IX International Videopoetry Competition 2025 (Up To 500€)

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Applications are open for IX International Videopoetry Competition 2025. The MALDITO FESTIVAL launches its International Videopoetry Competition section with the aim of highlighting two disciplines that, whether individually or collectively, are much more isolated and forgotten than they would like. In their experience, these disciplines are considered marginal in major European capitals, and even more so in small towns within regional borders, where their diffusion is nonexistent.

At MALDITO FESTIVAL, they aim to reclaim video poetry as an art form that connects people, conveys feelings, and stimulates different ways of seeing the world. It’s also a small contribution from enormous people to empower visual art, preventing it from becoming marginalized and cursed.

IX International Videopoetry Competition Funding Information

The jury appointed for this purpose will award the following cash prizes to the three winning videopoems:

1st Prize: 500€
2nd Prize: 300€
3rd Prize: 200€
Special Audience Award: 200€ (awarded by the audience attending the IX Maldito VideoPoetry Festival Ceremony)

Eligibility Criteria

Anyone can participate, regardless of age, gender, nationality or place of residence.

Application Requirements

Length: 5 minutes maximum, credits included.
Visual and aesthetic treatment: It will be totally free, being necessary that the word, the poetry, has importance in this work. Not only the attraction of the image is sought, but also the symbiosis with the word, whether written, narrated or suggested. Works that do not contain a poem will not be considered for the competition.
Format: The videopoem must be submitted in .MP4 format.
Subtitles: Videopoems in languages other than Spanish must have embedded subtitles in Spanish.
Rights/permissions: Registration will be considered as a guarantee that the author has the rights/permissions of image, music and text to project his/her work within the framework of the festival.
Age of the videopoem: Videopoems that have been submitted to the competition in previous editions or those made before 2022 will not be taken into consideration.
Maximum number of works: 2 videopoems per participant.