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The Festival is back in cinemas!

We are happy to confirm that the 16th edition of the festival will take place in Paris from November 17th to November 30th, finally in the theatres.

This year the festival will present 100 films in 10 sections, a true panorama of European cinema of today, including three competition sections:
-   Prix SAUVAGE (9 European feature films unreleased in France); 
-   Prix PRESENT (9 European documentary films produced in the last 2 years);
-  Prix SAUVAGE CORTO (a selection of the daring short meter films coming from all Europe).

In collaboration with Zaleski Foundation, Blick Productions, and Rafael Lewandowski, we will invite you to the screening and the launch of a fundraising campaign for the international distribution of the documentary Herbert, un barbare dans le jardin, dedicated to the great Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924 - 1998).

Among the guests of this year's edition, we are happy to welcome N.C. Heikin, Olivier Hespel, Isabelle Ingold, Milcho Manchevski, Vivianne Perelmuter, Emilio Ruiz, Andrea Štaka, Réka Szabó and Krzysztof Zanussi, Chloé Aïcha Boro.

The opening ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 17 at the cinema L'Entrepôt presenting Mare, the recent feature film of Andrea Štaka (Switzerland), the president of our Prix SAUVAGE jury. With this production, the director offers us a courageous and sincere portrait of a woman in search of her identity.

FESTIVAL VENUES

The screenings will take place in legendary Parisian cinemas such as le Saint-André-des-Arts, le Studio des Ursulines, le Cinéma l’Entrepôt, la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin and la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, our long time partners. And we are equally delighted to invite you to the new venues le Lincoln, le Balzac and 7 Parnassiens.