Les Pyrénées Envolées (3)

Inizio del Festival: 11 luglio 2026      Festival si chiude: 12 luglio 2026

Short Film Festival - Theme: Nature & Imagination

This is a mini-film festival organized around a call for short films on the theme of nature and dreams: strange, creative, offbeat narrative, poetic, supernatural, experimental, visual... depending on the vision of the filmmakers submitting their works.

A jury, composed of film enthusiasts, professionals, and film lovers, will be formed for this 3rd edition of the festival, with a jury president.

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

Best International Film,
Best French Film, and
Best Film from the Occitanie/Greater South region.

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

Rules

FLYING PYRENEES #3

SHORT FILM FESTIVAL RULES -
FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION

Festival Dates: July 11 and 12, 2026

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 Pyrenees in Flight. The call for entries is open from May 18 to June 20, 2026. The film selection will be announced on July 1. This is a competition that will award prizes in the following categories: Best International Film, Best French Film, Best Occitanie/Greater South Film.

Aesthetics: The Pyrenees in Flight aims to evoke an imaginative world around nature, in the form of short films. The idea is to explore the theme of nature in a non-realistic way; through dreamlike imagery, a strange, creative, offbeat, poetic, supernatural, experimental, and visual approach... When nature shifts, becoming unreal and original. Filmic journeys between poetic fantasy, dreamlike experimentation...
Goblins and sprites are welcome. An elephant in the stable. Over-ex and under-ex hold hands. And why should nature always be green? Why should rivers always flow to the sea?

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

Films must be less than 15 minutes long.

Screenings: On Saturday, July 11, 2026, three screenings will take place at 5:00 PM, 6:15 PM, and 9:00 PM.

They will be judged by a jury of film enthusiasts and professionals. The jury will vote in each category (International, France, Occitanie/Greater South) to
choose the best film.

The audience will also vote, through a show of hands conducted at the end of each screening by the jury president. The festival will take place in the village hall of Arnaud-Guilhem, Haute-Garonne (31360) / Occitanie / France.

Admission is free and open to all. Jury Prizes and Qualifications: B
est International Film, Best French Film, Best Occitanie/Greater South Film.

Audience Prizes and Qualifications: Best International Film, Best French Film, Best Occitanie/Greater South Film.

Winners will receive virtual laurels via the internet, featuring the festival logo. Winners will be announced online and on social media.

A screening will take place on Sunday, July 12th at 6:15 PM featuring the winners of 6 films, including the Jury Prize and Audience Award winners, selected the day before.


II - RULES AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS:

Article 1 The third edition of the Pyrénées Envolées festival will take place on July 11th and 12th, 2026.

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

Article 3 - Registration Requirements
The following are eligible to participate in the competition: short fiction or documentary films, experimental films, and films by visual artists, exploring the themes of nature and the imagination in an unconventional and creative way.
Films must be suitable for all audiences; free of obscenity, violence, sexism, racism, etc.

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

The selected films will be screened on one of the three programs comprising the competition on July 11, according to their geographical area: 5:00 PM: International, 6:15 PM: France, 9:00 PM: Occitanie / Greater South.

A screening will take place on Sunday, July 12 at 6:15 PM featuring the winners of the six Jury Prize and Audience Award films selected the previous day.

Advertising films, institutional films, and music videos are excluded from the competition. The competition is open to all French-language short films or short films that have been completed since January 1, 2015. Article 4 - Length: Films must not exceed fifteen (15) minutes, including credits.

Article 5 - Subtitling: All non-French-language films must be subtitled in French, either within the video file or in a separate .srt subtitle file. The festival organizers will not be able to provide subtitles.

Article 6 - Selection The selection process opens on May 18, 2026.

The registration deadline is June 20, 2026, at midnight. Only films accompanied by a fully completed registration form will be viewed. Incomplete applications will result in immediate cancellation.

Selection announcements will be made on June 27.

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.). Once selected, any film cannot be withdrawn by the producer or director.

Article 7 - Submission and Screening Format
The submitted films will be viewed via the platform. Selected films must be sent to the Microlumen association and/or made available for download before July 4, 2026.

Films must be in HD or 4K format. Films must be submitted in .mov, .avi, or .mp4 video format.

The full names of the director, producer, and distributor, along with their address, phone number, and email address (included in the information file), as well as the film's title and duration, must be clearly displayed on the media.

Article 8 - Selection Committee:
The selection will be made by a committee composed of members of the Microlumen association, film enthusiasts, film lovers, artists, and film professionals, who commit to viewing all submitted films.

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 (around July 1st).
The director(s), distributor(s), or producer(s) of the selected films will be notified by email on June 27.

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 relinquishment of rights.

The festival's aim is to promote, give visibility to, and select films that have received limited exposure and are seeking a first or rare public screening.

Article 11 - Jury and Prizes
A jury, composed of film enthusiasts, professionals, and film lovers, will be formed for this 3rd edition of the festival, with a jury president.

At the end of the event, several prizes will be awarded: Best International Film, Best French Film, and Best Film from the Occitanie/Greater South region.
The prize 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 prize for the winners will therefore be purely symbolic and will lead to publicity through publications, particularly on social media.

Article 12 - Promotion
Participation in the Les Pyrénées envolées festival implies, for the purpose of promoting the event, authorization to broadcast excerpts of the selected short films on television, radio, and the internet (limited to 10% of the total film length and in all cases less than 40 seconds), as well as photos of the films, which will be used to showcase the festival's promotional materials.

Article 13 - Other
The board of directors of the Microlumen association is responsible for handling any cases not covered by these regulations.

It reserves the right to postpone, cancel, or interrupt the event as needed for its operation. Participation in the 3rd edition of the Les Pyrénées envolées festival implies unreserved acceptance of the terms of these regulations.