Rules - Festival Imagésanté 2027 - Festival Imagésanté

Rules – Festival Imagésanté 2027

Official languages: French / English

1 – Objectives

The main objective of the Liège International Health Film Festival, Imagésanté, is to promote health education and information through any audiovisual medium.

Imagésanté is also a stimulus for the creation of new, innovative, high-quality audiovisual documents, both nationally and internationally.

Another aim of the Festival is to present current developments in the field of new media, medical informatics and imaging in general.

Imagésanté is 5 days devoted to new therapeutic techniques and resources, research findings, prevention and, of course, health education for all, using images.

2 – Admission procedures

Article 2.1

Documents that meet the above-mentioned objectives will be admitted to the competition. They will be submitted to the Festival Selection Committee, in collaboration with the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Liege.

Article 2.2

The following are eligible to compete

  • Films aimed at a medical or paramedical audience and produced on or after 1 January 2025.
  • Films dealing with a health or health education subject (general public) produced on or after 1 January 2025.
  • Films made with the support of commercial companies produced on or after 1 January 2025.
  • Advertising technology films produced on or after 1 January 2025 and entered exclusively in the Research & Health selection.


Article 2.3

The following are excluded

  • Documents entered in a previous edition of the Festival
  • Advertising films other than in the field of health-related research

 Article 2.4

Technical specifications for projection :

  • Blu-ray.
  • DVD (zone 2 preferred; shipping and return costs are the responsibility of the participant).
  • Excluded: U-MATIC-NTSC and BETACAM-OXYDE cassettes, mini DVDs, VHS.
  • Maximum running time: 120 minutes.
  • Films whose main language is neither French nor English must contain subtitles in one of the two aforementioned languages or provide the text of the film translated into French.
  • If a film is selected for the Festival and the organising committee produces French subtitles for screening at the Festival, the subtitled copy may be returned on payment of a contribution to technical costs of €500 excluding VAT.

3 – Registration procedures

Article 3.1

For international documentaries, the deadline for entries is 31 August 2026.

For Belgian documentaries, the deadline for entries is extended to 31 October 2026.

Article 3.2

The producer or sponsor must be in possession of the film rights or a broadcast licence.

Article 3.3

All entries must be accompanied by a promotional photo in TIFF 300 dpi or EPS vectorised format, free of rights, or a promotional teaser video posted on YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion, to be sent to us at info@imagesante.be.

Article 3.4

The viewing link and its codes must be valid until 1/4/2027. The organiser undertakes to use them only within the strictly limited framework of the selection process.

Article 3.5

The information on the registration form received before 1/11/2026 will be included in the Imagésanté catalogue.

Article 3.6

Any delivery and insurance costs must be prepaid by the sender.

4 – Themes & Category Prizes

Article 4.1

Film screenings are grouped into categories, the list of which is defined by the Festival pre-selection jury according to the audiences concerned and the subjects dealt with.

Article 4.2

A film may only be screened in one category. The filmmaker must propose the category in which he or she wishes the film to compete. This proposal will be validated by the pre-selection jury and modified if necessary.

Article 4.3

In each category, a Jury made up of specialists in the discipline will award one or more prizes in the category.

Article 4.4

A film may receive only one prize but may be awarded several mentions.

Article 4.5

After deliberation by the Juries, the results are announced at the Closing Night on the Saturday closing the Festival week.

If the film wins a prize, the presence of a member of the film crew is strongly encouraged at the Closing Night.

Article 4.6

The decisions of the Jury are final.

5 – Promotion and advertising

Article 5.1

The sponsors are asked to grant the organiser (Festival website and events) and its partners a transfer of rights for broadcasts for the purpose of promoting the Festival and its prize-winners (among other things, using the film or extracts from the film at events or on television programmes promoting the Festival).

Article 5.2

The producer or sponsor is responsible for the payment of music rights, which may be required of them by copyright management companies when films are screened (e.g. Internet streaming), as well as for any copyright problems that may arise when works are broadcast.

If you disagree with these commitments, please let us know.

6 – Imagésanté video library

Article 6.1

Any document screened at the Festival Imagésanté becomes part of the Vidéothèque Imagésanté. It may be screened after the Festival, in whole or in part, with the authorisation of the Organising Committee, for non-commercial purposes of a cultural, scientific or educational nature.

7 – General information

Article 7.1

Registration of a document at Imagésanté implies acceptance of this document.

Article 7.2

Further information can be obtained from

ENJEU asbl – Rue Vaudrée 157 – B-4031 Liège

Tel: +32 (0)4 254 97 97
Contact: info@imagesante.be