The 17th Bueu International Film Festival will take place from September 7^th – September 21^rd, 2024. Festival will aim to promote the best short films made in the last two years in the international scene.

Only films completed after 1st January 2023 are eligible for entry into the 2023 Festival competitions. Any producer or filmmaker of any nationality who owns the rights to the films being submitted are eligible for the International Short Film Competition on the condition that they are over 18 years.The festival is open to all genre’s short films up to thirty (30) minutes in length, credits included. Each participant may submit as many films as desired.Films previously submitted to the Bueu’s International Short Film Festival are NOT eligible.

JURIES

FICBUEU 2024

OFFICIAL JURY

Riina Mikkonen

Executive director and programmer of the Tampere Film Festival in Finland. She is part of the selection committee for the competition at the Tampere Film Festival and has curated numerous short film programs since she began her career in 2005. Additionally, she has experience as a film critic, editor, librarian, and information specialist.

Chema García Ibarra

Director, screenwriter, and film producer. With a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Alicante, his award-winning short films (Leyenda dorada, La disco resplandece, Misterio…) have traveled to prominent festivals worldwide such as Berlin, Sundance, and San Sebastián, as well as his first feature film Espíritu Sagrado (2021).

Tara Karajica

Programadora, crítica e xornalista. Ocupa na actualidade o cargo de xefa do programa de industria e programadora no PÖFF Shorts. A súa traxectoria inclúe papeis destacados en festivais como o Festival Internacional de Cinema de Durban ou o SXSW. Forma parte da European Film Academy, a Socidedade de Crítica de Cinema en Liña e da Alianza de Mulleres Xornalistas de Cinema. En 2016 fundou Yellow Bread e en 2018 lanzou a plataforma Fade to Her.

DISCOVERIES JURY

Elisa Pereira

Photographer and cultural manager. Trained in audiovisual production and artistic photography. Since 2014, she has directed La Plantación. Encounters and Knowledge, an initiative that each year proposes a series of meetings between various personalities related to contemporary creation.

Xan Gómez Viñas

Journalism graduate and researcher, he holds a PhD in Communication from USC with a thesis on cinema in Galicia in the 70s. He was a member of the Cineclube de Compostela and co-directed with Pablo Cayuela the documentary Fóra. He is currently a programmer at Cinema NUMAX.

Daniela Urzola

Film critic, programmer, and researcher. Editor at Caimán Cuadernos de Cine and part of the editorial board of Revista Mutaciones. She is currently part of the programming team at FILMADRID and a faculty member of the Master’s in Film Criticism at ECAM.