After 10 million plays in 2019, MyFrenchFilmFestival, the world's first online French-language film festival, is back with 28 features and shorts, along with three VR works, subtitled in 10 languages and available all around the world from January 16 through February 16, 2020.
Check out the trailer, the jury of international filmmakers, and the film selection for the 10th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival!
The 2020 International Jury:
- American director Ira Sachs, who directed Isabelle Huppert in Frankie, which was selected in the Official Competition at Cannes in 2019, will be president of the 10th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival
- French actress Agathe Bonitzer, who starred in 2019 in the series Osmosis, the film Blond Animals by Maxime Matray and Alexia Walther, and the film Isadora's Children by Damien Manivel, winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Direction at Locarno
- Jayro Bustamante, Guatemalan filmmaker whose second feature Tremors was presented at the Berlin Film Festival and third feature, La Llorona, was presented at Venice
- American actor-director Brady Corbet, whose second feature Vox Lux was presented at Venice in 2018
- Judith Davis, French actor-director who works in film and theater. In 2018, she directed and starred in the film Whatever Happened to my Revolution.
- Czech animation film director Michaela Pavlátová, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin in 1995 for her short film Repete
The 2020 selection is organized around themes representing the diversity and vitality of French-language cinema.
Is This Real?
A thriller set in Dordogne, a poetic fable centered around a gang of young social outcasts, a biopic about an urban legend, a descent into hell alongside a journalist, or a plunge into a techno night in Marseille, these five singular films play with spectators' expectations and blur the boundaries between dream and reality.
- Savage by Vincent Mariette
- Jessica Forever by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin by Benjamin Crotty
- Diversion by Mathieu Mégemont
- The Night of the Plastic Bags by Gabriel Harel
Say Cheese!
Get up close and personal with genuine Tour de France supporters, become entangled in the whirlwind of a new genre romantic comedy, look for a model to go through the ordeal of epilation, or chase a pig that has disappeared; French-language cinema is determined to make you laugh!
- Holy Tour by Méryl Fortunat-Rossi and Valéry Rosier (a Belgian film, in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Images (WBI))
- The Bare Necessity by Erwan Le Duc
- By a Hair by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller
- Magnetic Harvest by Marine Levéel
On the Frontline
Indochina in the aftermath of the Second World War, Algeria at the dawn of its independence, or Syria in the middle of civil war, three theaters of war provide sources of inspiration for today's cinema.
- To the Ends of the World by Guillaume Nicloux
- Escape from Raqqa by Emmanuel Hamon
- The Atomic Adventure by Loïc Barché
All About Women
Housewife, rebel, farmer, young adolescent, or sister for the duration of a telephone call, this strand celebrates women in all their diversity.
- Mothers' Instinct by Olivier Masset-Depasse (a Belgian film, in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Images (WBI))
- The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman and Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec
- With the Wind by Bettina Oberli (a Swiss film, in partnership with SWISS FILMS)
- Due West by Alice Douard
- A Sister by Delphine Girard (a Belgian film, in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Images (WBI))
Teen Spirit
A panorama of the many questions concerning young people today, evolving in society where certainties no longer exist.
- School's Out by Sébastien Marnier
- Meteorites by Romain Laguna
- Ahmed’s Song by Foued Mansour
- Rain Rain Run Away by Clémentine Carrié
Special Screenings
While Les Misérables by Ladj Ly represents France in the running for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, a look back at the depiction of French high-rise banlieues with:
- Crack 6T by Jean-François Richet
- Don't Be Tight by Yassine Qnia
My Little Zoo
For the first time, MyFrenchFilmFestival focuses a spotlight on animation films for younger audiences and offers five short films to watch as a family within its 10th edition.
- After the Rain by Valérian Desterne, Juan Olarte Zuñiga, Carlos Osmar Salazar Tornero, Lucile Palomino, Juan Pablo de la Rosa Zalamea, Céline Cllin and Rebecca Black
- Sam’s Dream by Nölwenn Roberts
- Stuffed by Édouard Heutte, Clotilde Bonnotte, Élise Simoulin, Anna Komaromi, Marisa Di Vora Peixoto, and Helena Bastioni
- A Tiger With No Stripes by Raùl Robin Morales Reyes
- Turbopéra by Fabien Meyran, Benoît de Geyer d’Orth, Antoine Marchand, and Paul-Eugène Dannaud
New Horizons
MyFrenchFilmFestival wishes to highlight the capacity of French creative works to constantly reinvent themselves... These new forms of images and screenwriting will move and disconcert you.
- The Scream VR by Sandra Paugam and Charles Ayats
- Isle of the Dead VR by Benjamin Nuel
- A Bar at the Folies-Bergère VR by Gabrielle Lissot
All films will be available as of January 16 on the MyFrenchFilmFestival.com platform and on sixty partner platforms worldwide.
While biding your time until January 16, watch the festival's official trailer and download the catalog for all the news about the selection and the 10th edition.
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