The Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (french: Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême, FFA) is an annual

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...

held in

Angoulême Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a communes of France, commune, the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Charente Departments of France, department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern Franc ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. It was founded by

Dominique Besnehard Dominique Besnehard (; born 5 February 1954) is a French actor, film producer, casting director, writer and talent manager. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1975. He starred in the 1983 film '' À nos amours'', wh ...

in 2008 and has been held every year in December. It was launched as a showcase for all kind of francophone works. The festival includes a retrospective of films that were released during the year as well as a series of

premieres A première, also spelled premiere, is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first ...

and other special screenings. Since its foundation, it has played host to

Ursula Meier Ursula Meier (born 24 June 1971) is a French- Swiss film director and screenwriter. Career A native of Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, near the Swiss border, Ursula Meier graduated from Belgium's Institu ...

Philippe Falardeau Philippe Falardeau (born February 1, 1968 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Early life Falardeau was born and raised in Hull, Quebec. He later studied political science at the University of Ottawa, before travellin ...

Stéphane Aubier Stéphane Aubier (born October 8, 1964) is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. In 2009, he wrote and directed the animated film ''A Town Called Panic (film), A Town Called Panic'' along with Vincent Patar. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Fi ...

and Vincent Patar,

Olivier Masset-Depasse Olivier Masset-Depasse is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He made his feature-length debut in 2006 with ''Cages''. In 2010, he wrote and directed ''Illegal'', which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for eight Ma ...

Michel Leclerc Michel Leclerc (born 24 April 1965) is a French director and screenwriter. Career During the 1990s, Leclerc worked as a TV editor and cameraman. He also wrote and directed a number of shorts. For years, he was a columnist on television shows su ...

Valérie Donzelli Valérie Donzelli (born 2 March 1973) is a French actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films and two short films since 2008, including the film ''Declaration of War'' (2011). Early life Valérie Donzelli was born i ...

Philippe Van Leeuw Philippe Van Leeuw is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He made his feature-length debut in 2009 with ''The Day God Walked Away''. In 2017, he wrote and directed ''Insyriated'', which premiered at the 67th Berlin Internatio ...

Guillaume Gallienne Guillaume Gallienne (born 8 February 1972) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He has received two Molière Awards for his stagework and has won two César Awards, one for writing and the other for his performance in his autobiogra ...

Faouzi Bensaïdi Faouzi Bensaïdi ( ar, فوزي بن السعيدي; born 14 March 1967) is a Moroccan film director, actor, screenwriter and artist. His film ''A Thousand Months'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ...

Nabil Ayouch Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival. Early life H ...

Mohamed Ben Attia Mohamed Ben Attia, born January 5, 1976, in Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , tim ...

, among others.

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* Film festivals in France Film festivals established in 2008 Angoulême {{Europe-film-festival-stub

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