Festival du Film Policier de Cognac
The Festival du Film policier de Cognac (English: Cognac Crime Film Festival) was an annual film festival that took place in Cognac, France from 1982 to 2007 (with no festival being held in 1991).[1] The festival focused on the police/crime genre and, after 1993, featured a short film and a television film competition. Capitalizing on the popularity of the film festival, an unrelated crime book convention named Polar: Le Festival was inaugurated in 1996.
In 2007, the wine syndicate Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac announced that it was withdrawing its support of the 25-year-old film event. Without its main backer, the festival ended. However, another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or, saw value in the format and two years later launched a successor: 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.
Grand Prix awards[edit]
- 1982: Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
- 1983: 48 Hrs. (1982)
- 1984: L'Addition (1984)
- 1985: Funny Dirty Little War (1983)
- 1986: The Hitcher (1986)
- 1987: The Big Easy (1987)
- 1988: The Cat (1988)
- 1989: True Believer (1989)
- 1990: Kill Me Again (1989)
- 1992: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
- 1993: One False Move (1992)
- 1994: The Escort (1993)
- 1995: Shallow Grave (1994)
- 1996: The Last Supper (1995)
- 1997: Freeway (1996)
- 1998: Face (1997)
- 1999: Another Day in Paradise (1997)
- 2000: Une affaire de goût (2000)
- 2001: Chopper (2000)
- 2002: Nueve reinas (2000)
- 2003: La caja 507 (2002)
- 2004: Salinui chueok (2003)
- 2005: Crimen ferpecto (2004)
- 2006: Silentium (2004)
- 2007: A Very British Gangster
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Cognac Festival du Film Policier Official web site.
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