“Vieques: Un archivo vivo”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026
In a gripping and unpredictable 20-year quest, Juan Carlos RodrÃguez tells the moving story of Vieques. Through personal memories, community voices and archive footage, the film highlights the profound hardships endured by the people of Vieques both before and after the departure of the US Navy in 2003. It highlights the serious health crisis facing Vieques over the years.
“Fish without a wing ”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026.
Along the Honduran migration route, one hears the litany of the brief, precise stories told by those searching for their loved ones, recounting disappearances whilst carrying a photograph and reciting a date, a place and a name. The borders try to slow their momentum, but they struggle on and press forward. On the return journey, some bring back sand, others a coffin, and others a daughter (broken on the way and scarred long before, much earlier).
“NEYEN MAPU. El llamado del LanÃn”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026.
A Mapuche documentary offering a deeply spiritual and political perspective on the importance of restoring the environmental balance around the LanÃn volcano. It shares ancestral knowledge with society as a whole and challenges it to protect this territory in the face of the spread of extractive tourism.
“Espacio menguante”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026
Juana Ruiz, an activist from Madrid, was imprisoned by Israel between 2021 and 2022. Her story had a huge impact in Spain, where funds were raised and dozens of demonstrations were organised to secure her release. What did this mean? How did she manage to be released?
El jurado internacional de FICNOVA compuesto por activistas de la noviolencia en diferentes ciudades de Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, España y México, ha reconocido como finalistas, aspirantes a los galardones de esta 7ª edición, 41 pelÃculas procedentes de 20 paÃses en cinco categorÃas:
Reconocemos en todas estas obras no solo la denuncia de diferentes formas de violencia y discriminación, sino que además cada una de ellas muestra diferentes salidas o formas de superar o transferir positivamente esas situaciones, abriendo el futuro en una dirección noviolenta.
“Tejidos de luz, vida y comunidad den Guatemala”:
Cortometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026.
Milvia, Magda, Virginia, Jimena, Francis and Maya share a common dream: a future of hope for their communities. They are Guatemalan women – indigenous weavers, artists, public defenders and traditional midwives – who are fighting to defend democracy, human rights and cultural heritage at a time of historic political transformation.
“Mohanas. resistencias, memoria, paz”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026
The Popular Women’s Organisation (OFP), now in its 52nd year, is one of Colombia’s oldest women’s associations. Through pacifism and grassroots feminism, it has confronted the war in one of the country’s most turbulent regions, the Magdalena Medio, a natural department of which the oil-producing city of Barrancabermeja is the capital. In its work to defend human rights, the OFP has developed a wide range of strategies.
“Nos hace falta Sinar”
Largometraje Finalista 8 FICNOVA 2026
Through the use of archive footage and testimonies, it aims to highlight the critical situation facing human rights defenders in the country; and to appeal to our collective memory, honouring the life and work of the social activist Sinar Corzo Esquinca
List of works in the Official Competition Selection of the 8th FICNOVA 2026
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