The International Environmental Film Festival, or FReDD Festival (Film, Research and Sustainable Development), takes place every year in Toulouse and throughout the Occitanie region. It is France's leading audiovisual festival of scientific culture linked to sustainable development.

The 15th edition will take place from 09 to 18 October 2025 in Toulouse and the Occitanie region. As in previous years, it will feature a selection of original, powerful and intelligent films linked to the ecological transition. Selected films will have the opportunity to be presented on big screens in some forty partner cinemas in Toulouse and the Occitanie region, usually in the presence of the directors.

The films selected will be judged by a panel of filmmakers, industry professionals and leading environmentalists, who will award prizes in six categories :
- FReDD International Grand Prize
- Public Award
- One Hour Film Award (52 min)
- Science Film Award
- Short Film Award
- Young Audience Short Film Award
We hold a ceremony at which we invite directors and reward the winners with a piece of art. A great opportunity given to filmmakers to watch their film on the big screen and for networking.

FReDD's purpose is to offer the public major films highlighting scientific knowledge, techniques and research around the themes of ecological transition. FReDD produces events and promotes resources offering numerous opportunities to encourage democratic conversation around these issues. Our festival represents France within the Green Film Network (GFN), a network of over 40 green film festivals worldwide.

To participate, submit your films and audiovisual formats before April 30, 2025.
We look forward to seeing you at the festival !

Awards & Prizes

The judges of the festival will carefully select the films to be nominated for awards and to be screened in front of the live audience during the festival, usually in the presence of the directors. At the end of the festival, we hold a ceremony at which we invite directors and reward the winners with a piece of art. A great opportunity given to filmmakers to watch their film on the big screen and for networking.
We give prices in six categories:
- Grand Prize (long feature)
- Public Award (long feature)
- One Hour Film Award (52 min)
- Science Film Award (long feature)
- Short Film Award
- Young Audience Short Film Award
The winners will be announced at the event, on our website, and on social media.

Rules & Terms

✔️To submit a project, you must have created the project yourself, own the rights or have permission from the owner of the content to submit the film
✔️The film must be realized after 1 January 2024 and be linked with ECOLOGY (food, energy, ocean & sea, social economy, human rights, agriculture, sustainability, wildlife...).
✔️All foreign-language films must be submitted with French, English or Spanish subtitles. Films in French do not require subtitles, but if you have them they will be useful for our deaf and hard of hearing audience.
✔️The FReDD International Film Festival accepts submissions for films in the following categories: Long Features (fiction and documentaries), 52 minutes films, Short films and Young Audience Short Film

Informations needed to manage your application :
✔️Link to view your film (on filmfreeway or on other hosting platforms)
✔️Official details (french title, name of the director(s), year and country of production, duration in minutes, film language VF or VOSTFR)
✔️Communication details (a french or english synopsis (600 characters maximum), a poster of the film (120x160cm), HD photos from the film, and optionally : teaser, press kit, pedagogical kit)
✔️Any relevant informations to complete your application

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  • Thibault MARTIN

    Very good experience. Warm Hospitality. Very good screening quality at the Mazades Theatre. Very invested crew. There was just a bit of a lack of cinema professionals for the short competition.

    October 2023
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  • Dratep Pictures

    The FReDD is a great festival taking place in Toulouse. We strongly support this major green film festival. As we visited it for the shortmovie competition, everything was very well organised, we had really great discussions about ecology and the big screen. We wish this nice festival to continue living for films and ecology!

    October 2023
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  • Timothy Parrant

    Vert well organised and great communication

    October 2021
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