Festival des 3 Continents

Throughout the year, and through its various ongoing events committed tothe cinemas of the South, the FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS discovers and presents films that it passionately wishes to defend. 

From the very start the FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS has consistently displayed a certain flair in its programming. Numerous tributes have made a mark: Raj Kapoor (in 1984) or Satyajit Ray (in 1980 and a full retrospective in 2006), the Argentine new wave (first in 1997 and again in 2002), Melvin Van Peebles (in 1979), Tolomouch Okeev (in 2002)... 

The competitive section also has its claims to fame: Souleymane Cissé in 1979, Hou Hsiao-hsien in 1984, Abbas Kiarostami in 1987, Wong Kar-wai in 1991, Tsai Ming-liang in 1993, Jia Zhang-ke in 1998 and many others...

The Festival also organizes 

PRODUIRE AU SUD  which is a workshop focusing on the outline and structure of film co-production within the industry. The workshops aim to familiarize young producers based in the south: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Near and Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe with a variety of important tools.

The PRODUIRE AU SUD workshop was created in 2000 in Nantes, in order to support the creation of a networkof young producers from Asia, Africa and Latin America and lay the foundations for lasting cooperation between European film professionals and emerging professionals from the South. (Nov 21>27, 2011)