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IV edition / 2024

International Film Festival for Women Filmmakers

Submit your film

Fincar 2024 is more than a festival; is a movement that invites filmmakers – women and people with non-conforming gender identities – to share their creations. We celebrate disorder, asynchrony and the transformative power of feminist cinema. Bring your film to the screens of Recife and Sertão do Pajeú and join us in the re-deconstruction of this welcoming and provocative space.

Regulation

Regulation
FINCAR – International Women Filmmakers Festival will take place in November and December 2024 in the cities of Recife and Afogados da Ingazeira (Pernambuco, Brazil).

1) Conditions for applications

1.1) Only films directed by women, transvestite, transmasculine and non-binary people will be taken into account, accepting codirection with cisgender men;
1.2) Short, medium and feature films of all genres;
1.3) Produced between 2021 and 2024;
1.4) Movies not spoken in Portuguese should have subtitles in English, except for the films spoken in Spanish that should have subtitles in Spanish;
1.5) Movies spoken in English should have subtitles in English;
1.6) Movies spoken in Portuguese should have subtitles in Portuguese for accessibility issues;
1.7) Films already registered in the previous edition of the festival can not be re-registered;
1.8) Mini-biography of the director.

2) Forms and deadlines for applications

Entries will only be accepted online via Google form on the festival website (www.fincar.com.br), from September 2nd to 22nd, 2024.

3) Registration to the FINCAR fim club circuit

3.1) Films submitted and selected will be shown in other Brazilian cities in the weeks following the event in Recife in conjunction with partner film clubs. Short films and medium-length films will be accepted. Only those films that select the option to participate in the film club circuit at the time of registration will be evaluated by the curatorship to join this circuit.

4) About the selection

All films submitted, selected or not, will receive an email communication up to one month before the event.

5) About the screenings

The selected movies will be screened in digital formats. The specifications of the formats and types of uploads required will be informed in the selection email.

6) Others

The festival management shall decide on all matters not covered by this regulation. For more information contact us by email: fincar.producao@gmail.com

About

As we approach Fincar’s fourth edition in 2024, we can’t help but feel nostalgic for the time we shared in the movie theaters. After the last online edition (2021) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this in-person one will produce fresh energy for this festival that was born out of the desire to promote havens for exchanges between directors, films, and audiences. Every time we organize a feminist-focused film festival in Northeast Brazil, it challenges us to reconsider our motivations and future directions. We plan to go beyond simply reinforcing the lines that are already woven into the screen’s fabric by 2024. We are going to unpick a few stitches so that the pathways that led us here can be seen through the holes in them.

Whether in Recife or Afogados da Ingazeira (Sertão do Pajeú), we celebrate the potential to keep up our presence in public street cinemas and the new and old partnerships that keep us vibrating even harder. We invite all female and gender dissident filmmakers to share their work, mindful of our responsibility to engage with these productions on an aesthetic and ethical level. We want to consistently communicate to the public the multifaceted nature of these cinemas, which defy all imposed boundaries. Therefore, we persist in our efforts to redesign this contagious festival space in order to ensure that it is consistently more inclusive of the diverse experiences of creating, viewing, and discussing cinema.

The energy that propels this edition is derived from the hand gesture that pulls the thread, which disrupts the temporal linearity that dictates one can only advance. We are moving away from the univocal flow of time and toward asynchrony, which is the curiosity about other movements of time. Our perception is that asynchrony is a deceptive device that induces disorder. Disorder, with its feminist proposal to topple order, continues to beckon us. Let us hear that call echoing through the films!

Previous editions

Team

Artistic Director
Maria Cardozo

Production
Vilarejo Filmes

Executive Production
Livia de Melo

Associate Producer
Kika Latache

Curators
Bruna Tavares, Ingá, Maria Cardozo, Luli Pinheiro, Janaína Oliveira (FICINE), MAPE e Negritude do Audiovisual PE

Art
Isabella Alves

Graphic Design
Isabella Alves

Communication Manager
Marcela Balbino

Website
Ana Carolina Barros

Translation
Érika Essinger

Photos

Contact

You can contact FINCAR via email at fincar.producao@gmail.com or via the form.

Produção

Incentivo

incentivo

Parceria