Participation
Participants may submit as many films as they wish. A different registration must be made for each of the films presented.
It will be necessary to carry out the following actions, explained in the development of these bases.
Film submission through: FilmFreeway
Participants will receive confirmation of receipt by the organization, both the registration and the work. You may complete a different registration for each film submited.
Term for registration and film submissions will be open from 25 May 2025 until the 5th November 2025.
Participation in the festival implies acceptance of these rules.
Requirements for participating films
The films must be unscreened or produced after January 1, 2022.
Content
The films must have at least one robotic or AI actor or character and any number of animals or human actors considered appropriate by the creators (zero to infinity). The films sent for competition will have a maximum length of 20 minutes, excluding bumpers and credits.
An extra video (with a maximum length of 5 minutes) with additional material (outtakes, making of, tributes and references) can be included with each film. This additional video will not be assessed by the jury.
Format
Technical specifications for films and additional material submitted: files must be MP4, audio AAC-LC, encoded in H264, and minimum resolution 1280x720 -commonly called 720p-, in 16:9
Participants must keep a copy of exhibition in FullHD of the film, in MP4, encoded in H264, of 1920 x 1080 in 16: 9 that ROS Film Festival organization will require if they become finalists, for screening in theaters and festivals.
Accepted languages
Films must be filmed in English or in any other language, as long as they were submitted with English subtitles. Festival organization reserves the right to subtitle film to any other language and screen it with these subtitles.
A film can be awarded a Jury Prize and an Audience Award.
All prizes are subject to current tax legislation.
The call may be declared fully or partially deserted and the jury’s decisions are final.
Festival Schedule
Film submissions: unitl 5th November 2025 at 23:59 CET.
Jury's decission anouncement: November 2025.
All times shown in the calendar are according to Madrid time CEST (UTC / GMT + 1).
7.Terms and Conditions
7.1.Participants commitments
t is the responsibility of the participants to have the rights to exhibit the materials included in the films (use of third party materials, appearance of people, minors, etc.).
To participate in the ROS Film Festival, submitted films must comply with current legislation regarding copyright and the right to privacy of individuals. Therefore, participants guarantee that the films submitted to the festival do not violate current legislation regarding exploitation rights, rights to honour, privacy or image or intellectual property rights and / or industrial and / or any other third party rights.
The organization of ROS Film Festival accepts no legal responsibility for the films in competition and its contents.
Participants undertake to keep a screening copy with the characteristics indicated in section 3.2.
Participants grant permission to ROS Film Festival for the dissemination of the work under the conditions specified in 7.2 of these rules.
7.2. Dissemination of work
The films sent to the festival will be published in the communication channels of ROS Film Festival, for display.
By taking part in the festival, authors will transfer to El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura S.L, for free during the festival dates, on a non- exclusive basis, the rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of the film and / or fragments thereof, through any channel.
The authors of the films authorize the festival to use, reproduce, disclose, print, publish and disseminate through any media, the names and image of the representative and the technical team responsible for the creation of the film, for acts of dissemination of films.
The festival organization is exonerated from any responsibility in case of malfunction of the Internet that prevents normal development of the festival.
7.3. Privacy Policy
Participants authorize El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura S.L to automatically process the data collected in the pre-entry and participation forms of the ROS Film Festival included in the website http://rosfilmfestival.com/en/ to receive information about the festival and any other issues related to the festival that might be of interest to the user.
In any case, the participant may contact the organization in order to access, modify or cancel their data via e-mail at shortfilms@rosfilmfestival.com
El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura S.L, as an entity responsible for the file data obtained from the forms at http://rosfilmfestival.com/en/ ensures proper compliance with current legislation regarding the protection of personal data.
8. Acceptance of rules
Attending this competition implies acceptance of its rules and its decision, which is final, and the waiver of any claims.
Exceptionally and for duly justified reasons, El Caleidoscopio reserves the right to modify the wording of the Rules in order to clarify or specify its contents without this involving a substantial or arbitrary alteration thereof. The text of the Rules will be available during the term of validity of this call on the website http://rosfilmfestival.com/en/
For more information or for further questions about the festival, please write to
shortfilms@rosfilmfestival.com
El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura S.L.
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SPAIN
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