Film must comply with the following conditions in order to be selected :

- Genre : animation
- Completed after the 1st of january 2012
- Running time : 26 minutes maximum
- Screening format : DVD or digital file
- Any country

Non French speaking films must be subtitled in French.

Two DVD must be sent with tne entry form.

Be careful, Two different dead line:

- European competition: August 1st 2014
- Virtual Images competition: August 30 th 2014
 

European competition :
- Maximum running time : 59 minutes
- Any genre
- Completed after 1st of January 2013
- Screening format : 35mm, DCP
- Films produced in the European Union countries, Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Montenegro, Lichtenstein, Swiss, Armenia, Géorgia, Macédonia, Cyprus.

For non french speaking films or not subtitled in french, a timecoded list of dialogues in french will have to be sent to the festival with a Quicktime Pro Res file.

DEAD LINE FOR THIS COMPETITION: August 1st 2014

Virtual Images competition:
This competition is opened to films including in majority 2D/3D sequences.
- Produced after 1st of January 2013
- Maximum running time : 20 minutes.
- Screening format : DCP, Digital file (Quicktime Pro Res or equivalent)
- Films produced in the European Union countries, Iceland, Norway, Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Montenegro, Lichtenstein, Swiss, Armenia, Géorgia, Macédonia, Cyprus.
Non french speaking films must be subtitled in French

The films must be on DV, DVCam or DVD supports for theatre.

2 competitions :

1- Les 24 tout courts
Films of 5 minutes or less
Any genre : fiction, animation, clip, documentary, experimental...

2- Les 24 courts
Duration : from 5 to 30 minutes
Genre : fiction only   

Non French speaking films must be subtitled in French.

The festival accepts only french films

The films must deal with poetry (see festival regulations)

- Genre : fiction and animation
- Running time : 26 minutes maximum
- Screening format : digital file

Only French Films.

Pour pouvoir postuler, les films doivent remplir les conditions suivantes :

- Genre : film d'animation uniquement
- Films terminés après le 1er juin 2013
- Support de projection : 35mm, DCP, fichier numérique
- Toute durée
- Production ou co-production à majorité française

Lors de l'inscription, chaque participant devra envoyer un fichier numérique pour visionnage (.mp4) accompagné de la fiche d'inscription signée, par mail à l'adresse suivante : films@afca.asso.fr

Le festival n'accepte pas les DVD pour le visionnage.

Deux sections compétitives :
1 - Courts métrages professionnels
2 - Films de fin d'études
 

Deux sections non compétitives :
1 - Films d'ateliers
2 - Films de commandes

Biographie et photo du ou des réalisateur(s) obligatoires

French competition :

- Film terminé après le 1er janvier 2013
- Durée de moins de 60 minutes
- Support de projection : DCP, Blu-Ray, Fichier numérique HD (MOV ou AVI)
- Pays de production : France (pays de production principale et coproduction)
- Genre : fiction, documentaire, animation, expérimental, essai

Seuls les films ayant reçu une aide sélective des collectivités territoriales ci-dessous peuvent participer à la compétition nationale.
Régions :
Alsace, Agence culturelle d’Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie (Maison de l'image Basse-Normandie), Bourgogne, Bretagne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Ile-de-France, Haute-Normandie (Pôle Image Haute-Normandie), Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrénées, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Pictanovo), Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Réunion, Rhône-Alpes.
Départements :
Ardèche, Aude, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Côtes d’Armor, Deux-Sèvres, Dordogne, Finistère, Landes, Loire-Atlantique, Lot, Pyrénées Atlantiques, Sarthe, Seine-Saint-Denis (cinéma93, périphérie), Val-de-Marne, Vienne, l'Eure, l'Isère,  
Villes et Communautés urbaines :
Paris, CU de Strasbourg, Aubagne.

Vous serez amenés à compléter des informations concernant les aides à la production (étape 4.2)

Tous les éléments doivent être envoyés :
- par courrier à Ciclic / Festival du film de Vendôme, 24 rue Renan, CS 70031, 37110 Chateau-Renaul.
- par mail vendome.festival@ciclic.fr

Les fichiers pourront être transmis par wetransfer (ou autres espaces de stockage et d’envoi des données), par serveur FTP, sur clé USB, disque dur ou DVD avec la mention du titre du film et du nom du réalisateur.

The festival accepts only films produced in french speaking countries*

Film must comply with the following conditions in order to be selected :

- Completed after 1st of september 2013
- Screening format : DCP, digital beta, DVD
- Genre : documentary, fiction, animation
- Maximum duration : 30 minutes

Non french speaking films must be subtitled in French.

Films without dialog are not accepted.

