Our Live Event at the Variรฉtรฉs Movie Theatre, May 11th was an absolute blast! ๐ŸŽ‰ Congratulations to all filmmakers whose films were screened. Check out the pictures above !! ๐Ÿ“ท.

๐–๐ž๐ฅ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ!

โžก๏ธ The ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐’๐‚๐‘๐„๐„๐๐ˆ๐๐† and ๐†๐€๐‹๐€๐„๐•๐„๐๐ˆ๐๐† will be organized in May 31 - June 1, 2025 in Variรฉtรฉs Movie Theatre. More than 1,000 filmmakers will be invited to the gala evening, a RED CARPET, A PHOTOWALL, DRINKS, A GOOD ATMOSPHERE, A PRESENTER and MUCH MORE AWAIT YOU.

๐‚๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐…๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ is international film festival with ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐Œ๐ƒ๐› ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‹๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ซ a ๐‹๐ˆ๐•๐„ ๐’๐‚๐‘๐„๐„๐๐ˆ๐๐† for film distributors and film professionals. Our festival ranks among the best film festivals for directors' first and second films. We offer you space to promote your film, you, your production and much more. Our goal is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms. We want to introduce to the world new film directors who will one day stand at the Oscars.

FilmFreeway has ranked our festival:
๐Ÿ† #1 MOST POPULAR FESTIVAL IN WESTERN EUROPE
๐Ÿ† #2 MOST POPULAR FESTIVAL IN EUROPEAN UNION
๐Ÿ† #15 MOST POPULAR FESTIVAL IN WORLDWIDE
๐Ÿ† #30 BEST REVIEWED FESTIVAL IN WESTERN EUROPE

You could also read about the preparations for the festival in successful magazines such as Vents Magazine or Film Daily: https://filmdaily.co/indie-film/film-festivals/the-cannes-film-awards-invites-to-the-screening-and-presents-the-jury/

Over the years we have hosted films by ๐€๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ข (Shortlist Oscar), ๐„๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐š ๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ (Oscar Nominee), ๐†๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ข ๐Œ. ๐”๐ง๐ค๐จ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข (Sundance Nominee), ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐š (Cairo Nominee), ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ (Raindance Nominee) and many other authors which later got recognized by major awards, along with filmmakers with their first films, students and independent producers. Among the submitted projects were films that were shown on ๐๐ž๐ญ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฑ, ๐‡๐๐Ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž. Therefore, our festival is an excellent opportunity to show the world your talent.

In the last four years since the festival was founded, we have organized ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ, organized a ๐๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ for filmmakers and ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐š ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. More than 100 films had their ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐‚๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฌ.

๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ to our festival have already placed their trust in our hands. Of these, 167 filmmakers won and 507 projects made it to the Official Selection.

The festival collaborates with experts in the field of European film art. We believe that we will bring you a lot of joy and happiness from winning and at the same time it will guide you in advancing your professionality. Our festival cooperates with and addresses several global ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐•๐Ž๐ƒ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ. The festival also ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐›๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž - ONLINE FILM MARKET:

https://cannesfilmawards.com/i-am-distributor1/recommended-projects

Our festival does not cooperate in any way and does not want to be a competitor of the Festival de Cannes. The aim of our festival is to present independent world films and offer the opportunity to screen your film in the most film city in the world.

๐Œ๐„๐„๐“ ๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐‡๐„๐€๐ƒ ๐Ž๐… ๐‰๐”๐‘๐˜

๐‰๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ญ (Australia) is an award-winning actor and film director. He is the recipient of various international film awards. It is also the winner of the Cannes Film Awards 2022 in the category - Best Director for Feature Film. James became a Fellow of the ๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐ƒ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ. With a strong acting background, James started his career studying at the prestigious acting school, ๐๐ˆ๐ƒ๐€ ๐ข๐ง ๐’๐ฒ๐๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐€๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š, before landing a guest role on the hit TV show Home & Away and Freemantle media's Wonderland. Since then, James has gone on to work in Hollywood alongside the likes of ๐'๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ค๐š ๐Š๐ข๐ฅ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ, ๐’๐š๐ฆ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‚๐ข๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ง.

