How to participate in the Mov'in Cannes 2025 short dance film prize?

This Wednesday, November 20 marks the opening of registrations for the international dance film competition MOV'IN Cannes 2025. A research laboratory around dance and image to mobilize youth and retain moving images. While waiting for the dance biennial in 2025.

On your cameras, on your phones… ready for MOV'IN Cannes? Turn! Dance is a body in movement. To immortalize these fleeting moments, video remains the best medium. When the art of dance meets that of cinema, the result is often original and daring short films.

This Wednesday, November 20 marks the opening of registrations for the international dance film competition MOV'IN Cannes 2025. Didier Deschamps, artistic director of the festival, explains: “The success of the first edition of MOV'IN Cannes in December 2023 confirmed what we already knew: Cannes is the city where dance and cinema meet, magnify each other and question each other. This event revealed the enthusiasm of the public for the creativity and audacity of these two major arts carried by artists from around the world.”

MOV'IN Cannes wishes to continue the experience. The festival wants to involve young people in the selection of films through educational actions implemented throughout the year and to create exchanges with international professionals. Hence this call for applications.

In this Facebook post, here are the short films that received awards two years ago. The student prize was awarded in 2023 to “Ghosts” by (LA)HORDE from the Marseille national ballet.

The competition is open to all lovers of movement and images. All French and international productions can apply while respecting a few conditions:

• Maximum length of short film: 10 minutes
• The work uses dance and movement in the subject as a narrative or abstract, documentary or imaginary device
• The film is sent between November 20 and April 1, 2025

The works received following the call for participation will be subject to a double selection.

• a viewing committee made up of students enrolled in arts schools, artistic or audiovisual training. They will have been made aware of the artistic issues in the making of a dance film and the rating criteria via master classes and meetings with professionals.
• MOV'IN Cannes partner institutions and festivals.

• The 20 films selected for the competition will be revealed on www.festivaldedanse-cannes.com on July 15, 2025 (more information on the site).

• On Thursday, November 27, 2025, during the Dance Festival, the selected films will be screened, at the Cineum de Cannes, in front of an audience of enthusiasts and professionals from the world of dance and the film industry to award 4 prizes.

• The MOV’IN Cannes Grand Prix will offer a creative residency in Cannes Bastide Rouge
• The Ministry of Culture Prize will issue a grant for the creation of a new work
• The Student Price will allow an artist to lead a masterclass* at the Georges Méliès Campus in 2026
• The Audience Award will be screened in 2026 in the Cineum program

The winning films will be broadcast on the numeridanse.tv platform. MOV'IN Cannes therefore aims to bring together artists, directors and programmers to imagine the future of this constantly evolving, constantly moving discipline.

A call for applications which allows the public to wait: the next Cannes dance biennial will take place in November 2025. In the meantime, two dance weekends are planned at the Palais des festivals in Cannes on November 23, 24 and November 29 , December 1.

On the program: choreographies of Mats Ek by a Cuban company, Angelin Preljocaj, a Swedish company focused on contemporary dance, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, one of the most prestigious companies in Europe. She offers a choreography for 7 dancers under the snow. A whirlwind of emotions, a perpetual movement.