FINCI - Festival Internacional De Nuevo Cine Independiente (3)

Feature films completed between 2025 and 2026 with a minimum running time of 60 minutes will be considered. Special attention will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut features. The main objective of the feature film category is to explore the issues that need to be addressed today. What do you need to say, and how do you connect with your truth? Speaking out is urgent, and it will be interesting to see if, among all the selected projects, there is a common truth that needs to be expressed.

Short films completed between 2025 and 2026 with a maximum duration of 30 minutes will be considered. A maximum of 10 projects will be selected. Special consideration will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their first projects.

In this age of information overload, there are certain things that are important to make visible. We can no longer look the other way, and silence is no longer an option. What do you want to show? What do you need to say?

Feature-length documentaries completed between 2025 and 2026 with a minimum duration of 60 minutes will be considered. Special attention will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut features. The FINCI documentary category will focus on addressing new themes and new ways of capturing and understanding reality. Where is your focus?
Documentary and audience meet. FINCI will pay special attention to filmmakers for whom cinema is linked to a form of research and knowledge of the world around them. It's about seeing how they not only reflect on reality but also how they reflect on themselves. FINCI seeks to broaden our perception of reality.

This category invites filmmakers to challenge stereotypes, offer fresh perspectives, and highlight the work of female directors in Latin America and around the world. All short fiction films up to 30 minutes in length, produced during 2025 and 2026, are eligible to participate. All films in competition must be directed or produced by women, or feature a female protagonist. Special consideration will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their projects for the first time.

The LGBTQ+ category was created to give voice to the issues that need to be discussed and addressed right now. We all have the same rights, and we can all love and be free. All short fiction films up to 20 minutes in length, produced during 2025 and 2026, are eligible to participate. Special consideration will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut feature films.

Animated film is crucial because it transcends boundaries, offering an unlimited artistic medium for telling complex stories, exploring imaginary worlds, and conveying profound emotions to all ages. Its sensitivity allows for the integration of visual effects and the handcrafted communication of sensitive concepts. Through its narrative and emotional versatility, animation can address deep philosophical, psychological, and dramatic themes. Short films and feature films up to 25 minutes in length produced in 2025 and 2026 are welcome. Special attention will be given to emerging filmmakers presenting their debut feature films.

Less is more. How do we connect with our desires? How aware are we of them? What real place do we give them? Today, too much is shown, leaving little room for the imagination. How is it possible to play with subtlety, to not reveal too much, and still generate passion and fantasy? This category doesn't seek the explicit, but quite the opposite.
Short films are considered to be those completed in 2025 and 2026 with a minimum duration of 2 minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes, and feature films with a maximum duration of 120 minutes.

We are learning to see things from a different perspective; today we have the opportunity to experience new things in vertical format. Cinema is evolving, and modern times demand formats that connect with today's attention spans. Intense, urgent, and authentic moments can be seen in a short fragment of time and still have an impact. Formats are changing. This category is for short fiction films up to 6 minutes long, microseries up to 50 episodes of 3 minutes each, and feature films up to 90 minutes long. Works produced between 2025 and 2026 are eligible.