From December 2 to 9, 2025, the 23rd Bogoshorts festival will be held in Bogota, Colombia, It is the largest festival dedicated to short films in South America, bringing together professionals from across the region to showcase short films of all kinds: fiction, animation, experimental, documentary, and, more recently, XR.
This year, Unifrance has exceptionally organized a trip for a delegation of French short film producers specializing in or interested in animation to attend the 9th BFM, the rapidly growing co-production market developed by Bogoshorts and dedicated to animation.
Initiated by the Ambassade de France in Colombia in partnership with Unifrance and the Bogoshorts Festival, this trip will include five French producers selected following a call for applications launched by Unifrance. They are invited from December 1 to 9 to participate in the market (BFM) and the festival, with a view to promoting co-productions between France and South America through meetings, masterclasses, pitches, and discussion sessions.
The five companies that are part of the delegation are:
Unifrance is also supporting director Grégoire Graesslin, who will travel to the event to present his film Dammen in the Fanático Freak Fantástico Competition.
The festival's extensive program will feature numerous French works
International Competition
- With Tapes and Toasts in the Car by Kiana Naghshineh
- Acrobats by Éloïse Alluyn, Hugo Danet, Anna Despinoy, Antonin Guerci, Alexandre Marzin, and Shali Reddy
- Amelia Starlight by Laura Thomassaint
- Carcassonne-Acapulco by Marjorie Caup and Olivier Héraud
- In Transit by Vadim Kostrov
- Life With an Idiot by Theodore Ushev
- Loynes by Dorian Jespers
- S the Wolf by Sameh Alaa
- Shadows by Rand Beiruty
- The Spectacle by Bálint Kenyeres
- A South Facing Window by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
National Competition
Collections Competition
- Astronauta by Giorgio Giampà
- Night Shows by Anand Sapin
Fanatico Freak Fantastico
- Weird to Be Human by Jan Grabowski
- Birth of a Fire by Archibald Martin
- Dammen by Grégoire Graesslin
- Red by Zoé Arene
- God is Shy by Jocelyn Charles
VR Competition
- Another Place by Domenico Singha Pedroli
- The Exploding Girl VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- Human Violins by Iona Mischie
