Festival du Film de Fontenay-le-Comte

Edition n°14 - 2026

From 14 to 22 March 2026

Selection announcement date 02 March 2026

Fontenay-le-Comte, FRANCE

No entry fees for this festival

It was in 2012, at the initiative of the Kinozoom Association, that the Fontenay-le-Comte Film Festival was born. Convinced that cinema should not be limited to a simple place of passage where we “consume” films but more to a place of culture, passion, discussions, even debates, we offer to all lovers, unconditional and occasional, of the 7th art to meet and exchange in a friendly atmosphere around great films. Subtitled “From Literature to Cinema”, the Fontenay-le-Comte Film Festival aims to explore the links between cinema and all forms of writing. Filmmakers, screenwriters, writers, specialists and personalities from the cinematographic world will come to share their feelings about the relationship between image and writing. Our selection of films is carefully balanced between different periods (from the beginnings of cinema to the present day) and different genres, both literary and cinematographic. Through meeting sessions, cinema lessons, film concerts, tributes and readings before screenings, the public will be able to discover or rediscover great literary works adapted by great filmmakers. The festival also offers a short film competition as well as a selection of films dedicated to young audiences.

Festival policy

Submit a film

Fontenay-le-Comte Film Festival Short Film Competition - Call Open

Closing ~~15/01/2026~~ 16/01/2026

No entry fee

The short film competition of the Fontenay-le-Comte Film Festival - From Literature to Cinema, organized by the KINOZOOM ASSOCIATION, aims to reveal and showcase audiovisual productions related to literature by presenting them to the public and two juries (professional and high school students). Each participant is invited to make a short film of a maximum duration of twenty-five minutes (including credits) on the imposed theme of LITERATURE. It must be an adaptation and/or an explicit evocation of literature through the portrait of an author, the staging of the act of writing... All cinematographic genres are accepted (fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, etc.)

Selection criteria

Production's date (Min)

2024

Duration (Max)

25’

Specific criteria

Each participant will be asked to submit a short film on the set theme of LITERATURE. It must be an adaptation and/or an explicit evocation of literature through the portrait of an author, the staging of the act of writing, etc.

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Festival prize list

2024

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - L’ANGOISSE ET L’EXTASE de Mangoosta
MENTION SPÉCIALE ET PRIX DES LYCÉENS - LE TEMPLE d’Alain Fournier
PRIX DU PUBLIC - UNE NUIT PARTICULIÈRE d’Enzo Martinez

2023

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - LE CENSEUR DES RÊVES de Léo Berne et Raphaël Rodriguez
MENTION SPÉCIALE EX ÆQUO - SCALE de Joseph Pierce et LE PARAPLUIE de Claire Ledru
PRIX DES LYCÉENS ET PRIX DU PUBLIC - HORS-JEU de Sophie Martin

2022

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - LOVE, DAD de Diana Cam Van Nguyen
PRIX DE LA RÉALISATION - DE RETOUR de Pascal Marc
MENTION SPÉCIALE - BLUE de Frédéric Bayer Azem
PRIX D'INTERPRÉTATION FEMININE - Nina Hoss dans UNE JOURNÉE À LA MER de Jonathan Borgel
PRIX DES LYCÉENS ET PRIX DU PUBLIC - PREMIÈRE ÉBAUCHE d’Alexandre Crozet

2021

PRIX DES LYCÉENS EX ÆQUO - GRAIN DE POUSSIÈRE de Léopold Kraus et HURLEVENT de Frederic Doazan

2019

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - PAULINE ASSERVIE de Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
MENTION SPÉCIALE - SLACKS de Benoît Boussard
MENTION SPÉCIALE - ARTHUR RAMBO de Guillaume Levil
PRIX DES LYCÉENS - LA COLLECTION d’Emmanuel Blanchard
PRIX DU PUBLIC - ARTHUR RAMBO de Guillaume Levil

2018

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - LETTRES REBELLES de Sonia Larue
MENTION SPÉCIALE EX ÆQUO - L’ANGUILLE, LA FOUINE ET LE VAUTOUR de Suki et NEGATIVE SPACE de Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter
PRIX DES LYCÉENS EX ÆQUO - ARRACHÉ de Samuel Germelus et LE JOUR OÙ MAMAN EST DEVENUE UN MONSTRE de Joséphine Hopkins
PRIX DU PUBLIC - NOS ENFANTS de Sarah Suco

2017

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - CONSTRUIRE UN FEU de Fx Goby
MENTION SPÉCIALE EX ÆQUO - UN OBUS PARTOUT de Zaven Najjar et CONTE DE FÉES À L'USAGE DES MOYENNES PERSONNES de Chloé Mazlo
PRIX DU FILM QUI A DIVISÉ LE JURY - LE DIABLE EST DANS LES DÉTAILS de Fabien Gorgeart
PRIX DES LYCÉENS - UN OBUS PARTOUT de Zaven Najjar
PRIX DU PUBLIC - VA, JE NE TE HAIS POINT de Constance Gloaguen

2025

GRAND PRIX DU JURY - FATHER'S LETTERS d'Alex Evstigneev
PRIX DES LYCÉENS - LES EMBOLIES de Romain Winkler
MENTION SPÉCIALE DU JURY - LES EMBOLIES de Romain Winkler
PRIX DU PUBLIC - LE VOYAGE IMMOBILE d'Izù Troin

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