12th Edition
The 12th edition of the Ibiza International Film Festival will take place December 13–18, 2026. Submissions are currently open. The official selection, jury, and programme will be announced in November 2026 following the close of submissions on September 29, 2026.
We welcome submissions from independent filmmakers worldwide. No minimum budget. No nationality restrictions. Equal opportunity regardless of origin.
11th Edition
The eleventh edition drew 712 submissions from 58 countries, with screenings attracting over 8,400 audience members across six days at Cine Serra and Teatro España. Jury president Martina Crespo — the acclaimed Spanish documentary filmmaker — led an international panel that awarded the Falcó d'Or to Portuguese director Maria Santos for her second feature, "The Hours of Dusk." The film subsequently secured distribution across eleven European territories and was named Best Portuguese Film at the Sophia Awards. A total of €48,000 in prize money was awarded across all categories, with thirteen Falcó d'Or trophies presented at a ceremony that the Spanish press described as the most emotionally resonant in the festival's history.
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10th Edition
A landmark edition celebrating a decade of the festival, the tenth edition introduced the Ibiza Film Labs masterclass strand and welcomed a record 680 accredited industry guests from 34 countries. The Falcó d'Or for Best Feature went to Senegalese-Belgian co-production "Corridors of the Heart," directed by Fatou Diatta — the film subsequently secured distribution across 23 territories and was acquired by MUBI for streaming. The 10th edition screened 62 films in total, hosted 12 masterclasses and panels, and saw the Ibiza Pitch attract its largest ever field of applications. A celebratory and artistically exceptional edition that confirmed the festival's position as a major destination for world independent cinema.
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9th Edition
The ninth edition placed African and Central Asian cinema at its heart, with an unprecedented six films from sub-Saharan Africa in competition. The winning film — "When the Fig Tree Blooms," a Burkinabé debut feature by Samira Ouedraogo — went on to become Burkina Faso's official submission to the International Feature Film Award at the Academy Awards. Jury president Rashid Al-Masri called the competition "the most geographically courageous selection I have been asked to judge." The edition saw 561 submissions from 47 countries, with a particular surge in applications from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Pacific.
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8th Edition
Returning after a year's hiatus, the eighth edition carried a special electricity that all who were present remember vividly. The festival community — filmmakers, programmers, audiences — arrived with a hunger for cinema that two years of global disruption had sharpened into something almost sacred. The venues were full, the conversations long and passionate, and the work on screen extraordinary. Ghanaian director Yaw Darko's debut feature "The Harbour of Forgetting" took the Falcó d'Or in a ceremony that the Spanish and international press unanimously described as the most emotional in the festival's history. The film was later acquired for distribution across 14 African countries and screened at the Berlinale Forum. 489 films were submitted from 43 countries.
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7th Edition
The seventh edition marked the festival's return to full programming capacity with a bold selection that stretched from Zimbabwe to the Tuva Republic — a region in Russia bordering Mongolia whose cinema had never before been seen at a European festival. Director Oscar Herrero dedicated the edition to "the filmmakers who kept making cinema even when no one could see it," and the selection reflected that spirit: urgent, diverse, and willing to travel to the furthest edges of world cinema. Zimbabwean-British director Chengetai Mhembere's "Red Earth, White Sky" won the Falcó d'Or, becoming the first Zimbabwean film to win a European competitive award. 382 submissions were received from 38 countries.