FICARQ is the International Film & Architecture Festival of Spain to screen both documentary and fiction films where architecture plays the main role.

The official competitive sections are ARTE EN EL SÉPTIMO ARTE (fiction films) and ARQUITECTURAS FILMADAS (documentaries).

In this new edition of FICARQ, in addition to being a bridge between the cinematographic and architectural arts, we want to be a bridge between generations and for this reason we dedicate a special mention to those proposals that come to the festival made by people who are younger that twenty-five y.o. and over fifty y.o.
With this, we intend to encourage the participation of citizens, especially in the fiction and documentary short or micro-film categories to give a space of recognition to all those people who, by age range, are further away from the conventional circuits of audiovisual production and film festivals. cinema.

We sincerely believe in the transforming power of art and culture in our society and in this way we give way to many points of view of creation in freedom, showing in each city in which FICARQ is organized a window open to its citizens and their concerns, whether conventional through the urban, rural or archaeological landscape, as well as other ways of relating to their environment as occurs in urban art or showing forms of expression of people within an architectural environment such as contemporary urban dance, streetdance, breakdance, parkour movement, etc.

2021-FICARQ'S LEITMOTIV:
CLIMATE CHANGE AS UNCERTAINTIES POSED TO US IN THIS NEW NORMALITY, WHERE SOLID SOCIAL AND FAMILY STRUCTURES DILUTE IN AN INFINITE SUCCESSION OF NEW BEGINNINGS BECAUSE THE LACK OF AN INSURED FUTURE.

Awards & Prizes

The Jury will grant the following AWARDS:

ART INSIDE THE SEVENTH ART. - ARTE EN EL SÉPTIMO ARTE SECTION:

BEST FEATURE FILM

BEST SHORT FILM

BEST ART DIRECTOR / PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEST DIRECTOR UNDER 25 y.o.
BEST DIRECTOR OLDER 50 y.o.

FILMED ARCHITECTURES / ARQUITECTURAS FILMADAS SECTION:

BEST FEATURE FILM

BEST SHORT FILM

BEST DIRECTOR UNDER 25 y.o.
BEST DIRECTOR OLDER 50 y.o.

The jury may grant special mentions.

Rules & Terms

1.1. FICARQ 2021 -VII International Film and Architecture Festival- will be held in December 2021 in Madrid. We would accept any film finished after January, 2020-
We accerpt films showed in other international film festivals, but We do not accept any film with public screen or screened out of other international festivals.

1.2. FICARQ is the international festival of cinema and architecture in Spain, first of the Iberian Peninsula, in which audiovisual works are projected in which architecture plays a leading role.

1.3. The official competitive sections are ART IN THE SEVENTH ART (fiction films) and ARCHITECTURES FILMED (documentaries).

1.4. In the case of the Official Fiction Section ("Art in the Seventh Art"), the Selection Committee looks for works in which architecture is present, either as a dialogue between the city, the space and the audiovisual narrative or by reason for outstanding work in artistic direction or production design.

1.5. On the other hand, in the Section dedicated to the Documentary genre ("Filmed Architectures") will be selected those works that address a topic related to architecture, interior design and / or set design.

1.6. The deadline for the reception of audiovisual works ends on December 5, 2021.

1.7. Only works completed after January 1, 2020 can compete.

1.8. The works with date before January 1, 2020 may be selected for exhibition in FICARQ 2021 out of competition, forming part of the Information Section.

1.9. In the Official Fiction Section ("Art in the Seventh Art") only feature films (more than 50 minutes) will be accepted. In the Official Documentary Section ("Filmed Architectures") non-fiction works of any duration may be submitted.

1.10. In the two competitive sections works of any genre, style or technique will be accepted, as long as they fit the specific theme of the Festival and the Section to which they are presented.

1.11. All persons, over 18 years of age, of any nationality, can participate, individually or collectively, by sending their audiovisual creations through the Festhome platform (festhome.com).

1.12. It is also essential to include two frames of the work (300 ppp.).

1.13. The works will be presented in the original version with subtitles in Spanish or english.

1.14. You can submit an unlimited number of works by author, as long as each work is presented separately.