In Toulouse and Occitanie, the Fredd festival vibrates 24 cinemas for its 15th anniversary around the climatic emergency
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From October 9 to 18, 2025, Toulouse and the entire Occitanie region will vibrate to the rhythm of the International Environment Film Festival Fredd, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. More than a simple film festival, Fredd has established itself as an essential cultural and citizen event around climatic and environmental issues.
born in 2011 within the walls of Jean-Jaurès University in Toulouse, The Fredd has become a real cultural and scientific mediation platform, mixing film projections, debates, exhibitions, educational workshops and artistic performances. For this anniversary edition, The festival team has concocted an ambitious programming and resolutely turned towards the future.
"One of the main objectives of the festival since its creation, It is to make a strong time Different formats, using the mainly audiovisual format, "said Antonin Haddad, director of the Fredd. "But also for it to be a moment of debate, exchanges, questions about the ecological and energy transition. "
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an abundant and international programming H2>
with nearly 40 films from 15 countries, including 10 presented in preview, Festival invests 12 places and 24 cinemas in Toulouse and in the region. selection, distributed between fictions, documentaries, science films and youth formats, highlights the diversity of looks on ecological emergency, climate adaptation, biodiversity, or citizen struggles.
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"For me, it is by the fiction that we can touch the sensitive and the general public ", underlines Antonin. "It is a strong signal to see that the cinema industry is increasingly taking hold of these themes."
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A committed and festive anniversary edition
To mark its 15th anniversary, Fredd offers an exceptional movie-concert evening in partnership with the Metronum and Rio loco, Live. Two exhibitions are also scheduled: "The Corteres Community" of the Designer Matali Crossat, and "what remains of it", welcomed at the Mazades Cultural Center.
The festival also innovates with a focus on ecological sound creation and will put radio prices in partnership with the radio and here Occitanie.
An inclusive and anchored festival in the territory H2>
with 30 high schools, 18 elementary schools and 18 higher education establishments mobilized, Fredd a very wide audience, from the young spectator to the film buff. outdoor projections, round tables (especially on the climate and heritage), workshops and meetings prolong reflections and emotions beyond the screen.
"It is very important for us to touch so many students throughout the region", insists the director of the festival. They must be able to develop their critical look, their sensitivity to the living, as of today. "
finally, the fence of the festival will give rise to a large round table on the eco-production and the launch of a In Toulouse, Unpublished initiative in France which aims to bring together creators, broadcasters and financiers around ecological cinema.
"This environmental film market project is our vision for the next 15 years: anchor Toulouse as a reference pole for scientific, ecological and committed cinema " Antonin.
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