Festival start: 14 November 2022
Festival end: 20 November 2022
Film festival on the theme of ecological transition, all types of films are allowed with a deadline of 2018.
The different prizes:
Festival prize
European Noé-Noah prize
Audience prize
Article I : The festival
This Festival, organized by the European Institute of Ecology of Metz, will be held this year from 15 to 20 November 2022 at the cinema KLUB in Metz – FRANCE. The festival has an international scope and by the choice of films programmed, it wishes to value the human and defend an ecological transition to societal vision.
It also aims to open up socially to an audience often excluded or forgotten from ecological thinking.
Article II : Registration
Legal representatives, distributors, producers or directors can register their films for free at the festival. Its distribution within the framework of the Festival, in all its editions, is also free of charge and is not subject to the payment of license fees. The person registering the film formally guarantees that he or she holds all the rights to the film at the festival or acts with the consent of the rights holder.
Registration is open until May 22, 2022.
Article III : The films
Films can be of all genres (documentaries, fiction, animation), length (short, medium and feature-length films) and nationalities. Films must be sent by electronic file or as a viewing link to the selection committee. In order to be eligible, they must address the major issues of ecological transition.
Article IV : The selection
A commission, made up of the Festival organizers, will select the films to be screened, taking into account the respect of the environmental theme, the cinematographic quality of the work as well as the message it conveys.
The announcement of the official selection of a work will be communicated by email mid-October 2022. From then on, the film cannot be withdrawn from the Festival’s official program.
In case of selection, the festival will need, in addition to the pre-selection material, a DCP version, with the time-stamped script containing the original version and the French translations, imperatively before October 30, 2022. A press kit (poster, synopsis, trailer…) is also required. Participants must send only copies of their films. The Festival cannot be held responsible in case of damage to a master.
Article V : The awards
The 2022 edition of the Festival is endowed with three prizes:
– the festival award
– the audience award
– the European NOE-NOAH award
Article VI : Broadcasting of films
The rightful owners of the selected films grant the Festival a free right to use extracts of the selected film (maximum 3 minutes) and photographs in the media (press, internet, TV), on the Festival site but only for the purpose of promoting the Festival.
They accept that their film will be screened free of charge in the dedicated areas of the Festival and that it will be put online with restricted access (with a login and password) for practical and organizational needs within the framework of the Festival, as well as for the work of the selection.
The films selected and/or awarded at the Festival may be the subject of additional screenings during the following year as part of the CinéMardisof the Ecological Transition.
Article VII : Responsibility of the organizers
The festival ensures the copies of their date of arrival in Metz until their return. In case of damage, the responsibility of the festival will only be engaged on the replacement value of the copy or part concerned.
The association Institut Européen d’Ecologie and the festival officials are responsible for settling all cases not provided for in the present regulations and for granting possible exemptions to the above provisions.
They reserve the right to postpone, cancel or interrupt the event according to the requirements of its operation or any exceptional circumstances.
No compensation of any kind may be granted to participants.
The registration and participation of a film in the Festival implies the unreserved acceptance of the present rules.
