Les Pyrénées Envolées (2)

Inizio del Festival: 30 agosto 2025      Festival si chiude: 30 agosto 2025

Short Film Festival
Nature & Imagination Theme

This is a mini-film festival project organized around a call for short films on the themes of nature and fantasy:

strange, creative, offbeat, poetic, supernatural, experimental, visual... depending on the perspective of the filmmakers who submit their works.

FLYING PYRENEES #2
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
RULES

I - FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION
Festival Date: August 30, 2025
Location: Arnaud-Guilhem Community Hall (31360) / Haute-Garonne / Occitanie / France

About:

We are organizing a short film festival around the theme of Nature and Imagination: The Flight of the Pyrenees.

The call for films is open from June 18 to August 6, 2025.

The selection of films will be announced on August 15.

This competition will award prizes in the following categories:

Best International Film, Best French Film, and Best Film from Occitanie.

Aesthetics:

Les Pyrénées envolées aims to bring an imaginary world to nature, in the form of short films.

The idea is to address the theme of nature in a non-realistic way; through dreamlike, strange, creative, offbeat, poetic, supernatural, experimental, and visual approaches...

When nature shifts, unreal, and original.

Cinematic journeys between poetic, fantastical, dreamlike, and experimental...

Elves, sprites are welcome.

An elephant in the stable.

Over-exposed, under-exposed, holding hands.

And why should nature always be green?

Why should rivers always flow towards the sea?

It's a desire for travel, for change, for surprise, for aesthetic and narrative exploration, for a change of scenery. Surprising nature!

Films must be less than 15 minutes long.

Screenings:

Three screenings will be held on August 30th. The screenings will be presented to a wide, diverse audience of all ages, subject to the judgement of a jury composed of film enthusiasts and professionals.

The festival will take place at the village hall in Arnaud-Guilhem, in Haute-Garonne (31360) / Occitanie, France.

Awards and Qualifications:

Best International Film Award
Best French Film Award
Best Occitanie Film Award

The winners will be awarded virtual laurels online, featuring the festival logo.

The winners will be announced online and on social media.

II - RULES
REGISTRATION CONDITIONS:

Article 1
The first edition of the Pyrénées Envolées festival will take place on August 30, 2025.

Article 2
The Pyrénées Envolées festival is organized by the Microlumen association.

Article 3 - Registration Conditions
The following are eligible to participate in the competition: short fiction films, experimental films, and films by visual artists, with themes of nature and fantasy, in an offbeat and creative manner.

Films must be suitable for all audiences; without obscenities, violence, sexism, racism, etc.

If they are in a language other than French, French subtitles are required.

The selected films will be screened in one of the three programs comprising the competition.

Advertising films, corporate films, and music videos are excluded from the competition.

The competition is open to all French-language short films or those not completed since January 1, 2015.

Article 4 - Duration
Films must not exceed fifteen minutes (15 min), including credits.

Article 5 - Subtitling
All non-French-language films must be subtitled in French.
The festival organizers will not be able to provide subtitling.

Article 6 - Selection
The selection process opens on June 18, 2025, and the submission deadline is midnight on August 6, 2025.

Only films accompanied by a duly completed submission form will be screened. An incomplete submission will result in immediate cancellation of the submission.

In the event of final selection, the producer or director agrees to send us a photo of the film and the director (or, upon request, other documents such as a biography, press article, etc.).

No film selected for the competition may be withdrawn by the producer or director once it has been selected.

Article 7 - Submission and Screening Media
The submitted films will be viewed through the platform.

Selected films must be sent to the Microlumen association and/or downloadable before August 25, 2025.
The film format will be HD or 4K.

The names, first names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses, as well as the film's title and running time, must be clearly displayed on the media.

Films must be in .mov, .avi, or .mp4 video format.


Article 8 - Committee
The selection will be made by a committee composed of members of the Microlumen association, film buffs and enthusiasts, artists, and film professionals, who undertake to view all the films submitted.


Article 9 - Selected Films
The list of selected short films will be published on the festival website
http://microlumen.free.fr/pyvol.html approximately 10 days before the start of the event, and the director(s), distributor, or producer(s) of the selected films will be notified by email.

Article 10 - Rental and Copyright
The selection of a film and its screening at the Les Pyrénées envolées festival does not grant any right to rental in any form, nor to copyright or exploitation rights.

Applying to the festival implies this waiver of rights.

The festival's aim is to promote, provide visibility, and select under-seen films that are seeking a first public exposure.

Article 11 - Jury and Awards
A jury, composed of film buffs, professionals, and film enthusiasts, will be formed for this first edition of the festival.

At the end of the event, several prizes will be awarded:

Best International Film Award
Best French Film Award
Best Film from Occitanie/Grand-Sud.

The award will consist of (virtual) laurels sent to the winners. This will be a form of recognition, but there will be no cash or in-kind rewards.

The reward for the winners will therefore be purely symbolic and will lead to communication, particularly through publications on social media.

Article 12 - Promotion
Participation in the Les Pyrénées envolées festival implies, for the promotion of the event, authorization to broadcast excerpts from the selected short films on television, radio, and the Internet (limited to 10% of the total length of the film and in all cases less than 2 minutes), as well as photos from the films, which will be used to promote the festival.

Article 13 – Other
The Board of Directors of the Microlumen association is responsible for resolving matters not covered by these regulations. It reserves the right to postpone, cancel, or interrupt the event depending on the requirements of its operation.

Participation in the first edition of the Les Pyrénées envolées festival implies unreserved acceptance of the terms of these regulations.