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Santander Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente (2027) - Sanfici

Santander, Santander

Festival overview

About Santander Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente (2027) - Sanfici

Physical film festival in Santander with submission categories including Competencia Internacional de Largometrajes and Competencia Internacional de Cortometrajes.

SANFICI is a space to generate meetings at different levels, with an overcoming and innovative will. First of all, it is a space for the relationship between spectators, filmmakers and theorists around cinema and all border and heterodox manifestations.

Secondly, it is a special and temporary meeting point. SANFICI wants to become, year after year, the place of convergence for world independent cinema.

But it also wants to be the space where the past and the future dialogue. The place where the most diverse film traditions are embraced with their riskiest proposals.

Schedule

Important Dates

Call for Entries Opens
Jun 1, 2026
Final Submission Deadline
Dec 15, 2026
Notification Date
Jan 10, 2027
Festival Starts
Feb 22, 2027
Festival Ends
Feb 26, 2027
Recognition

Awards & Prizes

Cash Prizes: 5,000$Cash Prizes: 5,000$
Eligibility

Rules & Eligibility

General Rules+

  1. Regulations and Registration Bases for the Santander International Independent Film Festival Edition 2027 SANFICI, Santander International Festival of Independent Cinema, will take place from February 22 to 26 in Santander, Colombia.

  2. The applications for the Festival are open for fiction films or national and international documentaries; and for fiction short films or national and international documentaries.

  3. All Competition productions must have been completed after June 1, 2025.

  4. The Festival program will include competitive and non-competitive sections.

  5. The scheduled films will be included in the section that the programming committee considers appropriate.

  6. Opening Date: June 1 Closing Date: December 15 To appear in the catalogue, once the film is selected, you will receive communication from the team to request more information, and they will not be able to remove the film from the Official Selection.

  7. The application implies acceptance and knowledge of these bases and conditions.

  8. If your film has not been selected by the notification date, SANFICI is under no obligation to notify you.

Current Categories, Deadlines & Fees

Category

Competencia Internacional de Largometrajes

Competencia Internacional de Largometrajes currently lists a maximum runtime of 60 minutes. Listed fees include USD 50 regular.

Current FeeUSD 50.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 60 minutes
Category

Competencia Internacional de Cortometrajes

Competencia Internacional de Cortometrajes currently lists a maximum runtime of 30 minutes. Listed fees include USD 40 regular.

Current FeeUSD 40.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 30 minutes
Category

Panorama

Panorama currently lists a maximum runtime of 30 minutes. Listed fees include USD 30 regular.

Current FeeUSD 30.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 30 minutes
Category

Competencia Nacional de Largometrajes

Competencia Nacional de Largometrajes currently lists a maximum runtime of 60 minutes. Listed fees include USD 40 regular.

Current FeeUSD 40.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 60 minutes
Category

Competencia Nacional de Cortometrajes

Competencia Nacional de Cortometrajes currently lists a maximum runtime of 30 minutes. Listed fees include USD 30 regular.

Current FeeUSD 30.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 30 minutes
Category

SANFICITO

SANFICITO is an international curatorship where families from Santander can get together to see a very interesting movie. SANFICITO is the section for our childhoods, betting on the formation of the public in SANFICI. SANFICITO is a proposal that has been developed since the beginning of the Festival, establishing alternative animated film proposals for our childhoods.

Current FeeUSD 20.00Standard Fee
RuntimeMaximum runtime: 90 minutes