Location | Angers, France |
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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]