After two editions affected by health measures due to the pandemic, the Festa do Cinema Francês returns to the big screen with even more screenings and a wider geographical scope. The festival will take place from October 26 through November 20 in ten Portuguese cities: Lisbon, Almada, Oeiras, Coimbra, Porto, Évora, Viseu, Faro, Lagos, and Funchal.
On the program: national premiere screenings, new films, a section dedicated to gastronomy, a documentary programmed in partnership with ACID, a selection specially curated for young audiences, films that have marked the previous year and that the public will be able to rediscover on the big screen, and finally encounters and Q&As with invited filmmakers.
The partnership with Nos Cinemas has also been renewed, always with the objective of reaching areas far from the major coastal urban centers.
The Tour do Cinema Francês por Portugal is the name of this special program that will be launched this year in NOS cinemas in the cities of Évora, Viseu, Faro, and Funchal.
The festival is part of this year's France-Portugal 2022 Season, an initiative that celebrates the historical bonds of friendship between the two countries.
Everybody Loves Jeanne will open the event and will screen in the presence of its director Céline Devaux and one of its cast, actor Nuno Lopes.
The following French artists will also attend the festival: Antoine Barraud, Arnaud Desplechin, Carine May and Hakim Zouhani, François Manceaux, Emma Benestan, Louis-Julien Petit, Régis Roinsard, Sylvain Prudhomme and Philippe Béziat, and Rebecca Marder.
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All the French films at the 23rd Festa do Cinema Francês
Antestreias
- Employee of the Month by Jérôme Commandeur
- Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin
- Besties by Marion Desseigne-Ravel
- Les Choses humaines by Yvan Attal
- The Passengers of the Night by Mikhaël Hers
- Robust by Constance Meyer
- Everybody Loves Jeanne by Céline Devaux
- The Man in the Basement by Philippe Le Guay
- One Fine Morning by Mia Hansen-Løve
- Simone: The Journey of the Century by Olivier Dahan
- Hear Me Out by Pascal Elbé
- Champagne! by Nicolas Vanier
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Segunda chance
- Aline, the Voice of Love by Valérie Lemercier
- Jane by Charlotte by Charlotte Gainsbourg
- Maigret by Patrice Leconte
- Eiffel by Martin Bourboulon
- The Crusade by Louis Garrel
- Goliath by Frédéric Tellier
- Haute couture by Sylvie Ohayon
- Men On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown by Audrey Dana
- Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli
- Notre-Dame on Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Kaamelott by Alexandre Astier
- Retirement Home by Thomas Gilou
Filmes inéditos
- Hard Shell, Soft Shell by Emma Benestan
- Not My Type by Michel Leclerc
- Little Nicholas - Happy as Can Be by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre
- Madeleine Collins by Antoine Barraud
- The Kitchen Brigade by Louis-Julien Petit
- SOS : Save Our School by Carine May and Hakim Zouhani
- The Innocent by Louis Garrel
- Waiting for Bojangles by Régis Roinsard
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