Each year in Nantes, since 1979, the Festival of 3 Continents (F3C) presents between 80 and 100 films, fiction works and documentaries, from Africa, Latin America and Asia.
This geographic specialization, pioneering when the Festival started out, does not sum up the identity of the F3C. It is above all an aspect of what drives and occasionally distinguishes the Festival: curiosity. Along with the taste for discovery and encounters, high aesthetic standards, the love of cinema, from auteur films to popular movies, and the desire to serve it.
The Festival of 3 Continents discovers and presents films that it wishes to defend with passion.
When? Late November or early December
Films of no specific genre. Films from 1926, 1958 or 2008 are viewed now whatever their age. Films that it is impossible to forget. Auteur films. Films that you have never heard of. Films in which people sing. Films saved by a detail. Intriguing films. Patagonian road-movies...
Singular films, chosen for their very singularity.
The deadline for submitting a film? Before October 1st
While the Festival of 3 Continents has a love of discovery, it also has a desire to share those discoveries. Since the very beginning, the Festival has deliberately worked with local audiences, young people and schools in particular. This educational approach takes on other forms during the Festival itself (master classes, daily encounters with the directors, supports for critical thought...) and throughout the year.
All this has been confirmed by success since the Festival of 3 Continents welcomes almost 40,000 moviegoers and film fans over its one-week run.
The Festival of 3 Continents has consistently displayed a certain flair in its programming. Numerous tributes have made a mark: Raj Kapoor (in 1984) or Satyajit Ray (in 1980 and a full retrospective in 2006), the Argentine new wave (first in 1997 and again in 2002), Melvin Van Peebles (in 1979), Tolomouch Okeev (in 2002)...
The competitive section also has its claims to fame: Souleymane Cissé in 1979, Hou Hsiao-hsien in 1984, Abbas Kiarostami in 1987, Wong Kar-wai in 1991, Tsai Ming-liang in 1993, Jia Zhang-ke in 1998 and many others...
The Festival of the 3 Continents is and will remain a place of discovery.
People come to Nantes to see and discover films.
For the fiction and documentary competition that brings together around fifteen films that have never been screened in France before.
For the retrospectives and tributes, and the numerous guests.
But also for Produire au Sud Worshops, the training workshops in international co-production founded by the festival and destined for young producers from the southern hemisphere.
Produire au Sud Worshops is now one of the places in the world where part of tomorrow's best cinema is in preparation. While the Nantes workshop has become, over the years, a key rendezvous, Produire au Sud Worshops, in partnership with international film festivals, is also present abroad (Producing in the South Buenos Aires, Bangkok, Salvador de Bahia, Beirut...).
Discovering is good. Getting what you discover known and defending it is even better.
Within the framework of the Cinemas of the South Pavilion in Cannes, the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE), the International Organization of French-speaking countries, TV5, CFI, RFI and Euromed have entrusted the Festival of 3 Continents with setting up professional activities and welcoming guests at the Pavilion. Films from the South will be screened at the International Film Market and feature film projects will be given personalized accompaniment.
At the behest of the French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs, the Festival of 3 Continents has been managing a system of direct aide for the production of short films from Sub-Saharan Africa (FACMAS) since 2007. The FACMAS is part of the wider framework of the Plan Images Afrique, launched by the MAEE in 2004. Thanks to this fund, around fifteen promising young African directors will be able to make their short films. Through a programme specifically tailored to the realities of the African continent, this is also an opportunity to favour the exchange between African and European film professionals.
The Festival of 3 Continents, in partnership with the Media Consulting Group, also takes part in the new ACP support programme for film and audio-visual works set up by the Secretariat of the ACP States (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) and the European Commission.
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Tel :
+33 (0)2 40 69 74 14 - Fax : +33 (0)2 40 73 55 22
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Photos :
+ The red lotus society / Stan Lai (Taïwan - 1994)
+ Al Aar (La honte) / Ali Abdel Khalek (Egypte - 1982)
Hommage à Nour el Sherif - F3C 2003
+ Kagaaz Ke Phool (Fleurs de papier) / Guru Dutt(Inde - 1959) - Programme Bollywood et avant - F3C 2004
+ Chang duo chiang (Le goût salé du soja) / Wang Ming-tai (Taiwan - 2002) - Compétition fiction 2002 - Prix d’interprétation masculine
+ La espera (L’attente) / Aldo Guaray (Uruguay - 2002)
Compétition fiction 2002 - Prix de la mise en scène
+ La vie sur terre / Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritanie - 1998) - F3C 1998
+ El gangster / Luis Alcoriza (Mexique - 1964) - Pro-gramme Scénaristes mexicains - F3C 1999
