Bcn Sports Film Festival

Festival overview

About Bcn Sports Film Festival

Physical film festival in Barcelona, Spain with submission categories including Spot Sport.

The Barcelona Olympic Foundation, with the support of the Barcelona City Council, organizes the BCN Sports Film 2027 – 17th BARCELONA INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL and forms part of the WORLD FICTS CHALLENGE 2027. The BCN Sports Film 2027 will take place in Barcelona on dates yet to be determined during February of 2027.

In this seventeenth edition, the festival will have a competitive nature. The seventeenth edition of the festival will have a hybrid format so, there will be face-to-face screenings and online screenings.

The rights that the authors assign, therefore, are both for the face-to-face sessions that are held in the official venues of the contest, as well as for the sessions that will be held online through an online platform. These Rules & Regulations have been approved by the BCN Sports Film 2027 Organising Committee.

Your taking part in BCN Sports Film 2027 implies the total acceptance of these regulations.

Schedule

Important Dates

Call for Entries Opens: May 1, 2026
Final Submission Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
Notification Date: Oct 15, 2026
Festival Starts: Feb 19, 2027
Festival Ends: Feb 28, 2027

Recognition

Awards & Prizes

Cash Prizes: 5,000€Cash Prizes: 5,000€

Eligibility

Rules & Eligibility

General Rules+

AIMS One of the principal objectives of BCN Sports Film 2027 is to bring the general public into contact with sports-orientated audiovisual content and the values that they represent. Whilst offering the media, film directors, producers and specialised distributors a meeting place in which they can exchange views and information. CONTENT The BCN Sports Film 2027 is open to all those productions in which the principal subject matter is that of sport in all its forms and disciplines. Genres included: animated films, documentaries and fiction, from shorts to feature length films.
GENERAL RULES BCN Sports Film 2027 is open to both professional and independent productions. BCN Sports Film 2027 will admit all films produced from 1st January 2024. When registering the film, it will be necessary to specify whether it is a premiere at the Catalan, Spanish or international level. And, similarly, whether it is a debut film considered as such, the first or second work of the director of the work. The maximum length of the works presented at the BCN Sports Film 2027 will be 90 minutes credits not included. Each producer may present as many films as he wishes as long as they comply with all othe