This festival is THE Catalan festival and therefore offers a good starting position from which to enter into dialogue with very important film distributors (Filmax, Manga) and broadcasters (TV 3, Media Park). The festival is really to be recommended for the fields of horror and fantasy films. In general the festival is covered intensely by the national media.

Best Motion Picture
Best Director
Best Screenplay,
Best Interpretation (male and female),
Best Fantastic Genre Short Film (This short film will be eligible for the Oscars®).
Best Special Effects
Best Music
Special Jury Prize

Only fantasy and horror films are accepted,
No prior screening in Spain,
Feature length films of all nationalities, previously unreleased in Spain and produced in 2022/2023.
Òrbita Category — genres closely related to fantasy like thrillers, action movies, adventure or black comedy.
Noves Visions Category — fantasy-themed, with a commitment to experimentation, new languages and formats and generic hybridization.
Panorama Category — Fantasy and horror themes with an independent inclination.
Anima’t Category - animated feature films with a runtime of less than 30 minutes.
Midnight X-treme Category for independent horror movies.
Serial Sitges includes the presentation of genre TV series, as well as TV movies, web series and other similar formats.
Phonetastic Sitges Mobile Film Festival - a selection of fantastic genre short films made with mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.).
Seven Chances Section - Seven feature films, related to the Festival’s thematic area, selected in collaboration with the Associació Catalana de Crítics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics (Catalan Association of Film Critics and Writers).
Brigadoon Section - A selection of independently produced horror and fantasy themed feature length films, documentaries and short films, made in 2019/2020.
The only accepted procedure is: upload the short or feature film to the Festhome platform.

The Festival will cover shipping expenses for the prints to be screened, unless the print needs to be sent to another Festival.

Best animated short film will be eligible for the Oscars.