Festival Cine do Mar (3)

Фестиваль начинается: 20 Апрель 2026      Фестиваль заканчивается: 26 Апрель 2026

The III SEA FILM FESTIVAL will be held from 20 to 26 April 2026 in the town of Marín.

The Cultural Association for a Sea Museum for Marín is the organizing entity of this festival. Since its creation, the Marin Sea Museum has had as one of its main objectives the recovery of the seafaring identity of the town of Marín, as well as the conservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage linked to the sea, maritime and seafaring culture, especially among the new generations. On the other hand, the Galician language is an indissoluble part of our culture. Language and the sea are two fundamental elements to understand and disseminate our identity. Therefore, the Sea Film Festival is fully within the objectives of the Marin Sea Museum.

The Cine do Mar Festival promotes the appreciation of the sea as an ecosystem and awareness of the importance of its protection and conservation, as well as the dignity of trades related to the sea and the recognition of people who have dedicated and dedicate their lives to work both at sea and on land directly or indirectly linked to the world of fishing and shellfishing.

The Cine do Mar Festival is an event that promotes creation in the Galician language and contributes to the promotion, dissemination and defense of the Galician language, encouraging the normalization of the use of Galician in cultural activities. Among its main objectives are to promote the use of the Galician language among the population, particularly among children and youth; as well as the promotion of artistic creation in the audiovisual field in the Galician language aimed at children and youth, age ranges where Galician has less use and prestige.

The Cultural Association for a Sea Museum for Marín is calling for the third edition of this festival.

Денежные призы: 1,800€

Four prizes are established in the two competing sections: three prizes in the Official Section and one prize in the Education Section.

• Golden Sardine: Jury Prize for the best Documentary work - Official Section. Awarded with 500 euros, trophy and diploma.

• Golden catshark: Jury Prize for the best Fiction work - Official Section. Awarded with 500 euros, trophy and diploma.

• Golden Octopus: Audience Prize for the best audiovisual work. Awarded with 300 euros, trophy and diploma.

• Golden Turbot: Jury Prize for the best audiovisual work - Education Section. Awarded with 500 euros, trophy and diploma.

If necessary, one of the Jury Prizes and the Audience Prize may be awarded to the same work.

The audience will evaluate each work in the Official Sections after its screening, giving the score awarded. The Audience Award will be awarded based on the votes of those attending the screenings of the works in the Official Sections, using a weighted average.

The awards, which include a financial award, trophy and diploma, will be given to the people/entities that registered the works or, failing that, a representative designated by them.

The prizes awarded financially are subject to current legislation and the corresponding tax withholding must be applied.

The cash prizes awarded by the festival depend economically, directly, on grants from public administrations, so the payment of the amount with which the prize is awarded may be delayed until the public administrations make the payment of these grants. In the event of no response from the person/entity benefiting from the prize within two months from the time the festival organization contacts them to make the payment of the cash prize, it will be considered cancelled.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

Participation in this festival will be completely free of charge, and creators of any nationality may participate.

The works presented must focus on any theme related to the sea, either from a natural or cultural perspective; and must have been produced after January 1, 2023.

Works of any genre, fiction or non-fiction, may be submitted, and may not exceed 35 minutes in length (credit titles included). Works of longer duration may be submitted to participate in the festival outside the Official Competition, in non-competitive sections.

Within the Official Competition of the festival, three categories are established: Official Section-Documentary Category, Official Section-Fiction Category and Education Section.

Students from Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate and Mid-Cycle Vocational Training levels may participate in the Education Section, an activity aimed at young people who are starting out in audiovisual creation in the Galician language. In this category, schools can be represented by a representative of the school, with works made by students.

The language used must be Galician. In the Education Section, works must be made in Galician. In the Official Section-Documentary Category and in the Official Section-Fiction Category, works in which the language used is not Galician must have subtitles in this language included in the digital copy submitted (with the exception of works in Portuguese, which may submit a copy with subtitles in Spanish).

Participants may submit as many works to the competition as they wish.

Works that have any direct link with the organization of the festival or with the Jury may not be part of the Official Competition, but they may participate outside of it.

Works may be shot in any format and with any audiovisual recording device (including smartphones), although a digital copy must be sent in order to be admitted.

Works that do not meet the minimum exhibition conditions will not be admitted, either due to poor image or sound quality, or other problems with their display.

