2025 Edition
FILMS IN COMPETITION
Animation
Documentary
Fiction
Feature Film
Performance
the UFF crosses
the borders
Each year, the UFF identifies and promotes 30 new talents.
LOS ANGELES
March 2025
NEW CALEDONIA
August 2025
PARIS
October 2025
Île de la réunion
Brazil
Canada
Greece
Ukraine
Martinique
Morocco
new York
Uganda
Lebanon
Swiss
Program 2025
March 2025
What is an urban film?
An urban film can take a thousand forms: fiction, documentary, series, music video, or social media creation. What makes its DNA is not the format but the energy of the street, the social issues it addresses, and the uniqueness of its characters. From Validé to Allons Enfants, each work translates in its own way the spirit and creativity of urban cultures.
A new cinema in motion
Our values at the UFF
Pioneer & Springboard
Since 2005, the UFF has been propelling emerging urban creators onto national and international stages.
Wealth
& Plurality
A festival featuring committed documentaries, fiction, animation, fashion performances and street art: each look at the city creates a vivid portrait of urban culture.
Archives & Memory
Living conservatory of hip-hop and street cultures: digitization, online media library and future dedicated space to transmit this heritage.
Outreach & Export
From Paris to Los Angeles, from Montreal to the Pacific, the UFF exports French urban culture through its delegations and partnerships such as the Institut Français.
They participated
ZOOM ON
ZANGRO
Director & Producer
Zangro won an award at the Urban Films Festival. From being a beneficiary, he became a talented producer. He now directs documentaries and often returns to the festival…
NADIA HAREK
Director
Nadia Harek presented her first short films at the Urban Films Festival, almost as a game. Her work quickly took on a more serious dimension: her first documentary on dance reveals...
Leïla Sy
Director & Artistic Director
Director and artistic director Leïla Sy made her mark at the Urban Films Festival by premiering her first feature films. These screenings were a key moment: they allowed...
EXCEPTIONAL JURORS FOR 20 YEARS
Jamel
Jury 2006
UFF Patron since 2005
Agnes B
Jury 2014
Producer & singer
Orelsan
Jury 2018
Actor & comedian
Maimouna Doucouré
Jury 2017
Fashion designer
Martine
Barrat
Jury 2018
Videographer, Director
JP Zadi
Jury 2017
Actor & Comedian
Sabrina Ouazani
Jury 2019
Director & Actress
Mohamed Hamidi
Jury 2020
Film Director
OUR PARTNERS
2025
In picture
Highlights
Urban Cinema: A Multifaceted Genre
ARCHIVING MISSION
A true Resource Center, the UFF constitutes a living conservatory of urban cultures.
Collection & digitization
Saving films, photos, posters and testimonies. More than 6,000 films, 20 years of archives, a unique collection on hip-hop and urban culture .
Online platform
Free access to historical content, searches by edition, directors, themes. The Urban production channel broadcasts, media, prod.
Dedicated places
Future physical center (DRAC Île-de-France & Departmental Council 93) for on-site consultations, archival screenings, masterclasses.
(Available soon)
the force
AND SPINNING PLANETS ARE FUN,
READER'S ATTENTION.
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