Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Barcelona ()

Festival start: 01 December 2023      Festival end: 10 December 2023

To show films that make us think, awaken our conscience, denounce injustice and reflect the social and cultural diversity of humanity. This is the objective of The Human Rights Film Festival, which will celebrate its 18th annual festival this year.

The Human Rights Film Festival, with headquarters in Barcelona and offices in Paris and New York, is the most important festival on Human Rights in Catalonia, one of Spain’s most important and widely internationally established festival.

Among the Festival in Barcelona, the simultaneous venues at Paris and New York and especially more than 20 screenings in different countries, after the Festival.

Competitive Section:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Medium-Length Film
- Best Fiction Short Film
- Best Documentary Short Film

Non-competitive Section:
- Special Award

Special Awards by the Organization:
- Human Rights Award
- Human Rights Awards:
- Letters Award (Written media)
- Voices Award (Radio)
- Look Award (TV, film)

CONDITIONS OF THE BARCELONA HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
XXº Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Barcelona


RULES

All films must be about Human Rights.

The Festival will cover the travel expenses, meals and lodging only for filmmakers invited by the Festival.

The Festival will subtitulate the selected films professionally in Spanish and offers these subtitles with any charge to the director to be used.

Submission fee of Short films 16€ and Feature films 20€.

If your film is selected in some cases you will have to send the film in digital format with high definition to the subtitles department.

The Festival will do international shows of the official section films in Spain and in countries of the global south in the world, with the aim to spread human rights themes before the beginning of the next edition.

If the Festival don't answer one time you know the reception of the material was done is because your film has not been selected.

The festival reserves the right to change the program or change the schedules.

Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these rules.



AWARDS

Competitive Section:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Medium-Length Film
- Best Fiction Short Film
- Best Documentary Short Film

Non-competitive Section:
- Special Award

Special Awards
- Human Rights Award
- Human Rights Awards:
- Letters Award (Written media)
- Voices Award (Radio)
- Look Award (TV, film)



The Festival will be on the last quarter of the year.
Films of all kinds of geners, durations and years.

XXº Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival
info@fcdhbcn.com