"La Orquidea” - Cuenca International Film Festival is focused essentially on fiction features; it takes place every November in the city of Cuenca in Ecuador.
The Festival comprises six sections, four of which are competitive: Long feature International Competition, First Feature Ibero-American Competition, an Ecuadorian Short Film Competition and production in progress.
After three successful editions, which gathered more than 64.000 spectators, the Festival is positioning itself as one of the main cultural events in Ecuador and aspires to further increase its presence in the region.
Several prominent international film professionals have given workshops and master classes during the Festival. In past editions we have welcomed speakers from Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, among others.
This year, we will also be hosting a Screenplay Laboratory to improve the quality of projects from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. Several leading screenwriters from the United States and Latin America will be tutoring the projects.
The admission to all the events at “La Orquidea” Cuenca Film Festival is free.

The Festival International du Film d'Aubagne is dedicated to the young cinematographic creation and the relation between music and image.

We organize 2 competitions : short and feature film. Both are international and present 1st, 2nd and 3rd films having imperatively either an original music or an original work on sound design. 

In parallel to these competitions, we propose different programs, debates, Master Classes of composition, most of them dealing with the sound&music for image. We organize meetings between young artists (directors, scriptwriters, composers) in order to favor professional connexions and to support in this way the young creation.

Concerts are also happening every night.

Le cinéma amateur peut produire des films bluffants, rappelant que le mot "amateur" n'est pas un critère qualitatif mais bien la désignation de tout ce qui est fait de manière non professionnelle.
"Amateurs-nés" se veut donc de mettre en avant non seulement les fictions amateur, mais aussi toute l'aventure qui a mené au film, à coup de débrouille, d'organisation, de rencontres, de bricolages, de partage et de nuits blanches.
Pour sa deuxième édition, ce festival revient de plus belle avec cette fois la certitude que cette branche méconue du 7e Art mérite SON événement, avec tout ce qu'il faut de rencontres, diffusions, échanges, partages et création d'outils. Pour la partie concours, vous pouvez envoyer vos projets avant le 1er mars 2014 (film + making-of, voir infos ici : http://www.amateurs-nes.fr/p/le-concours.html). Le festival aurra lieu les 25, 26 et 27 avril 2014 à Elven (56).