Zinegoak International LGBT Film Festival

This international festival accepts LGBT films only. Local (Spanish) and international filmmakers can apply their works.

Awards

Zinegoak Award (Feature Film International Jury):

• Best Feature Film
• Best Direction on a feature film
• Best Screenplay on a feature film.

Zinegoak Award (Documentary Film International Jury):

• Best Documentary Feature.

The audience with their votes:

• Zinegoak’s Audience Award to Best Short Film (1.000 Euros), sponsored by Euskaltel.

OFF Zinegoak Jury:

• Best Experimental Feature Film.
• Best Experimental Short Film.

Basque Actors Association Jury:

• Best Main Performance on a feature film.
• Best Secondary Performance on a feature film.

Youth Jury:

• Youth Award to the best Short film.

Diversity and Human Rights Jury:

• Diversity and Human Rights Award (3000 Euros), sponsored by the Department for Social Action and Citizen’s Rights of Bizkaia Provincial Council, to the film which better treats the situation of human and social rights all around the world.

Lesbianism and Gender Jury:

• Lesbianism and Gender Award (1500 Euros), sponsored by the Area of Equality, Cooperation, Diversity and Festivities of the Council of Bilbao, to the film which better treats the subject of lesbianism and gender.

Bilbao’s International GayLesboTrans Film and Performing Arts Festival, Zinegoak, was conceived in 2004 as tool to raise awareness through culture, films and the performing arts.

Organized by Hegoak association, this annual event has become a benchmark of LGBT festivals internationally. It is held in February in the city of Bilbao, and in a large number of Basque towns in March.

Zinegoak presents over 100 scenic and audiovisual projects (feature films, short films, documentaries…), many of them awarded in different international competitions.

The Jury of the festival is composed of international audiovisual and/or LGTB connoisseurs and, each edition, Zinegoak Honorary Award is bestowed upon a LGTB filmmaking- related personality in recognition of their work or career path.

Zinegoak’s cultural program focuses on quality cinema and performing arts. Likewise, all related activities and events are based on and foster not only non-discrimination on grounds of affective bonds, sexuality or identity issues, but also the denunciation of recurring human rights violations throughout the world, while striving to increase visibility of new family models.

Previous editions of Zinegoak brought together over 10,000 spectators, with effects rippling through the Basque Country and beyond.

The festival is held in over a dozen spaces within the city of Bilbao, plus 30 additional venues in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba.