★ Live Screenings ★

★ IMDb Qualifying Festival ★

Paris Film Awards is an International Monthly Film Festival with live screenings in the heart of Paris, at the L'Epée de Bois Cinema.

Paris is considered one of the most beautiful city of the world, our mission is to promote films, and be another step up in the filmmakers' careers.

We had important movie stars among the films in competition, as Eric Roberts, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm McDowell, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Bill Nighy, Kevin McNally and many more actors and directors from all around the world.

A selection of short films will be screened every month in Paris.

Awards & Prizes

Best Picture
(feature film or short film, any genre)

Best Feature Film
Best Indie Feature Film
Best Feature Documentary
Best Short Film
Best Indie Short Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Super Short Film
Best Web/Tv Series
Best Music Video
Best Experimental
Best Animation
Best Student Film
Best Drama
Best Comedy
Best Horror
Best Thriller
Best Action
Best Sci-Fi
Best Fantasy
Best LGBTQ
Best Director
Best First Time Director
Best Producer
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Short Script
Best Feature Script

Gold Awards
Silver Awards
Honorable Mentions

All winners receive a free certificate (pdf/jpg file).

Rules & Terms

We accept:

Short and feature films, in the form of narrative (fiction), documentary (non fiction), experimental or animated film.
Music Videos
Web/TV Series (also pilot)
Feature Scripts, Short Scripts

By submitting your film, take note that:

You agree to use parts of your film (including trailer/teaser/film poster/stills) for promotional purpose.
Entry fees are non-refundable.
Only a selection of winning films will be screened.
You agree to receive promotional email from us and our festival partners
Multiple entries are allowed for each filmmaker and each entry may be entered in multiple categories.
You can submit again your work for the following months.
The films must include English or Italian subtitles (unless the spoken language is English or Italian)
The scripts must be in English or Italian.

We do not accept:

Amateur videos
Extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations
Films involving politics / films promoting political agenda
Films with a poor production standard (bad sound, lack of subtitles/captions for non-English films, video resolution less than 720p HD.

357 Reviews
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  • Nathan Benham

    A very nice group of people, I happy they enjoyed my film and grateful for the win. Thank you

    October 2024
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  • Silvano Plank

    For my team, cast and I it was a nice new experience being part of your festival and we enjoed it very much.

    October 2024
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  • tiburce tiburce

    Great experience for EJECT a film about domestic violences with 4 awards : Best Independent Film, Silver Award for Florence Perrier mean actress, Best Cinematography and Best Producer ... It's important for that kind of low budget film to be considered by professional jury.

    October 2024
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  • Amir Shah

    Not that great of an experience at all from this film festival, no communication from the festival, didn’t receive any response or certificate , I did get selected , but nothing else , also this is a very shocking and intense film , so I’m very surprised by a 0 reaction from anyone .

    August 2024
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  • Harun Kazaz

    Thank you for the honor of including "Rising Wings" in your festival program. It was wonderful to see our documentary among such a distinguished selection of films.

    August 2024
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