Cortometrajes por la Igualdad (16)

Festival start: 12 November 2025      Festival end: 14 November 2025

The main requirement is that the short film must deal with any of the social issues related to gender equality:

coeducation, rights, gender violence, sexual violence; historical roles, women's participation in social life; work-life balance; equality policies; wage discrimination; glass ceiling; sticky floor; discrimination based on sex, gender or sexual orientation; invisibility; co-responsibility; sorority, etc.


For the rest of the conditions, please consult the terms and conditions.

Cash Prizes: 500€

Prizes

The three short films selected as winners will be awarded with 500€ each (taxes included).

The jury may award honorable mentions to those works considered of special quality and include them in the broadcasting platforms, with the approval of the authors. These mentions do not entail any economic consideration, although they will be disseminated, provided that they have the due permission of the persons owning the rights of dissemination.

1. Background
The Short Films for Equality festival has been, for 20 years, an audiovisual tool of great help on the road to gender equality. It has been used to sensitize and raise awareness in educational centers, city councils, associations and all kinds of organizations that had among its purposes to discuss important issues such as gender violence, gender inequality, labor and social rights of women, sisterhood, sexual and affective freedom, among others.

2. Participants
All those who wish to participate and whose works deal with any of the social themes related to gender equality can participate: coeducation, rights, gender violence, sexual violence; historical roles, women's participation in social life; reconciliation with working life; equality policies; wage discrimination; glass ceiling; sticky floor; discrimination based on sex, gender or sexual orientation; invisibility; co-responsibility; sorority, etc.
More than one work may be submitted per person, production or distribution company. The work submitted may have been presented at other festivals.

3. Genre
The creative genre will be free choice and all film techniques will be accepted: animation, fiction and/or documentary.

4. duration
The duration of the short film may not exceed 20 minutes (including credits).

5. Registration
Registration will be done online through the Festhome platform.

6. Language
So that the short films can be seen by as many people as possible, regardless of the language of the work, we establish as a requirement to receive a subtitle file in Spanish or Valencian.

7. Delivery
The delivery period will begin on AUGUST 1, 2025 and will end on SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 at 23:59h.

In addition to the short film in digital format, the following must be uploaded to the server:
Poster of the short film and/or frames of the short film in high resolution;
Trailer (if any);
A photograph of the director;
Completed technical file, artistic file and synopsis;
history of the production company, contact information and any other relevant information about the short film.

8. Jury
The Jury will be made up of:
- representative of the organization of the contest
- representative of the Institut Valencià de Cultura (Filmoteca) / representative of the Associació d'Escriptors de l'Audiovisual Valencià (EDAV).
- representative of the Unitat d'Igualtat de la Universitat de València.
People trained and experienced in the fields of audiovisual communication or cinematography and gender equality. Their profiles will be published in our social networks.

The jury's criterion will be to maintain the necessary balance between the contents related to the theme of the festival and the cinematographic quality of the work. The narratives that best express the current problems to achieve effective and real equality between men and women will be highly valued.

9. prizes
The three short films selected as winners will be awarded with 500€ each (taxes included).
The jury may award honorable mentions to those works considered of special quality and include them in the broadcasting platforms, with the approval of the authors. These mentions do not entail any economic consideration, although they will be disseminated, provided that they have the due permission of the persons owning the rights of dissemination.

10. Quality guarantee
The selected short films will provide l'Associació per la Coeducació with all the video and audio files, including the necessary subtitles, in order to guarantee the highest quality and accessibility both in the public screening and in the jury's viewing.

11. Communication and presentation of the short films
The communication to the authors of the selected short films will be made personally and publicly by email and/or through the platforms once the Jury's decision is known. The screening date of the short films will be announced after the announcement of the winners. In principle, it will be in mid-November. The final date will be announced approximately one month in advance.

12. Rights of the work presented
The authors, producers or distributors participating with their short films declare, if applicable, to have obtained the express authorization of the third parties whose image and all the necessary resources have been used in the works presented for their publication, in accordance with the laws in force. In the event that any third party claims image rights, authorship rights, or the infringement of any other intellectual or industrial property right or any other right of a third party, the Associació per la Coeducació will be exonerated from any responsibility.

13. Transfer of rights
The participating authors, producers or distributors transfer the rights of their selected short films to the Associació per la Coeducació for their exhibition and diffusion in its viewing platform -which works with previous registration- as well as in any other activity of the association. All this without prejudice to the authorship rights derived from the exploitation of the work.
The selection of the short film implies the cession of exhibition and diffusion rights by the authors and producers also to be part of the contest archive and its didactic and pedagogical use derived from the activity of the Associació per la Coeducació in the educational and social action field. This assignment is made for a period of 10 years and for all countries belonging to the European Union.

14. Participation in this contest implies full acceptance of all its rules.


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