Organized from September 4 to 8, 2020, the 6th Rennes-le-Château Unusual Film Festival will have as its theme: Water, Humans and their environment. With the municipalities of Quillan, Couiza, Montazels, Puivert. Elusive in its structure, in constant dynamism, taking the form of all containers without retaining any, capable of piercing the rock without yet opposing anything, good to all beings, origin of Heaven and Earth, mother of all things, water is the alpha and omega of life. Man has never ceased to wonder about the nature of water! Water is not an ordinary liquid, it is above all femininity, connected to the heart and the moon. Its symbolic dimension is universally shared. Its place is central in most religions, especially during initiation rites, where it marks the passage from an inferior to a superior state. It is the water of the enema, the water of baptism in Christianity, but also the water of ablutions in Islam, the water of the toilet in Judaism, or even the ‘regenerating’ water of Eastern, Hindu and indigenous religions, the ingestion of which allows one to come into contact with the Divine. As the Mongolians say: ‘The water of the river irrigates the heart of man’. It is femininity, the moon, the heart. This essential element, which evokes purity by its transparency, gives or restores life and, in this, is inseparable from death. “The human being is a fragment of the earth, of the mountain, of the river: he drinks from springs sprung from the ground as one drinks a mother’s milk; and earth he becomes again at the hour of his death. said Mend Ooyo Gombojav “Over the past century, global water use has increased twice as fast as the rate of population growth. Water scarcity already affects every continent and more than 40 percent of the world’s population. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in countries or regions with absolute water shortages, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be exposed to water-stressed conditions. said Jacques Diouf, Director General of the FAO, on March 22, 2007. Around this central theme, festival-goers will be able to discover unusual French and international films, that is to say astonishing, stimulating, poetic, surreal, spiritual…workshops…exhibitions of photos of painters and round table. Documentary and short film competitions, unusual short film script competitions In short, films that re-enchant our daily lives, offer a real author’s point of view and stimulate the imagination and creativity…   Fanny Bastien Geoffroy Thiebaut