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The first Cognac Festival Polar was in 1996. Major crime novelists and comic book artists were invited to compete for the Polar prizes.

In 2010, cinema, theatre and television were first included with their respective representatives and award-winners.
Le Festival Polar de Cognac is still the only European festival to hand out prizes to these five arts.
The programme features lectures, debates, exhibitions, projections that are in competition and preview, meetings, theatre performances, autographs, dedications and signings.

Affiche de l'édition 2023 du festival du polar à Cognac, hommage à Georges Lautner, illustration du film les tontons flingueurs

Return to the prize list of 2023

Rendez-vous avec le crime – 2
Réalisation : Mathilde Vallet

La fille de l’assassin
Réalisation : Carole Kornmann

100.000
Réalisation : Jean-Phlippe Cillard

Karmapolice
Réalisation : Julien Paolini

Adieu Gaston
Réalisation : Victor Guilbaud

Où reposent nos ombres de Sébastien Vidal – Le mot et le reste

Asphyxie de Amy McCulloch – Michel Lafon

Dis bonne nuit de Christian Blanchard – Belfond

Le passeur de lagunes de Christophe Dabitch  & Piero Macola – Futuropolis

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