On top of these competitions, each year we organize retrospectives dedicated to living filmmakers, who attend the entire festival in order to share their films and experience with the audience, an out-of-competition selection as well as outdoor screenings.

Located in the centre of Marseille, a cosmopolitan city with a rare vitality, FIDMarseille finds conviviality and meaningful sharing highly important. Debates, meetings and exchanges start in the morning in front of the cinemas, ending late at night, in socializing spaces for festival-goers and open to the city.

During the festival two events are also organized: FIDLab, an international coproduction platform and FIDCampus, a training residency for international students.

Throughout the year, FIDMarseille organizes many screenings to showcase the films supported during the festival, sets up with various partners, screenings and cartes blanches, develops training activities and educational workshops for wide-ranging audiences. FID+ is the name of this extensive educational programme to train viewers, to support films and to promote an independent and creative cinema we believe in. It takes place in Marseille, but also throughout France, in Europe and worldwide.