27° Festival Universitario De Cine Y Audiovisuales Equinoxio (27)

Festival start: 19 September 2025      Festival end: 27 September 2025

Equinoxio Film Festival will hold its 27th edition from September 19th to 27th. It provides a space for gathering and reflection concerning student filmmaking while allowing interaction with the aesthetic perspective of emerging talents, along with artistic, social and personal concerns of young filmmakers.

This edition of Equinoxio revolves around the thematic line “Pulsiones: Incarnating Desire”. We are looking for an emerging cinema that sheds light on the path taken by desires and the transmuted forms it assumes in the perceived world, as a result of its inescapable relationship with the other and the others. It is a film that exposes structures and patterns that, from language and aesthetics, have conditioned human longings and drives, inviting us to question the place of desire both in front of and outside the camera, exploring its origins, the normative and dissident space, the relationship with the body, morality, censorship and the role of art.

For this edition, the festival will not have competition sections, a position that does not imply leaving behind our goal of being an exhibition window for productions made in the academic field. We seek to focus on the efforts and virtues of the selected works, in order to build exhibitions that dialogue on the latent yearning to create, the pulsations and their representations and expressions through artistic processes. This curatorial freedom seeks crossings between panoramas, retrospectives, intertwining from the different sections, raising discussions in the social and aesthetic field, wanting to expand the scenarios and resonance with the other activities of the festival.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CALL FOR ENTRIES

27TH EQUINOXIO FILM FESTIVAL


- GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Equinoxio University Film and Audiovisual Festival celebrates its twenty-seventh edition between September 19 and 27, 2025. Opening a space for meeting and reflection around student cinema and enabling contact with the aesthetic vision of new talents, as well as with the artistic, social and personal concerns of young filmmakers.

- SECTIONS

General Call for Entries

The call is open to Colombian, Latin American and international films, regardless of genre or technique. Only short films made between 2024 and 2025 by university students (both undergraduate and graduate) and teachers may participate. The call for entries is organized as follows:
National Short Film: Undergraduate. Audiovisual productions by students in undergraduate programs at Colombian educational institutions.
National Short Film: Postgraduate. Audiovisual productions by students of Colombian nationality in postgraduate programs inside or outside Colombia.
National Short Film: Teachers. Audiovisual productions by teachers from Colombian educational institutions.
Latin American Short Film. Audiovisual productions by undergraduate or graduate students from any Latin American institution.
International Short Film. Audiovisual productions by undergraduate or graduate students from any international institution.

Retrospective: Degree Works

This section allows us to establish a space for reflection on the scope of authorial filmmaking and the academic dialogue that arises with the figure of the graduate. In this way, the call is extended to graduate theses produced in programs of Colombian educational institutions prior to 2023.




- ELIGIBILITY

The call is open to both Colombian and international films in the respective categories. Short films with a production date prior to January 1, 2024 may not be submitted to the general call for entries.

Only short films made by university students (both undergraduate and graduate) whose director/producer can prove their current relationship with a higher education institution may participate. In the case of Thesis or Degree Works, they must demonstrate the link of the work with the educational entity.




5 - INSCRIPTION

The registration of films to the Festival is free of charge for Latin American films. For films foreign to Latin America there is a symbolic charge of 1 USD. Registration is done through the Festhome platform. The call for entries opens on February 17, 2025. All calls close on May 15 of the same year.

The registration must be made by the director/producer of the film and must contain: a visualization file of the film, short synopsis, technical specifications, artistic specifications, photo and bio-filmography of the director, poster, stills in high quality, a document certifying the quality of university student of the director/producer and social networking information of the work and the filmmakers. If the film is not spoken in Spanish, the subtitles in Spanish must also be attached; if not, a list of dialogues in english with timecodes and a high quality digital file will be required to add the subtitles.

- SELECTION AND PARTICIPATION

After the date of notification of the selection, no film may be withdrawn from the Festival. Participants whose films have been selected in any of the categories agree to provide any extra material requested by the Festival. If deemed appropriate, the Festival may reassign the selected films to a different category, as well as modify parts of the rules and regulations and the call for entries.

The Festival does not undertake to cover the travel, per diem or accommodation expenses of the contestants. The contestant must arrange his or her expenses with his or her respective university, or pay for his or her own expenses in order to participate in the activities programmed by the Festival. The Film and Television School of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Equinoxio Festival may provide a letter of invitation if requested.

The participant authorizes the Equinoxio University Film and Audiovisual Festival to use a maximum of 3 minutes of visual material for promotional purposes. Likewise, the participant grants exhibition rights to the Festival for the projection of his/her work during the Festival and in non-competitive screenings in National and International Festivals allied to Equinoxio.

The participant declares upon registration that he/she is the owner of all the rights of the registered work, its sound, musical and/or visual files, and exonerates the Festival Organization, the Escuela de Cine y Televisión and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia from any claim that third parties may make regarding the public exhibition, intellectual property or patrimonial property of the same. The participant releases the Festival Organization, the Escuela de Cine y Televisión and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia from any type of claim or lawsuit.

The submission of the work to the Equinoxio University Film and Audiovisual Festival implies the acceptance of the terms and conditions of the call for entries and these regulations in their entirety. By registering, the participant declares this.