Tabaca Film Fest

The Tabaca Film Fest – the Mythological Film Festival of the Pyrenees – was born from our passion for the Pallars Sobirà, a remote territory of the Pyrenees, for its stories and legends, and for cinema. A land of mountains, passages and natural borders, where ancestral tales still survive within the collective memory.

We are a festival dedicated to filmmakers who explore myth in its broadest sense: those who question origins, beliefs, fears, invisible forces, transmitted stories, archaic figures and popular imaginaries.

Myth flows through many genres: fantasy, horror, folk horror, science fiction, mystery, historical cinema, epic drama, road movie, western, nature cinema, ethnographic, spiritual and philosophical cinema. Myth often emerges where we least expect it.

Every territory has its own Yeti, its own mermaid, its own werewolf, its own mountain guardian. The Pyrenees, like the Alps, the Cévennes, Brittany, the Massif Central and rural landscapes around the world, are crossed by powerful creatures, beliefs and stories.

Beyond our general awards, we place special importance on the Gea Award (€1,000 and Festival trophy), for the best international short film inspired by mythologies from all corners of the world, and the Biterna Award (€1,000 and Festival trophy), for the best international short film inspired by mythological characters or places of the Pyrenees, or incorporating local dialectal, linguistic or identity features.

These awards are a direct invitation to international filmmakers — and especially to creators from the Pyrenean territories and border regions — to revive, reinvent and connect mountain mythologies, borderland stories and shared imaginaries.

Tabaca Film Fest is an international short film festival of fiction, animation, documentary and video-dance. We seek inhabited, sensitive and daring films, driven by a strong vision, capable of making the fantastic emerge from reality.

The third edition will take place in person in Gerri de la Sal (Catalan Pyrenees) from September 18 to 27, 2026, and will include an opening ceremony, public screenings of the finalist films, and a closing ceremony with the awards presentation.