Fanny Bastien and Geoffroy Thiebaut invite you to enter another world, to see beyond appearances.

“To enter beyond the borders, on the border of the extreme limit.
To enter into another larger reality,
the one that breaks our habits, that confuses us, what is called the unusual
It’s up to you to find your own language
This unusual visit will undoubtedly transform our consciousness.
Find stars at our fingertips, at the edge of our eyes.
Culture is the human, it’s what allows us all to connect and go to the end of our strangeness “
How, in what way and where?

Through film screenings, conferences, dedications,
musical interludes of exhibitions of photos, paintings, masterclasses Each of these events will be programmed in places steeped in history: First and foremost in Rennes-le-Château but also in the Castle of the Dukes of Joyeuse in Couiza, the Castles of Serres, Arques, through St Paul Fenouillet,
the municipality of Quillan, the Center of youth and culture of Espéraza, the Claranda (cultural place), then the Domaine de la Salz in Sougraigne but also the oldest factory of hats of France in Montazels or the oldest House crémant from France to Campagne-sur-France
Aude (Salasar) and finally without forgetting the emblematic city of Carcassonne. And more to come … Since 2017 this festival is also itinerant.

A statement and a determination.
Directors who choose to transgress the moral or social aesthetic standards of their time do not always have a real exposure when they release their film in traditional distribution channels.

The presence in competition of French, European and international short films in 2019 including the subject,
the scenario or realization disturb, jostle, disturb. The art of the unusual can be poetic offset, rare, unique, extravagant.

So since its second edition, a Youth Label has been created. The students of the Toulouse Audiovisual School,
the Graph of Carcassonne …) but also of France (the ESEC in Paris directed by Jérome Enrico, the University Louis Lumière in Lyon …) were solicited while and privileging the students of Limouxin and Haute Vallée.

Similarly, for its 4th edition,
to stimulate the imagination and creativity of high school students from the Occitan region, the festival organized a competition of “unusual courts” on the theme of “Grail and Immortality”. These shorts will be made with a mobile phone lasting 1 minute to 3 minutes.

Finally,
this festival has chosen to favor the local economy and to contribute to the enhancement of the cultural and industrial heritage of the region and its department.

Thus, over the course of its first editions, the festival of the unusual film of Rennes-le-Château gradually spreads its influence. This bet, which seemed daring,
now receives the support of numerous political and artistic personalities, the help of the Occitan region, the department of Aude, the municipalities of Limouxin and the Eastern Pyrenees. And even internationally, driven by the renown of Rennes-le-Château and Bugarach where summer stay more than 15 different nationalities.
His Aura keeps growing!