A parallel section of the Beijing International Film Festival entirely dedicated to French cinema, the French Film Panorama in China will be the occasion to see 13 recent French films, along with a heritage title, in the presence of Dany Boon, who will present R.A.I.D. Special Unit at the Opening Night on April 15. (In the photo below, Dany Boon during the presentation of Supercondriac at the 2014 Panorama in Beijing.)

Apart from Frédérique Bredin, Raphaël Keller, and Françoise Pams from the CNC, and Mathieu Debusschere, CEO of  ARP, producers Benoît Quainon & Sylvie Pialat (Les Films du Worso), Charles Gillibert (CG Cinéma, Yann Zenou (SPLENDIDO Quad Cinéma (Yume - Quad Films)), and Frédéric Jouve (Les Films Velvet) will also be present.

A part of the selection will then travel until the end of June to six Chinese cities: Chengdu, Xi’an, Wuhan, Jinan, Canton, and Hangzhou.

The Selection

• Welcome to the Land of Ch'tis by Dany Boon
• Cézanne and I by Danièle Thompson
• Elle by Paul Verhoeven
• Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas
• Things to Come by Mia Hansen-Løve
• The Girl Without Hands by Sébastien Laudenbach
• Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont
• My Life as a Courgette by Claude Barras
• From the Land of the Moon by Nicole Garcia
• Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas
• Planetarium by Rebecca Zlotowski
• R.A.I.D. Special Unit by Dany Boon
• A Bag of Marbles by Christian Duguay