The open call for DIP 2026 received 361 applications from Germany, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, El Salvador, the United States, France, Greece, Guatemala, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Uruguay, Venezuela and Taiwan.
The DIP 2026 selection committee is made up of Rosa Caldeira (Brazil, filmmaker, DIP 2024), Marlies Pahlenberg (Germany, artist and filmmaker, DIP 2021), Agustín Toscano (Argentina, director, actor and screenwriter, DIP 2021), Jorge Vaño (Spain, programmer and filmmaker, DIP 2023), Alejo Duclós (Argentina/Spain, curator and filmmaker, DIP 2024) and Manuel Abramovich (Argentina, filmmaker, director of DIP).