Guest short film/ movie
Your understanding is correct. These movies are not part of the Festival, but are shown as "guests"

Es cierto que existe la opción de llamar películas invitadas a aquellas que no forman parte de la competición, pero depende del festival, por ejemplo en Cannes se habla de películas invitadas a formar parte de la competición, es decir las que son invitadas son las que compiten y las que no compiten se llaman "out of competition films" te pego el reglamento de Cannes para que lo veas. Yo he traducido varias notas de prensa esta semana y tuve que buscarlo.

"The spirit of the Festival de Cannes is one of friendship and universal cooperation. Its aim is to reveal and focus attention on works of quality in order to contribute to the evolution of motion picture arts and to encourage development of the film industry throughout the world.


Article 2

The 58th Festival de Cannes will be held from Wednesday May 11th to Sunday May 22nd, 2005.


Article 3

The Board of Directors chooses and invites the films which will be presented in Competition, Out of Competition or for Un Certain Regard.

Each film invited to be part of the Official Selection by the Board of Directors will receive a Certificate of Participation.

Only films that meet the following conditions may be chosen for invitation in the Official Selection:

• 1) Films that have been produced during the twelve months preceding the Festival;
• 2) Films that have not been released anywhere other than their country of origin;
• 3) Films that have not been presented in any other international motion picture event;
• 4) Films that have not been exhibited on Internet;
• 5) Films that respect the aims of the Festival as defined in Article 1;
• 6) If participating in the "short film" category, films that do not exceed 15 minutes in length, including credits.


Article 4

Once a film has been selected it cannot be withdrawn from the Festival programme during the event.


Article 5

During the entire duration of the Festival de Cannes, none of the films invited may be shown outside the Festival's official theatres before its official screening.


Article 6

All films must be presented in their original language, with French subtitles. By "original language" is meant the one in which a film is or will be exhibited in its country of origin.

It is for the Board of Directors to decide whether or not a film that does not exactly meet this criterion may participate in the Festival.

French films must be subtitled in English on the print.
All subtitling expenses are to be met by the film's producer.
Moreover, all films with dialogues in a language different from English or French will be electronically subtitled in English. The screening of those subtitles will be operated by the Festival service provider. "


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Note added at 2 hrs 17 mins (2005-05-18 11:07:10 GMT)
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