Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar

Official logo of RFC 11

Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar, also called RFC is the only film festival in Madagascar.

The Festival was founded in 2006 by Laza, a malagasy filmmaker and producer and is organised by L'Association Rencontres du Film Court, the Institut Français de Madagascar and Rozifilms. It is held annually in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.

In 2013 the festival welcomed around 12.000 visitors[1] and is still constantly growing. During the 11. edition of RFC around 20.000 visitors have been counted.

The festivals main focus besides offering free screenings to the public is to step in for a non-existing film school and provide cinematographic knowledge. Every year several meetings and workshops come along with the screenings.

Laza welcomes the audience to one of the official competition screening of RFC 11 at Institut Français de Madagascar

As there is no cinema in whole Madagascar RFCs main screening venue is the building of Institut Français de Madagascar.[2] Additional screenings are held in the open air or at IKMalagasy.

Festival programme

During 9 days around 350 films are presented in over 30 Screenings. Besides many non-competition screenings, 3 official competition screenings are composed.

Compétition officielle Fiction - Malagasy live action short films

Compétition officielle Documentaire - Malagasy documentary films

Compétition officielle Animation Panafricaine - African animated short films

Awards

The Zebu d'or as awarded during RFC 10

The Award of RFC is called Zebu d'or.

Awards are handed out to the winner of every competition category. A fourth additional Zebu d'or is awarded to the winner of the category "public choice".

External links

References

  1. "webside RFC".
  2. "RFC at IFM webside".
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