FILMETS Badalona Film Festival

2026 awards Each listed award includes a Venus of Badalona trophy. Best Film: €4,000. Audience Award – La Vanguardia: €1,000. Emerging Producer Award – PAC: a €2,000 package consisting of €500 cash, one year of PAC membership valued at €828, and mentoring valued at €672. €400 each: Best Animated Film; Best Documentary; Best Badalonian Production; Best Catalan Production; Best Spanish Production; Best European Production; Best Director; Best Screenplay; Best Sound – APSA; Best Editing – AMMAC; Best Actress; Best Actor; Best Original Score. The PAC award is for credited emerging independent producers of selected films, with no more than two qualified shorts or one qualified feature, and mainly Catalan production activity. Production companies must be registered audiovisual producers. Badalona productions require a direct artistic or technical connection with the city. Cash awards are subject to applicable taxes. The organising committee may add special awards.

2026 Official Section participation rules International fiction, animation and documentary shorts of no more than 30 minutes are eligible. Films produced or released before 1 June 2024, or previously programmed in the FILMETS Official Section, are ineligible. Online registration uses the festival website, Movibeta or Festhome; the published closing time is 31 May 2026 at 22:00 CET. Entrants must hold permission from all relevant rights holders and accept responsibility for the submitted work. Participation grants public screening rights for FILMETS sessions. Selected Official Section films also grant broadcasting rights to Televisió de Badalona and Xarxa de Televisions Locals, on terrestrial television and simulcast, for two years from the edition’s end; this does not include VOD or OTT hosting. The organisers may use film material and credits for non-commercial festival promotion, including online clips of up to 30 seconds. Selected films require a high-quality screening copy and at least two high-resolution stills. Delivery is MOV or MP4, at most 10 GB; Apple ProRes 422 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video, at most 100 Mbps; AAC or PCM stereo audio; resolution between 1280×720 and 1920×1080. Copies should be clean or carry Catalan or Spanish subtitles. Otherwise a clean copy and synchronised subtitles or dialogue list in English, French or German are required for Catalan translation. Delivery is by download link or FTP to the festival office. The selection jury chooses the Official Section. An official jury, specialist juries and the audience determine awards. The organising committee resolves matters outside the rules. The official 2026 regulations govern participation.