Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival

About

The most popular and famous brazilian short film festival, which awards cash prizes for national and international productions.

Program

• International Competitive Exhibition,
• Brazilian Competitive Exhibition,
• Animations Exhibition, 
• Children and Youth Audience Exhibition.

Awards

• Official Jury Award for the Competitive Exhibitions;
• Audience Awards for all selected films for screening at the festival regardless of the exhibition/program, except for those screened at the Child Exhibition,
• Additional awards might be created.
• Award prizes will be granted in cash, to be paid by Instituto Cultural Sérgio Magnani – ICSM, through cultural project, incentivated or not, and the amount will be later determined and informed in the Festival’s website.

Rules

• Short movies with final editing in 2024-2025 can apply; 
• Participation is eligible to any natural person over 18 years old, or legally emancipated, in good standing;
• The festival will accept short movies with maximum running time of 40 minutes (except advertising or institutional movies).

Subtitles language: English or Portuguese

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement