Biarritz Film Festival
| Location | Biarritz, France |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Website | http://www.festivaldebiarritz.com/ |
The Biarritz Festival Latin America (French: Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine) is an international film festival held annually in the French city of Biarritz, since 1991 to promote the Latin American cinema and culture with the French people and offer opportunities to distribution or coproductions to Latin American films.
Description
The Biarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema offer competitions of unreleased films in long films, short films and documentaries (in partnership with Latin Union).
Furthermore the films in competicion each year, festival presents annually homages and retrospectives around different themes.
The festival also offer discover the Latin American culture in other forms with literary meetings, expositions of fotographies and academic conferences.
The famous Village festival of conviviality and exchange located oceanfront, allows to attend exhibitions, lectures and evening concerts for free.
Awards
- HUG for Best Feature
- Jury Award for Best Feature
- Best Actress
- Best Actor
- Feature Film Audience Award in collaboration with Air France
- Prize of the French Union of Film Critics
- HUG for Documentary, Latin Union Festival of Biarritz
- Audience Award for Best Documentary Film
- HUG for Best Short film
- Special Mentions of the Short Film Jury
- Prizes Shorts TV Numéricâble