Festival de Cine Estudiantil FENACIES (16)

Festival start: 07 September 2026      Festival end: 13 September 2026

The 16th edition of the Student Film Festival FENACIES Uruguay opened its inscriptions on April 1st, and will remain open until May 30th. As every year, all the students from all over the world (from Primary to University) can register their short films totally free, which will be displayed in Montevideo from September 7th to 13th.

FENACIES is an international student film festival with 16 years of uninterrupted history in Uruguay, dedicated to the training, exhibition and encouragement of young filmmakers.

The main objective of the festival is to strengthen audio-visual education among the youngest, and through the making of short films they can express their ideas, so that they can later be seen reflected on the big screen. It is always about discerning with the criteria of creativity and ideas, and seeking fair and loyal competition according to the ages competing.

During the week of the festival, the short films that are selected will be shown. On Sunday, September 13, the winners will be announced at the closing ceremony.

Awards will be confirmed in July.

Terms

All the students, from Primary to University, and also Amateur, can take part of it. There are categories to compete:

-A) Elementary School
-B) Preparatory
-C) High School
-D) University
-E) Amateur


Participants

- Each partaker could show all the films he/she wants.

- There will be 4 genres: fiction, documentary, music video and cartoon.

- The theme is totally free.

- The short films must be enrolled through the website www.fenacies.org, where students will have time until May 30th and the films can´t exceed 15 minutes.

- Files in 720 or lower quality will not be accepted, but neither will 4k or higher quality files, ONLY IN 1920 X 1080.

- The image format (aspect ratio) must necessarily be 16:9, so short films recorded vertically, in 1:1 or in 4:3 will not be selected.

- In the event that the language of the short film is not Spanish, it must have subtitles (in the same file, not in a separate file). On the other hand, we suggest that if the dialogues are not well heard, subtitles are incorporated. If the file of a short film whose original language is not Spanish and does not include subtitles, it will be automatically disqualified.

- The jury is going to do the short film selection that will be announced in our web site (fenacies.com) and facebook fan page (facebook/fenacies).

- The entry is free and the shipping cost of the films will be borne by the participants. It´s not allowed submitting films that were submitted in other editions. Short films that have extreme violence, nudes or explicit sex in content will not be selected. Every short film presented must be suitable for all audiences.