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Festival start: 19 November 2024      Festival end: 24 November 2024

RIZOMA is a unique international festival that combines film, art, music, conferences and community engagement to build each edition around a central concept.

Like the rhizome itself, RIZOMA is interconnected, interdependent and non-hierarchical. RIZOMA values that the different branches of culture feed and inspire each other. We believe in the horizontality of a rhizome so it is important to bring together emerging and established artists so that some feed off each other and of course the public as a part of the festival.

Known for having brought to Madrid for the first time creators of the stature of David Lynch, John Waters and Debbie Harry. RIZOMA also stands out for its efforts to bring to light the work of new Spanish artists. To this end, it has created the RIZOMA CINEMA Award, for the distribution of the winning film.

May 20th, 2024

RIZOMA FESTIVAL - XII Edition

RIZOMA Transatlantic Turnstiles, SL. management company and promoter of the RIZOMA Festival in Madrid, announces the rules of participation in the XII edition of the festival to be held from 19 to 24 November 2024.

OBJECTIVES

1.1 RIZOMA International Film & Culture Festival Entrelazada has among its objectives to celebrate groundbreaking work on the international scene, to discover and support new voices in Spanish and Spanish-language cinema and to echo contemporary audiovisual trends. RIZOMA also aims to facilitate the visibility and access to distribution or commercialization of independent proposals.

1.2 The festival program is divided into the following sections:

Competitive Sections

Official Section - National
New Voices of Spanish Cinema
Official Section - Ibero-American
Cinema from Iberoamerica
International Contemporary Surrealism
International Cinema

Non-Competitive Sections

Depending on the works submitted to the festival, RIZOMA also programs parallel sections and Special Premieres out of competition.


1.3 The following prizes will be awarded:

Official Section -Best Spanish Film.
-Best Spanish Film
Official Section - Best Ibero-American Film
-Best Film
Contemporary Surrealism Section
-Best Film
Jury's Special Mention
-Award for Sound Innovation

2. REGISTRATION AND DEADLINES

2.1 The call for entries will remain open from May 20, 2024 until August 09, 2024 at 23:59.

2.2 Registration is done online through the Festhome platform.

2.3 Submitted works will be informed of the correct receipt of their registration.

2.4 The selected works will be communicated before October 08, 2024.

3. REQUIREMENTS

3.1 All our sections are open to fiction, documentary, experimental and in DCP or 16mm projection format.

3.2 The minimum length for the competitive sections is 40 minutes.

3.3 The committee reserves the right to include short films or works in virtual reality for non-competitive sections.

3.4 Only works produced on or after January 1, 2023 may be entered. The committee reserves the right to invite films prior to this date, if it deems it appropriate.

3.5 Feature films of any nationality may be submitted. The festival's programming team will decide the appropriate section for the title.

3.6 Films that have been distributed in commercial theaters, commercially edited, broadcast on television or commercialized on VOD platforms in Spain will not be admitted in the competitive sections.

3.7 In order to compete, the film must have its premiere in Madrid and it will be positively valued if it is also an international or national premiere. The committee reserves the right to select a film previously screened in Madrid if it is considered that its circulation has been limited.

3.8 Specific requirements per section:

Official Section - National. Open to feature films of Spanish nationality, with Spanish direction and/or minority co-productions with other countries. This section is dedicated to the support of emerging talent in their first, second or third feature film. The committee reserves the right to select directors with more than three signed feature films if it deems it necessary.

Official Section - Iberoamerican. Open to feature films from an Ibero-American country, with Ibero-American direction and/or minority co-productions with Spain. This section is dedicated to the support of emerging talent, in their first, second or third feature film. The committee reserves the right to select directors with more than three signed feature films if it deems it necessary.


Contemporary Surrealism Section. Open to feature films from any country and in any language. Films will be considered for this section if they contain a surrealist element either by their style or by their subject matter, understanding the definition of surrealism in a broad sense.


3.9 Films in languages other than Spanish must be submitted with a Spanish subtitled version and an English subtitled version in order to be evaluated by the international jury.

3.10 Each author, producer or distributor may submit as many films as he/she wishes to the festival, and must make an individual entry for each film.

3.11 Any film submitted may be considered for any section of the festival, opening or closing, as well as in parallel sections. The festival management reserves the right to establish the final number of films to be screened depending on the available sessions, always between 1-3 screenings.

3.12 In order to participate in the festival it is essential to be the holder of the international exhibition rights of the participating film.

3.13 The festival will not accept films that violate the sexual, religious, ethnic, emotional or human dignity of other people.