Cortogenial 2025 opens the submission period for short films in competition.

The Puente Genil Film and Short Film Festival CortogeniAl opens its submission period from April 1 to August 1, 2025, for its 16th edition, which will be held next October and will once again host the Teatro Circo de Puente Genil as the venue for its Official Section.

Works must have been produced in 2024 or 2025 and must not exceed 20 minutes in length. Participants can register on the Festhome platform.

CortogeniAl is offering audiovisual creators €2,200 in prizes, distributed as follows:

First Prize for Best Short Film: €800

Second Prize for Andalusian Tourism: €500

Best National Short Film Award: €500

Special Audience Award: €400

For another year, the festival continues its collaboration with Canal Sur Televisión with the RTVA Award for Andalusian Audiovisual Creation.

The rules for the 16th edition can be found here. The list of finalist short films will be announced on September 1st on this website.

After the thousand short films received in the previous edition, the Puente Genil Film and Short Film Festival once again confirms its impact and relevance in the national and international audiovisual scene.

This is a commitment to film culture for the festival organized by the CortogeniAl Association, which once again receives the support of the Puente Genil City Council and the Culture Department of the Provincial Council of Córdoba, Canal Sur Televisión, and, since 2023, also has the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Regional Government of Andalusia.