RENNES-LE-CHÂTEAU INTERNATIONAL UNUSUAL FILM FESTIVAL
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Rennes-le-Château, in partnership with neighbouring towns, is organising a festival of short films and unusual documentaries.
This 9th edition of the festival will be held from 15th to 20th August 2024 in the famous village of Rennes-le-Château, in partnership with the communes of Limoux, Couiza, Bugarach, Montazels, and Quillan around short films, unusual documentaries, and feature films out of competition. Fanny Bastien and Geoffroy Thiebaut, French actors in love with the region, bring out the quintessence of the land to provide the most beautiful backdrop for innovative cinematic performances.
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August 15-20, 2024 (online ticketing at www.festivalfilminsoliterenneslechateau.fr and www.helloasso.com, at the Abbé Saunière Museum in Rennes Le Château or at the film broadcast sites). Admission: €6.50 (5-day pass €55). Free for children under 18.
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Placed under the sign of air, oxygen, nature and human beings, the Festival International du Film Insolite de Rennes-le-Château et de la Vallée de l'Aude will sign its 9ᵉ edition this year from August 3 to 7, 2023, under the presidency of the Wonderful, Poetic Julie Depardieu and Philippe Katerine and with Film Magician Jan Kounen as Godfather.
On the program: short film and documentary competitions, out-of-competition feature film screenings, unusual short film script competition, round table, workshop, masterclass, conference, exhibitions.
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7th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE INSOLITE FILM OF RENNES-LE-CHATEAU
with the municipalities Rennes-le-Château, Quillan, Bugarach, Couiza and Montazels
Festival founded and directed by Fanny Bastien and Geoffroy Thiebault
PALMARES 2021
President of the juries: Olivier Marchal (actor and director)
The jury for short fiction films is composed of : Naïma Rodric (actress) - Dominique Cordier (sponsor) and Christine Gendre (head of short films at Unifrance)
Jury Prize for the unusual short film Atlantis TV
"MY NAME IS MUDJU
by Chantell MURRAY (Australia - Aboriginal director)
the Jury of the documentary composed of : Alexandre Varga (actor), Éric Giacometti (author) and Dominique Cordier (patron)
Jury Prize for the unusual documentary Transpa Lux
"KILLING THE INDIAN IN THE HEART OF THE CHILD
by Gwenlaouen Le GOUIL (France)
Young Jury Prize Jury composed of : Alexiane Autier, 17 years old (Quillan), Audrey Sicre, 18 years old (Artigues -09), Léa Monteils, 13 years old (Quillan), Guillaume Hellier, 16 years old (Meudon - 92), Clément Bernard, 17 years old (Espéraza), Erwan Le Millour, 16 years old (Montazels)
Unusual Prize of the Young Jury
"SOS" by Sarah HAFNER (France)
Public Prize for the unusual short film Ange et Licorne
"MY NAME IS MUDJU
by Chantell MURRAY (Australia - Aboriginal director)
Prize of the Public of the unusual documentary of the Château des Ducs de Joyeuse
"INSIGNIFICANT, A SPECIES APART
a film by Clément Morin (France/Germany)
Prize for the best screenplay competition
Coordinated and chaired by Dominique Baron (scriptwriter and director) With the collaboration of Danièle Richard (scriptwriter and director)
Gold Medal for best screenplay
"La Vraie fausse histoire de l'homme à la pomme " script by Arnaud Hémery
Silver Medal for the best screenplay
"120 K" script by Anaïs Thiebaux and Alexandre Santos
Bronze Medal for the best screenplay
"Prudence in Gomorrah" script by Mathias Eyer
For more information
www.festivalfilminsoliterenneslechateau.fr
The organizers:
Founded by Fanny Bastien and Geoffroy Thiebaut, the Association "Les Bâtisseurs de l'insolite" was born on November 13, 2014, with the aim of creating a film festival dedicated to "the unusual". Both in love with the Haute Vallée de l'Aude, they chose to anchor it in Rennes-le-Château, a small village of 92 souls located at the center of Cathar country, a world-famous esoteric and vibratory mecca (and whose history is said to have inspired Dan Brown to write his "Da Vinci code").
And so the 1st edition saw the light of day on August 10, 2015.
The DNA of this festival:
Fanny Bastien and Geoffroy Thiebaut invite you to enter another world, to see beyond appearances.
To enter beyond borders, at the extreme limit.
To enter another, broader reality,
the one that breaks our habits, that baffles us, that which we call unusual
It's up to you to find your own language
Visiting the unusual will undoubtedly transform our consciousness.
Find the stars at our fingertips, at the edge of our eyes.
Culture is human, it's what allows us all to connect and reach out to our strangeness
How, how and where?
Through film screenings, lectures, book signings, musical interludes, photo and painting exhibitions and masterclasses. Each of these events will take place in places steeped in history. First and foremost at Rennes-le-Château, but also at the Château des Ducs de Joyeuse in Couiza, the Châteaux de Serres, d'Arques, St Paul le Fenouillet, the commune of Quillan, the Centre des jeunes et de la culture d'Espéraza, La Claranda (cultural venue), then the Domaine de la Salz in Sougraigne, the oldest hat factory in France in Montazels and the oldest crémant house in France in Campagne-sur-Aude (Salasar), not forgetting the emblematic Cité de Carcassonne. And more to come... Since 2017, this festival has also become itinerant.
An observation and a determination.
Directors who choose to transgress the aesthetic, moral or social norms of their time do not always benefit from real exposure when their film is released in conventional distribution channels.
The 2019 competition features French, European and international short films whose subject matter, screenplay and direction are unsettling and disturbing. The art of the unusual can be poetic, offbeat, rare, unique, extravagant.
For this reason, the second edition of the festival has already created a Youth Label. Students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse, the Graph in Carcassonne and elsewhere in France (ESEC in Paris, directed by Jérome Enrico, and the Université Louis Lumière in Lyon) were invited to take part, with particular emphasis on schoolchildren from the Limouxin and Haute Vallée regions.
Likewise, for its 4th edition, to stimulate the imagination and creativity of middle and high school students in the Occitanie region, the festival has organized a competition for "unusual short films" on the theme of "The Grail and Immortality". These short films will be made with a cell phone, and last between 1 and 3 minutes.
Last but not least, this festival has chosen to give priority to the local economy, and to contribute to the enhancement of the cultural and industrial heritage of the region and its county.
And so, over the course of its first editions, the Rennes-le-Château unusual film festival has gradually extended its reach. A bold gamble, it now enjoys the support of numerous political and artistic figures, as well as the Occitanie region, the Aude département, and the communes of Limoux and the Pyrénées Orientales. And even internationally, thanks to the renown of Rennes-le-Château and Bugarach, where over 15 different nationalities spend the summer.
Its aura continues to grow!
Programming 2023:
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2022-RENNES-LE-CHÂTEAU
DOMAINE DE L'ABBÉ SAUNIÈRE
PROJECTION under the stars
bring your own blanket or rent on site
- 9:00 PM OPENING NIGHT
- 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm - SHORT FILM - in the presence of Arthur Joffe
- 10:30 pm - 12:15 pm - LONG FILM - "Les folies fermières" in the presence of director Jean Pierre Ameris
- 00:15 - 00:35 - SHORT FILM
in case of bad weather, we will retreat UNDER THE CHAPITEAU (ESPACE MARCEL CAPTIER) or in the SALLE WISIGOTH
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