The selection committee is made up of the festival 5 shorts programmers.
1 - GENERAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
The competition is open to international films, produced in 2023 or 2024 and under 50 minutes in length.
Any short that is strange, bold, fantastic, magical, trash, weird, disturbing, dirty-funny, innovative, provocative, tongue-in-cheek, daring, experimental, gory, scary, abstract or gloomy is admitted. In one word any short that is able to arouse the viewer's intellect, senses and curiosity.
We do not want to narrow the selection, and we let you be the judge of wether your film has this little something that makes it different.
The selection committee is not due to justify its choices.
The festival does not pay any screening fee for shorts in competition.
2 - FILMS SUBMISSION
Films submission deadline : July, 31st (regular) or August 15th (late).
Films are to be submitted through filmfreeway.com.
The spoken language has to be English or French, or there must be English or French subtitles.
Participation implies the unreserved acceptance of this regulation.
The screening of a selected film can not be canceled by the entrant.
3 - SELECTED FILMS
Results will be announced on October, 1st, 2024.
5 - DIRECTORS ATTENDANCE
Travel costs and accommodation of the participants will not be covered by the festival. However, the selected shorts' directors will enjoy a pass for every screening during the festival, if they are attending.
If they plan to attend, the directors are invited to get in touch with the festival as soon as possible, so that we can help them with their trip and their stay.
7 - COPYRIGHT AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
The director, the producer or the person in charge commit themselves to owning the music rights, the film rights and the text rights of the works appearing in the selected film. Otherwise, the festival's liability could not be upheld.
Any dispute concerning this regulation and its interpretation should be held before Lyon Tribunal de Grande Instance.
