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Angers European First Film Festival
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. History The first edition of this festival took place in 1989 at the initiative of its current delegate general , 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. 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:. * 1989 : Theo Angelopoulos * 1990 : Henri Alekan * 1991 : Vojtěch Jasný * 1992 : André Téchiné * 1993 : Jane Birkin * 1994 : Andrzej Żuławski * 1995 : Bertrand Tavernier * 1996 : Freddy Buache * 1997 : Agn ...
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Angers
Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called ''Angevins'' or, more rarely, ''Angeriens''. Angers proper covers and has a population of 154,508 inhabitants, while around 432,900 live in its metropolitan area (''aire d'attraction''). The Angers Loire Métropole is made up of 29 communes covering with 299,500 inhabitants (2018).Comparateur de territoire
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Not including the broader metropolitan area, Angers is the third most populous

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Nathalie Baye
Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye (born 6 July 1948) is a French film, television and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films. A ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for '' Every Man for Himself'' (1980), '' Strange Affair'' (1981), ''La Balance'' (1982), and ''The Young Lieutenant'' (2005). In 2009, she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Her other films include ''Day for Night'' (1973), ''Catch Me If You Can'' (2002), ''Tell No One'' (2006) and '' The Assistant'' (2015). Early life Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy, to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, two painters. At 14, she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States. On returning to France she continued with dance but also registered for the Simon Course and was admitted to the Conservatoire, from where she graduated in 1972 with a second prize in comedy, dramatic comedy and foreign theatre. Career Her second cinem ...
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Christophe Honoré
Christophe Honoré (born 10 April 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director. Career Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in ''Les Cahiers du Cinéma''. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book ''Tout contre Léo'' (''Close to Leo'') talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a film in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, ''Les Débutantes'', was performed at Avignon's Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returned to Avignon to present ''Dionysos impuissant'' in the "In" Festival, with Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel playing the leads. A well-known director, he is considered an "auteur" in French cinema. His 2006 film ''Dans Paris'' has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague cinema. In 2007, ''Love Songs (2007 film), Les Chansons d'amour'' was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Fil ...
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Tonie Marshall
Tonie Marshall (29 November 1951 – 12 March 2020) was a French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director. In 2000, she became the first female director to win a César award for her film ''Venus Beauty Institute.'' Life and career Marshall was the daughter of American actor, director, and bandleader William Marshall and French actress Micheline Presle. She was also the aunt of model and actress Sarah Marshall, and the half-sister of actor Mike Marshall, son of the actress Michèle Morgan. Before becoming a director, Tonie Marshall was an actress, first in drama and then in television and film, where she played several little parts in the 1970s and 1980s. As she recalls on his beginning on-screen: "I was an actress because it was what seemed the more natural for me, but I was interested a lot in writing and production. I was quite afraid not to make it irecting films Because I was a little actress, that I did not attend a specialized school, that I did not have any ...
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Robert Guédiguian
Robert Jules Guédiguian (born 3 December 1953) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Life and career Guédiguian is the son of a German mother and an Armenian father, whose family immigrated to France in the early 20th century after the Armenian genocide. He evokes his paternal roots in his 2006 film ''Le Voyage en Armenie''. He has a working-class background, as his father is a worker on the Marseille docks. Guédiguian became concerned with political questions and for a while was involved with the French Communist Party. In 2008 he joined the Left Party in France. Like Marcel Pagnol and René Allio before him, he anchors his films in social reality. His films are strongly marked by the local and regional environment of the city of Marseille, and in particular L'Estaque (north-west Marseille), for example in '' Marius et Jeannette.'' His 2011 film '' The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' premiered ...
