LesGaiCineMad

International gays and lesbians film festival.

Fiction Documentary Animation

About

LesGaiCineMad is the most important LGTB Film Festival in Spanish Speaking countries, in terms of scope, quantity of movies and spectators. Being one of the film festivals with more audience from the Community of Madrid and one of most covered by the Spanish Press after San Sebastian and Malaga. LesGaiCineMad has a Digital Catalogue of more than 3000 independent movies that is the major archive of films on affective diversity subject in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.

Awards

Audience Awards

Best Spanish Film (from any section): 1000€
Best Film Directed by Women (from any section): 1000€
Best Feature Film (Official Section and Panorama International): 2000€
Best Documentary: 1000€
Best Documentary Short: 500€
Best Fiction or Experimental Short Film: 500€

Jury Awards

FEATURE FILM OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Best Feature Film
- Best Director
- Best Acting
- Best Screenplay
SHORT FILM OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Best International Short Film: 500€
- Best Spanish Short Film: 500€
- Best Experimental Film or Videoart Piece
DOCUMENTARY OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Best Documentary
- Best Documentary Short: 500€
- Best Spanish Documentary
- Best Direction

Rules

Festival accepts submissions of Feature Films, Short Films, Videoart, and Documentaries that are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual or queer themed.
Films must have been copyrighted no earlier than 2022.
The works must not have previously premiered in Spanish cinemas, been broadcast on Spanish television or made available to the public on the Internet in Spanish territory prior to the festival

Documents and Other Requisite Items