A breath of French air
FESTIVAL: FOREIGN MOVIES YOU CAN ENJOY ONLINE ON YOUR COUCH
A month feature and short films – and it’s free.
Registering nearly seven million viewings in 200 countries across the globe last year, MyFrenchFilmFestival is the world’s first entirely online French-language film festival. The eighth festival starts today until February 19.
Over the month you can watch a selection of 14 feature films, and 13 short films.
All films are subtitled in 10 languages (French, English, German, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Russian).
With comedies, thrillers, rom-coms, dramas, and cinema classics, the festival honours the diversity of genres in French-language cinema, offering worldwide visibility to the films selected.
The films will be accessible on the MyFrenchFilmFestival.com platform.
The platform is adaptable to all media devices and viewers from around the world are invited to cast their votes on the festival platform to elect their favourite feature film and short film.
The Audience Award, Filmmakers’ Jury Award and International Press Award will be announced at the end of the festival. The festival is free. The 2018 selection of films is divided into six categories, exploring various French narratives for different ages and tastes.
WTF…RENCH!?
Whether they’re looking for love, recognition, freedom, or a ski resort deep in a tropical forest, our French heroes are sometimes right in the middle of the most absurd situations. Films include:
Struggle for Life by Antonin Peretjatko Rock’n Roll by Guillaume Canet Willy the 1st by Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier, and Hugo P Thomas
Delectable You by Axel Courtière Lazare by Tristan Lhomme The Screenwriter by François Paquay
HIT THE ROAD
Highways, gas stations, vacation clubs, ice-cream vendors, karaoke - this category is about journeys, be they professional or during summer. Films include:
Ava by Léa Mysius Crash Test Aglaé by Éric Gravel Before Summer Ends by Maryam Goormaghtigh
The Summer Film by Emmanuel Marre
TEEN STORIES
Centred around the idea that your teen years is the time when you become aware of yourselves, when everything is possible, even if this brings us into conflict with our families and friends. Films include:
A Wedding by Stephan Streker Swagger by Olivier Babinet 1:54 by Yan England Chasse Royale by Romane Gueret and Lise Akoka
FRENCH AND FURIOUS
A Belgian serial killer, a dad who resembles a psychopath, an ex-convict wandering at night in the streets of Pigalle ... Although they may be tortured and withdrawn characters, they are, above all, trying to attract attention and find redemption. Films include:
Into the Forest by Gilles Marchand
Paris Prestige by Hamé and Ékoué
Man Bites Dog (It Happened in Your Neighbourhood) by André Bonzel, Rémy Belvaux, and Benoît Poelvoorde
Please Love Me Forever by Holy Fatma
The Death, Dad & Son by Denis Walgenwitz and Winshluss
The Stroke by Morgane Polanski
LOVE ‘THE FRENCH STYLE’
What would French cinema be without love stories? Whether they’re from yesterday, today, or tomorrow, they all share that je-ne-sais-quoi that makes them unique and ... so French. Films include:
In Bed with Victoria by Justine Triet
The Last Metro by François Truffaut No Drowning by Mélanie Laleu Long Live the Emperor by Aude Léa Rapin
The Taste of Vietnam by PierLuc Latulippe
A Summer Dress by François Ozon
NEW HORIZONS
With this new section, MyFrenchFilmFestival wishes to emphasize the ability of new generation French artistic creation to reinvent itself. These new kinds of images and writing will move and disturb you. The films selected are:
Planet by Momoko Seto Phallaina by Marietta Ren Wei or Die by Simon Bouisson