Humano, Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos, Madrid. (10)

Festival start: 08 November 2026      Festival end: 14 November 2026

Human, Madrid Human Rights Film Festival, based in Madrid, Spain’s capital, which will celebrate its 10th annual edition, with a programme focused on human rights and freedoms.

The programme features fiction, animation, and documentary across shorts, medium-length, and features, combining emerging and established voices from diverse regions. Works are selected for their artistic quality, rigour, and thematic relevance, favouring perspectives that broaden public debate and encourage critical thinking.

The Festival is a cultural, educational, and participatory event that serves as a space for reflection and dialogue on human rights and freedoms. Alongside screenings, it offers post-screening Q&As, conversations with experts, and audience engagement activities for diverse publics — including young people and the education community. It is organized by Derechos en Acción, an independent civil-society, non-profit organization with special consultative status with ECOSOC (United Nations), committed to the promotion and defense of these principles through culture and cinema.

- Best Feature Film

- Best Medium-Length Film

- Best Fiction Short Film

- Best Documentary Short Film

- Best Photography film

- Best Script film

- Best Environmental film

- Best Student film

1.Subject matter — Human Rights and Freedoms.
Films must address human rights and freedoms, in a broad and open way.

2.Delivery for selected films. If your film is selected, you may be required to send a high-definition digital file to the Subtitles Department.

3.Non-commercial international screenings. The Festival may organize international screenings of films in the Official Selection in Spain and in countries of the Global South before the start of the next edition, with the aim of promoting Human Rights themes.

4.Program changes. The Festival reserves the right to modify the final program.

5.Acceptance. Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of these rules.