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04 September 2018 à 15:02
The 2018 Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie will take place in Biel/Bienne from September 12 to 16 and in Bern from September 14 to 16—an opportunity to meet with around twenty festival guests and discover over fifty films shown in preview screenings.
This 14th edition of the festival held in the charming bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, which sits right on the boundary of French-speaking and German-speaking cultures, is also being held for three days in the Swiss capital of Bern.
As always, the five-day event will be dedicated to French-language films from France and Switzerland, and will showcase around fifty features and short films including numerous world premieres, such as In Safe Hands and Paris Pigalle. More than one half of the films programmed will thus be presented to audiences for the first time, either in Bienne or Berne, prior to their commercial release in their respective countries.
The festival is divided into four main sections. One of these is the Discovery section, which offers a selection of short films in competition and several French or French-language productions that have never been screened in Switzerland.
The festival program, put together in partnership with Swiss distributors and UniFrance, continues to give international exposure to French cinema and French artists. Among the actors and directors in attendance this year are Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Brizé, Camille Chamoux, Pierre Deladonchamps, Philippe Faucon, Adèle Haenel, Jeanne Herry, Agnès Jaoui, Thomas Lilti, Pierre Salvadori, Guillaume Senez, and Mélanie Thierry.
This year's festival trailer (below) is an inventive montage of the best of past years' trailers, featuring Kacey Mottet Klein, Carlo Brandt, Patrick Bruel, Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Paul Rouve, and the Fiona Gordon/Dominique Abel duo. And, thrown in just for fun, you can also watch Patrick Bruel solo in the 2015 trailer and Ariane Ascaride in the 2016 trailer.
Further details about the festival can be found here.
Discovery Section
Discovery Section (Short Films)
Horizon Section
Podium Section
Nocturne Section
Latest update : 05 September 2018 à 15:02 CEST
A New Life
(2017)
A Woman at War
(2017)
Amin
(2017)
At War
(2018)
Black Tide
(2016)
Climax
(2018)
Cléo & Paul
(2017)
Dear Son
(2018)
Dogman
(2018)
Everybody Knows
(2018)
In Safe Hands
(2018)
Kings for a Day
(2018)
Laissez-moi danser
(2017)
Little White Dude
(2017)
Our Happy Holiday
(2018)
Our Struggles
(2018)
Paris Pigalle
(2018)
Place publique
(2017)
Sofia
(2018)
Ten Minutes Tops
(2018)
The Cornfield
(2018)
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
(2017)
The Freshmen
(2017)
The Prayer
(2017)
The Summer House
(2018)
The Trouble with You
(2018)
To the Ends of the World
(2017)
Treat Me Like Fire
(2017)
With the Wind
(2017)
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Dominique Abel
Cédric Anger
Swann Arlaud
Ariane Ascaride
Mohamed Ben Attia
Meryem Benm'Barek
Élodie Bouchez
Carlo Brandt
Stéphane Brizé
Patrick Bruel
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Patrick Cassir
Camille Chamoux
Antoine de Bujadoux
Pierre Deladonchamps
Stéphane Demoustier
Benedikt Erlingsson
Asghar Farhadi
Philippe Faucon
Matteo Garrone
Fiona Gordon
Michaël Guerraz
Adèle Haenel
Jeanne Herry
Agnès Jaoui
Cédric Kahn
Valérie Leroy
Thomas Lilti
Xabi Molia
Marie Monge
Kacey Mottet Klein
Guillaume Nicloux
Gaspar Noé
Bettina Oberli
Jean-Paul Rouve
Pierre Salvadori
Ken Scott
Guillaume Senez
Mélanie Thierry
Tatiana Vialle
Michael Zazoun
Érick Zonca
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