Phenomena Festival

Phenomena Festival is a home for filmmakers who create worlds that don’t ask for permission.

For almost a decade, we’ve been celebrating bold visions in sci-fi, fantasy, horror, animation, thrillers, and every strange constellation of genre-bending stories that refuses to sit quietly in a box.
We look for meaning woven inside imagination, for risk-takers who trust their instincts, for visions that might be too strange, too raw, or too ambitious for the usual circuits. If it carries your unique voice, we want to see it.
Bring us the impossible, the intimate, the unsettling, the beautiful.
Let’s make cinema that matters — and offer it to the people it was meant for.

Our screenings take place inside Circuito Spcine, the largest public cinema network in the world. This means something rare: your film meets an audience that is truly diverse. People of all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life sit together in the dark, discovering independent cinema as a shared spark. Every session is free to the public, and every filmmaker is invited into a space where art is treated as a common language, not a luxury.

We champion films that linger — the ones that slip under the skin, whisper after the credits, and expand what cinema can be.

Phenomena is international by nature: over the years we’ve welcomed works from nearly every corner of the world — from Mongolia to Iran, Russia to Argentina, what connects them isn’t geography, but courage.

Our week-long program includes screenings, conversations with creators, workshops, and encounters that tend to spill into the night. There’s no rating restriction, and no pressure to dilute your vision. We protect the filmmaker’s independence, and we celebrate audacity.

If you’re crafting a film that bends the rules, cracks open reality, or stares into the uncanny with clarity and heart, we invite you to submit to Phenomena Festival.

Submit your film and join us in São Paulo. Expect the unexpected