The Festival
The history of the festival
A discovery of the 7th art on a European scale
The festival l’Europe autour de l’Europe, founded by filmmaker Irena Bilic, is an annual festival based in Paris where. For two weeks, the festival presents films from Greater Europe (47 European countries, members of the Council of Europe). A selection of around 100 films – fiction, documentaries, short films, animated films and experimental films – are presented in several Parisian and Île-de-France cinemas.
These include Les 7 Parnassiens, Les 5 Caumartins, Le Lincoln, Le Studio des Ursulines, La Filmothèque du Quartier Latin and the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation. As well as in art-house cinemas, foreign cultural centers and a few other exceptional venues.
The festival welcomes directors, authors, actors, producers and critics from all over Europe, with the aim of strengthening the European audiovisual professional network, promoting European culture in all its diversity through cinema and reflecting on its identity and uniqueness.
Masters of European cinema
Friends of the Festival Europe by Europe
Among the guests who have participated in previous editions are major figures 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 has 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 and Eugénie Zvonkine.
Since 2005, the Festival has made a considerable effort to introduce young filmmakers from all European countries to the Parisian public and to organise exchanges during events, competitions and meetings. In addition to offering a wide range of films that are acclaimed each year by the public and the institutions for their cinematographic standards and the quality of their European discoveries.
Evropa Film Akt
The association organizing the festival
The association Evropa Film Akt was founded by the filmmaker Irena Bilić and is managed by a seven-member board.
The main activity of the association is the organisation of the European film festival 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
Five awards are presented at the Closing Ceremony of Europe by Europe, the Paris European Film Festival:
- The SAUVAGE Prize, best feature fiction film;
- The LUNA Prize, awarded by the student jury;
- The PRESENT Prize, best documentary;
- The CORTO Prize, best short film;
- The LUPETO Prize, awarded by the Jury of Academies.
Since 2012, nine new, recently produced feature fiction films have competed for the SAUVAGE Prize and nine documentaries for the PRESENT Prize. The CORTO Prize has been in existence since 2019 and is already the new major gathering for young authors from across 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 sections The Out of Competition sections offer a veritable panorama of arts and auteur films from Greater Europe. Tributes are dedicated to the great filmmakers who have changed the vision of cinema in their own way. THEMA focuses cinematic perspectives around an annual theme proposed by the festival. Experimental explores the unknown avenues of contemporary creation; Connections section programs are designed with our institutional partners to disseminate and promote the film culture of European countries. Wildlife 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.
