The Hell Chess Film festival is an event celebrated in Campo de Gibraltar, Spain.
This year we got a special Festival with a final venue in Campo de Gibraltar (Spain).
We celebrate our screening and Awards Festival.
We celebrate the commemoration of the great Hell Chess film made by From the ruin to Paradise society. This is our fifth Edition .
This year you´ll receive a philosophical welcoming!
We invite all artists from the whole world to participate.
Every year since 2013, we project our Hell Chess film and we play chess in a tournament.
But this year the thing is going to be completed with your artistic works.
Make a better place to live with the best of your souls!
And be elegant to express it!

Awards & Prizes

The spirit of the Hell Chess Festival is so mysterious that you could feel a victory sensation even before starting. So, be sensitive now!

Sterling Silver Trophy to the best film.

Diplomas to:
Best Director (filmmaker of the year)
Best Acting (women and men compete against each other in a single category)
Best Story
Best innovative picture
Best technique

This is a festival where a short film could win a feature because all compete in the same category.

We got a very special communication with the filmmakers, so all your films will be revised in a very complete way and you will receive our review to improve future projects. You will feel this festival is the festival all filmmakers needed to have.
If you cannot attend the festival in person, we ship all the prizes by traditional mail.

Rules & Terms

The rules are quite simple.
You can submit all kind of films and all kind of music without any limit.The artist freedom is complete. You can submit short films, feature films, documentaries, video clips, trailers, Video Art or whatever digital sight and sound form. Films got no length required.
But the risk, a deep colorful philosophy and the new forms of cinema language are better for us to be selected. As well as synthesis and capacity of being brief.
If you are already a Hell Chess winner, send us an email and we can provide you a free code to submit your new works. But only if you have been a winner in any of the past editions. This year we want to invite the uppermost films on Earth to be WONDERFUL. So this festival is almost a secret garden to drink the eternal water. So, be aware because we are almost a private castle! If you are here you got lucky.

No limits in languages, but ALL NON SPANISH OR NON SILENT MOVIES MUST HAVE SPANISH SUBTITLES. Anyway, we can provide you a certain help to make those subtitles if you are eager to make them. As the same time we are open to photos and music, so you can submit them in our contest.
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  • Antonio Bellido Marin

    La magia en la Navidad cumplió su objetivo y me regaló este premio de honor. Por un mundo mejor deseo de todo corazón que la avaricia desaparezca de la faz de la tierra y uno de las mejores formas de luchar contra ella es con la crítica social y la denuncia. Agradezco a ustedes la difusión de este villancico.

    January 2020
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    Response from festival:

    Compartimos ese mensaje tan necesario. Gracias por esa gran canción que quedará grabada con letras de oro en el Hell Chess Festival para siempre.

  • Lubomir Dankov

    Best wishes for the festival!

    December 2019
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks Dankov. Your film was an impact. Good luck!

  • Alfonso Moreno

    This is a fantastic festival, run by true film lovers of manifest human depth and quality. Their communication is personal and attentive, openly sharing constructive criticism with filmmakers of any seniority level, many of whom have much use for such insights. Always respectful, always professional, always a response. Never a disdainful or dismissive word. We are very happy that Hell Chess exists and wish more festivals would subscribe to their impeccable ethics and care.

    December 2019
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    Response from festival:

    Alfonso Moreno: Your words are the best Christmas present to our festival. I do not know if we are today what you said but it is our goal to the future, because when we founded this event we dreamt on being something new for the filmmakers. And specially for artists so classy like you.

  • Alon Newman

    Thank you for selecting my film to be part of your festival Unfortunately I Couldn't attend but the communication was excellent at every step. Definitely submitting again next time round

    October 2019
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    Response from festival:

    This year the festival gave us deep lessons and your film has been one of the best to convey us such lessons. Thank you.

  • Alex Hernández

    Great Festival!!!!! Thanks for the selection of my short film "Infernum"

    January 2018
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    Response from festival:

    Thanks for your words.
    This year 2019 we are going to screen again several old winners from past seasons of the Hell Chess Festival. If you want that your film Infernum would be screened again, send us a message to confirm it. Have a good future!