MyFrenchFilmFestival
Edition 2023
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ThemeFrench films
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Adèle Exarchopoulos talks about her role in Zero Fu**s Given
Cassandra (26) is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home. Will Cassandre fin...
"I won Drag Race France with my character Paloma so I felt like I was making a biopic" Hugo Bardin
« I won Drag Race France with my character Paloma, so I felt I was shooting a biopic. » Hugo Bardin, director of ‘Paloma’
#dragqueen #drag #dragrace #dragracefrance #paloma #lgbt #paris #french #film #cinema #festival
"Adèle Exarchopoulos was the vessel of all the stewardesses stories" J. Lecoustre & E. Marre
"Cassandre, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. By fully embracing her flight-to-flight and party-after-party lifestyle, she stays faithful to her Tinder username ""Carpe Diem"". An unattached existence by the means of forging ahead without care is apparently fulfilling to her, until a mishap forces her to reconnect with the world. Wi...
"The circulation between Western and Eastern art is almost in my genes” Olivier Assayas
Left incomplete in Tokyo... Between fiction and reality, a fake spy story, but a true story of time difference.
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Olivier Assayas' first financed film, Laissé inachevé à Tokyo defends the idea of a different, hybrid kind of filmmaking. Radical in its staging, experimental in its structure, we could believe we’re watching a film noir or a B-movie. T...
"The impression I had of Juliette Armanet was that she had a strong character" Amélie Bonnin
"The impression I had of Juliette Armanet was that she has a strong character" Amélie Bonnin
#JulietteArmanet #Musical #oldlove #paris #french #cinema #film #movie #festival
"Maurice Pialat will always be a part of my life, and of my family" Sandrine Bonnaire
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne comes to the bitter realisation that it is easier to find sex than love. Fleeing family problems, she racks up sexual experiences, often changing partners, loving none of them, until she meets Jacques.
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When Sandrine Bonnaire accompanied her sister to a casting call, she was discovered by Maurice Pialat, who decided to de...
"I wondered about what a microwave would do to testicles. Did they explode?"Jean-Christophe Meurisse
"At the same time in different parts of France, a retired couple drowning in debt tries to win a rock contest, a minister is suspected of tax fraud, and a young teenage girl meets a sex maniac. It’s going to be a long night. The dogs have been unleashed.
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In his second feature film, Jean-Christophe Meurisse crosses genres and examines the monsters...
"Humor is the best way to take a step back to think about our society" F. Crespy & L.de Montalembert
"Nicky, a non-conformist, eccentric woman, decides to end it all after losing her remaining welfare benefits. She entrusts her dog Izy to her neighbor, but when she brings him back, a race against time begins as Nicky overdoses. She has only one solution: entrust Izy to Jacques, an employee for Paris' welfare system, who has come to check in on Nic...
"It's an explosive subject to talk about a child's sexuality" Samuel Theis
"Johnny is 10 years old, but is only interested in adult affairs. He is a curious onlooker to his mother’s turbulent love life in their social housing estate in Lorraine. This year at school, he is in Mr Adamski’s class. The young teacher believes in Johnny and helps him push open the doors to a whole new world.
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Softie invites us to follow Johnny...
"I immediately believed in Souheila Yacoub and Déborah Lukumuena" Anaïs Volpé
Dreaming, falling, starting over. Margot and Alma are two best friends holding on to the energy of their youth and their burning desire to conquer the world, until life gets in the way. But their ride-or-die friendship can get them through anything; they are inseparable, unstoppable.
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Paris of today, night-time. The Braves is the portrait of two ...
"It's a film about love and precarity today, in Paris." Louda Ben Salah Cazanas
"Labidi is a young man of today: he goes from petty scams to odd jobs, shares a tiny room with a flatmate, and dreams of being a writer. But when he meets Elisa, he is forced to rethink his lifestyle and stop living beyond his means.
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A sensitive, melancholic first film starring two irresistible actors (Aurélien Gabrielli and Louise Chevillotte), ...
"It’s the story of a girl who tries to forget her ex lover by taking various shortcuts." Lila Pinell
"Shana is looking for a job, she needs cash to leave France and her bad crowd. But the past she’s looking to forget is never far. Besides, does she really want to put it behind her?
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In 2007, Lila Pinell met 10-year-old Eva Huault while shooting a documentary. The director and young actress reunite 15 years later in King David. The 16mm image and ...
"I've always dreamed of working with Isabelle Huppert" Laurent Larivière
"Joan Verra has always been independent, in love, free-spirited, and adventurous. When her first love unexpectedly comes back into her life after years of absence, she decides not to tell him that they have a son. This unspoken truth gives her the opportunity to look back at her life: her youth in Ireland, her successful career, her loves, and her ...
"I find interesting when a love story is over and one doesn't realize it yet" Céline Baril
"The punk avant-garde was almost prophetic with the expression 'No Future'" Vincent Maël Cardona
A small provincial town at the beginning of the 80’s. Phillipe lives in the shadow of his brother, Jerome, the bad boy of the group. Between pirate radio, their father’s garage and the threat of military service, they are unaware that they are living the last moments of a world on the verge of disappearing.
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The birth of independent radio statio...
"We din’t talk much about the Indigenous issues in the Canadian media" Caroline Monnet
"Mani, a master’s student, returns to the region north of Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Determined to make a place for herself, she enters the debate over a referendum on the free sale of alcohol. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets her profits under the protection of the group council and her husband, Raymond, who still holds her...
"All the stories I tell revolve around stolen intimacy." Dorothée Sebbagh
"In Malmousque, a former fishermen's district in Marseilles, new residents and bathers from all over the city mix. Virginie wanders the streets looking for her cat, while Elina is convinced that her husband has put spyware on her cell phone. The two friends go kayaking so they can talk to each other without the risk of being overheard.
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Dorothée S...
"It's a film about exile, about people who are forced to leave their homes." Florence Miailhe
"A small village looted in darkness, a family forced to flee...
The two oldest children, Kyona and Adriel are quickly separated from their parents facing the road of exile alone. They embark on a heroic journey which takes them from childhood to adolescence in search of shelter, peace and the hope of finding refuge and their family. Crossing a cont...
"I wanted to question children's violence" Simon Helloco
"His determination to go back to remand center overwhelmed me" Marthe Sébille
"What does it mean to wash in a lake in 2023?" Julien Gaspar Oliveri
"Marianne is heroine of the day and a young journalist has come to do a feature on her. The interview triggers evasive reactions and misunderstandings, yet a fleeting, tenuous, human connection takes place.
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In this commissioned work that is part of a collection of short films on female heroism, Marianne portrays the impossible encounter between a...
"It’s most of all a portrait of a young man who is fragile, who has flaws and doubts" Leyla Bouzid
" Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls head over heels in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelm...
"As children when we hurt our bodies, we had a fascination with wounds" Valéry Carnoy
"The Acadians were the first climate refugees recorded in America" S. Matteau & G. Fournier
"The Acadians were the first climate refugees recorded in America" Samuel Matteau & Guillaume Fournier, directors of 'Belle River'"2019. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the...
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