Angers European First Film Festival
The Angers European First Film Festival (French: Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers) is an annual film festival held in the city of Angers, France every January since 1989, dedicated to European cinema. The first edition of this festival took place in 1989 at the initiative of its current delegate general Claude-Eric Poiroux, founder of the art house cinema Les 400 coups in Angers, and of a group of moviegoers. Since 2011, the festival collaborates with the Beijing First Film Festival. In 2013, it attracted nearly 70,000 festival-goers. By 2014, over 2200 films were submitted annually, more than 300 were selected for different sections. In 2016, admissions were estimated to be more than 76,000 and more than 150,000 euros in prizes awarded to films selected by juries or spectators. Over the years, seminal figures in the world of cinematography have chaired the jury: 1989 : Theo Angelopoulos 1990 : Henri Alekan 1991 : Vojtěch Jasný 1992 : André Téchiné 1993 : Jane Birkin 1994 : Andrzej Żuławski 1995 : Bertrand Tavernier 1996 : Freddy Buache 1997 : Agnieszka Holland 1998 : Claude Chabrol 1999 : Lucian Pintilie 2000 : Agnès Varda 2001 : Pavel Lungin 2002 : Nathalie Baye 2003 : Jeanne Moreau 2004 : Benoît Jacquot 2005 : Jacqueline Bisset and Claude Miller 2006 : Radu Mihaileanu 2007 : Abderrahmane Sissako 2008 : Sandrine Bonnaire 2009 : Claire Denis and Raoul Servais 2010 : Lucas Belvaux and Matthias Luthardt 2011 : Robert Guédiguian and Tonie Marshall 2012 : Christophe Honoré and Mathieu Demy 2013 : Noémie Lvovsky and Fabienne Godet 2014 : Catherine Corsini 2015 : Laurent Cantet and Jiri Barta 2017 : Lambert Wilson 2018 : Catherine Deneuve 2019 : Cédric Kahn and Michael Dudok de Wit 2020 : Juliette Binoche and Claude Barras 2021 : Pierre Salvadori 2022 : Melvil Poupaud 2023 2024 : Robin Campillo Official website Premiers Angers at the Internet Movie Database Premies Angers at FestAgent