Komodo sirens - Sonja Bader
Author's origin: Germany. Filming location: Komodo. Duration: 3 minutes. Official Selection. Sonja Bader invites viewers to immerse themselves in an unforgettable underwater journey aboard the Mermaid Liveaboard, visiting iconic locations such as...
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Mar Rojo - Elphinstone, Fury Shoals, Daedalus - Jorge Martínez Vázquez
Author's origin: Coruña. Recording location: Egypt. Duration: 4 minutes. Official Selection. A blue canvas that comes to life. This short film is an immersion into the wild soul of Egypt's southern Red Sea, a wordless journey where music becomes...
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Of Water and Wonder - Suhas Shyamsundar
Author's origin: India. Filming location: India and the Philippines. Duration: 6 minutes. Official Selection. This work combines visual narrative and the poetry of the ocean to tell the inner journey of a young woman who leaves the hustle and bus...
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Les gardiennes de l'Océan - René Heuzey
Author's origin: France. Filming location: Polynesia, Mayotte, and Madagascar. Duration: 6 minutes. Special mention from the jury for filming the beauty of large cetaceans. A musical tribute to whales, the ancestral guardians of the ocean, who...
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Una vida de pez - Leandro Blanco
Author's origin: Madrid. Recording location: The world. Duration: 5 minutes. Award: BRONZE Railing in the SHORT FILMS category. This work is a visual celebration of the immense diversity of the underwater world. Through stunning images, the s...
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Epic Run A Ritual in the Abyss - Weiwei Gao
Author's origin: United States. Recording location: California. Duration: 3 minutes. Official Selection. This work reveals a spectacle hidden beneath the ocean's surface: every fall, thousands of squid emerge from the depths to spawn in a synch...
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SOCAVA Vida sumergida - Enrique Talledo
Author's origin: Cantabria. Recording location: Cantabrian Sea. Duration: 29 minutes. Cantabrian Award. This documentary is part of the BIODIV/SOCAVA Project, an initiative of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the Santander Oceanographi...
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The Mother Of Diamonds. Kimberlite - Alexander Benedik
Author's origin: Austria. Recording location: Greenland. Duration: 5 minutes. Official Selection. A freediving expedition that recounts the extraordinary search for kimberlite, a mineral rich in diamonds formed deep within the Earth's core. Tr...
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Seascape Underwater Cinematic Collage - Clayton Conn
Author's origin: United States. Recording location: Mexico. Duration: 10 minutes. Award: BRONZE railing in the MUSICAL category. Seascape: Underwater Cinematic Collage offers a contemplative and poetic look at ecosystems beneath the sea's surfac...
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La Costa Quebrada: Naturaleza entre las mareas - Nat Savage
Author's origin: United Kingdom. Recording location: Cantabria. Duration: 19 minutes. Award: BRONZE Railing in the DOCUMENTARY category. This work offers a visual journey through a rugged stretch of the Cantabrian coastline formed over millenni...
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UnWRECKed - Bingqian Gao
Author's origin: United Kingdom. Filming locations: Dominica, Greece, and Indonesia. Duration: 3 minutes. Official Selection. UnWRECKed is an artistic meditation on change, resilience, and the ability to create beauty from destruction. Combini...
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Extinction. For a bowl of soup - Hendrik S. & Claudia Schmitt
Author's origin: Germany. Recording location: Spain. Duration: 3 minutes. Special mention from the jury for ecological awareness message. During an investigation conducted alongside the NGO Elasmocean in Europe's largest fishing port, Vigo, it w...
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La belleza que aún podemos salvar - José Ramón Castelló Fortet
Author's origin: Madrid. Recording location: Florida (United States). Duration: 3 minutes. Official Selection. This work is a poetic journey to the heart of the ocean, where beauty, life, and the song of the sea emerge against the shadow of dest...
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Norway, welcome to the darkness - Sonja Bader
Author's origin: Germany. Recording location: Norway. Duration: 6 minutes. Female Videographer Award Aboard Kinfish, the author guides us on a freediving and snorkeling adventure, showing intimate and magical encounters with orcas and humpback w...
