"terms of both concept and infrastructure. Guests of the festival in 2008 and 2009 were Guillermo Arriaga, who won the award for best screenplay at Cannes in 2005, winner of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York – Lance Hammer, the first Serbian winner at Sarajevo Film Festival – Vladimir Perišić, as well as domestic and regional film icons such as Miki Manojlović, Goran Paskaljević, Emir Kusturica, Pjer Žalica, Despina Mauzaki... A special guest of the 2010 Festival was the famous American actress and singer – Juliette Lewis, who performed with her bend at Cinema City music opening on June"
"Alès Film Festival The Alès Film Festival (French: Le Festival Cinéma d'Alès Itinérances) is a film festival held annually in the commune of Alès located within the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. Having begun as a small, volunteer-run exhibition, the event now screens a selection of approximately 200 films from numerous genres and countries and regularly attracts around 45,000 visitors over ten days with a budget of approximately €600,000. Founded in 1983 as simply the ""Festival Cinéma d'Alès"", it received its additional moniker of Itinérances in 1993 to reflect its eclectic choice of films and vague themes of wandering. The"
"Cannes Cannes (; ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it also played host to the G20 organisation of industrialised nations. By the 2nd century BC, the Ligurian Oxybii established a settlement here known as ""Aegitna"" (Αἴγιθνα in Ancient Greek). Historians are unsure what the name"
"Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; ), until 2002 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. It is one of the ""Big Three"" alongside the Venice Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+, Pierre Lescure,"
"Saint-Paul-de-Vence Saint-Paul-de-Vence (before 2011: ""Saint-Paul"", in Occitan: Sant Pau) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera, it is well known for its modern and contemporary art museums and galleries such as Fondation Maeght which is located nearby. Saint-Paul-de-Vence has long been a haven of the famous, mostly due to the La Colombe d'Or hotel, whose former guests include Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso. During the 1960s, the village was frequented by French actors Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Lino Ventura, and poet Jacques Prévert. Saint-Paul is also"
"and finally, since its construction in 1991, the Palais Neptune at the Palais des Congrès de Toulon. Festival International du Film Maritime, exploration et l'environnement The Festival International du Film Maritime, d'Exploration et d'Environnement is a film festival held annually in the Palais Neptune, Palais des Congrès, in Toulon, France. The festival concentrates on exploration, the environment and knowledge of the sea and under the sea. It includes competitions for photographs and films. It was the first festival of its type and inspired others, notably the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival in the USA. The festival was founded by Jacques-Henri"
"Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (French: Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand) is the biggest international film festival dedicated to short films. It is held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and is the second largest film festival in France after Cannes, in terms of audience and professional attendance, boasting over 160,000 attendees and 3,500 professionals annually. In 1979, a Short Film Week was organised by the Clermont-Ferrand University Film Society. This event was repeated in 1980 and 1981, and was enthusiastically received. In 1982, the Festival became competitive, with a jury attributing awards to"
"the number of spectators (in Cannes visitors are not allowed in theatres, only professionals). This festival has revealed many young talented directors now well known in France and internationally such as Mathieu Kassovitz, Cédric Klapisch and Éric Zonka. Beside the short film festival, Clermont-Ferrand hosts more than twenty music, film, dance, theatre and video and digital art festivals every year. With more than 800 artistic groups from dance to music, Clermont-Ferrand and the Auvergne region's cultural life is important in France. One of the city's nicknames is ""France's Liverpool"". Groups such as The Elderberries and Cocoon were formed there. Additionally,"
