Angers European First Film Festival


The Angers European First Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the city of Angers, France every January since 1989, dedicated to European cinema.
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History

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 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 and more than 150,000 euros in prizes awarded to films selected by juries or spectators.

Jury presidents

Over the years, seminal figures in the world of cinematography have chaired the jury: