Discover Travelling

Travelling, Rennes Metropole Film Festival, has stuck to its original plan : exploring international filmmaking, discovering emerging talents, visiting behind the scenes, passing on knowledge and passion, immersing itself in foreign cultures... And pleasing audiences.

Cities-focus since 36 years...

City and cinema are closely linked. Indeed, when the Lumière Brothers held their first public film screenings, city planning was developping. More than a century later, exploring the filmmaking of a city is particularly relevant. Every day, the city asserts itself as the main framework of a changing society. Cultures are forged in the city. There are crossed destinies. Taking a look at the emerging cinema production means having a look in the cities. They inspire an unending source of scenarios. They are one of the best conveyors of observation of the contemporary world. As to cinema, it reinvents the city as a place for adventures, conflicts or meeting people... There is an array of potential universes shaped by filmmakers, decorators, directors of photography to tell remarkable stories.

With this Urba[Ciné] section, Travelling puts big cities of the world to the fore through the cinema production, like a voyage through the urban playground :

1990 > London - 1991 > Roma - 1992 > Berlin - 1993 > New York - 1994 > Madrid - 1995 > 100 Villes - 1996 > Montreal - 1997 > Suburbs - 1998 > Tokyo - 1999 > Imaginary Cities - 2000 > Cairo - 2001 > Dublin - 2002 > Lisbon - 2003 > Tehran - 2004 > Marseille - 2005 > Helsinki - 2006 > Alger - 2007 > The City at Night - 2008 > Buenos Aires - 2009 > Jerusalem - 2010 > Istanbul - 2011 > Mexico - 2012 > Bruxelles - 2013 > Edinburgh & Glasgow - 2014 > Rio de Janeiro - 2015 > Oslo - 2016 > Seoul - 2017 > Tangier - 2018 > Vienna - 2019 > World-cities - 2020 > beirut - 2021 > New Orleans - 2022 > Prague - 2023 > Santiago in Chile - 2024 > Taïwan - 2025 > Stockholm

In parallel to the Urba[Ciné] section, Travelling film festival proposes other unavoidable appointments:

• A French-language short film competition and a selection of feature films appearing on France’s screens for the first time with their creators in attendance have all been included to uncover both the young cinema scene and the latest works from today’s greatest film-makers;
• Travelling is pleased to work with the inseparable duo Musique & Cinema and offers to its public every year new creations of cine-concerts;
• Thanks to its short film program, the Junior competition will now be accessible to pre-schoolers. This Junior section proposes a lot of movies (long and short) for every children;
• Clair Obscur, the non-profit organization of the festival, has always demonstrated a strong interest in new developments in cinema. Travelling, has also developed workshops, movies that examine issues in digital technology;
• The Festival's segment GoWest! presents a rich selection of film and audiovisual productions. Screenings, workshops, and meet-and-greets with professionals will be held throughout the festival. Professionals will have the opportunity to undergo training and exchange with the public, and audiences will be invited to discover a wide variety of creative productions.

The Liberté//L'Étage hall is the heart of the festival, where all festival-goers and all audiences meet.

Last Travelling film festival

36th edition from 4 to 11 Feb. 2025

Stockholm – Northern Lights

The 36th Travelling film festival returns to Europe this year, turning the spotlight on Stockholm from 4 to 11 February 2025! For 35 years, the Travelling festival has been demonstrating that cinema is one of the best ways to travel the world, exploring cinematic lands in search of new artistic expressions and buried cultural treasures.

This time, Swedish cinema will be in the spotlight. Sweden is at the cutting edge of Scandinavian cinema, having proved its uniqueness in the early 20th century and established itself as a pioneer of cinematography. The festival will include key figures such as Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman, as well as a wide range of Swedish cinema greats, from Bo Widerberg to Ruben Östlund and the elusive and atypical Roy Andersson, along with a tribute to Mai Zetterling, who was at the forefront of feminist cinema.

As a generalist festival committed to nurturing curiosity, Travelling will guide its audience into other areas of this visual art through its various categories of events:

• Special screenings, new releases and previews
• Junior cinema, for young audiences, with a selection of Swedish films
• Music and Cinema, concerts and film screenings with live music
• Digital Transformations, virtual reality and new forms of storytelling
• not forgetting Go West!, which celebrates the region’s creativity!

Travelling will continue to build bridges between territories and the public, in order to provoke unexpected encounters between works, artists and loyal audiences. Let’s go!