Fantosfreak Festival is the first festival in Spain who takes cares of the freak as a genre. Of course we also love the fantastic and the horror. We starts in 2000 and now we have an audience of 1.800 people every screening night. We only accept fantastic, horror or freak shortfilms with a maximum duration of 20 minutes.

a) First Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
b) Second Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
c) Third Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
d) Garmanbozian Award (for the short film whit the greatest Fantosfreak’ s spirit): Trophy.
e) Audience Award: Trophy.
f) Pepito de Oro Award for the best death.
g) Charlie Award for the dearest creature.
h) Gagci Award for the best gag.
i) Avestruz Award for the best fright.
j) Pterodáctilo Award for the best scream.
k) Ya se sabe o es sospechoso Award for the best sentence.

FANTOSFREAK Short Film Festival Rules & Regulations

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 25th FANTOSFREAK SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2024

The city council of Cerdanyola del Vallès, in coordination with Fantosfreak association, opens the 25th Edition of the Fantosfreak Short Film Festival 2024.

Eligibility Requirements:
1. Everybody can take part in without any kind of restriction.
2. Short films of fantasy, horror and freak genres are eligible.
3. A maximum of five short films per each competitor are eligible.
5. Short films with a maximum duration of 20 minutes are eligible.

Submission Guidelines:
Short film entries in any language different from Spanish or Catalan must be subtitled in any of these two languages, or at least competitors must send to Fantosfreak association a dialogue list in English, Spanish or Catalan.

Screening :
1. Short films selected will be publicly screened during the Fantosfreak's exhibition named Fantosfreak Fantastic and Freak Short Film Festival in Cerdanyola del Vallès, normally taking place on the month of July.
2. The competition organisation reserves the possibility to screen the short films submitted in Fantosfreak Film Festival Competition in other festivals and exhibitions in collaboration with the Fantosfrek association. In that case, it will be informed that those short films have been submitted to the Fantosfreak Short Film Festival.

Deadline:
The entry deadline for submitting short films is on April 15th.

Awards & Jury's Decisions
1. In the 24th Edition the awards will be:

a) First Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
b) Second Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
c) Third Fantosfreak Award: Trophy.
d) Garmanbozian Award (for the short film whit the greatest Fantosfreak’ s spirit): Trophy.
e) Audience Award: Trophy.
f) Pepito de Oro Award for the best death.
g) Charlie Award for the dearest creature.
h) Gagci Award for the best gag.
i) Avestruz Award for the best fright.
j) Pterodáctilo Award for the best scream.
k) Ya se sabe o es sospechoso Award for the best sentence.

2. Jury's decisions and decisions taken by others with awards decision-making power are unappealable.

The Fantosfreak Short Film Festival will take place in Cerdanyola, a city near Barcelona, from the 15th of July to the 19th of July 2024. The short film selection will be announced by email to all competitors and it will be released at the Festival website: http://www.fantosfreak.com/

Submission to the Festival implies the adherence to the present competition rules and regulations. The Festival has the power to deal with all unforeseen cases in the present competition rules and regulations. In case of dispute, only the Spanish version of the present competition rules and regulations will count, and not the English translation.
Further informations: info@fantosfreak.com

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  • Genial en todos los sentidos! Buen rollo, música, comedia, diversidad y mucho cine, un gran festival, una gran experiencia, gracias:)

    August 2023
  • Alberto Corredor Marina

    This is an example of a festival run by fans and made for fans. Your film will be screened to a very engaged audience of 1500 people in a perfect outdoors location. The Fantos team is not only very engaged and helpful but also very knowledgeable about genre films. 10 out of 10.

    August 2018
  • Pol Diggler

    F****** great. Go freak or go home!

    July 2018
  • Joan-Pol Argenter

    Fantosfreak is one of the best Fantastic Short Film Festivals in Spain, if not the best among those that are exclusively for shorts. The screenings are amazing, open air (with good image and sound quality in spite of being open air), in front of a crowd over 1.000 people, and they have created a very funny ritual of presenting the films with their own filmed gags full of freak humour. The short films selection is always very good, and quality and entertainment come always before PC shorts for them. Congratulations to this festival!

    September 2016
  • Laura TOWNSEND

    We're so glad to have been part of the show!
    We couldn't attend the festival itself unfortunately, but we wish to thank both the selection committee, festival crew and attending audience for our selection and award.
    Can't wait to receive the trophy!

    August 2016