Xociviga - Festival Internacional de Curtametraxes (41)

Festival start: 19 November 2025      Festival end: 23 November 2025

XOCIVIGA (41) is the oldest festival in Galicia. On the occasion of its 40th edition (2024), the new management, led by a group of young people, decided to restart the event with a new image and transform it into an international short film festival.

Cash Prizes: 3,800€

The following prizes are established:

- Best Short Film Official Section: €1500

- Best Galician Short Film: €1000

- Best Young Short Film: €500

- Best Short Film - Audience Award: €500

- Best Music Video: €300

XOCIVIGA EDITION 41 (2025)

Xociviga - International Short Film Festival opens the admission period for audiovisual pieces to participate in the 41th edition of the festival, which will take place from November 19 to 23, 2025.

1. The following competitive categories are established:

Official Section: Open to short fiction, non-fiction, or experimental films from any part of the world. Those whose authors are of Galician origin and whose main language is Galician, will compete for best Galician Short Film special award.

New Creators Section: Open to short fiction, non-fiction, or experimental films whose authors are under 30 years old. Special consideration will be given to Galician works.

Music Videos Section: Open to the participation of music videos of any musical genre to be broadcast for competition through our website. Special consideration will be given to works by Galician groups or artists.

The submitted works must have been produced between 2024 and 2025.

1.1. The following non-competitive categories are established:

Carballiño Section: Open to all fiction, non-fiction, or experimental short films in whose team a resident of Carballiño has participated. Special consideration will be given to works produced between 2023 and 2024, but the call is also open to previous short films as a retrospective.

Children's Section: Open for Spanish films only. A showcase of short films aimed at an audience between 8 and 12 years old to bring audiovisual creation closer and familiarize the students of primary education centers in Carballiño and surrounding areas with the format.

2. €3800 in prizes will be distributed.

3. The duration of each short film shall not exceed 30 minutes, including credits.

4. The deadline for submitting the works will be September 21, 2025, at 11:59 PM. Registration will be done through FESTHOME or via the form available on the website xociviga.com.

For any questions, contact the email info@xociviga.com, indicating in the subject “Festival registration query.”

5. For the registration and viewing of pieces whose languages are not Galician or Spanish, they must be subtitled in one of these languages or in english.
Works with embedded subtitles in another language will not be accepted.

6. The registration of the work must clearly specify who the legal representative of the work is.

In case of being awarded a monetary prize, the legal representative will receive the corresponding amount. Additionally, the author or legal representative of the short film commits to presenting works where the images and music are original or, if applicable, have the necessary permission for their use, which must be provided if required by the organization. Any payment made to the legal representative designated in the registration form will release the Organization from responsibility if the payment should be made to another person. The designated legal representative is responsible for compliance with these rules and the applicable regulations.

7. The organization reserves the right to use up to 10% of the duration of each selected piece for promotional use of the festival and the works themselves.

Participation in the Festival implies granting promotional media (television, radio, etc.) the right to broadcast excerpts of the works (with a maximum of 10% of the work). This clause also applies to media whose dissemination platform is the Internet, as well as to the festival's own social networks.

8. The selected works will be shown in full during the Festival according to the schedules of the sections indicated in the official programming grid.
Acceptance of these rules implies granting a non-exclusive right of distribution, reproduction, and public communication for a maximum period of 2 years for the stated purposes, without any other use or rights being granted.

9. Four juries are established:
Professional Jury: Composed of professionals from the audiovisual sector. It will choose the official section awards.

Young Jury: Composed of students of Audiovisual Communication (from the universities of Vigo, Santiago, and A Coruña), from Training Cycles related to the audiovisual sector (image and sound, production, etc.), or from any other artistic degree. They will be in charge of deciding the New Creators award.

Audience Jury: Composed of the global set of spectators attending the different sessions. It will be responsible for the Audience Award.

online Audience Jury: Composed of all those spectators who access our website to choose their favorite music video.

10. The awards may be declared void if any jury so decides, and in the event of a tie, the prize will be split 50%.

The juries may establish special mentions as they see fit.

11. The Organization assumes that participants hold the rights to the works they present. In any case, the Organization is not responsible for possible infringements related to this aspect.

12. The winning pieces will be screened on the last day of the festival. If not possible due to external issues to the Organization, the festival is not committed to setting a new date for their public screening.

13. The Organization reserves the right to cancel any registration or take appropriate measures in case of regulation violation.

14. If, in the interval between the selection process and the festival dates, any producer or director has been explicitly convicted of any crime classified as gender violence, they will automatically be excluded by the organization.
The Association reserves the right to apply this same rule to those convicted by a final sentence of any other crime.

15. The Organization reserves the right at any time to alter, modify, or suspend the program of the 41th Edition of Xociviga.

16. Participation in this call implies acceptance of these rules.