War on Screen
The International Film Festival War on Screen (WoS) is an annual French film festival focusing on representations of conflicts in all genres of cinema and animated image. It was established in 2013 and is held each year in October at Châlons-en-Champagne, France. Over the years various theater, film and music professionals have contributed to the festival, including actor and producer Olivier Broche, actor, film director and screenwriter Albert Dupontel, film director and writer Bertrand Blier, French-Afghan writer and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi, English writer-director Mike Leigh, French director, screenwriter, actor and producer Bertrand Tavernier, French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist Michel Portal, and French film director, screenwriter and producer Jean-Jacques Annaud. WoS Fabrique is an associated programme for film students to stimulate screen writing, production and direction of films on conflicts, by courses and subsidies for five laureates. It is supported by La Fémis (France), Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg (Germany), Łódź Film School (Poland), ECAM (Spain), and Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film (Romania). The official French award names are Grand prix du Jury, Mention spéciale du Jury, Prix de la mise en scène, Prix du Public, Prix du meilleur court métrage, and Prix du Jury étudiant. Official website Festival international de cinéma WAR ON SCREEN's channel on YouTube