The festival
The history of the festival
A discovery of the 7th art on a European scale
The Fetsival “L’Europe autour de l’Europe”, founded by filmmaker Irena Bilic, takes place every spring in Paris. For two weeks, the festival presents auteur and art films from Greater Europe. A selection of approximately 100 films – fiction, documentaries, short films, animated films and experimental films are presented in several Parisian and Ile-de-France cinemas, in particular Les 7 Parnassiens, Les 5 Caumartins, Le Lincoln, Le Studio des Ursulines, La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, The Jérôme Seydoux – Pathé Foundation and Le Méliès. In arthouse cinemas, international cultural centers and a few other exceptional places, the public discovers European cinematographic masterpieces from all eras.
The festival welcomes directors, authors, actors, producers and critics from all over Europe, with the aim of strengthening the professional European audiovisual network, making known European culture in all its diversity through cinema and reflecting on its identity and its singularity.
The great masters of cinema
Friends of the festival: “L’Europe autour de l’Europe”
Among the guests who have participated in previous editions are the great personalities of European cinema including Kine Aune, Anja Breien, Henning Carlsen, Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Fleischmann, Knut Erik Jensen, Carlos Saura, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, István Szabó, Agnès Varda… Among the eminent French and international critics, the festival welcomed Antoine de Baecque, Yvette Biro, Michel Ciment, Bruno Dietsch, Elise Domenach, Jean Douchet, Stéphane Goudet, Pierre Gras, Jan Erik Holst, Mathias Lavin, Kirill Razlogov, Sylvie Rollet, Paul Ryan or Eugenie Zvonkine.
Since 2005, the Festival has made a considerable effort to present young filmmakers from all over Europe to the Parisian public and organize exchanges during events, competitions and meetings. In addition to offering a wide program hailed each year by the public and the institutions for its cinematographic requirement and its quality of European discoveries.
Evropa Film Akt
The organizing association of the Paris European Film Festival
The Evropa Film Akt association, governed by the 1901 Law, was founded by the filmmaker Irena Bilić and is managed by a seven-member Board of Directors.
The main activity of the association is the organization of the European film festival in Paris, L’Europe autour de l’Europe, but also the production of short films and documentaries. The association provides other services such as artistic advice, translation and subtitling.
The Prices
Four prizes are awarded during the Closing Ceremony of L’Europe autour de l’Europe, the Paris European Film Festival :
- The Prix Sauvage, best fiction feature film ;
- The Prix Present, best documentary ;
- The Prix Sauvage Corto, best short film ;
- The Prix Luna, best feature film, awarded by the student jury.
Since 2012, 9 unreleased fiction feature films from recent production have competed for the Prix Sauvage and 9 documentaries for the Prix Present. The Prix Sauvage Corto has existed since 2019 and is already the new big event for young authors from all over Europe. It rewards the best European short film – fictions, documentaries and experimental films combined.
The Sections
L’Europe autour de l’Europe, the Paris European Film Festival, has presented since its creation a program of great diversity through several sections in order to promote the 7th European art, its rich and varied aesthetics as well as its past and present visions. and future.
The Competitions are exclusively reserved for European films. The Out of Competition sections offer a veritable panorama of arts and auteur films from Greater Europe. The Tributes are devoted to great filmmakers who have changed the vision of cinema in their own way. THEMA concentrates cinematographic views around an annual theme proposed by the festival. Salon experimental explores the unknown paths of contemporary creation; the programs in the Connections section are designed with our institutional partners in order to disseminate and promote the cinematographic culture of European countries. Vie sauvage reflects our ecological commitment. Encounters and events allow us to celebrate cinema with our spectators, our guests and our partners from all over Europe.
L’Europe autour de l’Europe innovates each year with its festival in order to affirm and promote European culture in all its diversity and to strengthen the European professional audiovisual network by contributing to its dynamics and inventiveness.
