The Festival du Film policier de Cognac ( en, Cognac Crime Film Festival) was an annual film festival that took place in

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from 1982 to 2007 (with no festival being held in 1991).Cognac Festival du Film Policier
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. The festival focused on the police/crime genre and also featured a short and a television film competition after 1993.
Capitalizing on the notoriety of the film festival, an unrelated crime book convention named Polar : Le Festival was inaugurated in 1996. In 2007, the wine syndicate Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac announced that it was withdrawing its support of the 25-year-old film event. Without its main backer, the festival's days in Cognac came to an end.
However another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or, saw value in the format and launched a successor in 2009, the Festival international du Film policier de Beaune.
Since 2010, the Cognac-based Polar : Le Festival – originally a strictly literary event – has incorporated a film competition, albeit on a much smaller scale, to compensate for the loss of the original film festival to Beaune.

Grand Prix awards

* 1982: ''

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'' (1982) * 1984: '' L'Addition'' (1984) * 1985: ''

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'' (1983) * 1986: '' The Hitcher'' (1986) * 1987: '' The Big Easy'' (1987) * 1988: '' The Cat'' (1988) * 1989: '' True Believer'' (1989) * 1990: '' Kill Me Again'' (1989) * 1992: '' The Hand That Rocks the Cradle'' (1992) * 1993: ''

One False Move ''One False Move'' is a 1992 American crime thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams. The low-budget production was about to be released straig ...

'' (1992) * 1994: '' The Escort'' (1993) * 1995: '' Shallow Grave'' (1994) * 1996: ''

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'' (1995) * 1997: ''

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Une affaire de goût ''A Question of Taste'' (french: Une affaire de goût, also known as ''A Matter of Taste'' in the United States) is a 2000 French film directed by Bernard Rapp. Rapp and Gilles Taurand wrote the screenplay which was based on the book " Affaires ...

'' (2000) * 2001: '' Chopper'' (2000) * 2002: ''

Nueve reinas ''Nueve Reinas'' () is a 2000 Argentinian crime film written and directed by Fabián Bielinsky. It stars Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, and Leticia Brédice. In the film, con artists Marcos (Darín) and Juan (Pauls) unexpectedly team up to sell ...

'' (2000) * 2003: ''

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'' (2002) * 2004: ''

Salinui chueok ''Memories of Murder'' () is a 2003 South Korean crime thriller film co-written and directed by Bong Joon-ho. It is loosely based on the true story of Korea's first confirmed serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong, ...

'' (2003) * 2005: '' Crimen ferpecto'' (2004) * 2006: '' Silentium'' (2004) * 2007: ''

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References

External links

Cognac Festival du Film Policier
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