The
Festival du Film Policier de Cognac was an annual film festival that took place in
Cognac, France from 1982 to 2007 (with no festival being held in 1991). The festival focused on the police/crime genre and also featured a short and a television film competition after 1993.
Capitalizing on the notoriety of the film festival, an unrelated crime book convention named Polar: Le Festival was inaugurated in 1996.