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Dhangethi - Memories from Alif Dhaal - Jorge Martínez Vázquez
Author's origin: A Coruña. Recording location: Maldives. Duration: 5 minutes. Award: SILVER Railing in the MUSICAL category. Alif Dhaal is the Maldivian name for the southern part of the Ari Atoll. Among its many islands, Dhangethi—a small para...
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El alga invasora - Rugulopteryx Okamurae - Julio Junquera Aparicio
Author's origin: Cádiz. Recording location: Cádiz, Azores, and Madeira. Duration: 15 minutes. Special mention by the jury for raising awareness of a serious current environmental issue. This work exposes an urgent threat to marine ecosystems. Th...
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Un cuento del mar - El Farandulero
Author's origin: Tenerife. Filming location: Tenerife and the Maldives. Duration: 4 minutes. Award: SILVER Railing in the SHORT FILMS category. This work combines autobiography, fiction, and documentary to create a unique narrative. The story re...
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Komodo - David Galvañ Fernández
Author's origin: Alicante. Recording location: Indonesia. Duration: 4 minutes. Official Selection. In the heart of Komodo National Park, Indonesia, lies a vibrant underwater world teeming with life. This paradise, located in the Indian Ocean, is...
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The Island of Giants - Nuno Sá
Author's origin: Portugal. Recording location: Portugal. Duration: 50 minutes. Award: SILVER Railing in the DOCUMENTARY category. The Azores, a marine sanctuary in the middle of the Atlantic, are a route for great ocean travelers on their extrao...
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The first to fall - Olivier Bourgeois, Emma Pettersson
Author's origin: Andorra. Recording location: Thailand. Duration: 6 minutes. Special Selection in collaboration with the IUCN SSC Coral Specialist Group. In November 2024, scientists reveal an alarming reality: 44% of the world's reef-building c...
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The Tiny Wonders of Anilao. Philippines 2025 - Valera Sakhnenko
Author's origin: Canada. Recording location: Philippines. Duration: 4 minutes. Award: GOLDEN Railing in the MUSICAL category. “The Tiny Wonders of Anilao” takes you into the magical, hidden world beneath the surface, where tiny creatures, many s...
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The 100 best photographs from CIMASUB 2025
This slideshow immerses us in a careful selection of the 100 best photographs presented at the latest edition of the festival. Accompanied by an immersive soundtrack, the images transport us to the most fascinating corners of the underwater world ...
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Magic Moments - Alfred Schaschl
Author's origin: Austria. Recording location: Indonesia. Duration: 5 minutes. Award: GOLDEN RAILING in the SHORT FILMS category. This film takes us on a journey guided by a silent love for the sea: its infinite power, its mystery, and the secre...
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Shark Preyed - Marco y Andrea Spinelli
Author's origin: Italy. Filming locations: Spain, Italy, Senegal, Maldives, Philippines, Panama, and Morocco. Duration: 45 minutes. Award: GOLDEN RAILING in the DOCUMENTARY category. The Spinelli brothers, united by a deep connection to the sea—...
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Prize-giving ceremony
It is a real privilege for us to present the 23 awards to the best works presented in this 49th edition of our competition, from among the more than 300 works received from participants from all over the world. The third session of the Internatio...
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Photographic exhibition
During November, CIMASUB invites the public to immerse themselves in the beauty of the underwater world through a series of photographic exhibitions that transform San Sebastián into a window onto the ocean. These exhibitions can be visited in ico...
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TXIKICYCLE for schools
More than 3,000 students took part in this educational tour during 2024/25 to promote the conservation of the oceans. CIMASUB, in a continuous effort to promote respect for the marine world among young people, brings us the TXIKIZIKLO SUBMARINO....
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ADINZIKLO Submarine. Building closer ties with older people.
CIMASUB, in collaboration with the Real Sociedad Fundazioa, has launched a new programme designed to bring the fascinating underwater world closer to Day Centres and Residences for the Elderly. This initiative aims to offer our seniors the opportu...
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