EDITA Certamen Social Audiovisual (11)

Festival start: 10 November 2025      Festival end: 31 December 2025

EDITA is a short film festival focused on social transformation. Its goal is to increase critical capability, involve society in the promotion of human rights through film making, besides making the public feel the calling of social change.

ASAD aspires to encourage the debate and the critical reflection about these topics through the participants’; works and proposals. We want to know new social imaginaries, look from other perspectives and approximate to non-hegemonic proposals which support human rights, gender equality, and sustainable human development.

The prizes of VI Social Audiovisual Contest EDITA are:

-Jury prize of XI Social Audiovisual Contest EDITA 2025 to the best short film, amount of 400 euros in audiovisual equipment, according to the winner’s choice.

-Public prize of XI Social Audiovisual Contest EDITA 2025 to the best short film, amount of 200 euros in audiovisual equipment, according to the winner’s choice.

This contest is aimed at people and/or collectives who had filmed a documentary, fiction and/or experimental short film which tackle topics in relation with social justice (human rights, gender equality, migration, North–South relations, and/or environmental sustainability) from a positive approach that makes visible the dignity and capacities for social transformation of people who fight against injustice.

In conclusion, we search for works that promote stories or messages in favour of social change for a fairer, more equitable, and sustainable world for everyone


REQUERIMENTS:

The participants could be collectives and authors whose works have been created after the 1 August 2023.

The short films must address social justice through the following themes: human rights, gender equality, migration, North–South relations, and/or environmental sustainability that makes visible the dignity and capacities for social transformation of people who fight against injustice.

The works presented must have a maximum duration of 15 minutes.

subtitles in Spanish must be provided in the case of presenting works that are not in this language.

Having read these rules, the works will join the contest by filling out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp4P_IbdnuU8yPKVSWFn_ut3_aIfm08vu24IL6Eyy0DtKvEg/viewform?usp=header

Works must be sent through a link (with or without password) in high quality. There are no further requirements about film formats or platforms.

If the film has copyrighted music, license or authorization must be shown.

The film must follow the communicational, advertising and use of images guidelines detailed in the 5th point of the Código de Conducta de la Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo.

All creations with violent, sexist, racist or any content that violates fundamental rights will be rejected.


CONTEST CATEGORIES:

.International short film – General Section

DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTEST AND JURY'S DECISION:

The works can be sent from 26 May at 00:00 until July 30 2025 at 24:00 (official deadline).

The Jury will select the finalist works, which will be shown at the XI sample of the EDITA festival. The celebration is scheduled to take place in person in November 2025. The Jury will choose a winner, of each category, from the finalist works.

Public attending the projections will vote for the winner of the Public prize.

The Jury prize will be announced to the winners 10 days before the celebration of the festival. The Public prize will be announced immediately after the festival through an official statement. The Jury’s decision will be published on the festival’s website, www.edita.asad.es, as well as on the ASAD website www.asad.es. It will also be announced on social media.

The prizes will be declared void if in the Jury’s opinion, the works don’t have a minimum quality.


SUBMISSION OF MATERIALS FOR SELECTED SHORT FILMS

Selected short films must submit the following materials no later than September 30, 2025, at 00:00 (GMT+2):

-Director’s and producer’s bio-filmography (max. 10 lines)
-Technical and artistic credits
-Synopsis in Spanish (max. 3 lines)
-High-resolution photo of the director and producer
-Short film poster
-3 high-resolution promotional photos of the short film
-3 stills from the short film

Additionally, if desired, the following optional materials may be submitted:

-Trailer
-Making-of

JURY:

The Jury will be formed by at least four professionals from the audiovisual, cooperation and education for development linked to ASAD. Their decisions will be unappealable.

PARTICIPATION AND FILM RIGHTS:

The participation implies the acceptance of the rules:

The authors or collectives will be responsible if there’s any claim concerning intellectual property rights or image rights raised by people that appear in the videos.

By the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Organic Law 3/2018, participants give their consent for the treatment of their personal data in relation to the process of the contest.

Participation in this call entails the transfer of the exhibition and reproduction rights of the works submitted as well as the consent to incorporate the selected works into the archive of the ONGD ASAD for their use in different non-profit exhibitions and shows within the framework of its cooperation and education for development work.

Your data will not be passed on to third parties, except for legally permitted transfers, and will be kept for the legally established period. At any time you may exercise your rights of access, rectification, limitation, suppression, portability and opposition to the processing of your data by sending a letter to the following address: C/ Alhóndiga, nº6 2-B, 18001 (Granada); or to the e-mail address asad@asad.es