

Cash Prizes: 100$

-Best-national film
-Best International Film,
-Best Animation
-Best Clip,
-Best Videoart
-Best film from Valle del Cauca
-Best visual artist festival.

The Bugarte Foundation is pleased to invite you to attend the 18th BUGARTE FESTIVAL OF FILM AND VISUAL ARTS to be held in the city of Buga, Valle, Colombia. Our call will be open until: August 31, 2026. All explanations/instructions and the summit form can be consulted at www.festivalbugarte.org.

The Festival covers different areas of the city with various thematic and aesthetic languages proposed as a starting point for the artist and audiovisual producer, which we call: Curatorial Axes, within which they have to make or submit their work in order to theorize, visible, show, discuss and share knowledge.

The CURATORIAL AXIS are:

1. Cultural Diversity

2. Human Rights

All artists, filmmakers, artistic groups, students, empirical, theoretical and people are reflecting on the topics of the 2026 festival can participate in the 18th BUGARTE FESTIVAL OF FILM AND VISUAL ARTS CALL.