"Frégé, Yaniss Lespert, Solene Rigot, Salomé Richard Cabourg Film Festival The Cabourg Film Festival () is an annual film festival held every June in Cabourg, France. Founded in 1983 by writer-journalist Gonzague Saint Bris, the festival is dedicated to films in the romantic genre and films with elements of romanticism. Jury President: Raúl Ruiz Jury President: Claude Pinoteau Jury: Nina Companéez (President), Évelyne Bouix, Marie Nimier Jury: Antoine de Caunes (President), Sacha Bourdo, Bruno Chiche, Vincent Delerm, Marie Gillain, Vincent Lannoo, Stanislas Merhar Jury: Xavier Beauvois, Soledad Bravi, Catherine Jacob, Julie Lopes-Curval, Caterina Murino, Brigitte Roüan, Pascale Roze Jury: Andrzej"
"its main backer, the festival's days in Cognac came to an end. However another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or, saw value in the format and launched a successor in 2009, the Festival international du Film policier de Beaune. Since 2010, the Cognac-based Polar: Le Festival - originally a strictly literary event - has incorporated a film competition, albeit on a much smaller scale, to compensate for the loss of the original film festival to Beaune. Festival du Film Policier de Cognac The Festival du Film policier de Cognac () was an annual film festival that took place in Cognac,"
"Festival International du Film Maritime, exploration et l'environnement The Festival International du Film Maritime, d'Exploration et d'Environnement is a film festival held annually in the Palais Neptune, Palais des Congrès, in Toulon, France. The festival concentrates on exploration, the environment and knowledge of the sea and under the sea. It includes competitions for photographs and films. It was the first festival of its type and inspired others, notably the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival in the USA. The festival was founded by Jacques-Henri Baixe, who began his career as a navy doctor. He practised underwater diving and later became a"
"Festival de Beaune The Festival de Beaune: ""Festival international d’opéra baroque"" is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments. More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the ""Festival international du film policier de Beaune"" - a festival of detective films. Founded in 1982, the Baroque Music Festival of Beaune has presented over 80 operas, over 30 of them significant revivals and world, European or French premières; over 100 oratorio and sacred music concerts, including"
"collection of his drawings and manuscripts. Agnès Varda's first film, ""La Pointe Courte"", was filmed in the environs of Sète. The Secret of the Grain, also known as Couscous or Le Grain et le Mulet, a César Award-winning movie about Tunisian immigrants, was filmed in Sète. Sète was the birthplace of: Sète is twinned with: Sète Sète (; ""Seta"" in Occitan), known as Cette until 1928, is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Its inhabitants are called ""Sétois"". Known as the ""Venice of Languedoc"" and the ""singular island"" (in Paul Valéry's words), it"
"Cabourg Film Festival The Cabourg Film Festival () is an annual film festival held every June in Cabourg, France. Founded in 1983 by writer-journalist Gonzague Saint Bris, the festival is dedicated to films in the romantic genre and films with elements of romanticism. Jury President: Raúl Ruiz Jury President: Claude Pinoteau Jury: Nina Companéez (President), Évelyne Bouix, Marie Nimier Jury: Antoine de Caunes (President), Sacha Bourdo, Bruno Chiche, Vincent Delerm, Marie Gillain, Vincent Lannoo, Stanislas Merhar Jury: Xavier Beauvois, Soledad Bravi, Catherine Jacob, Julie Lopes-Curval, Caterina Murino, Brigitte Roüan, Pascale Roze Jury: Andrzej Żuławski (President), Anne Consigny, Agnès de Sacy,"
"Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival (SEFFF) (French: Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg (FEFFS)), is an annual film festival held in Strasbourg, France, that focus on fantasy, science fiction and horror films. The festival takes place annually in September since 2008, it derives from the Spectre Film Festival that was created in 2005 by the organization ""Les Films du Spectre"". Notable past guests of the festival include Tobe Hooper, Lamberto Bava, Catherine Breillat, Marina De Van, Ruggero Deodato, Lucky McKee, Agnès Merlet, Caroline Munro, Philippe Nahon, Brian Yuzna, Roger Corman, Mick Garris and"
"Vieilles Charrues Festival The Vieilles Charrues Festival (; ; literally: Old Ploughs Festival) is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix located in the west of Brittany, France. This festival is the largest music festival in France, attracting more than 200,000 festival-goers every year (270,000 in 2011, 280,000 in 2017). This festival was created in 1992 in Landeleau, a small village in central Finistère. At that time, less than 500 revellers attended and the festival was more like a private party. The following year, the festival welcomed more than 2000 and that was the beginning of its"
