Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers

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

Script readings

Free entrance

14h15 Centre de Congrès - Amphi Jardin

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

Conference

14h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini

14h45 Pathé Angers - 8

I am Nevenka

Icíar Bollaín

15h30 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European student films 4

16h15 Pathé Angers - 2

Aguirre, The Wrath of God

Werner Herzog

16h30 Centre de Congrès - Cointreau

A cross-section of authors

Fiction / Animation

16h30 Grand Théâtre

Anatomy of a Fall

Justine Triet

Presented by Antoine Reinartz, actor

Audio description

Judges and Witnesses

2h31

16h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Animated films - Program 2

See the films

The Eating of an Orange

May Kindred-Boothby

Winter in March

Natalia Mirzoyan

Stone of Destiny

Julie Černá

Glider

Solbum Lee

Arachnophobia

Melita Sandrin

Hope is Lost

Eno Enefiok

Two Points Five Stars

Sina Lerf, Dario Marti, Dario Boger

Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors

Compétition Animated films

1h04

16h45 Pathé Angers - 3

Processo alla città

Luigi Zampa

Presented by Christian Viviani, essayist and film historian

Napoli

1h43

17h00 Pathé Angers - 8

Deaf

Eva Libertad

17h00 Les 400 Coups - 5

Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Gabriel Azorin

19h00 Joker's pub

Blind-test special cinema

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

19h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

Roqia

Yanis Koussim

Presented and followed by a discussion with the director

Programme 4

1h34

19h30 Pathé Angers - 2

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Werner Herzog

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

Werner Herzog

2h02

20h30 Grand Théâtre

Philadelphia

Jonathan Demme

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

Judges and Witnesses

2h05

21h15 Centre de Congrès - Atrium 3

Directors' Forum

European feature film Le Dernier pour la route

21h45 Centre de Congrès - Auditorium

Sundays

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

22h15 Pathé Angers - 2

Nosferatu The Vampyre

Werner Herzog

22h30 Les 400 Coups - 5

French short films - Program 2

See the films

Le Verre de thé

Sara Bernanos

Don’t wake the sleeping child

Kevin Aubert

God Is Shy

Jocelyn Charles

Daj Gas

Anastasija Pavlovic Kulundzic

News

Programme online

See all about the programme and the guests at the 38^th edition!

Full programme (in french) | Day-by-day programme (in french)

2026 Trailer

Discover the trailer for the 38^th edition of the Festival!

Jury presidents

Meet all the members of the Feature Film and Short Film juries alongside Thomas Cailley and Iris Kaltenbäck.

The ticket office is now open!

Passes, gift cards, opening and closing nights and the closing party at Le Chabada are now on sale! Visit the Festival ticketing website now!

Accreditation is now open!

Accreditation requests are open to 15 January 2026.

2026 Poster

We are delighted to present the poster for the 38^th edition of the Festival. It's an adaptation of a photo from Paolo Sorrentino's film The Hand of God.

Poster produced with Transparence

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Programming

The Son and the Sea

Fitzcarraldo

Cleveland versus Wall Street

Musical composition in film

Wild Foxes

A Dry White Season

Diagonales - Program 4

Their Eyes

Intersecting Memory

The Roundabout

Homunculus

Student films - Program 4

Tarik

Drop

L'Odyssée de la Pomme d'Api

Bimo

Bouchra

Punishment Park

Short script readings

Parler au vent

Une belle journée ensoleillée

Marcello se prend un train

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

Journey to Italy

I am Nevenka

Directors' Forum

Aguirre, The Wrath of God

A cross-section of authors

Anatomy of a Fall

Animated films - Program 2

The Eating of an Orange

Winter in March

Stone of Destiny

Glider

Arachnophobia

Hope is Lost

Two Points Five Stars

Processo alla città

Deaf

Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

Blind-test special cinema

The Last One for the Road

Roqia

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Philadelphia

Directors' Forum

Sundays

Nosferatu The Vampyre

French short films - Program 2

Le Verre de thé

Don’t wake the sleeping child

God Is Shy

Daj Gas

News

Programme online

2026 Trailer

Jury presidents

The ticket office is now open!

Accreditation is now open!

2026 Poster

Become an individual patron

Programming

The Festival in pictures