From the very outset, the Arras Film Festival has opened up to European cinema (90% of the films screened), with a leaning toward the countries of Eastern and Nothern Europe. This benchmark event is today a reference in matters of European cinema and attracts numbers of professionals as well as a large number of European structures and institutions. Its main objectives are to support European creation, circulation of films, and to pass on the taste of European cinema to all audiences, to young people as a priority. Every year, for 10 days in November, the Arras Film Festival offers a programme of 120 feature films to more than 50,000 spectators.