The Police Film Festival, traditionally organized in Beaune, was looking for a home base.
He has just found it in Reims, from 2022. Popular with fans of black films and other thrillers, the event will be held this year only online, from May 26 to 30, due to sanitary conditions.
For its future edition in the Marne, the organizers are already promising a
“lively, modernized event, open to creation, but which does not forget its classics”
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"This prestigious festival which sets a benchmark throughout the world allows Reims to reconnect with its history linked to the thriller"
, greeted the mayor (LR) Arnaud Robinet, whose city has hosted for several years a festival of literature and cinema police officer.
The event, directed by Bruno Barde, who oversees two other major festivals in France, that of American film in Deauville and that of fantastic film by Gérardmer, has been organized since 2008 in the wine capital of Burgundy.
But relations between the festival, canceled last year due to a pandemic, and the city have deteriorated, to the point of ending up in court on financial aspects.
Before the organizers launch an appeal to find a new host city.
Five cities were in line to host the festival, which brings together around 13,000 spectators each year, and can boast of having had as guests the filmmakers David Cronenberg, Bertrand Tavernier, Brian De Palma, Park Chan-wook, David Lynch. .