Apatzingán Festival Internacional de Cine (5)

Festival start: 20 February 2025      Festival end: 23 February 2025

The Apatzingán International Film Festival invites Mexican and foreign filmmakers to register their cinematographic work for its fourth edition that will take place from February 20 to 23, 2025 in the city of Apatzingán in Michoacán, Mexico; in its different categories of official competition:

fiction feature film
Any national or foreign fiction production with a free theme, whose final production is from october 2023 to 2025, with a duration of more than 90 minutes, may be registered. These productions may be taken into account even if they have been premiered, participated in other festivals or similar, except that they have applied or selected in the third edition of AFIC.

fiction short film
Any national or foreign fiction production with a free theme, whose final production is from october 2023 to 2025, with a duration of one to 31 minutes, may be registered. These productions may be taken into account, even if they have been premiered or participated in other festivals or similar, except that they have applied or selected in the third edition of AFIC.

documentary feature
Any national or foreign documentary production with a free theme, whose final production is from october 2023 to 2025 with a duration greater than ninety minutes, may be registered. Said productions may be taken into account even if they have been premiered or participated in other festivals or similar, except that they have applied or selected in the third edition of AFIC.

documentary short film
Any national or foreign documentary production with a free theme may be registered, whose final finished production is from october 2023 to 2025, with a duration of one to 31 minutes. Said productions may be taken into account even if they have been premiered or participated in other festivals or similar, except that they have applied or selected in the third edition of AFIC.

children's short film
Any national or foreign production of free-themed fiction whose audience is aimed at children, where the final production is from october 2023 to 2025, with a duration of one to forty minutes, may be registered. These productions may be taken into account, even if they have been premiered or participated in other festivals or similar, except that they have applied or selected in the third edition of AFIC.

The winners of the official competition will be awarded with the AFIC Sculpture, and diploma.

The Jury may award special mentions.

This call is open from its publication until September 15, 2024.

The productions must be of final cut corresponding from october 2023 to 2025.

All productions may participate except organizers, sponsors, collaborators, volunteers, public officials as well as their direct relatives.

The selected productions may participate in parallel and extension activities, as the Organizing Committee deems appropriate.

The registration process will be through the Festhome platform where the technical and formal characteristics are detailed for the correct registration to the competition.

The productions will be selected by an expert jury in cinematography whose decision will be final, with the power to declare one or several categories as void.

The selected productions will be published on December 15, 2024 in the different official electronic media of the festival.

Full registration assumes acceptance of the terms and guidelines of this call by the participants.

Any situation not provided for in this call will be analyzed and resolved by the Organizing Committee.