Festival start: 11 September 2025
Festival end: 14 September 2025
"The fantastic emerges from reality like the moon over a misty swamp."
The idea for the Festival was born from our passion for the Pallars Sobirà, a remote region of the Pyrenees, its stories and legends, and for cinema. Our desire to preserve the most mysterious heritage of this wild land grew into the Tabaca Film Fest – the Mythological Film Festival of the Pyrenees, now celebrating its second edition.
This is a land rich in its own myths and legends, but every corner of the world has its own Yeti, its own mermaid, its own werewolf, its own mountain guardian — in short, its own mythological imagination.
With the Tabaca Film Fest - second edition, we once again bring to light these stories from the Pallars, the Pyrenees and all over the world through the art form we know best: cinema.
We believe this Festival can embody values we care deeply about: quality cinema and the preservation of mythological and historical memory, in an extraordinary natural setting.
Tabaca Film Fest is a Festival that includes short films in the categories of fiction, animation, documentary, and video-dance, featuring an international open call and complementary activities.
The second edition of Tabaca Film Fest will take place in person in Gerri de la Sal from September 11 to 14, 2025.
The Festival will include an opening ceremony, screenings of the finalist films, and a closing gala with an award ceremony. In parallel, there will be a talk on mythology, a guided tour of the area’s most mysterious spots, and a wide variety of cultural activities.
Cash Prizes: 3,000€
AWARDS
This second edition will feature one competitive section, which will include a selection of fiction, animation, documentary and video-dance short films from around the world, no longer than 30 minutes, produced after January 1, 2022, in any digital format and any language.
The short films in this section will be eligible for the following awards:
- Tabaca Award fot Best Short Film, with a prize of €1000 and Festival trophy
- Tabaca Award for Second Best Short Film, with a prize of €500 and Festival trophy
- Biterna Award, with a prize of €600 and Festival trophy, for the best short film inspired by mythological characters or locations of the Pyrenees, or that includes local dialectal or cultural elements
- Gea Award, with a prize of €600 and Festival trophy, for the best international short film
- Audience Tabaca Award, open to all finalist short films, with a prize of €300 and a special gift, chosen by public vote during the Festival screenings
ELIGIBILITY
All submitted short films must be inspired by the mythological world, in the broadest sense.
When we speak of mythology in film storytelling, we refer to a universe of myths, legends, fables, superstitions, premonitions, tales, traditions and family stories that define a culture, land or community. Modern reinterpretations of ancestral myths in a contemporary context are also welcome.
Universal archetypes and timeless narratives are more alive than ever: the figure of the hero, the sage, the unsolved mystery, or the endless labyrinth still fascinate us.
This genre draws from many influences: fantasy, horror, folk-horror, science fiction, mystery, historical cinema, epic drama, road movies, westerns, nature documentaries, ethnographic films, spiritual and philosophical works…
Ultimately, myth can manifest in the most unexpected places and can be seen in every gaze.
DEADLINES & NOTIFICATIONS
• Deadline for submissions: July 20, 2025 via www.Festhome.com
• Finalists notified: August 1, 2025 by email
• Winners announced: Live during the Festival’s closing ceremony
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSIONS
- Films must be inspired by the mythological world in the broadest sense.
- Films can be made in any digital format and any language.
- Films must be submitted in original version.
- Subtitles in Catalan or Spanish are required if the film is not in either of these languages.
- Maximum duration accepted is 30 minutes.
- Eligible short films must be produced on or after January 1, 2022.
- Films that have already been released commercially in the Pallars Sobirà or published online for public viewing will not be accepted.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submission must include:
- A synopsis
- An artistic and technical dossier
- A functioning viewing link
- Up-to-date contact details
Participants must ensure that passwords for YouTube, Vimeo, or other platforms remain active and unchanged until the end of the Festival.
A symbolic €1 submission fee is required.
As part of its commitment to equality, and to support the visibility of women, gender-diverse, and racialized people in film production, the Festival may ask participants to optionally provide their gender identity (female, male, non-binary, other) and whether they identify as non-white, in order to compile accurate diversity statistics for the audiovisual sector.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SELECTED SHORT FILMS
Additional materials and screening copies must be submitted by August 15, 2025
These materials should include:
- Director's photo
- Stills from the film
- Posters
- Trailers and other promotional materials
- Screening copies must be sent in HD format
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR WINNING SHORT FILMS
- Award winners agree to include the mention of the prize received at Tabaca Film Fest in all future screenings of the film.
- Winners authorize the Festival to use all submitted promotional materials to promote the Festival across all physical and digital media, including the Festival’s social networks and partner platforms.
JURY
- The Festival Direction will appoint the jury.
- All jury decisions will be final and unappealable.
- No awards will be left void.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
- Filmmakers guarantee that their works do not infringe the rights of third parties. The Festival accepts no liability in this regard.
- By submitting, participants grant the Festival the right to project and exhibit their film, in full or in part, exclusively for Festival promotion purposes (no commercial or non-promotional use is permitted).
- Submitted works will become part of the Tabaca Film Fest archive, authorized to screen them for one year after the end of the Festival as part of its cultural activities.
- Submission implies full acceptance of the present rules.
- The Festival will make every reasonable effort to facilitate the attendance of filmmakers whose works are selected.
- The Festival reserves the right to program works that do not fully meet these requirements for artistic reasons.
- The Festival reserves the right to group films by theme for screenings.
- All Festival decisions are final and not subject to appeal.
For the first edition of the Festival, there will be a single competitive section, the Tabaca section.
This section will bring together a selection of fiction, animated and documentary short films from the international panorama of a maximum of 30 minutes, produced after the 1st of January 2022 in any digital format and in any language.
All the short films presented must be inspired by the mythological world in the broadest sense of the word.
We understand mythology as a set of myths, legends, fables, superstitions, premonitions, tales, traditions or familiar stories, that identify or belong to a geographical area or a culture.
Modern reinterpretations of these ancestral myths in a more contemporary context are also included. All these stories may have a historical or fictional basis, or a mixture of the two.
Festhome holds accountable fees festivals by holding the payment of the fees of most newer festivals until they have viewed the submissions, held their festivals and other methods.
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Festhome holds accountable fees festivals by holding the payment of the fees of most newer festivals until they have viewed the submissions, held their festivals and other methods. 