The International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes ('Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in French) (FIPA), founded in 1987 by Michel Mitrani (1930-1996), was first held in Cannes in October 1987.
The festival was moved to Nice in its eighth year (1995), and, since 1997, has been held in Biarritz, France.
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“Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)