Festival des Cinémas Engagés

Edition n°3 - 2025

From 14 to 18 February 2025

Selection announcement date 15 December 2024

Clamecy, FRANCE

No entry fees for this festival

Commitment is everywhere in our lives. We all have a point of view on the world and must constantly make choices: what will our activity be tomorrow? Does the word work still have a meaning? What education for our children? Is it up to them to bear our mistakes? How to live together? How to remain human in a society that crushes us? Tomorrow the ecological war? We are looking for creative short films that question us about contemporary concerns. 20mn max, produced from 2019. To get an idea of our choices, the program for edition 0 is here: https://stormbox-records.fr/cinema/

Festival policy

International - Call Closed

1?002 / 5?000
Cinema has the power to reveal the world around us, to awaken awareness of the unacceptable, to enlighten those on the edge and in the shadows, to transform fear into hope.

“…What do we do with our freedom? Will she be the alibi for our evasions? An excuse not to act, and not to risk? To resolve to injustice, to accept one's indignity, to submit to lies because they would be inevitable, a sort of inevitability against which our wills would be powerless?
Or, quite the contrary, will our freedom require us? Leading us to simply say no, instinctively and obviously.
Because otherwise it would be cheating on ourselves. Failing our own humanity…” (“All films are political” Edwy Plenel with Costa-Gavras)

Because we believe that the reality imposed on everyone is not inevitable, let's imagine another path for everyone.
At the Cinémas Engagés festival we welcome films that explore these other avenues.