 Official logo | |
| Location | Angers, France |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Directors | Claude-Eric Poiroux |
| Language | International |
| Website | https://www.premiersplans.org/festival/en/ |
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. [1]
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. [2] [3]
Since 2011, the festival collaborates with the Beijing First Film Festival. [4]
In 2013, it attracted nearly 70,000 festival-goers. [5] [6] By 2014, over 2200 films were submitted annually, more than 300 were selected for different sections. [7] 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. [8] [9]
Over the years, seminal figures in the world of cinematography have chaired the jury: [10]
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