Cannes Festival Handicap ’Entre Deux... Cannes’ (2025)

Festival start: 20 May 2025      Festival end: 31 May 2025

FESTIVAL ENTRE DEUX... CANNES

We accept films, that deal with themes of disability or Deaf culture, or about people who identify as 'disabled', 'people with a disability', or use terms like 'handicapped', 'functional diversity', or -abled'. We also welcome Deaf and neurodiverse people who do not identify with or use these terms.'

All the films need to be SUBTITLED IN FRENCH IN WHITE COLOR and in second line in English with orange color for them to be accepted on competition.

Our jury and the board of organisation is composed by valid and handicap persons.

Our festival held in Cannes during The Festival of Cannes.

Our prizes are honorifiques with a big aura.

- The Grand Prize of Jury
- The public Prize
- The best documentary Prize
- The prize of best direction, performance and scenario.

Other prizes, such as the “prix Jeunesse “ ( young people ) could be awarded following the selecting committee choice and the organisers .
- The prize of best direction, performance and scenario.

A film can only be awarded one prize unless this is cumulated with the “prix Jeunesse”.
The final results will be communicated to the Medias.

CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP 2025
(and below ENTRY FORM copy it, fill it and send it back at dominique.veran@free.fr)

Article 1 – Organisation

CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP
For all informations:


Telephone: 00 33 (0)6 86 18 26 75

Article 2 – Time and place

CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP will take place in Cannes at the same time than the Cannes Film Festival, end of May 2025

Article 3 – Criterias and conditions necessary for a film presentation:

Can be presented at the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP , films related to disability . The short film has to be subtitled in French in color white in first line and English in color orange in smaller police and second line.

Only one film a year for each director.

Article 4 – Dates, inscription and viewing of the film by the selection committee.

The opening date for the inscriptions and the reception of the links to unable the viewing is NOW.

The closing date for the registration and posting of the viewing links of the films subtitled in French (or not) is the 30 th of November 2024.

All entries have to include:

. The Entry Form filled and signed.

. The film is to be sent to: sbullot@gmail.com

BEWARE! NO DVD OR REGISTERED MAIL.


Article 5 – Dates and selection :

. On the 15th of January 2025 the film has to be subtitled in French and english if not the film won't be selected.

. To enable the selection, the selection committee relies on universal qualities: comics, informative, artistic, documentary, educational and emotional of the film. The selection committee is totally sovereign of its choices.

Article 6 : Film programming .

In the course of February 2025, the final selection will be done and the films will be programmed for the FESTIVAL following a certain order of diffusion.

Article 7 – Official diffusion of the selected films:

Between the 1st and the 16th of march 2025. the films legal owners will be informed of their selection to the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP.

Under no circumstances any communication of whoever is allowed on the possibility of a selection of a film before the official broadcasting under the threat of being disqualified.

Article 8 – Authorization of the films broadcasting.

The signatory person of the registration form undertakes to have read the rules.

She or he undertakes by this signature that the film proposed in the entry form is free of all rights.

She or he undertakes to be lawfully in possession, for the film proposed at the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP , of all the forms and rights linked to the intellectual properties and the right to respect private life.

This work must be free of any financial compensations linked to : broadcasting rights, musical rights, phonographic rights, composition and author’s rights.

The signatory person of the registration form gives right to the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP to screen the film taking part and selected, in the French cinemas.

This film will be broadcasted under the following conditions: twenty five (25) projections maximum in the course of the tree (3) years following its selection, only on French theaters

Article 9 - Broadcasting:

In case of selection, the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP reserves the right to present an extract of the film on the internet and the television. This extract will no exceed 10 %of its total length. The CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP reserves the right to use short extracts of the film in its official announcement. Furthermore, photographs taken out of the film could be used to promote the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP to the medias.

We would ask to be able to use the trailer or extracts of the film on our different internet sites and other promotional support.

Article 10 – The film prize :

After each viewing the JURY will deliberate and vote.

The winning films will be those who will gather the most votes from the JURY and the public.

The Prizes will be awarded at the end of the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP following a vote from the selecting committee.

The main prizes are:

- The Grand Prize of Jury

- The public Prize

- The best documentary Prize

- The prize of best direction, performance and scenario.

The final results will be communicated to the Medias.


Article 11 – Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.

The organisation of the CANNES FESTIVAL HANDICAP does not undertake any costs for accommodation or travel for the participants even if their film is selected.