*Countries accepted: Albanie, Algérie, Andorre, Arménie, Belgique, Bénin, Bulgarie, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodge, Cameroun, Canada, Cap-vert, Centrafrique, Chypre, Comores, Congo, Côte d’ivoire, Djibouti, Dominique, Egypte, Macédoine, France, Gabon, Ghana, Grèce, Guinée, Haïti, Laos, Liban, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Maroc, Maurice, Mauritanie, Moldavie, Monaco, Niger, Roumanie, Rwanda, Sainte-lucie, Sao tomé et Principe, Sénégal, Seychelles, Suisses, Tchad, Togo, Tunisie, Vanuatu, Vietnam.

Film must comply with the following conditions in order to be selected :

- Genre : fiction, animation and video clips
- Screening format : DVD or digital file
- Running time : 20 minutes maximum
- Completed after the 16th of september 2012
- Any country

Non French speaking films must be subtitled in French.

Two possibilities to send the film :

- Online : digital file (WeTransfer, Dropbox) or web links (Vimeo, YouTube) must be sent to lesfilmsavenir@yahoo.fr (the title of the film and the name of the director should be mentioned in the email's object)

- By post : DVD or flash drive must be sent to the address indicated in the entry form.

Film must comply with the following conditions in order to be selected :

- Completed after 1st of january 2013
- Screening format : DVD, Blu-Ray, digital file
- Genre : fiction, animation, documentary
- Maximum running time : 30 minutes
- Any country

Non french speaking films must be subtitled in French.

The biography of the director has to be uploaded (Step 4.1).

The festival accepts only short films of filmmakers born in an Island*.

A copy of identity card is required with the registration form to justify the place of birth.

- Screening formats : digital file in full HD (1920*1080)
- Running time : 20 minutes maximum
- Genre : fiction, animation
- Any country
- The director must be born in island*.

Non french speaking films must be subtitled in french or english.


* For island, APICA, organizer of the event, defined territory:
- At least 1 km2,
- habited by at least 50 people in permanent,
- not connected to the mainland by a permanent natural structure,
- separated from a mainland by stretch of water at least 1 km.

The festival accepts only films who justify an original work on the sound.

- Be a first, second or third work
- Genre: fiction, animation, documentary
- Completed after september 2013
- Running time : 30 minutes maximum
- Sreening format: 35mm, DCP, Beta SP, DV, mini DV (PAL/SECAM), and .MOV
- Any country

Films must justify an original work on the sound :
- either by an original music
- or a particular treatment of the soundtrack (sound effects, voice, silence etc). In this case, it is advised to upload a note of intention in step 4.4

"Eléphant d'Or" Competition : international short films for children
 
Only short films for children can participate to this competition. From 3/4 years old or 7/8 years old.

- Any country
- Any duration
- Genre : fiction, documentary, animation
- Completed after 1st of january 2013
- Screening format : DCP, digital file, Blu-ray
- Only for children

The festival accepts only first or second work.

- Completed after 1st of January 2012
- Genre : fiction and animation
- Screening support : DVD
- Film must be a first or second work
- No french speaking films must be subtitled in french for both selection and screening for theatre

Animation: Maximum running time of 15 minutes

Fiction: Maximum running time of 20 minutes

The biography of the director has to be uploaded (Step 4.1).

To participate, the films must match at the festival's theme : Urban films

What is the urban film ? : ”Films devoted to the city and to all the practices and ways of life that come from it. Through urban films, true stories, whether somber or funny, find their common denominator in their scenery: the street, from Seoul to Rio, and passing by Seattle or Ouagadougou. The urban movies rediscover the city in a broad sense: fiction, dance, movement, community, street culture, sports, all of the aspects of the city and urban cultures are represented.”

The maximum running time depends to the category :

Documentary : 17 minutes
Fiction and animation : 15 minutes
Performance : 7 minutes

For any category :

- Screening format : digital file in full HD (1920*1080)
- Non french-speaking films must be subtitled in french
 

The festival accepts only short films of filmmakers under 30 years old (included).

- Completed after 1st of july 2013
- Genre : fiction, animation, documentary, experimental
- Screening formats : DVD, digital file
- Running time : 30 minutes maximum
- The director must have a maximum of 30 years old
- Any country

Non french speaking films must be subtitled in french or english.

A photocopy of the Director's ID Card is required with your registration form.

Film must comply with the following conditions in order to be selected :

Screening format : DVD
Genre : fiction and animation
Maximum duration : 8 minutes
Country of production : Geographical Europe

Closed captioning in french for non-french speaking works is desired.

A category "musical clips" is opened out of competition.

The festival accepts only european short films directed by movie school students or graduating from a movie school in the last two years.

- Any genre except video clips
- Screening format : DVD in Ntsc format
- Running time : 20 minutes maximum
- Completed after the 1st of january 2013
- Any european country
- Directed by movie school student or graduating from a movie school in the last two years.

Non english speaking films must be subtitled in english.

2 (two) DVD in Ntsc format is required with the registration form.

No drug, no sex, no violence preferred as some of the films might be presented to a young audience.