"Festival de Cornouaille The Festival de Cornouaille (or just Cornouaille Kemper) is an annual festival taking place in the city of Quimper, located in the south-west of Brittany (France) in July (close at the 4th Sunday of the month). The festival has been held since 1923 and is one of the biggest cultural events in Brittany. The festival putting forward the Breton culture in its diversity and its richness. About 180 shows, concerts and animations take place in the day and in the evening in the urban heart of the city of Quimper: ""a festival in the heart of a"
"Sacramento French Film Festival The Sacramento French Film Festival is an annual film festival held on the last two weekends of June at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento, California. It celebrates the present as well as the rich history of French cinema featuring new releases and rarely seen classics. It is the only festival dedicated to French cinema in Northern California and one of only two on the West coast. It was described in the ""Sacramento Bee"" in July 2003, as “the Cinematic Highlight of Sacramento's Summer”. The SFFF opens each year on a Friday night with a catered reception"
"hosted the Tour de France. The European festival of les Arcs (Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs) is a film festival dedicated to independent European cinema, founded in 2009. It takes place every year in December, during the opening week of the ski season, in Les Arcs ski resort located in Bourg-Saint-Maurice in Savoie. The aim of this festival is to promote European cinema in all its diversity by showing independent European films that are very few exported outside their borders and to work towards the structuring of a European film market through the holding of professional meetings bringing together"
"and directors, Drs. Peter and Françoise Ravaux-Kirkpatrick, were decorated as ""Chevaliers de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres"", a high honor in the arts in France, and in 2011, the Médaille Beaumarchais by the French Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques. The festival usually takes place the last weekend of March, during which the city is filled with French speakers and aficionados of French cinema. It is held at the historic Byrd Theatre. At the 2014 Festival, there were approximately 22,000 attendees/tickets sold. The festival is host to a variety of French films, both short and feature-length. to promote French"
"at Juno Beach during World War II in 1944. The cult of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux brings large numbers of people on pilgrimage to Lisieux, where she lived in a Carmelite convent. Every September, Deauville hosts the Festival of the American Movie and the beach resort of Cabourg hosts the Festival of the Romantic Movie. Annually, the city of Caen celebrates the festival of the electronical cultures called ""Nordik Impakt"" & The festival of Beauregard, just around Caen. The local dialect of the Norman language is known as Augeron. It is spoken by a minority of the population. Calvados is"
"often screen the African premieres of many international films. The Sahara International Film Festival, held annually in the Sahrawi refugee camps in western Algeria near the border of Western Sahara, is notable as the only film festival in the world to take place in a refugee camp. The festival has the two-fold aim of providing cultural entertainment and educational opportunities to refugees, and of raising awareness of the plight of the Sahrawi people, who have been exiled from their native Western Sahara for more than three decades. The biggest European festival is the Cannes Film Festival in France along with"
"MOVIES La maison de poussière directed byt Jean-Claude Rozec BEST SCREENPLAY Tears of steel directed by Ian Hubert MUSIC PICK Lila directed by Carlos Lascano SPECIAL PRIZE Mention spéciale for La petite casserole d’Anatole directed by Eric Montchaud (France) Festival du Film Merveilleux The Festival du Film Merveilleux is an international film festival held in Paris, focusing on themes of magic and fantasy. It was started by Benedicte Beaugeois and Maureen Gerby. It is organized in conjunction with the Talulah Association, an organizer of short and feature film events in Paris, as well as workshops on film and ecological awareness."
