Retrospectives 2025

In attendance
In partnership with the Théâtre Le Quai CDN, which is presenting Les Historiennes and the Les Inspirantes cycle

Jeanne Balibar is an actress, singer and director with a highly distinctive voice. She has worked with many French and international filmmakers and won a César for Best Actress in 2018 for Barbara by Mathieu Amalric. She will be coming to the Festival to present a number of screenings from her uninhibited and audacious career.

Programming in progress

Nicolas Philibert is a precious filmmaker, and for over thirty years has been working on the relationships human beings have with their fellow human beings. After an initial foray into filmmaking co-directing, with Gérard Mordillat, La Voix de son maître (His Master’s Voice) (1978), based on a series of interviews with the new leaders of major French companies, he decided to go it alone and explore subjects he felt more empathy with.

Programming in progress

In attendance

Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen made a name for himself at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with his second feature, Compartment No. 6, which won him the Grand Jury Prize, and is a familiar face to Premiers Plans Festival regulars... A focus on one of the promising European filmmakers of his generation.

Screening of restored prints, in the presence of Jean Gili et Gian Luca Farinelli
In partnership with Cinecittà 

100 years after the birth of Federico Fellini, a look back at eight films from the Italian maestro, each one of which, in their own way, reflects the evolution of an oeuvre with narratives that are as decadent as they are joyous and whose trajectory gradually moves away from neorealism towards the acceptance of the dream and the imaginary as tangible components of our reality.

With filmmakers in attendance
In partnership with the Fonds Jeanne Moreau

On the occasion of the 20^th anniversary of the Ateliers d'Angers, the Premiers Plans Festival will be presenting a selection of films developed during the workshops. These films represent the very best in young European cinema and the Festival is proud to have contributed to the visibility of a new generation of filmmakers, at a time when their status is being confirmed at major international festivals and in cinemas.

Neighbours are formidable catalysts for fiction, bringing with them their share of contradictory feelings: desire, empathy, mistrust, reject... A retrospective of twenty films from around the world, each one questioning our relationship with the Other…

In partnership with NEF Animation

The issue of the environment has always been very present in animated films. For authors, animation is a way of recreating life and asking questions, each in their own way, about the relationship between man and nature. A retrospective featuring three programmes of short films, five feature-length films and a masterclass by Xavier Kawa-Topor.

In attendance
In partnership with the Théâtre Le Quai CDN, which is presenting Et j'en suis là de mes rêveries by Maurin Ollès, based on Rabalaïre
Alain Guiraudie is an atypical and invaluable filmmaker with a long career behind him. His films are rooted in realism, a lure that is conducive to fantastic escapism. His imagination focuses on the question of desire as the driving force behind his characters’ actions.