The Angers European First Film Festival ( French : Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers ) is an annual film festival held in the city of Angers , France every January since 1989, dedicated to European cinema.
5-726: The first edition of this festival took place in 1989 at the initiative of its current delegate general Claude-Eric Poiroux , founder of the art house cinema Les 400 coups in Angers , and of a group of moviegoers. Since 2011, the festival collaborates with the Beijing First Film Festival . In 2013, it attracted nearly 70,000 festival-goers. By 2014, over 2200 films were submitted annually, more than 300 were selected for different sections. In 2016, admissions were estimated to be more than 76,000 and more than 150,000 euros in prizes awarded to films selected by juries or spectators. Over
10-645: The dissolution of the Soviet Union . Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing . It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked
15-405: The redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa , and his regime gradually dismantled the apartheid system over the next five years, culminating with the 1994 election that brought jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela to power. The first commercial Internet service providers surfaced in this year, as well as
20-523: The years, seminal figures in the world of cinematography have chaired the jury: 1989 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1989th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium , the 89th year of the 20th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade. 1989
25-837: Was a turning point in political history with the " Revolutions of 1989 " which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with
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