Toulouse loves the cinema

Toulouse is a city that loves every type of cinema: from experimental and art-house theatres to large multiplex cinemas screening films in 3D. All the relevant cultural players in the film industry have a base here in Toulouse and can help with your filming project or the distribution of your film.

Long live cinema in Toulouse!

The festivals and other major rendezvous based on the 7th art

In Toulouse we live cinema in all its forms all year round. Feature films, short films, documentaries…French films and cinema from further afield…here you will find the calendar of the major rendezvous focused on cinematography.

THE CINEMA AND HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL
January
The Cinema and Human Rights Festival sets up home in Toulouse and the region with the aim of showing documentaries and screenings at twenty two movie theatres in order to explore, inform and exchange with specialists on a range of subjects.

DES IMAGES AUX MOTS
www.des-images-aux-mots.fr
February
Established in 2008 by local association Arc-en-Ciel, « Des Images aux Mots » is a festival of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQI+) film.

EXTRÊME CINÉMA
www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com
February
This festival zooms in on a particular genre of cinema: Horror! The frightening and the strange. Organised by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, it also provides the opportunity for encounters with film industry professionals. The highlight of this festival: Horror Night!

KINOPOLSKA
www.facebook.com/KinopolskaToulouse
March
For more than 10 years, this festival has shed a light on contemporary Polish cinema and cinematography.

CINÉ-PALESTINE TOULOUSE OCCITANIE
cine-palestine-toulouse.fr
March
Ciné-Palestine Toulouse Occitanie is held by the association La Compagnie Ici, Là-Bas et Ailleurs (Cilba). This association aims to showcase and promote the culture of the Middle East through a variety of disciplines like cinema, poetry, literature and music.

CINELATINO
www.cinelatino.fr
March
The Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique latine de Toulouse (ARCALT) association has been organising Cinélatino since 1989. This festival provides a showcase for Latin American film-makers by means of various competitions. It offers the chance to discover a number of original films, but also features encounters, parties, concerts…and a professional platform to help film-makers realise their projects.

THE TOULOUSE INDIAN FILM FESTIVAL
www.facebook.com/ToulouseIndianFilmFestival
April
The Toulouse Indian Film Festival strives to bring about cultural and cinematographic exchanges between India and France.

CINÉMINOTS
cineminots.com
April
A programme of films for young audiences with workshops, activities and refreshments, since 2009 this festival has been organised by participating cinemas across Toulouse and the surrounding area.

TRAVERSE VIDEO
www.traverse-video.org
May
Traverse causes the meeting between emerging and well-known artists without excluding the artworks of students, it does so in the meeting of those with the public, which it takes for five days through Toulouse or even beyond the walls.

LE PRINTEMPS DU CINÉMA ISRAÉLIEN
www.hebraica-toulouse.com
May
For nearly 15 years the Printemps du Cinéma Israélien festival has been exploring a cinema that is brimming with vitality. Born at a time when Israeli talent was really beginning to emerge, with luminaries like Ronit Elkabetz and Eran Riklis, this festival lets everyone enjoy contemporary and heritage works from this country’s film-makers.

DES COURTS EN BAS DES TOURS
www.descourtsenbasdestours.com
June
A festival of short films for directors from the Occitanie region who are embarking on their very first projects and still do not have a professional distribution network, it is organised by the D.E.F.I association and the Grand M media centre in Toulouse.

CINEMA EN PLEIN AIR
www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com
July – August
Summer has become synonymous with the Cinémathèque de Toulouse’s open-air screenings! These sessions in the moonlight let you enjoy the major masterpieces of cinema.

FAITES DE L’IMAGE
lesvideophages.free.fr
July
Through an eclectic programme of documentaries, short films and creative films, the Faîtes de l’Image festival seeks to provide the public with tools and knowledge about the visual arts. All disciplines can find their place here as long as the artistic concept integrates images; fixed or animated, virtual or real.

AFRICLAP
www.africlap.fr
August
The Africlap festival in Toulouse is a cultural event dedicated to African cinema, which offers screenings of films from all over the African continent and its diaspora.

FIFIGROT
fifigrot.com
September
The International Grolandais Film Festival of Toulouse echoes the TV show “Groland” which, since 1992, has been parodying society and current events in the world with an offbeat tone and is set in an imaginary country: the Grolandais Republic. Today, Groland is a style, a humorous, satirical, iconoclastic, utopian and joyful benchmark. Fifigrot is its cultural expression and promotes a biting style of cinema. About a hundred screenings are on offer: long and short films, new releases or previews, retrospectives, themes of all kinds…

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE FICTION HISTORIQUE
www.fiffh.com
September
This international festival of historic fiction films promotes and encourages the distribution of works that are set in a historic framework. The festival takes place at the commune of Plaisance-du-Touch, south-west of Toulouse.

CARTOON FORUM
www.cartoon-media.eu
September
This is a co-production platform dedicated to European animation series that is exclusively for professionals. 85 new projects from 24 different countries all over Europe are presented.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM D’ENVIRONNEMENT
www.festival-fredd.fr
September
Created in June 2012, the « Film, Research and Sustainable Development » (FReDD) association is a scientific and cultural body that focuses on the challenges of sustainable development; it highlights and screens films that tackle these issues with thoughtful argument and debate.

PEUPLES ET MUSIQUES AU CINÉMA
www.peuplesetmusiquesaucinema.org
September
The Peuples et Musiques au Cinéma festival gives pride of place to various ethnic communities and their music through fiction and documentary films. Screenings take place mostly at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Cave Poésie.

CINESPAÑA
www.cinespagnol.com
October
This festival showcases Spanish cinema in Toulouse and across the Occitanie region, with around one hundred original films and competitions, as well as a closing party and prize giving ceremony. Its rich programme is enhanced by the presence of a great many professionals from Spanish cinema.

LATINO-DOCS
latino-docs.org
November
Latino-Docs is a festival of documentary films on Latin America and the Caribbean that is hosted by the Toulouse branches of the France Amérique Latine and France Cuba commissions.

HISTOIRES DE CINÉMA
www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com
November
The Cinémathèque de Toulouse hosts this annual festival in which it invites personalities to present a selection of films that make up their own personal journey through cinema.

FESTIVAL SÉQUENCE COURT-MÉTRAGE
www.sequence-court.com
November
Taking place since 1991 across the movie theatres of Toulouse and the Occitanie, the Séquence Court-Métrage International Festival aims to highlight the short film format in all its many forms. Fiction, animation, documentary or hybrid, every year Séquence receives an average of 1,300 short films from across the entire globe and serves up selections to suit all tastes.

THE TOULOUSE ITALIAN CINEMA FESTIVAL
www.cinemaitalientoulouse.com
December
Established in 2005, the Cinéma Paradiso association organises « encounters with Italian cinema in Toulouse » that aim to help Toulouse and the wider region discover the very best of contemporary Italian cinema, in the company of major actors and directors from this sector and with a host of tributes and special screenings.

THE TOULOUSE ROMANIAN FILM FESTIVAL
festival-motor.ro
December
MOTOR! The festival of Romanian film of Toulouse focuses on an explosion of creative talent with a festival devoted to the 7th art in Romania. Its ambition is to promote Romanian cinema in its original version with subtitles, and to present national productions as well as co-productions, in various genres: feature films and shorts, animated films, documentaries, fiction.