What is going on at the same time in Aiud, in Montevideo and Timisoara, in Tunis and Baia mare? It’s the Very Short Movies Festival –Festival des Très Courts.

In 7, 8 and 9 may, 51 very short movies from the whole world will be projected in 26 cities from Romania, and in towns from other 13 countries. All the movies shall respect the same rule: not to last more than 3 minutes. All genres are accepted: fiction, animation, documentary, experimental movie…A concentration of imagination and inventiveness!

The Festival des Très Courts was born in Paris, in 1999; the aim of the festival is to promote the very short movies that last less than 3 minutes, and to gather the people from different areas of the world at the same time, under an identical international program, becoming as such a unifying and unique event. The festival arrived for the first time in Romania in 2007. One year later, more than 5600 spectators had seen the projections from 23 cities from Romania and from Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova. This year, at the third edition in our country and under the coordination of the French Cultural Centre from Cluj, the festival gathers the network of French cultural centres and French alliances, associations for youth, foundations, city halls and county councils, and also cineastes and cinephiles from all the corners of the country.

This year too, the festival has a very strong presence in Romania: with 26 cities, it’s the first country in what concerns the number of the participating cities, leaving behind even France. Another reason to be proud of is that the international selection includes for the first time 2 very short Romanian movies: Old ladies never dream, produced in Cluj, and Immerse, produced in Bucharest. Another very short Romanian movie, Question mark, is included in the international selection Paroles de femmes.

The selection “Paroles de Femmes”

In this edition of the festival the woman is the centre of attention by creating a special section of 21 very short movies about women.

The selection “Around the Très Courts” – Romanian movies

Encouraging and promoting the local audio-visual creations is a priority of the festival. The invitation to participate in the Romanian movies competition was launched in all the country, the only rule to obey being the duration of the movie: less than 3 minutes. This is how a new selection of 20 very short Romanian movies was created. In every city in the country, the spectators will vote for the “Audience prize”.

Details about the movies can be found in the section TOWNS of this website.