Competition

Mahdi Fleifel, Nicole Garcia

The 2025 winners

Ariane Labed

Directors of Diagonales

Artus, Sayyid El Alami, Amaury Foucher

The films selected for Premiers Plans' competition will be announced at the beginning of December.

Nearly 100 first films have been selected in 7 categories:

European feature films
Diagonales (films that are free in form, format, narrative or duration)
European short films
French short films
School films
Animated short films
Chenaplans (European short films for children aged 3 and 6)

10h00 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

The Animal Kingdom

Thomas Cailley

Followed by a discussion with the director and Lilian Corbeille, editor

Audio description

Special screenings

2h08

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10h00 Pathé Angers - 2

Philadelphia

Jonathan Demme

Presented by the high school students at Lycée Léon Blum, Paris

Judges and Witnesses

2h05

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10h15 Grand Théâtre

A Light That Never Goes Out

Lauri-Matti Parppei

Compétition European feature films

1h48

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10h30 Pathé Angers - 8

The Girl with a Bracelet

Stéphane Demoustier

Judges and Witnesses

1h35

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10h30 Les 400 Coups - 1

Talents en Court

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Ma'Ma

Mouad Habrini

Gioia

Nixon Singa

Diego

Mélissa Silveira

Deepflix

Quentin Bitran

10h30 Centre de Congrès - Grand Angle

Filming justice, telling the truth

Round table

11h00 Les 400 Coups - 5

Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Gabriel Azorin

Compétition Diagonales

1h50

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14h00 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

French short films - Program 2

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Le Verre de thé

Sara Bernanos

Don’t wake the sleeping child

Kevin Aubert

God Is Shy

Jocelyn Charles

Daj Gas

Anastasija Pavlovic Kulundzic

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition French short films

1h30

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14h00 Grand Théâtre

Silent Rebellion

Marie-Elsa Sgualdo

Presented and followed by a meeting with the director

VOSTA

Compétition European feature films

1h36

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14h00 Pathé Angers - 2

Hands Over the City

Francesco Rosi

Presented by Gautier Roos, critic at Chaos Reign and programmer at Critics' Week

Napoli

1h41

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14h15 Centre de Congrès - Grand Angle

Chien noir

Nyima Cartier

Read by Megan Northam, Jeanne Rosa and Arcadi Radeff

Compétition Script readings

Free entrance

14h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

My Best Fiend

Werner Herzog

1h35

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15h30 Grand Théâtre

Directors' Forum

European feature film À bras-le-corps

15h45 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

French short films 2

16h15 Centre de Congrès - Amphi Jardin

Short films for kids 6+

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I Caught a Shark

Emma Gueirouard

Wolfie

Philippe Kastner

L'Aveugle

Remy Xu

The Legend of the Hummingbird

Morgan Devos

The Day I Licked a Pebble

Flavie Eliézer, Chloé Bernuchon, Goli Atefi, Maud Kolasa, Nathan Jauze, Marie Pijollet

Woodland

Vanessa Chu, Jim Obmann, Emil Pogolski

Pockets Full of Pebbles

Elise Kerob

Presented and followed by a meeting

Compétition Chenaplans 6+

45 min

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16h30 Pathé Angers - 2

A War

Tobias Lindholm

Judges and Witnesses

1h55

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16h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Student films - Program 3

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Past the Hill of Napoleon's Hat

Arnas Balčiūnas

Chaos et café froid

Joséphine Reboh

They Will Love Me Now

Nikulás Tumi Hlynsson

Close to September

Lucía G. Romero

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition Student films

1h31

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17h00 Les 400 Coups - 5

Diagonales - Program 2

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Home Tour

Laura Dauvin

Autostop

Roman Hüben

Compétition Diagonales

1h16

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17h00 Pathé Angers - 3

Short films - Werner Herzog

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The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Werner Herzog

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

Werner Herzog

1h30

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17h15 Pathé Angers - 8

The Trial of Joan of Arc

Robert Bresson

Judges and Witnesses

1h04

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17h15 Grand Théâtre

Marriage Italian Style

Vittorio De Sica

Presented by Christian Viviani, essayist and film historian

Napoli

1h42

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18h15 Centre de Congrès - Amphi Jardin

Discover audio description

Scars We Love

18h30 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European student films 3

19h00 Le Qu4tre

Clips and concert

19h15 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Wild Foxes

Valéry Carnoy

Presented and followed by a meeting with the director and Samuel Kircher, actor

VOSTA

Compétition European feature films

1h32

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19h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

Dog on Trial

Laetitia Dosch

Audio description / SDH subtitles

Judges and Witnesses

1h23

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19h30 Pathé Angers - 2

White Dog

Samuel Fuller

Presented by Gautier Roos, critic at Chaos Reign and programmer at Critics' Week

Programme 3

1h30

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20h30 Grand Théâtre

Urchin

Harris Dickinson

Presented by Megan Northam, actress

Sneak previews

1h39

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21h15 Les 400 Coups - 5

European short films - Program 1

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Embodying

Baptiste Guiard

Sol Menor

André Silva Santos

With Tapes and Toasts in the Car

Kiana Naghshineh

Astro

Tim Ewalts

The Girls

Laura Obradors

Compétition European short films

1h31

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21h15 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European feature film La Danse des renards

21h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Bouchra

Orian Yani Barki, Meriem Bennani

Compétition European feature films

1h23

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21h45 Pathé Angers - 2

Baxter

Jérôme Boivin

PG-13

Presented by Gautier Roos, critic at Chaos Reign and programmer at Critics' Week

Programme 3

1h22

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