๐“๐š๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ง๐š ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ-๐’๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ (Germany), a graduate of Vancouver Film School, graduated with a diploma in 2D Animation, she is also a graduate of Fine Arts of Toulon - CEAP (Plastic Art Study Certificat) with specialization in art. She is the director of the movie "Lucie" and animator for the movie "Mystic Melee". With the film Lucie, she won last year's Cannes Film Awards 2023.

The name of the main prize is ๐†๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ง ๐๐ข๐ž๐ซ, because the city of Cannes is definitely associated with the pier, and the pier is also a place for inner freedom, which is very important in art. The winners can look forward to their trophy, which they will be able to receive during the LIVE SCREENING.

Although our festival has more categories than film festivals usually have, our aim is to appreciate the largest number of filmmakers in the world and thus ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ . And we also want to find space for new film methods such as Virtual Reality, Game, 360, or Drone Video.

Our festival offers to submit your film in a non-competitive category - if your film is planning a world premiere at another festival, then this category is just for you. Our festival does not claim premiere status. However, we will give preference to films that have not yet been presented at Cannes.

Are you a film distributor or work for a national film centre? We will be very happy if you contact us, we will be happy to give you a bulk discount for your movies.

"๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ! ๐“๐ก๐š๐ง๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ." Pierre Descamps, french director and screenwriter

"๐…๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฃ๐จ๐› ๐ž๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐." Crystal Stevens, american screenwriter

"๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐š๐ง๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ, ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ญ, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ." Matthew Ewald, american actor and filmmaker

Awards & Prizes

The main prize is the ๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐†๐Ž๐‹๐ƒ๐„๐ ๐๐ˆ๐„๐‘, which is awarded for the main categories.

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐‚๐Ž๐๐“๐„๐’๐“ - ๐Œ๐€๐ˆ๐ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

๐Ÿฅ‡Best Feature Film
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Feature Documentary
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Short Film
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Short Documentary
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Student Film
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Indie Short Film
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Indie Feature Film
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Super Short Film

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ - ๐€๐ƒ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Drama, Best Director Drama Film, Best Comedy, Best Director Comedy Film, Best Horror, Best Director Horror Film, Best Thriller, Best Director Thriller Film, Best Sci-Fi, Best Director Sci-Fi Film, Best Animation, Best Director Animation Film, Best Experimental Film, Best Director Experimental Film, Best LGBTQ, Best Crime Film, Best War, Best Series โ€“ Pilot, Best Trailer, Best French Film, Best Young Filmmaker (under 30y), Best Travel Documentary, Best Western, Best Film with a human rights theme, Best Inspirational, Best Female Film, Best Action

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ โ€“ ๐ˆ๐๐ƒ๐ˆ๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ๐”๐€๐‹ ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐‘๐„๐‚๐“๐Ž๐‘ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Director Short Film (Fiction/Documentary), Best Director Feature Film (Fiction/Documentary), Best Director Student Film, Best Director Super Short Film, Best Male Director, Best Female Director

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ โ€“ ๐ˆ๐๐ƒ๐ˆ๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ๐”๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Actor (Short/Feature), Best Actress (Short/Feature), Best Child/Young Actor, Best Child/Young Actress, Best Duo, Best Ensemble

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ โ€“ ๐ˆ๐๐ƒ๐ˆ๐•๐ˆ๐ƒ๐”๐€๐‹ ๐“๐„๐‚๐‡๐๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Cinematography (Short/Feature), Best Editing (Short/Feature), Best Production (Short/Feature), Best Sound Design (Short/Feature), Best Visual Effects (Short/Feature), Best Costume, Best Makeup Artist, Best Original Screenplay

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ - ๐‚๐Ž๐๐“๐ˆ๐๐„๐๐“๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best European Film, Best European Director, Best American Film, Best American Director, Best South American Film, Best South America Director, Best African Film, Best African Director, Best Asian Film, Best Asian Director, Best Australian Film, Best Australian Director

