International Film Festival for First Films and independent cinema

The French International Film Festival for ambitious and daring cinema.

* First Films International Competition: from 1^st to 3^rd film (shorts and feature films, fiction, documentary, animated and experimental films).
* Retrospectives, tributes, meetings.
* Post Production Support [Films en cours] (Color grading, sound mixing, subtitling, DCP mastering and post-production management for first, second and third feature films).

Created in 1986 by Janine Bazin, Entrevues Belfort is the French International Film Festival for young ambitious and daring cinema.

For thirty years, Entrevues Belfort has proved to be a platform for audacious cinematography of past and present, through its two main activities: a competition for contemporary filmmakers’ début creations and wide-ranging retrospectives that highlight cinematic heritage.
Entrevues paints a picture of the latest developments in contemporary filmmaking and works to support and champion the brightest, boldest, richest and most astonishing cinema being made today. Moreover, it offers a post-production grant for first, second and third films through the [Films en cours] award.

Many first films by young directors who are now renowned for their work were originally selected by Entrevues Belfort. Amongst the discovered directors were: Pedro Costa, Alain Guiraudie, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jafar Panahi, Miguel Gomes, Rabah Ameur-Zaimèche, Leos Carax, Josh and Benny Safdie, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Radu Jude, Yousry Nasrallah, José Luis Guerin, Nicolas Pereda, Sergei Loznitsa, Kelly Reichardt, Raya Martin, Abdellatif Kechiche, Yorgos Lanthimos, Laurent Cantet, Serge Bozon, Claire Simon, Lars von Trier, Laurent Achard, Brillante Mendoza, David Gordon Green, Albert Serra, Darren Aronofsky, Gianfranco Rosi, Abderrahmane Sissako, Patric Chiha, Corneliu Porumboiu, Arnaud des Pallières or Tariq Teguia...

Discover in images 30 years of the festival's archive here, and all the catalogues of the festival since its first edition, here.

News

The 2026 International Competition

Discover the ten feature films and the ten short and medium films selected for this year's International Competition!

La Fabbrica: Françoise Lebrun

Unforgettable as Veronika in The Mother and the Whore, Françoise Lebrun has built a demanding and eclectic body of work through film after film. Carte blanche in her presence!

Special event: The Decadrage collection

Entrevues brings together the six films and seven filmmakers from the first series of the Decadrage Collection, whose release in restored versions is scheduled for December 23

First drafts: the poetry of the city

Portraits of cities through cinema, shaped by reverie and the liberating power of imagination

Cinema & history: 1996 — a queer and feminist year

Romantic comedy, experimental films, thriller — for another history of femininity

CAROLINE POGGI & JONATHAN VINEL IN FOCUS

Retrospective and masterclass Films & Video games in their presence!

Transversale: PLAYERS

La Transversale celebrates players, and takes you on a journey through the history of cinema..

The poster for the 41st edition!

This year, Entrevues entrusted the making of its new poster to Strasbourg-based graphic designer Le Futur!

[Films en cours] 2026 : submissions are open!

Submissions for the 2026 edition of [Films en cours] are now open, from September 1^st to October 7!

Call for entries 2026

The submissions for the 41th edition of the international competition (November 16-22) are closed. The selection will be announced mid October.

Blue Heron release

The 40th edition awards!

The awards list features films that take risks, both in form and perspective, embodied by a generation of filmmakers who explore the personal by confronting the political, often within fragile or unstable settings. This collection, for its 40th edition, reaffirms Entrevues as a testing ground where lucid and unique cinematic approaches are invented.