Calling for Submissions: The IX Concurso Internacional de Videopoesía Maldito Festival 2025

The IX Concurso Internacional de Videopoesía Maldito Festival 2025 is accepting submissions from international artists for its video poetry competition. Open to creators working in various disciplines, the competition welcomes up to two videopoems per participant. Each submission must not exceed five minutes in length, including credits, and should emphasize the integration of poetry—be it written, spoken, or visually suggested. Finalist videopoems will be presented during the festival’s official ceremony in Albacete, Spain, in November 2025, where an international jury will select the winners and award cash prizes. The day after the ceremony, the selected works will be made available online via the festival’s dedicated channel on the streaming platform FILMIN

The Maldito Festival de Videopoesía is organized by the Asociación Cultural Maldito, a nonprofit cultural association founded in Albacete, Spain, in 2017 specifically to promote videopoetry. The festival aims to elevate videopoetry as a legitimate and expressive art form that connects people, evokes emotions, and offers new perspectives on the world. It seeks to bring visibility to this often-overlooked genre, especially in regions where access to experimental poetry and visual arts is limited. Through its annual festival and year-round educational outreach, Maldito fosters creative dialogue between poetry and visual media.