Festival start: 03 September 2025
Festival end: 11 September 2025
The FINCALI Project is developed by the Nodal Management Foundation (Cali - Colombia) and its purpose is to promote and encourage environmental education through audiovisual media and information and communication technologies. FINCALI is made up of 3 major strategies: a biannual Environmental Film Festival with a national and international competitive framework https://festivalfincali.com/, a regional Tour that, in the intervening year between each Festival, decentralizes and circulates the best selection of films and training activities from the latest edition by various municipalities in the Colombian Pacific region, and as a third strategy, a digital environmental film platform, Screen Green https://pantallaverde.org/, which offers the community Spanish-speaking a wide catalog of environmental films to multiply the impact of the project through online cinema.
6th FINCALI #CosechandoHistorias
The 6th edition of the Cali International Environmental Film Festival - FINCALI will take place from September 3 to 11, 2025 in the city of Cali - Colombia, meeting again in this audiovisual and cultural celebration for the environment and climate action.
This year we identify ourselves with the slogan "Harvesting Stories" that celebrates the diversity of perspectives that enrich our understanding of the world, collecting and sharing the narratives that connect us with the planet and with ourselves. We hope to generate reflections on the interconnection between personal stories and the environment as a permanent setting in our lives, leading us to collective and individual actions for the care of our environment. "Harvesting Stories" is an open call for audiovisual narratives and environmental education.
Cash Prizes: 1,000€
Official competitions
Pacífico Ambiental: Award for the best environmental short film from the Colombian Pacific. Titles released from 2023 onwards can be nominated.
Cash prize, circulation, among others.
Pantalla Verde Colombia: Award for the best national environmental short film.
Titles released from 2023 onwards can be nominated.
Cash prize, circulation, among others.
Pantalla Verde Latinoamérica: Award for the best Latin American environmental feature film. Titles released from 2023 onwards can be nominated.
Cash prize, circulation, among others.
Non-competitive selections:
Non-competitive international selection: International environmental feature films with no restriction on the year of production.
Non-competitive national selection: National environmental feature and short films with no restriction on the year of production.
We are therefore calling for short and feature-length environmental audiovisual works to be part of the official programming of the Competitive Selections and Non-Competitive Sections of this 6th edition of FINCALI 2025 #HarvestingStories.
We call on all filmmakers, producers, distributors, activists and socio-environmental audiovisual leaders to participate in the call. Join us on this journey of audiovisual discovery and global action for the environment and the climate.
*Films that cover socio-environmental practices or issues released from 2023 onwards may participate in the Official Competitions.
*Films that cover socio-environmental practices or issues may participate in the Non-Competitive Selections without restriction on the year of production.
Below are some of the topics to consider:
TOPICS
Food and Intensive Production:
Food sovereignty, food security, public health, permaculture and transition practices, agricultural frontier, alternative food production, industrial production, responsible markets, etc.
Waste and Pollution:
Consumption habits, reduction practices, reuse, recycling, waste management, air, water or any other type of pollution, etc.
Energy Exploitation
Renewable energies, mining, energy resources, industry, extraction policies and creative and sustainable energy production processes.
Biodiversity and Territory.
Biological heritage, natural resources, conservation practices, ecosystems, agricultural and livestock frontier, scientific practices and research, environmental displacement.
Climate change.
Environmental education, Sustainable development goals, planetary boundaries, climate policies, sustainability, sustainability, activism, networks and social resistance for the climate.
Sustainable Development Goals - SDG.
SDG 2,6,10,11,12,13,14,15, y 17
PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works referring to any environmental theme that have a duration of a minimum of 5 minutes and a maximum of 120 minutes may participate. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
SELECTION, JURIES AND awards
Once the call for entries is closed, the artistic and programming committee of the FINCALI Festival, headed by its director, analyzes the submitted material and makes a preselection of films which are sent to the jury groups of each competition for evaluation. The list of finalist or selected titles will be published no later than July 17, 2025. The jury groups will be made up of prominent directors, producers, activists and cultural managers outside the internal organization of the Festival. These evaluation groups will be responsible for choosing the winning titles and, if applicable, the special mentions. The winning films will be announced at the closing event of the 6th FINCALI in the second week of September 2025.
National Non-Competitive Selection of Environmental and Human Rights Feature Films.
Feature Films >5' 120'<
No Fee
Submissions deadline
16 Feb 25
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Only colombian films that cover socio-environmental practices or problems may participate without restriction in the year of production.
Below are some topics to consider:
-Intensive food and production,
-Waste and pollution,
-Climate change,
-Energy exploitation,
-Biodiversity and territory,
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works may participate, referring to any environmental theme that has a duration of at least 5 minutes. and maximum of 120 minutes. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
Environmental Pacific Competition
Short Films >5' 40'< (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
16 Feb 25
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Award for the best environmental short film from the Colombian Pacific. Titles released after 2023 can be applied for. Prize money, circulation, among others.
Below are some topics to consider:
-Intensive food and production,
-Waste and pollution,
-Climate change,
-Energy exploitation,
-Biodiversity and territory,
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works may participate, referring to any environmental theme that has a duration of at least 5 minutes. and maximum of 40 minutes. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
Colombia Green Screen Competition
Short Films >5' 40'< (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
16 Feb 25
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Award for the best national environmental short film.
Colombian movies released after 2023 can be applied for. Prize money, circulation, among others.
Below are some topics to consider:
-Intensive food and production,
-Waste and pollution,
-Climate change,
-Energy exploitation,
-Biodiversity and territory,
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works may participate, referring to any environmental theme that has a duration of at least 5 minutes. and maximum of 40 minutes. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
Green Screen Latin America
Feature Films >45' 120'< (2023+)
No Fee
Submissions deadline
16 Feb 25
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Award for best Latin American environmental feature film. Latin american movies released after 2023 can be applied for. Prize money, circulation, among others.
Below are some topics to consider:
-Intensive food and production,
-Waste and pollution,
-Climate change,
-Energy exploitation,
-Biodiversity and territory,
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works may participate, referring to any environmental theme that has a duration of at least 45 minutes and maximum of 120 minutes. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
International Non-Competitive Selection of Environmental feature films and short films
Short and Feature Films >5' 120'<
No Fee
Submissions deadline
16 Feb 25
Save up
0€
Submit
Films produced in any country that cover socio-environmental practices or problems may participate without restriction in the year of production.
Below are some topics to consider:
-Intensive food and production,
-Waste and pollution,
-Climate change,
-Energy exploitation,
-Biodiversity and territory,
-Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Documentary, fiction, chronicle, animation and experimental works may participate, referring to any environmental theme that has a duration of at least 5 minutes. and maximum of 120 minutes. Films or videos sponsored by commercial or official companies for advertising purposes may not participate.