Participants guarantee that the works presented do not violate rights of honor, privacy and image. In no case will those works be accepted that attack the honor of a group or person, include discriminatory material and/or violate the rights or dignity of people. The organization reserves the right to exclude from the call any work that it considers does not meet any of these requirements.

Works may be selected to participate in the festival outside the Official Competition. In this case, the works may not be withdrawn from the program or require the payment of exhibition fees. By registering the work in the festival within the established deadline and accepting these rules, this point is considered accepted.

REGISTRATION

Registration must be done through the Festhome platform.

The submission period for works will be from November 1, 2025 to March 15, 2026, both inclusive, excluding those submitted outside this period.

All material sent for the registration of each work will be considered private and will only be accessible by the festival organization.

SELECTION

The festival organization will be responsible for deciding the selection of works that will be part of the program, as well as the days and times of screening of each of them.

After the selection process is complete, the people responsible for the selected works that will be part of the program of the third edition of the festival will be notified by email.

In the selection phase, works filmed in languages ​​other than Galician, which are not part of the Education Section, may be presented with subtitles, preferably in Galician, but works subtitled in Spanish, Portuguese or english will be accepted for this phase. In the event that the work is selected to be part of the festival program, a screening copy subtitled in Galician must be submitted (with the exception mentioned).

Works selected to be part of the festival program must send a screening copy, in high definition digital format. Copies that do not meet the minimum exhibition conditions will not be accepted.

Participants must submit the following digital documentation, along with the screening copy, before April 15, 2025: promotional poster, a minimum of 3 representative stills or photographs of the work (300 dpi) and the synopsis in Galician. They may also submit, if they wish, any materials they consider appropriate (press kit, trailer, etc.) to promote their work on social networks and in the media.

The festival organization may exclude a work after it has been selected for failure to submit the required materials or documentation.

JURY

The festival organization will choose the people who will make up the Jury, which will be made up of professionals from the film, audiovisual and cultural fields.

The Jury will be made up of a minimum of three people. Decisions will be made by an absolute majority of votes. People who have a direct link to any work participating in the competition may not be part of the Jury.

Its main function will be to determine the Jury Prize for the Official Section-Documentary Category, the Official Section-Fiction Category and the Education Section.

The Jury reserves the right to award an additional special mention (without financial award).

The Jury will be free to award an ex aequo prize. In this case, the amount of the prize will be divided 50%.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES

The person who registers the work in the festival declares to be authorized by the producer and/or author(s) to lend a copy of the film and to accept these rules. Registration is equivalent to acceptance of the conditions of these rules, the interpretation and application of which corresponds to the festival organization.

Participation in this call implies acceptance of the decision of the Jury, which will be final. Likewise, the festival organization will resolve any eventuality not specified in these rules that may arise and its decision will also be final.

The person who registers the work in the festival is responsible for its authorship and originality, guaranteeing that the work submitted does not violate copyright, exploitation rights, intellectual and industrial property rights or any other right of third parties and that it does not violate current legislation. The festival organization declines all legal responsibility for the works submitted, being exempt from all responsibility regarding their content.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS

The III Festival Cine do Mar will take place in Marín on the dates already mentioned, with appropriate prior advertising to announce the programming, times and location of the different sections and activities, which include the screening of the participating works. The organization may advance, postpone, reduce or extend the dates mentioned.

After the screening of the works, the Closing Gala will take place, where the works that won the prizes will be announced. After the awards are presented, the winning works will be screened again.

Participants authorize the festival organization to use the promotional materials of the work sent, for dissemination in any media and on social networks, as well as a fragment of up to three minutes of the selected works. The delivery of these materials implies acceptance of these conditions.

The owners of the works selected to be part of the festival's programming undertake to allow their screening, during the twelve months following the celebration of this edition, in activities that the festival organization may promote, of a social, educational and free nature, always with exclusively cultural and non-commercial purposes. In any case, the owner of the work will be notified if it is included in one of these possible activities.

After the festival, the films selected to participate in the festival will become part of the archive of the Museo do Mar de Mar de Mar, authorizing private consultation for exclusively educational and research purposes.

Acceptance of the selection and the festival awards implies including these awards in the subsequent advertising of the work.

The festival organization reserves the right to alter, modify or suspend the program of the III Festival Cine do Mar

For any questions or information, contact the festival organization via email: cinedomaremarin@gmail.com.