In 1969, the first edition of the “Young Authors’ Cinematography Encounters” (Rencontres cinématographiques de jeunes auteurs) took place in Belfort, as a project dedicated to works produced in film school. In 1979, Rui Nogueira, the general representative, founded the film competition. “To support the visibility of films, to defend a certain vision of cinema and, sometimes, to reveal a new filmmaker” then became the principle supported by Janine Bazin, who began working with the festival in 1982 and gave it its present form in 1986.
1969
Au-delà de l'horizon de Patrice Leconte
1970
L'Epicier de Joseph Morder
Liberté Jean de Jean-Michel Carré
1975
La Pièce by Rachid Bouchareb
Carrefour by François Dupeyron
1976
Madeleine by Claire Simon
A Jean-Luc Août 76 by Caroline Champetier
1978
La Femme au foyer by Valéria Sarmiento
La Prime de rixe by Thomas Gilou
1979
Anvers by Pascale Ferran
1980
Solange Giraud née Tachée by Simone Bitton
Tandis que j’agonise by Claire Simon
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure by Agostino Di Fonzo and José Esposito
1981
Façon de parler by Christian Vincent
L’Heure du laitier by Richard Copans
Strangulation blues by Leos Carax
Paradis vidéo by Philippe Sollers
La Fée des images by Jean-André Fieschi
1982
La Mésange by Catherine Corsini
Nomade by Vincent Martorana
On est toujours trop bonne by François Dupeyron
1983
Faux fuyants by Alain Bergala and Jean-Pierre Limosin
Un jeu brutal by Jean-Claude Brisseau
Il ne faut jurer de rien by Christian Vincent
Paris Ficelle by Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa
Souvenirs de Juan Les Pins by Pascale Ferran
Zona inquinata by F.J. Ossang
1984
L’Affaire des divisions Morituri by F.J. Ossang
Amour rue de Lappe by Denis Gheerbrant
Boy meets girl by Leos Carax
Element of crime by Lars von Trier
La Nuit porte jarretelles by Virginie Thevenet
Notre mariage by Valéria Sarmiento
Carré dégradé by Claire Devers
Le Clou by Philippe Le Guay
Eponine ou le fer à repasser by Michel Chion
1985
Noir et blanc by Claire Devers
Passage secret by Laurent Perrin
L’Ile des amours by Paulo Rocha
Le Tiers providentiel by Gérard Frot Coutaz
Wonston tong en studio by Olivier Assayas