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Lucas Belvaux
Lucas Belvaux (born 14 November 1961) is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the ''Trilogie'', consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are ''Cavale'', a thriller; ''Un couple épatant'', a comedy; and ''Après la vie'', a melodrama. The ''Trilogie'' received the André Cavens Award. His film '' La Raison du plus faible'' was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. His film ''One Night (38 témoins)'' was nominated for seven Magritte Awards, winning Best Screenplay. He also appeared as an actor in the film '' Merry Christmas'' (2005). He is the brother of Rémy Belvaux and Bruno Belvaux. Filmography As director/writer As actor * 1981: '' Allons Z'Enfants'' * 1982: '' The Trout'' * 1983: ''The Death of Mario Ricci'' * 1985: ''Chicken with Vinegar'' * 1991: ''Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary ...
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Raoul Servais
Raoul Servais (born 1 May 1928) is a Belgian filmmaker, animator, and comics artist. He was born in Ostend, Belgium, and is a fundamental figure of the Belgian animation scene, as well as the founder of the animation faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). Servais received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb in 2016. He is best known for the 1979 animated film, ''Harpya''. At the 9th Magritte Awards, he received an Honorary Magritte Award from the Académie André Delvaux. Filmography * 1960: ''Harbour Lights'' (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent) * 1963: ' * 1965: ' * 1968: ''Siren'' * 1969: ''Goldframe'' * 1970: ''To Speak or Not to Speak'' * 1971: ''Operation X-70'' * 1973: ''Pegasus'' * 1976: ''Halewyn's Song'' * 1979: ''Harpya'' (Palme d'Or for ''Best Short Film'' at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival) * 1994: '' Taxandria'' (Diploma of Merit at the 4th Kecskemét Animation Film Festival4. Kecskeméti Animációs Fil ...
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Claire Denis
Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Every Day'' (2001), '' 35 Shots of Rum'' (2008), '' White Material'' (2009), '' High Life'' (2018) and '' Both Sides of the Blade'' (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her film '' Stars at Noon'' (2022), Denis competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Grand Prix, sharing the award with Lukas Dhont's film ''Close''. Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity. Early life Denis was born in Paris, but raised in colonial French Africa, where her father was a civil servant, living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, French Som ...
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Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for '' À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actress for ''Vagabond'' (1985) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for ''La Cérémonie'' (1995). Her other films include ''Under the Sun of Satan'' (1987), '' Monsieur Hire'' (1989), ''East/West'' (1999) and '' The Final Lesson'' (2015). Life and career Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. She grew up in Grigny, Essonne. Her acting career began in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film '' À Nos Amours'' at age 16. She played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she received the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her international breakthrough came in 1985 when she played the main character in ...
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Abderrahmane Sissako
Abderrahmane Sissako (born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian-born Malian film director and producer. His film '' Waiting for Happiness'' (''Heremakono'') was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning a FIPRESCI Prize. His 2006 film ''Bamako'' received much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people. His 2014 film ''Timbuktu'' was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Biography Soon after his birth Sissako's family emigrated to Mali, his father's country, where he completed part of his primary and secondary education. Sissako returned briefly to Mauritania, his mother's land, in 1980. Then he left for Moscow, where he studied cinema at the VGIK (Federal State Film Institute) from 1983 to 1989. Sissako settled in France at the beginning of the 1990s. ...
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Radu Mihaileanu
Radu may refer to: People * Radu (given name), Romanian masculine given name * Radu (surname), Romanian surname * Rulers of Wallachia, see * Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960), disputed pretender to the former Romanian throne Other uses * Radu (weapon), a Romanian radiological weapon * Radu, Iran (other), multiple places * A tributary of the Mraconia in Mehedinți County, Romania * A tributary of the Tarcău in Neamț County, Romania * Radu Vladislas, a fictional vampire and the primary antagonist of the ''Subspecies'' film series See also * Radu Negru (other) * Radu Vodă (other) * * Ruda (other) Ruda may refer to: Islands * Ruda (island), Croatian island in the Elaphiti Archipelago Rivers * Ruda (river), a river in Croatia, tributary of the Cetina river * Ruda (Narew), a river in Poland, tributary of the Narew * Ruda (Oder), a river ...
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Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the ''Service Cinéma de l'Armée''. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (''The Best Way to Walk'', 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's ''Les Mistons'' (1957) and ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). Miller received César nominations for best director and writing for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the s ...
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