38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Vertiges

The Festival is offering several evenings of previews of new films and classics to discover the nuggets and benchmarks of genre cinema.

The selection will be announced in December. 

10h00 Les 400 Coups - 1

The Son and the Sea

Stroma Cairns

Compétition European feature films

1h42
TICKET
10h00 Pathé Angers - 2

Fitzcarraldo

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

Werner Herzog

2h38
TICKET
10h00 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Cleveland versus Wall Street

Jean-Stéphane Bron
Followed by a meeting with the director

Judges and Witnesses

1h38
TICKET
10h00 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Musical composition in film

with Carla Pallone and Michel Petrossian
Free entrance
1h30
10h15 Grand Théâtre

Wild Foxes

Valéry Carnoy
VOSTA

Compétition European feature films

1h32
TICKET
10h30 Pathé Angers - 8

A Dry White Season

Euzhan Palcy
Presented by Violaine Bougère

Judges and Witnesses

1h46
TICKET
11h00 Les 400 Coups - 5

Diagonales - Program 4

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition Diagonales

1h17
TICKET
14h00 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Student films - Program 4

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition Student films

1h10
TICKET
14h00 Grand Théâtre

Bouchra

Orian Yani Barki, Meriem Bennani

Compétition European feature films

1h23
TICKET
14h00 Pathé Angers - 2

Punishment Park

Peter Watkins

PG-13

Judges and Witnesses

1h31
TICKET
14h15 Centre de Congrès - Grand Angle

Short script readings

Read by Sébastien Lefebvre, Olga Milshtein, Anton Salachas and Clara Wielick, Talents Adami Cinema, and staged by director and screenwriter Alice Douard.

Compétition Script readings

Free entrance
14h15 Centre de Congrès - Amphi Jardin

How can one navigate Werner Herzog's prolific body of work?

Conference
Free entrance
1h30
14h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini

Napoli

1h37
TICKET
14h45 Pathé Angers - 8

I am Nevenka

Icíar Bollaín

Judges and Witnesses

1h52
TICKET
15h30 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European student films 4
Free entrance
1h30
16h15 Pathé Angers - 2

Aguirre, The Wrath of God

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

1h35
TICKET
16h30 Centre de Congrès - Cointreau

A cross-section of authors

Fiction / Animation
Free entrance
1h30
16h30 Grand Théâtre

Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet
Presented by Antoine Reinartz, actor
Audio description

Judges and Witnesses

2h31
TICKET
16h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Animated films - Program 2

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition Animated films

1h04
TICKET
16h45 Pathé Angers - 3

Processo alla città

Luigi Zampa
Presented by Christian Viviani, essayist and film historian

Napoli

1h43
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17h00 Pathé Angers - 8

Deaf

Eva Libertad

Compétition European feature films

1h39
TICKET
17h00 Les 400 Coups - 5

Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Gabriel Azorin

Compétition Diagonales

1h50
TICKET
19h00 Joker's pub

Blind-test special cinema
Free entrance
2h00
19h15 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai
Presented and followed by a meeting with the director

Compétition European feature films

1h40
TICKET
19h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

Roqia

Yanis Koussim

PG
Presented and followed by a discussion with the director

Programme 4

1h34
TICKET
19h30 Pathé Angers - 2

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Werner Herzog

PG
Presented by Hervé Aubron, critic and specialist in the cinema of Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

2h02
TICKET
20h30 Grand Théâtre

Philadelphia

Jonathan Demme
Presented and followed by a meeting with members of the Angers Bar Association

Judges and Witnesses

2h05
TICKET
21h15 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European feature film Le Dernier pour la route
Free entrance
1h30
21h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Sundays

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Compétition European feature films

1h55
TICKET
22h15 Pathé Angers - 2

Nosferatu The Vampyre

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

1h47
TICKET
22h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

French short films - Program 2

Compétition French short films

1h30
TICKET