One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival (16)



Deadlines

10 Sep 2024
Call for entries

25 Nov 2024
Festival closed

21 Mar 2025
Notification date

28 Mar 2025
12 Apr 2025

Address

centre bourg,  63420, Apchat, Auvergne, France


Festival description
Short film festival >1' 54'<
Feature film festival >55'


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 March 2023
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films  >1' 54'<
 Feature Films  >55'
 Any language
 Any language
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Photo of One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival

Photo of One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival
Photo of One Country One Film - Apchat-Issoire International Festival

English


Festival start: 28 March 2025      Festival end: 12 April 2025

Unique Location :

ONE Country ONE Film is a unique festival festival taking place in two different venues located in the same beautiful countryside area in the heart of France.

Unique Concept :

Every film selected is the sole representative of its country in each of the following categories : Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films. Every year a Country is honored and several films are selected from that country. Since its creation in 2010, ONE Country ONE Film has selected 119 countries.

Send your film (short or feature, animation, fiction, experimental or documentary) and be the only one to represent your country at ONE Country ONE Film 2025 -16th edition!!

Cash Prizes: 2,200€

The Awards and Cash Prizes are :

Best Fiction Feature (55 minutes or more) : 1000 €

Best Fiction Short (54 minutes or less) : 400 €

Best Documentary : 400 €

Best Animation : 400 €

(Any bank, transfer and conversion fees will be deducted from the indicated award amount)

The Honor Awards are :

The Feature Films Public Award
The Short Films Public Award
The Young Public Award
The High School Jury Award for Best Feature Film
The High School Jury Award for Best Short Film

1 – ONE Country ONE Film International Film Festival is organized by “Un Monde Meilleur” association. Therefore, every right given to the festival according to the regulation below is also given to the association. The 16th edition of the festival will take place in Issoire and Apchat, France, from March 28th to April 12th, 2025. Awarded films, and a few audience favorite children and short films will screen again in Apchat, France on September 5th & 6th 2025 and in other possible theater venues.

2 – The main goal of the festival is cultural diversity and exchange between countries. No more than one film in each of the following categories: Feature Films, Short Films, Children Films, is selected per country represented so every film will have the honor to officially represent its country. Moreover, each year a country is honored and several films representing that country will be screened. The honored country is announced together with the selection.

3 – The awards and cash prizes are : Best Fiction Feature (55 minutes or more) (1 000 €), Best Fiction Short (400 €) , Best Documentary (400 €), Best Animation (400 €). The honor awards are : the Feature Films Public Award, the Short Films Public Award, the Young Public Award and the High School Jury Awards for Best Short Film and Best Feature Film. Possible bank transfer and conversion fees might be deducted from the indicated award amount. The festival is open to any category: documentary, fiction, animation, experimental (except music videos, commercials and corporate films), any duration, any genre (except pornography), and any shooting format. The films must have been completed within two years preceding the festival. The list of films selected will be announced on the Facebook group and page in March 2025 latest.

4 – Entry fees to the festival are 15 € per short film (less than 55 minutes) and 25 € per feature length film (55 minutes or more). Films can be entered on the following platforms:
Festhome (https://festhome.com/). Search for « ONE Country ONE Film ». The deadline for entries is November 25th 2025.

5 – Authors and/or right owners for the films selected confirm that they have acquired the music rights for their film and freely give away their rights regarding the screening of the film (image and music) for the duration of the festival and for other possible screenings that the festival would organize after the festival in France or in any foreign country within the “Better World Project”, an international charity program designed by the festival to share with the world’s different cultures using film as a medium in remote areas, for audiences who can’t easily get access to cinema and to support charity organizations and foundations throughout the world. More information about the “Better World Project” on our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/423422817798950/

6 - Authors and/or right owners for the films selected will provide free of charge as soon as they receive the notification of their selection either a French subtitled file of their film if available or an english SRT file (subtitle file) along with a link to download a clean version of the film on synch with the SRT file. If needed the festival can help free of charge with the translation from English to French.

7 - Please note that the Festival does not pay any screening fees and that there are no exceptions to this.

8 – Some films or portions of them might be used for educational purposes workshops during or after the festival. The authors and/or right owners for these films will be contacted regarding that usage.

9 - Authors and/or right owners for the films selected freely give away their rights regarding the usage on any media (press, TV, internet, theatres) of images or extracts from their films. These images or extracts will be used for the program or the promotion of the festival. These images or music extracts might also be used in a teaser to promote the festival and for the awards announcement.

10 - Cancellation of participation: after the festival’s notification of selection has been sent by email (usually in January), the film's rights owners have two weeks to withdraw their film(s) from the selection if they wish. After these two weeks the film(s) will be included in the selection according to the conditions indicated in the festival’s regulations.

Distributors, should make the film’s rights owners aware of this when entering their film(s).






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