After a 2020 edition complicated by health restrictions due to Covid-19 (launched in March, then cancelled after a few days, and finally relaunched in July), the 2021 edition of the l'Alliance Française French Film Festival in Australia is back in its classic mode and set to roam throughout the country. Over two months, the 37 films presented will travel to nine Australian cities: after the opening in Sydney, where  Eiffel will have its international premiere, the festival will continue on to Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide, Parramatta, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Byron Bay.

Divided into eleven strands, this edition was keen to honor strong female characters, including a horticulturalist in The Rose Maker (performed by Catherine Frot) a famous singer in Aline, the Voice of Love, an outlaw translator in Mama Weed, and a primary school teacher looking for love in My Donkey, My Lover & I. Other themes covered include love and cultural diversity.

Television host Catriona Rowntree will be the patron of the 2021 edition.

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The 2021 selection

Opening Night

• Eiffel by Martin Bourboulon

Closing Night

• #Iamhere by Éric Lartigau

Head Over Heels

• Délicieux by Eric Besnard
• My Donkey, My Lover & I by Caroline Vignal
• Love Affair(s) by Emmanuel Mouret
• Summer of 85 by François Ozon

Thrills and Chills

• Black Box by Yann Gozlan
• Appearances by Marc Fitoussi
• Night Shift by Anne Fontaine

Exceptional Lives

• How to Become an Astronaut by Jürgen Hansen and Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff
• De Gaulle by Gabriel Le Bomin

Bigger Than Us

• The Big Hit by Emmanuel Courcol
• Miss by Ruben Alves
• Final Set by Quentin Reynaud
• Fahim, the Little Chess Prince by Pierre François Martin-Laval
• Man Up! by Benjamin Parent

Women, Rise

• Aline, the Voice of Love by Valérie Lemercier
• Mama Weed by Jean-Paul Salomé
• The Rose Maker by Pierre Pinaud

In-Stitches

• The Speech by Laurent Tirard
• Delete History by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
• Bye Bye Morons by Albert Dupontel
• I'll Go Where You Go by Géraldine Nakache
• Perfumes by Grégory Magne

Around the World

• Arab Blues by Manele Labidi
• Small Country: An African Childhood by Eric Barbier
• The man who sold his skin by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Skies of Lebanon by Chloé Mazlo

Families

• Little Vampire by Joann Sfar
• Calamity by Rémi Chayé
• Vicky and her Mystery by Denis Imbert
• Poly by Nicolas Vanier

Film Buffs Quarter

• Mandibles by Quentin Dupieux
• Ibrahim by Samir Guesmi
• Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz
• Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh

Legend

• Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard