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The Very Short Movies Festival (Le Festival des Très Courts) is organized by Très d’Esprit and Nanosphère Productions (France). The purpose of the festival is to promote internationally the movies shorter than 3 minutes.

In Romania and Republic of Moldova the organizer is the French Cultural Centre from Cluj-Napoca, an institution of the French Embassy in Romania, residing in Cluj-Napoca, str. I.C. Bratianu, no. 22. The French Cultural Center coordinates the participation of Romania, Hungary and Republic of Moldova at the 12^th edition of the Very Short Movies Festival (Festival des Très Courts).

The International Very Short Movies Festival (Festival des Très Courts)

In May, 50 movies selected from the entire world will be projected at the same time in about 25 cities in Romania and 60 cities all over the world In each one of them the spectators will vote for the international audience prize.

The Very Short Movies Festival gathers the people from different areas of the world at the same time, under an identical international program, thus becoming a unifying and unique event.

A unique opportunity to promote local audio-visual creations

We take advantage of the festival's impact to show, apart from the movies of the identical and official international competition, a programme named “Around the Très Courts” that contains around 15 short films made in Romania.

Encouraging and promoting these productions is a priority of the festival: the call for applications is launched in the entire country. In every city, the spectators vote for the Audience Prize. All genres are represented: fiction, animations, synthesis images, documentary, movies made with the cell phone. A single rule is to be obeyed: the duration.

Invitation to participate

The call for participation was launched in Romania and Republic of Moldova. Every producer can deliver or send by post his or her movies at the French Cultural Centre in Cluj  -Napoca (see “contact”).  

The French Cultural Centre from Cluj-Napoca, coordinator of the Very Short Movies Festival in Romania and Republic of Moldova, shall collect the registration forms and the movies from the film makers. The movies can also be sent to the local organisers in every city, along with the registration form.

The 12^th edition of the Very Short Movies Festival will take place between 7-9 may 2010. Projections can be organized until 21 June 2010. In Romania, Hungary and Republic of Moldova, the festival is taking place in several cities; the list is now being defined and can be accessed in the  Towns section of the website. If any problems are encountered, the French Cultural Centre, the coordinator of the Very Short Movies Festival in Romania, Hungary and Republic of Moldova, has the right to cancel or to modify the place and the date of the event.

Any person or group of persons, no matter the citizenship, can submit films in the national selection of the Very Short Films Festival. Each  participant must fill in the registration form that implies the acceptance of the herein rule book.

A producer can sumbim several movies in the festival. These movies may all be included on the same DVD, but a registration form must be filled in for each film. The DVDs will not  be returned to the filmmakers.

The deadline for delivering the films is 15 March 2009.

The creations must respect the following conditions:

-maximum duration of the movie: 3 minutes (without the title and the generic);

The movies must have the following technical characteristics to guarantee an optimal quality of the image:

Standard video DVD, PAL

Video: 720x576,  MPEG-2, PAL

Audio: PCM 48kHz, 16bit, stereo / AAC Dolby Digital Stereo / MPEG-1, Layer II, 48kHz, 16bit, stereo

Post-processing sound: normalization 0db.

The creations must respect the following conditions:

- every filmmaker is responsible for the content of the movie he/she presents;

- every filmmaker must obtain the legal rights to broadcast his/her movie and he/she must guarantee that his/her movie is not a copy or a plagiarism of any existing creation;

- every filmmaker must obtain the legal rights to broadcast the film's soundtrack; otherwise, the filmmaker takes full responsibility for any litigation that may arrise.

- all genres are allowed: fiction, documentary, animation, experimental movis, ..

- there are no constraints in what the language of the film is concerned  (it can also be silent). Nonetheless, because the audience will be formed in majority of Romanian speakers, please subtitle in Romanian any film that is in another language;

- all subjects are allowed, except for those that contain racist and xenophobic messages, religious propaganda or that can be considered offensive to certain groups of people.

Final selection

The movies will be collected at Cluj-Napoca. A jury will make the final selection. It will be made up of film professionals,  film professors from Romanian film universities  journalists, representatives from the local organisers of some participating cities, a representative of Orange – the sponsor of the festival, a representative of the audio-visual service of the French Embassy in Romania, a representative of BRD (Romanian Bank for Development) – sponsor of the festival in Cluj-Napoca. For this selection key-persons from abroad can be called up.        

The decisions of the jury are final.

 The movies selected at the national level will make up the programme “Around the Très Courts” and will be projected in the participating cities in Romania.