Avanca 2025 (29)

Festival start: 23 July 2025      Festival end: 27 July 2025

AVANCA Film Festival was awarded first place in 2011 contest of the support film festivals sponsored by ICA / Ministry of Culture.

An additional thematic programming has happened over all these years, giving space to screening of significant works of contemporary cinema appropriately framed in concerns and / or well-defined objectives.

The AVANCA is known as a space for workshops led by personalities of world cinema, and being more than a "master class", has allowed a unique cinema practice. Every year we have workshops, bringing together participants from all over Europe. The media have written that this is the largest European area of professional workshops in the field of cinema.

AVANCA is the only festival that congregates a Cinema International Competition, works from the television area, video and new supports of multimedia, with a special concern of exhibit the best world productions done in each category.

Since the first edition, the festival only accepts unprecedented films in Portugal.

The World Premiere competition is unique in our country and was only possible because Avanca became a passage point of unpublished authors and movies with great quality. Films that have their world premiere in the festival, independently of the submitted category, are also participating in the World Premiere Competition.

AVANCA is the Portuguese festival with the highest percentage of worldwide unpublished movies that find here their first showing.

Since 2010, we have organized the international film conference AVANCA | CINEMA, becoming the most important conference in the field of cinema in the Iberian Peninsula. This conference brings together speakers and participants from around the world.
Thematic exhibitions, editions of books, bibliographic presentations and various projects have marked these last 10 years of AVANCA with the quality that compels the festival and the participants obviously require.

1 – Prizes
The festival will award the best work of each category: Cinema (feature film), Cinema (short feature), Television, Video, VR and trailer. The jury will also deliver prizes to the best Animation, best Actor/Actress, and best Cinematography Direction, among others.
In the Cinema category (feature film), since only a maximum of 4 films are selected, all works will automatically receive a special mention.

The international jury is composed of cinema professionals invited by the organization.
The selected films may be objects of acquisition proposals for the Portuguese market (cinema, television, video, VOD).

2 – World Premiere Prize
Films that have their world premieres in the AVANCA 2024, regardless of the submitted category, are also candidates for the World Premiere Special Prize. Candidates must refer to the entry form if the film is a world premiere.

3 – Filmmaker Prize
Filmmakers under the age of 30 and over 60 will be candidates for the Junior Filmmaker Award and the Senior Filmmaker Award, respectively.

Regulations
AVANCA 2025
International Meeting of Cinema, Television, Video and Multimedia

18, 23 to 27 July
Deadline: May 17, 2025

1 - Objective
The objective is to trace a global perspective of the contemporary features in cinema, television, video and multimedia.

2 - Conditions of Admission
Works admitted for selection must join the following conditions:

- Be produced after January 1st, 2023;
- Unreleased in Portugal;
- Not available on the web.

Registrations in the following categories are admitted:

CINEMA: short and feature films in fiction and animation;

TELEVISION: documentaries;

VIDEO: experimental videos less than 20 minutes long;

VR FILMS: films in virtual reality 360°, narrative or experimental, but with no interactivity.

Tv SERIES: fiction and documentaries. In this case, the submitter must send only a single episode.

TRAILER IN MOTION – video clips and trailers* - all trailers sent with the submitted films will be considered for this competition.
* trailers up to 3 minutes

3 - Submission
Works must be registered until May 17, 2025, by completing the online registration form available on avanca.com.

Deadlines & Entry Fees

Competition (International competition, world premiere, VR competition, TV Series: fiction and documentaries)

Special price - until 12th january 2025 - 20,00€ (euros)

Official Deadline - May 17, 2025 - 24,00€ (euros)

Free entry fee for:

- Portuguese films or from countries with Portuguese as an official language. exclusively received with link and password.

- Trailers and videoclips.
The payment can be done by Paypal (avancafilmfestival@gmail.com) and the receipt must be sent to the same email so that we can validate your submission.

All submission fees are non-refundable.

The Avanca Film Festival DOES NOT PAY SCREENING FEES. By submitting your project, you acknowledge that AVANCA will not pay to present your work.

Entries previously screened in other festivals or are publicly available on the web (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo) will not be considered.

All foreign films must be submitted with English subtitles.

4 - Selection for competition
The organization committee carries out the selection of the submitted works and informs the applicants of selected works. The selection results will be available in www.avanca.com

The film submission at the AVANCA may also involve the selection for AVANCA's Film Festivals Partners.

AVANCA reserves the right to use images from the films selected for marketing purposes.

5 – Prizes
The festival will award the best work of each category: Cinema (feature film), Cinema (short feature), Television, Video, TV series, VR and trailer/video clip. The jury will also deliver prizes to the best Animation, best Actor/Actress and Best Cinematography Direction, among others.

In the Cinema category (feature film), since only a maximum of 4 films are selected, all works will automatically receive a special mention.

The international jury is composed by cinema professionals invited by the organization.
The selected films may be object of acquisition proposals for the Portuguese market.

6 – World Premiere Prize
Films that have their world premieres in the AVANCA regardless the submitted category are also candidates for the World Premiere Special Prize. Candidates must refer to the entry form if the film is a world premiere.

7 – Filmmaker Prize
Filmmakers under the age of 30 and over 60 will be candidates for the <30 Filmmaker Award and the Senior Filmmaker Award, respectively.

8 - Transport and Insurance of Works
The organization will inform the candidates of selected works and will give out instructions for the shipment of final copies.

9 – Others
Copies of selected films will form part of the Festival's Media Library, and the organization undertakes not to use them for commercial purposes. The selected films may be part of non-commercial exhibitions/extensions within the scope of the Festival's promotion.

The festival's languages are Portuguese and English.

By submitting your film(s) to the Festival, you fully agree to all TERMS AND CONDITIONS described above.

Any doubts or questions that may be raised will be clarified or resolved by the Organizing Committee.

The selected works may be objects of non-commercial exhibitions for the festival's promotion.

Festival languages are Portuguese and English.
The Festival reserves the right to make any necessary changes in regulations or scheduling.

By submitting your film/s or screenplay to the Festival you agree to all TERMS AND CONDITIONS above in full.

Any doubts or questions will be clarified or solved by the Organization Committee.