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The Call for Entries for the 2025 edition of L'Alternativa is now open!

L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival, celebrates its 32nd edition this year. We offer filmgoers, filmmakers and industry professionals a unique opportunity to discover and enjoy screenings and activities that value creative freedom, diversity, innovation, commitment and thought-provoking reflection.

L’Alternativa, 32nd Barcelona Independent Film Festival will take place from 13-23 Nov. 2025. The main onsite venue is the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).

We accept features and shorts, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, essay, animation and experimental from Spain and worldwide. Cash prizes.
 

Isla de Crear is a creative centre, combining a range of disciplines, to explore creating
and crafting in a new method, away from commercial constraints or industry
guidelines.
For our new call-out, we are looking for artists, craftspeople, thinkers and creatives
from all different fields to explore the theme: FAIL PROUDLY

We are purposefully keeping the theme as broad as possible, and encourage you to
think as tangentially as possible. We are not looking for the same ol’ works, but
instead want to encourage all our visiting creatives to challenge themselves into
doing new things and exploring new forms.