L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival

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L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival
Location Alpe d'Huez, France
Founded1997
AwardsGrand Prix
Prix de coeur du jury
Prix spécial du jury
Prix du public
Prix d'interprétation féminine
Prix d'interprétation masculin
Prix du court métrage
Website festival-alpedhuez.com

L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival, established in 1997, [1] is a film festival dedicated to comedy cinema. [2] [3] It takes place every year in Alpe d'Huez during the third week of January and offers a free program and free entrance composed of many screenings, short and feature films. The screenings take place all day in the halls of the Palais des Sports et Congresses of Alpe d'Huez. The films of the official selection, in competition and out of competition, are projected in national preview in the presence of the casts and crews of the films. [4]

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References

  1. Le Festival de l'Alpe d'Huez sur Internet Movie Database
  2. Le sacre surprise de La Finale et Thierry Lhermitte à l'Alpe d'Huez
  3. "Festival du film de comédie de l'Alpe d'Huez". LExpress.fr (in French). 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  4. Festival de l'Alpe d'Huez: Azuelos et Kiberlain couronnées