2do Festival Internacional De Cine Sobre Envejecimiento: Miradas A Través Del Tiempo ()

Festival start: 23 November 2023      Festival end: 26 November 2023

The Festival aims to contribute and pay attention to issues related to aging and old age as part of our vital and socio-historical time. We make an invitation to the realization or presentation of short films in which their narration, their characters and / or language, contribute to problematize, understand and / or portray aspects of aging of people, populations, institutions, etc. and / or relationships between generations.
We part from a paradigm that considers the images and representations of the elderly - which include representations in audiovisual productions - influences the way we get aged and the way we perceive ourselves as aging people. We believe that the construction of collective spaces to think about aging process can contribute to build non-stigmatized social representations.
The 2nd International Film Festival on Ageing "Glimpses through time" its a Universitary proposal organized by the Centro Interdisciplinario de Envejecimiento (CIEn), Universidad de la República; Seminario Universitario Interdisciplinario sobre Envejecimiento y Vejez (SUIEV), UNAM, Centro de Estudios Críticos en Cultura Contemporánea (CECRITICC), Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro , Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Romanischen Seminar and the Heidelberg Centrum für Ibero-Amerika Studien – HCIAS, Universidad de Heidelberg.

The Festival aims to contribute and pay attention to issues related to aging and old age as part of our vital and socio-historical time. We make an invitation to the realization or presentation of short films in which their narration, their characters and / or language, contribute to problematize, understand and / or portray aspects of aging of people, populations, institutions, etc. and / or relationships between generations. We part from a paradigm that considers the images and representations of the elderly - which include representations in audiovisual productions - influences the way we get aged and the way we perceive ourselves as aging people. We believe that the construction of collective spaces to think about aging process can contribute to build non-stigmatized social representations.

We invite you to make or present short films that, through their narration, their characters and/or language, contribute to problematize, understand and/or portray aspects of the aging of people, populations, institutions, etc. and/or the relationship between generations.This year, we encourage submission of shortfilms that focus on the relation between ageing and the future.

The “Ida Prizes” (in honor of the Uruguayan writer Ida Vitale) will be awarded in the closing ceremony.

1.- Only short films completed after January 1, 2020 can participate. The call is open to all audiences, both national and international.

2.- Short films should belong to any of the following categories:
Fiction: Piece in which the stories and/or characters are fictitious
Documentary: Piece with a representation and interpretation of reality on a specific topic, from the point of view of the documentalist.
Animation : Piece made with 2D, 3D, stopmotion or mixed animation techniques
Vieoclip: Piece designed to accompany a song or a musical theme.
The maximum duration of each work should be 30 (thirty) minutes, and the recording equipment used could be from smartphones to professional cameras.

3.- Any format is accepted, but should be submitted only in digital format. The minimum resolution required will be HD (720 x 1280).

4.- If the language of the short film is not Spanish, it must be subtitled in Spanish. If not, a list of the dialogues in Spanish should be sent. Short films that are not spoken in Spanish and do not have subtitles neither a list of dialogues in Spanish, will not be considered for selection. Regardless of the audio language, it is desirable that all short films have english subtitles.

5.- Short films must be authored by the person participating in the contest, or by the group it represents.

6.- Registration will be done only through Festhome platform.

7.- Authors of the selected short films should send a link for their free download that does not expire (Dropbox, Vimeo, Drive or similar, free of charge and that does NOT require access permits or registration). The Format should be Mp4, H264 codec, AAC audio, minimum HD resolution (720x1280p).

8.- Short films that do not comply with the technical specifications requested for screening will be eliminated from the Official Selection.

9.- The deadline for registration is 31/07/2023. Registrations made after that date will not be held in account for selection.

10.- The reception of short films will imply a pre-selection instance. The final selection will be announced on the official channels of the Festival from 1/10/2023.

11.- The categories in competition are the following:
Best Fiction
Best Documentary / Journalistic.
Best Animation
Best Videoclip

Special Mentions (under jury consideration)

12.- The jury will be composed by people from different countries with expertise in cinematographic art, both for their academic career and its professional trajectories. The jury will be designated by the Festival organization committee.

13.- If necessary, the Jury would declare void any of the short film categories.

14.- The jury's decision will be final and will be made public during the closing ceremony of the Festival, on 26/011/2023 which will take place in Uruguay. Later it will be published in the official pages of the organizing institutions as well as in the social networks of the Festival.

15.- The selected works will be screened during the days of the Festival (November, 23 to 26, 2023) in Uruguay and Mexico, and on our YouTube channel. Part of the selection will be screened in Germany. The filmmakers can authorize the Festival organization to make the short films available on the YouTube channel for a period longer than the festival.

16.- The contestants declare to be holders of the rights of the works sent to the Festival. They must also own the copyright of the images and / or the image rights of the people that appear in the short film, as well as the soundtracks (in case of included).

17.- The contestants assign the projection rights to both Festival Organizing Institutions, which can exhibit the selected short films for educational, cultural, consultation and dissemination purposes after the Festival, within two years. None of these reproductions will be for profit.

18.- The projection schedules will be announced in the official program of the Festival, as well in its social networks.

19.- The Festival could use fragments and frames of the selected short films for diffusion of the event in different media, including the Internet.

20.- The organization of the Festival will not cover the travel expenses for the authors of the selected short films.

21.- Any situation not contemplated in the present terms will be resolved by the jury, in agreement with the Organization Committee of the Festival.

22.- Videos with promotional content of any kind will not be accepted.

23.- Participation in the Festival implies acceptance of the present terms.