The Très Court International Film Festival (the ''Très Court'', formerly the ''International Festival of Very Shorts'') is a

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which takes place annually in June in multiple cities simultaneously. It is dedicated to short films that are no longer than four minutes. Each year, around 2 000 international short films are screened in competition and of those around 140, or 7% are screened at the festival, of which a much smaller number will be awarded one of the various awards available that year. The event is held in over 20 countries. In 2018, 30,000 people attended the Festival, including 10,000 in France.

History

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The International Festival of Very Shorts was created in 1999 by Marc Bati and Pascal Toutain. The Festival was originally dedicated to films that were no longer than 3 minutes. The first edition took place in

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at the Forum des Images in October 1999. From 2002 onward, the Festival was implemented in other cities in France. In 2005, the Festival reached an international audience, as screenings were organized in

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. In 2009, the Women's Words program was created by Katia Martin Maresco. The Festival was renamed in 2014 and became the Très Court International Film Festival. The French program was created in 2018.

Organization of the Festival

International coordination is managed from

by the Tout en Très Court organization. The Festival is backed by multiple public agencies and private companies, such as the Ministry of Women's Rights, the

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Program

In Competition : * (International cinema) * (Films centred around women) Out of competition : * (Children's films) * (French cinema) * (Provocative and subversive films) Former programs : * (Music videos) from 2014 to 2017 * (Films about disabilities) from 2012 to 2017 * (Episodes from webseries) in 2016 * (Films that depict a societal change) in 2012

Awards

* Awarded to the best short in the International competition * Awarded to the most original short in the International competition * Awarded to the best animation short in the International competition * Awarded to the best short in the Women's Words competition * Awarded after all the attendees voted for their favorite short film *

Participating countries

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

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Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...

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The jury presidents

Each year, a president is chosen to chair the jury of the official selection of the festival. *1999 : Moebius, cartoonist *2000 :

Charlélie Couture Charlélie Couture (born Bertrand Charles Elie Couture, 26 February 1956) is a French & American musician and multi-disciplinary artist, who has recorded over 25 albums and 17 film soundtracks, and has held a number of exhibitions of paintings and ...

, singer *2001 :

Patrick Bouchitey Patrick Bouchitey (born 11 August 1946) is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in over 80 films and television shows since 1972. His film '' Cold Moon'' was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''L ...

, director *2002 : Gustave Parking, comedian *2003 :

Jean-Michel Ribes Jean-Michel Ribes (born 15 December 1946, in Paris) is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point. Between 1982 and 1984 Ribes had directed ...

, director *2004 :

Emma de Caunes Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976) is a French actress. Life and career De Caunes was born in Paris on 9 September 1976 as the daughter of actor and director Antoine de Caunes and director and graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. Her paternal gra ...

, actress *2005 :

Pierre Richard Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Pierre Richard is considered by many, such as ...

, comedian *2006 : Gerard Krawczyk, director *2007 :

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

, director *2008 :

Yves Boisset Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 Fre ...

, director *2009 :

Jean-Loup Hubert Jean-Loup Hubert (born 4 October 1949) is a French director and screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on w ...

, director *2010 : Philippe Muyl, director *2011 : Nicolas Altmayer, producer *2012 : Jean-François Halin, writer *2013 : Marianne Slot, producer *2014 :

Bruno Putzulu Bruno Putzulu (born 24 May 1967) is a French actor, born in Toutainville, France. Life and career Born to a Sardinian father, Bruno Putzulu was born and raised in Toutainville, Haute-Normandie. Although he liked football, he chose an acting ...

, comedian *2015 :

Pascale Ferran Pascale Ferran (; born 17 April 1960) is a French film director and screenwriter. In 2007, her film ''Lady Chatterley'' won five César Awards including Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Adaptation. Her 2014 film '' Bird People'' was sele ...

, director *2016 : Aure Atika, comedian *2017 :

Nicolas Boukhrief Nicolas Boukhrief (born 4 June 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. Boukhrief started his career as a journalist. In 1990 he created ''the Newspaper of the cinema'' on Canal+, and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he ...

, director *2018 :

Éric Judor Éric Judor (born 25 July 1968 in Meaux), sometimes simply called Éric, is a French actor, director, screenwriter and comedian. He gained notoriety by forming, with Ramzy Bedia, the comedy duo Eric and Ramzy. After several feature films with hi ...

, comedian *2019 :

Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius ( lt, Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, '' The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Aw ...

, director

References

External links

* Short film festivals Film festivals held in multiple countries Film festivals established in 1999 1999 establishments in France {{film-festival-stub