3 reasons to attend the International Short Film Festival in Toulouse
After two years of physical absence due to the health crisis, the international short film festival returns to Toulouse. Around thirty films will be screened at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Audiovisuel (ENSAV) and at the departmental council from this Friday, April 15.
Concours de Courts is once again arriving in the pink city for a 19th edition. On the program of this international festival: the free screening of around thirty short films with a maximum duration of 15 minutes per film. A first evening is scheduled for Friday, April 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Audiovisuel.
A second evening will be held on Friday April 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to the departmental council of Haute-Garonne.
Objective of this festival: to honor an underrepresented cinematographic genre, the short film. Cinephiles, future directors or simply curious, don’t move: we give you three reasons to attend the screening of these films from around the world.
This short film festival was born in 2003 and was initiated by Serge Regourd, President of the Culture, Communication and Heritage of the Occitanie region. The first idea was to create an event in the form of a tutored professional project, and to initially address film and audiovisual schools.
Very quickly, a tremendous dynamic took shape and the Concours de Courts became one of the best-listed short film festivals beyond national borders.
Serge Regourd, creator of the festival
Today, 258 venue applications from all over France, Europe, Asia and Africa have been received to take part in this 19th edition. About thirty were selected by a pre-selection jury made up of students from film and audiovisual schools and film enthusiasts. The criteria relate in particular to the quality of the script, the staging, the direction of the actors and the technical elements.
Among these thirty films broadcast, a second selection will be successful to authorize a handful of them to compete. 6 prizes will be nominated: grand prize, best animated film, best first short, best international film, best French film and a prize awarded by the public, the favorite prize.
Last year, the grand jury was made up of film professionals and emblematic stars of the big screen, including Mathieu Almaric, Laurent Gamelon and Gabrielle Lazure.
For this new edition, a mini-series called “The Directors of Tomorrow” is being shot. The goal: to highlight new generations of filmmakers. Students from ENSAV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Audiovisuel) in Toulouse passed in front of the camera to make known their background and their aspirations.
This mini-series airs on Youtube.