Festival Du Film Policier De Cognac

The festival focused on the police/crime genre and, after 1993, featured a short film and a television film competition. Capitalizing on the popularity 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 ended. However, another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or, saw value in the format and two years later launched a successor: 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.

 

• 1982: Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980)
• 1983: 48 Hrs. (1982)
• 1984: L'Addition (1984)
• 1985: Funny Dirty Little War (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 (1992)
• 1994: The Escort (1993)
• 1995: Shallow Grave (1994)
• 1996: The Last Supper (1995)
• 1997: Freeway (1996)
• 1998: Face (1997)
• 1999: Another Day in Paradise (1997)
• 2000: Une affaire de goût (2000)
• 2001: Chopper (2000)
• 2002: Nueve reinas (2000)
• 2003: La caja 507 (2002)
• 2004: Salinui chueok (2003)
• 2005: Crimen ferpecto (2004)
• 2006: Silentium (2004)
• 2007: A Very British Gangster

• Cognac Festival du Film Policier Official web site.