"Théâtre Mogador, Élysée Montmartre). France has historical and strong links with cinema, with two Frenchmen, Auguste and Louis Lumière (known as the Lumière Brothers) credited with creating cinema in 1895. The world's first female filmmaker, Alice Guy-Blaché, was also from France. Several important cinematic movements, including the late 1950s and 1960s Nouvelle Vague, began in the country. It is noted for having a strong film industry, due in part to protections afforded by the French government. France remains a leader in filmmaking, producing more films than any other European country. The nation also hosts the Cannes Festival, one of the"
"festival with a pleasure-boating show on the Erdre, exposing the public to a musical genre considered elitist; all concerts are free. Annual attendance is about 150,000. The Three Continents Festival is an annual film festival dedicated to Asia, Africa and South America, with a Mongolfière d'or (Golden Hot-air Balloon) awarded to the best film. Nantes also hosts ""Univerciné"" (festivals dedicated to films in English, Italian, Russian and German) and a smaller Spanish film festival. The Scopitone festival is dedicated to digital art, and ""Utopiales"" is an international science fiction festival. A path along the Loire river banks, between the Anne-de-Bretagne"
"Opéra de Baugé Opéra de Baugé is an opera festival held each summer near the Loire town of Baugé-en-Anjou, 40 kilometres east of Angers, France. From 2003 to 2011 the festival was held in the gardens of Les Capucins (pictured), a private house and former convent. In 2016 the festival returned to Les Capucins after 4 years in a theatre in the centre of the town. The festival is modelled on England's Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and performances feature 90-minute intervals during which members of the audience picnic or dine in the attached restaurant. Many of the cast and orchestra are"
"this year in Paris! Going to Hollywood to compete with the winning films from the 116 participating cities in the world!” In 2013, the 51st Gala with the Union of Artists was aired during prime time on France 2, with a reported 4.2 million television viewers (16.8% of viewers), making it the most watched program of the evening. François Goetghebeur François Goetghebeur (born 13 November 1974) is a French film director, photographer, and art director. He became well known in the music world thanks to his work including recordings, documentaries, and artists' portraits. François Goetghebeur is a native of Lille."
"its current status on France's Tentative List for future nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage site to the enthusiasm of writer, resistance fighter and politician André Malraux, who, as Minister of Culture (1960–1969), restored the town and many other sites of historic significance throughout France. The centre of the old town consists of impeccably restored stone buildings and is largely car-free. A film festival has been held there every November since 1991 Sarlat was the birthplace of: The town and region have featured in two major Hollywood films: Ridley Scott's ""The Duellists"" (1978) based on Joseph Conrad's Napoleonic tale; and"
"""Adapted from the article Créteil International Women's Film Festival, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License."" Créteil International Women's Film Festival The Créteil International Women's Film Festival (in French Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil) is an annual event in Créteil, Paris, France founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux. It transferred to Créteil in 1985. Located southeast of the center of the city of Paris, today the festival"
"Paris Independent Film Festival The Paris Independent Film Festival is an annual film festival showcasing international independent films that takes place in Paris, France. It features a competition and awards films in various categories. It has a special emphasis on films that have no distribution yet, but also screens other films out of competition. The Culture Trip named it as one of ""7 great Paris Film Events"" after its inaugural edition, and Shooters Hill Campus names it as a destination for trips during its film studies program along Berlin Film Festival. The festival was founded in 2015 and takes place"
"Solothurn Film Festival The Solothurn Film Festival (SFT) is the most important festival for Swiss film productions. Founded in 1966 in the Swiss city of Solothurn, the annual festival presents a representative selection of Swiss feature, documentary and short film productions. In a series of public talks and panel discussions, the audience meets with members of the film industry to discuss the screened films and the culture of film in Switzerland. With over 60,000 visitors every year, the Solothurn Film Festival ranks among the most renowned cultural events in the country. The Solothurn Film Festival ranks among the oldest film"
"major companies in the film and television production sector (film development, lighting, make-up etc.) This should strengthen the role of cluster-image ""Plaine Commune"" with its fifty television studios (including the ""Plaine Saint-Denis""), and 14 movie sets (in Epinay-sur-Seine, Aubervilliers, Stains and Saint-Ouen). The Cité du Cinéma was originally set to open in May 2012 in accordance with the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. After some minor delays it did finally open its doors on Friday, September 21, 2012 in the presence of many international movie stars and public figures (Dianna Agron, Tarak Ben Ammar, Samuel Benchetrit, Luc Besson, Carole Bouquet, Clotilde"
"others. The Sacramento French Film Festival is an annual event held in July at the Crest Theatre. It celebrates the present as well as the rich history of French cinema featuring new releases and rarely seen classics. It is the only festival dedicated to French cinema in Northern California and one of only two on the West coast. This is a film festival that takes place annually at the Crest. It is now in its 10th year. The two co founders are Margi Park-Landau and Sid Heberger, the manager of the Crest. Park-Landau wanted to create a place closer to"