The French Film Festival UK was created in 1992 in two Scottish cities, with its main focus in Edinburgh, before it slowly spread out across the country in later years. The idea of the festival arose from the continuity of an historical bond and friendship between the two nations (the "Auld Alliance"). Since its creation, the festival organizers have strived to respond to the increasingly strong demand from British audiences to see more French films. Thanks to the  French Film Festival UK, British spectators, who have become a loyal and increasingly growing number, hence have the opportunity of discovering films they could only otherwise see in France, from classics to Cannes award-winners, and not forgetting short films.

The 26th edition will take place throughout November until December 16, being 41 days and 200 screenings in 19 cities across the United Kingdom, in partnership with thirty cultural centres/movie theaters. There will be three screening sites in Edinburg, four in London, six in Glasgow, as well as screenings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and in many English cities, as far as the Shetlands and Orcades in Northern Scotland.

This year, the festival will welcome Jean-Paul Rappeneau and Tonie Marshall, as well as the young filmmakers (revealed in Cannes) Laetitia Carton and Marie Monge, and short film director Michaël Barocas. Other guests will be confirmed in due course.

The festival website.

The selection

Discovery

• Bloody Milk by Hubert Charuel
• Little Tickles by Andrea Bescond, Eric Metayer
• Our Struggles by Guillaume Senez
• Ceasefire by Emmanuel Courcol
• Dany by François Damiens
• Sauvage by Camille Vidal Naquet
• Treat Me Like Fire by Marie Monge

Documentary

• Each and Every Moment by Nicolas Philibert
• The Competition by Claire Simon
• Wine Calling by Bruno Sauvard
• The Quest of Alain Ducasse by Gilles de Maistre
• Le Grand Bal by Laetitia Carton

Panorama

• The Image Book by Jean-Luc Godard
• Sorry Angel by Christophe Honoré
• Mrs. Hyde by Serge Bozon
• Promise at Dawn by Eric Barbier
• La Ch'tite Famille by Dany Boon
• Le Portrait Interdit by Charles de Meaux
• See You Up There by Albert Dupontel
• The Red Collar by Jean Becker
• Sink or Swim by Gilles Lellouche
• The House by the Sea bye Robert Guédiguian
• Jealous by David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
• At War by Stéphane Brizé
• Rock'n Roll by Guillaume Canet
• A View of Love by Nicole Garcia
• Return of the Hero by Laurent Tirard
• The Trouble with You by Pierre Salvadori
• Comfort and Consolation in France by Vincent Macaigne
• Number One by Tonie Marshall
• The Prayer by Cédric Kahn
• Naked Normandy by Philippe Le Guay
• One Nation, One King by Pierre Schoeller
• To the Ends of the World by Guillaume Nicloux
• When Margaux meets Margaux by Sophie Fillières
• The Freshmen by Thomas Lilti
• A Season in France by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Classic Cinema

• Grand Illusion by Jean Renoir
• The Truth by Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Have I the Right to Kill ? by Alain Cavalier
• Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Animation

• Yellowbird by Christian de Vita
• Adama by Simon Rouby