Festival international du court-métrage de Timimoun
Cinema — short film · Timimoun, Gourara oasis, Algerian Sahara
Cinema
The festival
“From the Algerian desert to the world”: in Timimoun, the red pearl of the Gourara, sand becomes a silver screen. Created in 2025 under the auspices of Algeria's Ministry of Culture and Arts, the Timimoun International Short Film Festival (TISFF) brings cinema to the heart of the Sahara: open-air screenings, professional meetings, youth workshops and a creative laboratory, the Gourara Lab, supporting new talent.
The first edition (13–18 November 2025) welcomed Senegal as guest of honour, with 62 films from 31 countries. The 2nd edition, from 5 to 10 November 2026, confirmed the momentum: 63 short films from 39 countries, 37 of them in official competition — fiction, documentary and animation —, opening with Alberto Segre's animated film “La Question”.
A bridge with Dakar Court
On 9 November 2026, on the sidelines of this 2nd edition, the festival signed a partnership agreement with Dakar Court, Dakar's international short film festival (Senegal), signed by Mr Germain Coly, Senegal's Director of Cinematography, and Mr Fayçal Sahbi, commissioner of the Timimoun festival: to circulate short films between the two gatherings, ease filmmakers' participation, and create a platform of exchange between young filmmakers and professionals from both countries.
Good to know
Submissions to the festival are made exclusively through its official FilmFreeway page (link below). The next edition has not been announced yet.