FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DISRUPTORES CULTURALES EN LA GRAN PANTALLA (1)

Festival start: 31 December 2027      Festival end: 31 December 2027

Festival Description

CULTURAL DISRUPTORS – Film Festival is an international platform dedicated to works that explore the boundaries of conventional narrative and challenge established consensus. We distance ourselves from closed schools of thought and from culture used as a tool for ideological dissemination.

We understand that traditional analytical frameworks have lost their relevance in explaining the complexity of the present. In an environment saturated with predictable narratives and uniform discourses, this festival was born to offer an alternative grounded in creative autonomy.

Our programming prioritizes cinema that challenges standards:
We reject official discourses, the moralization of art, and the pursuit of audience complacency. We seek films that operate in the space of friction, that contradict their own premises, and that understand culture as a process of constant questioning, not as a finished product.

CULTURAL DISRUPTORS is not a place for the confirmation of certainties, but for the discovery of new perspectives.

We champion ambiguity over dogma, contradiction over simplification, and risk over uniformity.
Here, cinema doesn't seek audience tranquility; it seeks to provoke thought and strengthen critical thinking.

OFFICIAL FEATURE FILM SECTION (Fiction)

International Scope (In English or Spanish)

Best International Film: Grand prize for the most disruptive film.

Best International Production: Recognition of technical efficiency and resource management.

Best International Direction: Recognition of technical and narrative direction.

Best International Cinematography: The most transgressive visual narrative.

Best International Screenplay: International recognition for the most impactful story.

Best International Actress: Award for the most disruptive female role.

Best International Actor: Award for the most disruptive male role.

National (Spain):

Best Spanish Film: Grand prize for the most disruptive film.

Best Spanish Production: Recognition of technical efficiency and best resource management.

Best Spanish Direction: Recognition of the technical and narrative direction.

Best Spanish Cinematography: Most transgressive visual narrative.

Best Spanish Screenplay: Recognition of the most solid and impactful story.

Best Spanish Actress: Award for the most disruptive female performance.

Best Spanish Actor: Award for the male performance in the most disruptive role.


OFFICIAL SHORT FILM SECTION (Fiction)

International (In English or Spanish)

Best International Film: Grand prize for the most disruptive film.

Best International Production: Recognition of technical efficiency and resource management.

Best International Director: Recognition for technical and narrative direction.

Best International Cinematography: The most transgressive visual narrative.

Best International Screenplay: International recognition for the most impactful story.

Best International Actress: Award for the most disruptive female role.

Best International Actor: Award for the most disruptive male role.

National (Spain):

Best Spanish Film: Grand prize for the most disruptive film.

Best Spanish Production: Recognition of technical efficiency and best resource management.

Best Spanish Direction: Recognition of the technical and narrative approach to direction.

Best Spanish Cinematography: Most transgressive visual narrative.

Best Spanish Screenplay: Recognition of the most solid and impactful story.

Best Spanish Actress: Award for the female performance in the most disruptive role.

Best Spanish Actor: Award for the male performance in the most disruptive role.


DOCUMENTARY SECTION (Feature Films)

Best International Documentary: International non-fiction work with the most disruptive critical perspective.

Best National Documentary: International non-fiction work with the most disruptive critical perspective.

Award for ‘Disruptive Realities’: Special mention for documentaries that are impactful due to their revelations of proven realities that challenge single-minded thinking of one tendency or another.

Award for the best educational documentary promoting free thinking, independent critical thinking and reasoned questioning of pre-established discourses.


DOCUMENTARY SECTION (Short films)

Best International Documentary: International non-fiction work with the most disruptive critical perspective.

Best National Documentary: International non-fiction work with the most disruptive critical perspective.

Award for ‘Disruptive Realities’: Special mention for documentaries that have had a significant impact due to their revelations of proven realities that challenge the single-minded thinking of one tendency or another.

Award for the best educational documentary promoting free thinking, independent critical thinking and reasoned questioning of pre-established discourses.





FILM SCHOOL

Best Short Film: Award for the most disruptive short film produced by a film school.

Direction: Award for the most controversial approach to film school work direction.

Editing: Award for the most transgressive audiovisual narrative from a film school.



Special Awards 2026:

• SOVEREIGN THINKING Award: Tribute to a career dedicated to breaking down single-minded thinking and cultivating one's own criteria as a social driving force.

• UNFILTERED HUMANISM Award: To the person or institution that defends an education based on knowledge and excellence, shielded from any ideological bias.

• DOCUMENTED TRUTH Award: Award for rigour in the analysis of history, rewarding the honesty of facts over the narratives imposed by the power or morality of the time.

• DISRUPTOR OF HONOUR Award: To the figure whose career in cinema represents the utmost political, artistic and financial independence outside official circles.

• EDUCATIONAL LEGACY Award: Recognition of excellence in the dissemination of universal values and intellectual training through the seventh art.

Call for films: CULTURAL DISRUPTORS
The CULTURAL DISRUPTORS International Film and Documentary Festival is now accepting submissions for works that place independent thinking at the heart of creation.

We are looking for films that stray from conventional narrative formulas, that question pre-established cultural consensuses and that reject the instrumentalisation of art as a vehicle for moralising messages or closed discourses.

We are not looking for confirmation, we are looking for questioning.
We understand that today's culture often suffers from a predictability that limits critical capacity. This festival was created as an alternative to domesticated narratives, offering a space for works that are not afraid to explore the complexity of reality without simplistic solutions.

We welcome works that:
Challenge hegemonic narratives and standards of uniform thinking.
Avoid complacency and the use of intellectual slogans.
Embrace ambiguity, paradox and analytical rigour.
Challenge structures of authority and their supposed alternatives with equal acuity.
Refuse to offer comforting answers to the viewer.

We are not looking for thesis cinema or complacent cinema. We are looking for cinema that thinks.
We reclaim the big screen as a space for intellectual tension, discovery, and cultural disruption.

Short Description
International film and documentary festival dedicated to cultural disruption. We programme works that challenge conventional thinking and break with established narrative frameworks, prioritising intellectual independence and critical thinking over any predefined agenda.

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Accepted Formats

- Feature Films
- Short Films
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Hybrid / New Forms

No length limit.

Participating Countries
- Films from all countries are welcome

Completion Date
Enter:

Films must be completed on or after January 1, 2024.
languages ​​and subtitles


Films in languages ​​other than Spanish or english must include english subtitles.

Entry Fee

Standard fee (€10)

Both options are legally valid.

Awards

Best Culturally Disruptive Film Award

Gray Zone Award

Interference Award

Counterpoint Award

awards may be symbolic or monetary.

In the case of a monetary award, the winner will be responsible for fulfilling their tax obligations in accordance with Spanish law.


Legal Notice

The person registering the work declares that they possess all the necessary rights for its public exhibition.

In the event of any legal dispute regarding the copyright of the work, the production company or distributor submitting it to the festival assumes full responsibility and releases the festival from any liability, including costs, penalties, or fines, should any lawsuit or claim be successful.

The selected films authorize their screening during the festival dates and in up to two non-commercial promotional screenings related to the event.

The festival may use images, trailers, and excerpts of up to 180 seconds for promotional and press purposes.

Submission implies full acceptance of the festival rules.