MOV'IN Cannes, a dance film competition

Cannes, city of 7th Art and Dance, presents “MOV’IN Cannes”, a competition organized as part of the Cannes – Côte d’Azur France Dance Festival, to be held from November 22 to December 7, 2025. An event that forms part of the Cannes On Air and 100% EAC (Artistic and Cultural Education) schemes launched back in 2014 by David Lisnard, Mayor of Cannes.

Didier Deschamps and Éric Oberdorff are responsible for the artistic direction of this original event dedicated to dance films. The competition will run for one year. Applications open on FILM FREE WAY on Wednesday November 20, 2024.

The selected films will be screened and the winners announced on Thursday November 27, 2025 at the Cineum in Cannes, in front of festival-goers and a jury of dance and film professionals.

Two ways to enter the competition:

Via partner international dance film festivals.
Via a call for entries on the FILM FREE WAY platform from November 20, 2024 to April 1, 2025.
Selected films will be announced in June 2025.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA

Film selection criteria include:

🎥 A maximum running time of 10 minutes,

🎥 Dance content (all dances),

🎥 Originality and quality of choreographic and cinematographic writing.

Entries received between December 2024 and April 2025 will be selected by viewing panels made up of students at the BTS Audiovisuel Cannes Carnot, Université Côte d’Azur, ESRA, PNSD Rosella Hightower, Villa Arson, Licence Arts du spectacle – EUR CREATES, Cannes Bastide Rouge and CNSMD Paris.

In 2023, 111 works were received and screened following the call for entries.

The viewing panels will select a maximum of 10 films, which will be added to the 10 films chosen by the competition’s partner festivals and institutions.

FESTIVALS AND PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS: