The 19th Bueu International Film Festival will be held from 4 to 19 September 2026 in the town of Bueu, and will aim to screen and promote the best short films made in the last two years internationally.
Participation is open to all works released from 1 January 2025 onwards, and creators of any nationality may participate as long as they are 18 years of age or older. Works of any genre may be submitted, with a maximum duration of 30 minutes (credit titles included). Each participant may submit as many works as they wish. Short films that have already been submitted in previous editions will not be accepted.
OFFICIAL JURY
Magdalena Arau has worked since 2016 as a programmer at BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival). She has served as a jury member at American and European festivals, and has curated films and special programs at various museums and festivals. She was in charge of the film department and the film commission of the Province of Buenos Aires, where, among other initiatives, she created Encuentros de Cine, a residency program for filmmakers.
She is an adjunct professor in the Taller de Tesis course for the Bachelor of Audiovisual Arts program (National University of La Plata, Argentina), where she also taught Screenwriting, Film History, and Acting Direction. Independently, she coordinates writing and creative workshops and, together with Karin Idelson, directs Pensamos como vemos, a space for training and audiovisual creation on the Proyecto Imaginario platform.
Miguel Dias founded the Curtas Vila do Conde festival in 1993, where he currently serves as director and programmer. He worked as a producer and programmer in the film, audiovisual, and multimedia department of Porto 2001, European Capital of Culture and the Odisseia Nas Imagens festival between 1999 and 2001. He also programmed the Passos Manuel cinema in Porto.
In the audiovisual industry, he has directed the company Curtas Metragens CRL since 1997, which specializes in distribution, production, and programming, with over 30 short films produced since 2011. He also directs Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency for the promotion, international sales, and distribution of Portuguese short films. Since 2005, he has led Solar Cinematic Art Gallery, a gallery that exhibits contemporary works focused on the moving image.
Amir Masoud Soheili is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker, festival programmer and photographer, known for his short films Blue-eyed Boy (2014), Elephantbird (2019) and MARDAZMA (2025). His works have been screened at events such as PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival), the Leeds International Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. He has also produced several documentaries, including Co-exist, Veiled Village and Land of Demons, and his audiovisual work extends to photography and video production, with pieces featured on platforms such as National Geographic, AJ+ VICE Media, TRT and Business Insider.
In addition to his career as a filmmaker, Masoud is co-founder and creative director of the Asian Film Festival for Peace, held in Islamabad (Pakistan). He has served as a jury member at numerous film festivals around the world, including the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in Indonesia, the Avianca International Film Festival in Portugal and the SAARC Film Festival in Sri Lanka, amongst many others. He has also been a programmer for various events.
DISCOVERIES JURY
Silvia Fuentes founded the production company Sétima in 2018 alongside the director Anxos Fazáns, where she currently works. Through Sétima, she has produced films such as As liñas descontinuas (Anxos Fazáns, 2025), which screened at various festivals, the documentary Filmei paxaros voando (Zeltia Outeiriño, 2024), which has received several awards and nominations, the film Cuando toco un animal (Ángel Filgueira, 2023), and the short film Habitar (Anxos Fazáns, 2023). She is currently working on the post-production of A morte nos teus ollos, Guillermo de Oliveira’s debut feature. Projects in the financing phase include Porto Alegre, Álvaro Gago’s second feature film; Fame e Febre, Javier Ferreiro’s debut feature; and Handen, Ángel Filgueira’s upcoming film.
In addition to Sétima, she notably worked at the Catalan production company Lastor Media. She also served as production manager on the feature films As neves (Sonia Méndez, 2024) and Gosa Poder (Isaki Lacuesta, 2021) and as production manager on the films O Corno (Jaione Camborda, 2023), Matria (Álvaro Gago, 2023), and Nación (Margarita Ledo, 2020).
Laura Piñeiro is a film editor and director. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Santiago de Compostela and specialised in film editing whilst studying for her Master’s degree at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya. She works primarily in the Galician independent film scene and is a member of the programming team for the International Ethnographic Film Festival and the Intersección International Film Festival in A Coruña.
As an editor, she has worked on feature films such as As liñas descontínuas (Anxos Fazáns, 2025) and Os espazos en branco (Bruno Arias, 2023), as well as on various short fiction films and documentaries. Furthermore, she was a member of the audiovisual collective Memoria e Cinema, through which she developed projects centred on historical memory and documentary creation, including 586 cantos (Fran Rodríguez Casal, 2024) and Na pel da memoria (Laura and Coral Piñeiro, 2022).
Aarón Rodríguez Serrano is a Professor of Audiovisual Narrative at Jaume I University and a member of the IRMA-VEP research group. He has spent two decades teaching and conducting research in the field of film analysis. He has written over a hundred articles and book chapters, with particular emphasis on the monographs he has published in recent years, notably Espejos en Auschwitz: Apuntes sobre cine y Holocausto (2015), Nanni Moretti (2018) and Volver al cine: Pensar, escribir y analizar las películas (2024).
His main line of research involves exploring the relationships between philosophy and film analysis, although in recent years he has focused his interest on the emergence of metamodern cinema and its application within the contemporary Spanish context. He is currently working on a research project funded by the Ministry of Culture (Grants for Literary Creation—Essay Category) that is scheduled to be published in 2027.