The 32nd edition of the FIDMarseille – Marseille International Film Festival has set a final deadline of March 31 for the submission of films produced in 2020 and 2021. The festival receives almost 3000 films annually for consideration.
Every year the July festival, directed by Jean-Pierre Rehm, offers up a programme of 150 films to approximately 25,000 spectators, in cinemas, theatres, libraries, art galleries, and in open-air venues throughout the city. The festival offers a series of prizes including the International Competition Award, the French Competition Award, the Georges De Beauregard International and National Awards and Alice Guy Prize, awarded to a female director in the Flash Competition.
In addition, the FIDMarseille organizes the FIDLab, a support platform for international co-production, and FIDCampus, a training workshop for Mediterranean students.
FIDMarseille is recognized as a source of dynamic new cinema, in terms of both documentary and fiction.
Director Rehm explained the festival philosophy to Business Doc Europe ahead of the 2020 event. “I don’t believe in a difference between documentary and fiction,” he said. “I believe in films. Each film is particular. I am much more interested in what is at stake within each film rather than say it belongs to this [category] or belongs to that. All the films we show… are deeply wishing to connect with reality, with the world that we are in, the world we are surrounded by.”
FIDMarseille expands on its dynamic approach on the festival website, stressing how “cinema harbours a plurality of forms, of formats, of lengths, of approaches, and of visions. A unique moment when filmmakers from all over the world nurture our present with all they have.”
“FIDMarseille’s roots in documentary filmmaking recall the realities of our fertile terrain, without ever forgetting that different worlds are to be found in this soil and that there are many ways to testify to them…Unexpected, daring, relevant, rebellious, as surprising as our world itself: this is the kind of filmmaking the FID rejoices in championing!”
