Filmserè - Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges de La Florida (8)

Festival start: 02 June 2026      Festival end: 10 June 2026

At the beginning of June 2026, the neighborhood of La Florida will host the 8th edition of FILMSERÈ – International Short Film Festival of La Florida. This project is conceived by the students of the Cinema course at the Institut Eduard Fontserè, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with the guidance of teachers and professionals connected to the world of cinema and with the collaboration of local residents, social entities and associations, among others.

This is an event organized by people from the neighborhood for people from the neighborhood, where the rest of the community from L'Hospitalet, Barcelona and beyond are also invited! It is an international festival, featuring short films received from all over the world, supported by the Integral Plan Les Planes-Blocs Florida of the City Council of L'Hospitalet.

Short films of all kinds are selected, with one single criterion: that they be of the highest quality and with great entertainment value. Fiction, documentaries, animation, music videos, etc. are all accepted. Several awards are granted, some of them with cash prizes.

In addition to a student jury, made up of 4th-year secondary students who organize the festival, we have an official jury, made up of professionals from the world of cinema and the arts; a Catalan jury, made up of Catalan Language and Literature teachers; and a social jury, made up of social agents from the neighborhood.

The festival features open-air screenings as well as indoor screenings in venues across La Florida, such as the Institut Eduard Fontserè, the Tecla Sala Library, the Ana Díaz Rico Municipal Center, Primavera Avenue, and L'Hospitalet Television. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Cash Prizes: 1,200€

The festival will feature the following awards:

Monetary Awards:

Award for Best Short Film as judged by the official jury: €400.

Award for Best Social Theme Short Film as judged by the social jury + official jury: €200.

Award for Best Catalan Short Film as judged by the Catalan jury + official jury: €200.

Award for Best Animation Short Film as judged by the official jury: €200.

Award for Best Horror Short Film as judged by the official jury jury: €200.

Other Awards (non-monetary): Award for Best Cinematography and Editing, Award for Best Sound/Score, Award for Best Performance, and Award for Best Screenplay and creativity, all awarded by the official jury.

The economic awards will be delivered during December 2025.

1. The festival is open to directors from all over the world. Any short film with a maximum duration of 20 minutes and completed after January 1, 2023, may participate.

2. Registration for the festival must be done through the platform www.festhome.com by November 16, 2025.

3. Short films selected as finalists will receive an official notification from the festival via email and must be submitted in the screening format (digital H264 1920x1080) through a private download link (Vimeo, Wetransfer or similar), along with the rest of the requested documents (dialogues, images, technical sheets, etc.) before March 30, 2026. Failure to receive the necessary material before this date will result in disqualification.

4. Short films whose original language is neither Catalan nor Spanish must include subtitles in Catalan or Spanish.

5. Short films of any type or genre (fiction, documentary, animation, experimental, etc.) are accepted.

6. The festival will have the following juries: a student jury made up of 4th-year secondary students taking the Filmserè elective; a professional jury made up of members from the world of cinema and the arts; a social jury composed of social and cultural associations and institutions from the La Florida neighborhood; and a Catalan jury made up of Catalan language and Literature teachers.

7. The festival will feature the following awards:

Cash prizes:

Best Short Film (Professional Jury + Student Jury): €400.

Best Short Film in Catalan (Catalan Jury + Professional Jury): €200.

Best Social-Themed Short Film (Social Jury + Professional Jury): €200.

Best Animated Short Film (Professional Jury): €200.

Best Horror Short Film (Professional Jury): €200.

Other awards (non-monetary):

Award for Best Cinematography and Editing, Best Sound/Soundtrack, Best Performance, and Best Screenplay & Creativity, granted by the Professional Jury.

8. The festival may edit and use printed material of the works exhibited. Likewise, it may use a fragment of the work for the promotion of the festival in the media, on its website, and on its social networks.

9. During the celebration of the festival, the organization reserves the right to screen the selected films in any public sessions it deems appropriate. In this sense, producers shall grant the rights for the public exhibition of their films during the festival period at no cost to the festival. The festival also reserves the right to screen some of the selected short films in itinerant sessions of Filmserè – International Short Film Festival of La Florida – after the festival, which will be duly communicated in advance to the filmmakers concerned.

10. The directors of the short films must grant the rights for their works to be screened on the local television of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Televisió de L'Hospitalet) on one weekend within the festival dates. By accepting these rules, these rights are granted.

11. The organization reserves the right to partially or totally modify these rules due to force majeure. Any conflict will be resolved by the festival organization.

12. All finalist short films, selected by the student jury, will be screened only once in different venues. This distribution will be decided by the organization, according to screening time and thematic criteria.

13. The winner of each category (from among all the finalists selected by the student jury) will be decided by the professional jury, the social jury, the Catalan jury, and the student jury; each will award up to 10 points per short film. Once the scores are added, in case of a tie, the winning short film will be the one with the most 10-point scores. If the tie persists, the film with the most nines, eights, etc., will be declared the winner.

14. Only the short films that win one of the categories will receive the official laurel of recognition, not the finalists.

15. Participation in the festival implies full acceptance of these rules.