Ibermedia announces the pre-selected projects of its 2026 call and the holding of its 36th Ordinary Meeting in Montevideo, within the framework of Ventana Sur

The Programme for development in support of the construction of the Ibero-American audiovisual space (IBERMEDIA Programme) has published the pre-selected projects from among all those submitted to the six support modalities established in this year's call.

The 2026 IBERMEDIA call was open from 30 January to 30 March, during which time 539 projects were submitted from the various countries of the Ibero-American Community. Out of that total, the Technical Unit of the Programme has pre-selected 370 projects, distributed as follows:

• 170 in the Feature Film Co-production modality;
• 113 in Feature Film Co-development;
• 15 in Series Co-development;
• 18 in Film Distribution and Circulation;
• 32 in Training Programmes, and
• 22 in Supplementary Aid for the Audiovisual Industry.

The lists of pre-selected projects in each support modality are available at the following link: programaibermedia.com/nuestras-convocatorias/preseleccionados. The projects are listed alphabetically by the country of the main production company and the project title.

IBERMEDIA also announces that the 36th Ordinary Meeting of its Intergovernmental Council will be held on 1 and 2 December 2026 in Montevideo, Uruguay, within the framework of Ventana Sur Río de la Plata, the leading audiovisual content market in Latin America. This edition is organised by the Cinema and Audiovisual Agency of Uruguay (ACAU), which currently holds the interim presidency of the Programme in the person of its president Gisella Previtali, and by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts of Argentina (INCAA), in collaboration with the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival and with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA.

The Intergovernmental Council of IBERMEDIA is formed by the film authorities of 21 countries of the Ibero-American Community, as well as by representatives of the cooperation institutions AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) and SEGIB (Ibero-American General Secretariat), and by the Technical Secretary of the Programme, Beatriz Navas Valdés.

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