FIDMarseille International Film Festival
July 8th | 13th 2025
36th Edition
FIDMarseille is an International Film Festival which takes place every year at the beginning of July in Marseille. It offers a programme of about one hundred films, made up of fictions and documentaries, short and feature films. Paying close attention to
singular writing and emerging forms, FIDMarseille is a reference festival for the independent cinema of today and tomorrow, recognized internationally for the importance of its talent scouting work. It offers a challenging selection to a wide local, national and international audience. Each year, it attracts professionals from all over the world. The programme is divided into several competitive categories, presenting World or International Premieres. On top of these competitions, each year we organize retrospectives dedicated to living filmmakers, who attend the entire festival in order to share their films and experience with the audience, an out-of-competition selection as well as outdoor screenings.
Located in the centre of Marseille, a cosmopolitan city with a rare vitality, FIDMarseille finds conviviality and meaningful sharing highly important. Debates, meetings and exchanges start in the morning in front of the cinemas, ending late at night, in socializing spaces for festival-goers and open to the city.
FIDLab and FIDCampus
During the festival two events are also organized: FIDLab, an international coproduction platform and FIDCampus, a training residey for international students.
Throughout the year, FIDMarseille organizes many screenings to showcase the films supported during the festival, sets up with various partners, screenings and cartes blanches, develops training activities and educational workshops for wideranging audiences. FID+ (#Lien vers la page FID+) is the name of this extensive educational programme to train viewers, to support films and to promote an independent and creative cinema we believe in. It takes place in Marseille, but also throughout France, in Europe and worldwide.
Film registration.
The films and programmes proposed for selection and competing in the official selection must be produced on or after January 1st of the year preceding the current edition. Anyone submitting a film to the festival must mention whether it is a first film. Films of any length may be entered in the selection. All media (film, video) may be entered. Authors may submit several films, but only one film may be selected for the competitions. All non-French-speaking films submitted for selection and viewing by the programming team must be in the original version and with English subtitles. Films are eligible to compete in different sections:
1 – Official Selection
● International Competition
● French Competition
● First Film Competition
● Flash Competition (short films)
● GNCR Competition
● Out of competition: Other Jewels
2 – Retrospectives, tributes, thematic programmes, cartes blanches and all special screenings.
The selection committee decides without appeal on the sections in which the films are presented. Advertising or institutional films are not admitted.
The fee is set at 25€ for short films (duration less than 60 minutes) and 45€ for long films (duration greater than or equal to 60 minutes). Registrations can only be made on the website www.fidmarseille.org. Online registration files must include at least one viewing link (with a password if necessary). As the viewing is exclusively online, please check that the viewing links provided at the time of registration will work at least until the end of the festival. The registration of the film will be validated after verification that all the expected data have been filled in. Whoever registers the film guarantees the information indicated on the registration form. The registration of a film implies full and complete acceptance of these rules.
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