๐’๐‚๐‘๐„๐„๐๐–๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐๐† ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ โ€“ ๐Œ๐€๐ˆ๐ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

๐Ÿฅ‡Best Super Short Script (under 10 pages)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Short Script (under 30 pages)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Medium-Length Script (under 60 pages)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Feature Script (over 61 pages)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best First Time Screenwriter (Short Screenplay)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best First Time Screenwriter (Feature Screenplay)
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Television Script

๐’๐‚๐‘๐„๐„๐๐–๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐๐† ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ โ€“ ๐€๐ƒ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Drama Screenplay, Best Comedy Screenplay, Best Thriller Screenplay, Best Horror Screenplay, Best LGBTQ Screenplay

๐Œ๐”๐’๐ˆ๐‚ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’

๐Ÿฅ‡Best Music Video
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Animation Music Video
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Experimental Music Video
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Dance Music Video
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Low Budget Music Video
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Original Song
๐Ÿฅ‡Best Director Music Video

๐๐‡๐Ž๐“๐Ž๐†๐‘๐€๐๐‡๐˜ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ - ๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐’๐‡๐Ž๐“ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Film Poster, Best Photography

๐…๐ˆ๐‹๐Œ ๐€๐–๐€๐‘๐ƒ๐’ - ๐๐„๐– ๐†๐„๐๐„๐‘๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐

Best Virtual Reality, Best Game, Best 360 Video

๐€๐ƒ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐๐€๐‹ ๐‚๐€๐“๐„๐†๐Ž๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’

Best Costume, Best Silent Film, Best Commercial, Best Dark Comedy, Best Adventure, Best Detective Film, Best Enviromental Film, Best Musical Film, Best Work-In-Progress, Best Education Film, Best Scenography, Best Drone Video, Best Fight Choreography in Film

๐ŸŸข OFFICIAL SELECTION โ€“ The festival undertakes that your film will be screened at the film festival.

๐ŸŸ  NOMINEE - Your project is one of THREE nominated projects to win in one of the categories. The nomination ensures that your project will be presented on our social networks, but unfortunately it will not be among the films shown, but you can still be a winner in one of the categories.

๐Ÿ”ต FINALIST - The jury decided to honor your project with a laurel for the Finalists, but it did not receive enough points for the project to be among the Nominated projects.

Rules & Terms

1. All films that are not in English, must have English language subtitles.
2. Multiple entries from the same submitter are accepted.
3. The film must be produced after January 1, 2021.
4. The decision of the festival selection committee will be final.
5. The excerpts from films send for Cannes Film Awards can be shown on the our social networks.
6. Films that are submitted must be the entrantโ€™s original work and shall not infringe on any copyrights or any other rights of any third Parties. Contestants agree that they have obtained all required copyright permissions regarding music, sound & images. etc presented in their film.
7. Cannes Film Awards organizers reserve rights change, cancel or re-schedule the dates, venue, awards & categories without consent or information to contestants.
8. The organizers reserve the right not to award any or all of the prizes.
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  • Aine ONYA Clarke

    Many thanks for your excellent communications and especially for the information about all the selected projects winners, finalists and nominees itโ€™s very empowering seeing all this in full display on your website - a lot of work must go into this and itโ€™s very much appreciated- thanks for our nomination we feel honoured being alongside your selections.

    May 2024
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  • Janice Corran

    Excellent. Love being chosen and now to wait!

    May 2024
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  • Henry Gonzalez Burgos

    Thanks Cannes Film Awards for having my film selected

    May 2024
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  • Mohamed Abdallah FAHMI

    I am very greateful to see my short film " The Stabbed " among the finalists. I would like to thank the staff for being very responsive and understanding. I wish you the best for the future.

    May 2024
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  • Christine Longoria

    Thanks so much, Cannes Film Awards, for awarding Baby Mine with the prize for First-time Screenwriter (Short Screenplay)! I appreciate the recognition and am so glad I submitted my screenplay. I wish I could have attended in person to express my gratitude. I highly recommend submitting to this acclaimed international competition.

    May 2024
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