Festivals - Reims Polar Festival 2021 : A new beginning, a new city

By Mulder, 04 may 2021

"It is a great pleasure for Reims to host the Detective Film Festival from 2022 after a digital edition in 2021, with a very high level of programming, which we are partners.
This prestigious festival, which is a reference worldwide, will allow Reims to reconnect with its history of crime films. We can't wait for the people of Reims to take part in this great celebration of cinema, a cinema that we miss so much. The suspense is already at its height and it is with great impatience that in 2022, our city will roll out its red carpet for Reims to crown the detective novel! "Arnaud Robinet, Mayor of Reims

The Detective Film Festival will take place in Reims in the spring of 2022!

In the meantime, the 2021 edition will be held online from Wednesday 26 to Sunday 30 May. This year, the Cannes Film Festival will not take place in May, but to celebrate the month of the seventh art, let's meet for a unique event under the sign of the detective story!

New city, new start, new image!
Yellow for the black series. Yellow for a spring festival.
Yellow for a city that loves cinema.
Yellow for an effervescent city that will host the festival from 2022.

This year, it will be possible to discover the following films:

Competition: The best of international contemporary crime thrillers
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Burhan Qurbani (Germany)
Black Box by Yann Gozlan (France)
Deliver us from evil by Hong Won-chan (South Korea)
The law of teheran by Saeed Roustaee (Iran)
Storia di vacanze by Damiano & Fabio D'Innocenzo (Italy & Switzerland)
The mayor of rione sanita by Mario Martone (Italy)
The slaughterhouse by Abbas Amini (Iran)
Unidentified by Bogdan George Apetri (Romania)
Watch list by Ben Rekhi (USA & Philippines)

Sang Neuf : Crossroads and offbeat views on the thriller
Assandira by Salvatore Mereu (Italy)
The Third War by Giovanni Aloi (France)
Rounds by Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria, Serbia & France)
Shorta by Anders Ølholm & Frederik Louis Hviid (Denmark)
Ulbolsyn by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan)
Vaurien by Peter Dourountzis (France)

Out of Competition: The latest in crime films in all their forms
Every breath you take by Vaughn Stein (USA)
The Enemy by Stephan Streker (Belgium, France & Luxembourg)
Silk road by Tiller Russell (USA)
Sky high by Daniel Calparsoro (Spain)
Sons of Philadelphia by Jérémie Guez (France, Belgium, Netherlands & USA)
Wander by April Mullen (USA)

A poster to announce a lively festival, modernized, open to creation, but which does not forget its classics. Reims Polar promises the future and is faithful to history, crowned the new capital of the detective story!

(Source : press release)