Entrevues Belfort film festival

The Entrevues Belfort film festival is an annual international film festival, founded in 1986 by Janine Bazin and held in Belfort, France. Through its First Films International Competition (from 1st to 3rd film), the festival is dedicated to support emerging filmmakers. Alongside of the International Competition, the festival focuses on rediscovering filmmakers from the cinematic heritage with retrospectives, tributes and encounters. It also offers a Post-production Grant for first international features films.
Since 1986, the festival has been successively directed by Janine Bazin (1986-2000), Bernard Benoliel (2001-2004), Catherine Bizern (2005-2012) and Lili Hinstin (since 2013). Many first films of now renowned young directors were selected by EntreVues Belfort, such as:

Since 1986, retrospectives have been dedicated to international directors such as: Michelangelo Antonioni, David Cronenberg, Michael Cimino, Jerzy Skolimowski, Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader, Milos Forman, Marco Bellocchio, Paul Verhoeven, Abel Ferrara, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jean-Pierre Mocky, John Carpenter,Jacques Doillon,Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Otar Iosseliani or Bong Joon-ho.

In 2015, the festival has celebrated its 30th edition.

Grand Prix Janine Bazin - Best Feature Film

Grand Prix Best Short Film

Distribution Support Award

One + One Award

CAMIRA (Cinema And Moving Images Research Assembly) Award :

Audience Feature Film Award

Audience Short Film Award

Documentaire sur Grand Ecran Award (until 2012)

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