SHORT FILMS FERTILE GROUND
Demetera International Festival is a young, bold, and independent event in the short film world. Since 2019 we gather filmmakers from all over the world and celebrate culture and art.
Our goal is to promote a wide variety of styles to cinema fans and fellow international filmmakers and to establish a strong network for filmmakers, producers, and marketing professionals.
Despite the chaos of covid we’ve hosted one of the most followed online festivals in France during the pandemics, with almost 20.000 unique viewers.
We partner with Sticky Soils, Paris based group of artists, to design and create beautiful and meaningful awards for our winners. Each piece is unique and 100% handmade, inspired by nature, its force, and its astonishing beauty.
This year's award is inspired by the beauty of icebergs as they slowly drift and melt, infusing the world from their sole being – a metaphor of the current times and culture.
Our team is currently working on our big 4th edition for 2022, which will take place in the city center of Paris.
Whether you're a filmmaker or just a film enthusiast, we hope you will join us this year and experience what makes the Demetera International Film Festival one of the "Top 100 Best Reviewed" festivals according to FilmFreeway!
This year, Demetera is pleased to partner with script development consultancy ScriptUp to launch the first edition of its Short Screenplay Competition.
All Short Screenplay Competition submissions will be read in full by a team of industry readers with a strong background in screenwriting appraisal.
The top third of these screenplays will progress into the Quarter Finals and will receive Demetera Screenplay Competition laurels. From these, ten will be selected for the Semi Finals and will receive the matching Demeter laurels.
From the ten Semifinalists, five screenplays will be selected as Finalists and will be read in full by a jury of industry professionals. The script with the highest aggregate score from the jury will be crowned winner of the Demetera Screenplay Competition 2023.
DEMETERA 2022
Best Narrative Short: Que règne le silence by Lucas Trochet
Best Documentary Short: A close shave by Michele Aboud
Best Animated Short: Un coeur d'or by Simon Filliot
Best Experimental Short: Graindelavoix: Saint Anthony’s fire by Sebastian Pańczyk
Best Music Video: Benz delaer by Sebastian Pańczyk
Demetera Prize: Upya by Maxence Cazorla
DEMETERA 2021
Best Narrative Short A real man by Aurélien Mathieu
Best Documentary Short Welcome to Thoo Mweh Khee by Chris Neilan
Best Animated Short The Catastrophe ou la Charade by Shawy
Best Experimental Short KILTER by Rob Stanton Cook
Best Music Video Metamorfosis by Karen Zen Eckell and SebastiAn Badino Lynch
Best Actress Allison Cameron Gray
Best Image Q: ghostly remote effect by Marcus Hanisch
Audience Awards Sang d'Encre by Guillaume CAGNIN
Prix special A Thousand Ways To Kiss The Ground by Henna Taylor
DEMETERA 2020
Best Narrative Short The House of Lekeitio by Jasone Urgoitia Urrutia
Best Documentary Short Ghazipur, in the shadow of the landfill by Maxime Priou, Arthur Rayssiguier, Marin Guillochon
Best Animated Short The Wedding Cake by Meet Monica Mazzitelli
Best Experimental Supernova by Laís Sambugaro
Best Music Video Refugee by Morgan Matyjasik
Best VR Short Swing by Mari Jaye Blanchard and Mark Reisch
Prix du Jury Through the Eyes of an Astronaut by Pierre Emmanuel Le Goff et Jürgen Hansen
Audience Awards Extra Innings by John Gray
DEMETERA 2019
Best Narrative Short Cold Storage by Thomas Freundlich
Best Animated Short Big Toast by Sacha Beeley
Best Experimental Short Jump by Clea van der Grijn
Best Music Video Phoet Symmetry Breaking by Ezra Capogna
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🏆 Best Narrative Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best Documentary Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best Animated Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best Experimental Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best Music Video Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best Virtual Reality Short: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
🏆 Best New Media / CGI: handmade Trophy by our partner Sticky Soils (worth $500) + Digital Certificate + Unique NFT Animation by our partner Nasty Crowd.
All winners receive a digital certificate, ready to print. Some winners will be personally interviewed, and those interviews will be shared on our social media.