The 18th French-Language Film Festival in Greece is taking place in Athens from March 23 to 29, 2017. It opened with a screening of Dalida held in the presence of the film's director and lead actress Sveva Alviti.
Music takes center stage at this year's festival, with, in addition to Lisa Azuelos's film Dalida opening the event, a thematic section also dedicated to composers of film music, along with a master class on composers from the 1960s to the 1980s, and a section devoted to rock music and tattooing as a practice and social phenomenon.
All up, audiences will have the chance to discover 43 films (including 34 French productions) during this week of French-language cinema.
As well as Lisa Azuelos and Sveva Alviti, the delegation representing French cinema will include Frédéric Mermoud (director of Moka), Raphaël Personnaz and Safy Nebbou (In the Forests of Siberia), Morgan Simon (A Taste of Ink), and Sadek (Tour de France).
All further information can be found on the festival's website, where you can watch the impressive festival trailer directed by Jacqueline Letzou.
The complete list of French films at this year's festival:
Official Selection
- Heaven Will Wait by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
- Tour de France by Rachid Djaïdani
- Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont
- Rock'n Roll by Guillaume Canet
- Moka by Frédéric Mermoud
- In the Forests of Siberia by Safy Nebbou
- Agnus Dei / The Innocents by Anne Fontaine
- Faultless by Sébastien Marnier
- A Bun in the Oven by Nadège Loiseau
- The Midwife by Martin Provost
- Dalida by Lisa Azuelos
Panorama
- Marie and the Misfits by Sébastien Betbeder
- In Bed with Victoria by Justine Triet
- The End by Guillaume Nicloux
- Ceasefire by Emmanuel Courcol
- Louise by the Shore by Jean-François Laguionie
- Never Ever by Benoit Jacquot
- The Poisoning Angel by Stéphanie Pillonca
- Le Gang des Antillais by Jean-Claude Flamand-Barny
- Visiting Ours by Rachida Brakni
- Fanny's Journey by Lola Doillon
- A Taste of Ink by Morgan Simon
- The Together Project by Solveig Anspach
- Corniche Kennedy by Dominique Cabrera
- Prejudice by Antoine Cuypers
- Team Spirit by Christophe Barratier
- Mr & Mrs Adelman by Nicolas Bedos
