FICVALDIVIA

About

The Valdivia International Film Festival started as a very successful international film exhibition released in 1993 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cine Club of the Universidad Austral de Chile. A competition was included the following year, labeled as "Valdivia Cine & Video". That event became a milestone to cultural activity in southern Chile, promising at that time to become the greatest film event in the country. The early versions of the festival were oriented to ecological issues. From that point the characteristic trophy award emerged: the Pudú (The Pudú is a small kind of deer, typical of southern Chile). In 2001 the feature film competition category started, becoming the Festival into the most important film event in Chile.

Program

• Feature Length Chilean Films,
• Feature Length International Films,
• Latinamerican Student Short Film Competition,
• Austral Chilean-Argentine Short Film Competition,
• Latinamerican Children Short Film Competition.

Awards

International Feature length Films:

• Best Feature Film, 
• Jury Special Award, 
• Jury Special Mention Award.

Chilean Feature Film:

• Award for best feature film,
• Special Jury Award.

Latinamerican Student Short Film Competition:

• Award for best short film.

Austral Chilean-Argentine Short Film Competition:

• Award for best short film.

Latinamerican Children Short Film Competition:

• Award for best short film.

Rules

• Films must have been completed after March 1st, 2023
• Feature Length International Films: Chilean and Foreign films, at least 40 minutes long. Submissions are open to fiction, experimental, animation or documentary. Films in this category that have previously been screened in Chile under any circumstance are not admitted.
• To participate, all aplications must be done through the FESTHOME.
• Subtitles language: English

Premiere Requirements

National premiere required.