This document governs the call for entries, the selection and the screening of films in the first edition of 24·90 FC. Submitting a film means having read and accepted it.
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24·90 FC is a film festival dedicated to football, based in Medellín, Colombia. Its first edition runs from 4 to 7 March 2027. It is organised by Corporación Cinéfagos, a non-profit organisation with Colombian tax ID (NIT) 900.654.298-9, registered at Calle 58A #40-39, Medellín.
The name brings together the two units it comes from: 24 frames per second, the pulse of cinema, and 90 minutes, the pulse of football. Two passions, one meeting point.
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One single condition unites the whole programme: that football is present, whether as the core of the plot, as the trigger, or as the context in which the stories unfold. Format, running time and cinematic language are free.
Fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and any other genre are accepted, first films included. The use of artificial intelligence tools is accepted, and we appreciate it being declared on the entry form. Declaring it does not affect the assessment.
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The Official Selection is the competitive part of the festival and has two sections. Each film is submitted to one only, according to its running time.
Running time is counted in full, credits included: a film of up to 39 minutes and 59 seconds goes to Toque Corto, and from 40 minutes, to Largo Aliento. If a film is submitted to the wrong section, the festival moves it to the right one.
The Full Ninety
Features from 40 minutes, from any country and genre.
Short Pass
Shorts and medium-length films from 1 to 39 minutes, from any country and genre.
The festival also programmes two non-competitive sections. Cuadro Abierto brings together the films the committee wants to show out of competition, and may include films received through this call. Fecha de Clásicos brings together the football films that have already become a reference point: what gets cited, what a festival or an academy awarded at the time, what a country claims as its own. Only films completed at least 10 years before the edition are eligible: for 2027, that means up to 2017. It is built by invitation and falls outside this call.
Latin American cinema, with Colombia at its centre, has no separate section: it competes on equal terms in the two sections of the Official Selection, and the programming team actively seeks it out.
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Entries are received only through Festhome, at festhome.com, from 1 October 2026.
The festival charges no submission fee. Festhome charges the entrant its own service fee, which belongs to the platform and not to the festival.
Each film may be submitted only once. Whoever submits it declares that they hold the necessary rights over the work and over all the material it contains, including music and archive footage.
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A committee appointed by the festival direction assesses every entry that complies with these rules and defines the official selection. Its decisions are final.
Results are communicated on 25 January 2027 to every entrant, through Festhome and by email, whatever the outcome.
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The rights holder confirms the film's participation in writing by 1 February 2027. Once confirmed, the film cannot be withdrawn from the programme.
If the screening copy or the subtitles have not arrived by 15 February 2027, the festival may remove the film from the programme.
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The first edition awards 2 cash prizes, independent of each other:
The awards are paid to the rights holder of the work, by bank transfer, within 60 days of the close of the festival. Any applicable taxes and transfer costs are borne by the recipient. The festival may give special mentions with no cash prize.
The awards are decided by a jury appointed by the festival, separate from the selection committee. Its decision is final.
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By submitting a film, the rights holder authorises the festival, for the purposes of this edition, to:
All other rights over the work remain with its holder. The festival does not distribute, sell or transfer the films it receives to third parties.
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Corporación Cinéfagos processes the personal data it receives in accordance with Colombian Law 1581 of 2012 and its implementing regulations. The data is used to manage the call for entries, communicate results and share news of future editions.
Rights of access, correction and deletion are exercised by writing to festival@2490fc.com. Data collected by Festhome is additionally governed by that platform's policies.
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Submitting a film implies full acceptance of these rules. Situations not foreseen here are resolved by the festival direction, and its decision is communicated in writing to whoever it concerns.
In the event of any discrepancy between versions of this document in different languages, the Spanish version prevails.
