From today until February 17, 2025, discover the 20 films selected for the 15th edition of the world’s biggest online festival devoted entirely to recent francophone cinema.
Whether a fan of poignant dramas, wacky comedies, white-knuckle thrillers, thought-provoking genre films, cult classics, hard-hitting documentaries, or unique and poetic animations, you’ll find there’s lots to love in the 2025 selection.
Discover the programme of the 15th edition!
For 2025, MyFrenchFilmFestival brings you an eclectic selection to make you laugh, cry, and think. The programme aims to reflect the wealth and diversity of French-language cinema. To help you navigate your way through this comprehensive selection and to pique your curiosity, films will be grouped by theme.
A Family Affair
A social drama, a comedy, and a genre film that question contemporary family dynamics touching on themes of love, adversity, and resilience.
Business as Usual
Whether set in a classroom, behind the scenes on a film shoot, a construction site, or a job search, these four films examine our relationship to work.
- Alarms by Nicolas Panay
- The Apprentices by Pierre Salvadori
- Making of by Cédric Kahn
- A Real Job by Thomas Lilti
Kaleidoscopic Identities
Four striking stories to explore the themes of transformation and the search for self-knowledge.
- Alexx196 & the Pink Sand Beach by Loïc Hobi
- GiGi by Cynthia Calvi
- Nube by Christian Arredondo Narváez & Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada
- Along Came Love de Katell Quillévéré
Look Around, What Do You See?
Three unique poetic visions from filmmakers turning their camera towards the interactions between creation and art, nature and culture.
- The Dreamer by Anaïs Tellenne
- Montsouris Park by Guil Sela
- The Mysterious Adventures of Claude Conseil by Marie-Lola Terver & Paul Jousselin
Silent, No More
A documentary, a thriller, and a short film that break the silence and invite us to reflect upon sexist and sexual violence and harassment.
- Changing Rooms by Violette Gitton
- The Man with a Thousand Faces by Sonia Kronlund
- Through the Night de Delphine Girard — in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Images (WBI)
Working Class Heroes
An investigation on Mars, a stay in the mountains, and a board game that turns sour: discover three hard-hitting stories that fan the flames of class war.
- Sweet Tooth by Joséphine Darcy Hopkins
- Winter by Jean-Benoit Ugeux — in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Images (WBI)
- Mars Express de Jérémie Périn
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The International Jury
MyFrenchFilmFestival is honoured to welcome an esteemed International Jury for this 15th edition, which will award the competition’s Grand Prix for Best Feature Film. This award is endowed with €15,000 in prize money to be shared equally between the director, producer, and distributor of the winning film.
The members of the International Jury for 2025 are: Franco-Iranian actor/producer/director Zar Amir, Danish-American actor/director Viggo Mortensen, French actor/director Noémie Merlant, Swedish writer/director/producer Tarik Saleh, and Russian writer/director Andrey Zviagintsev.
The International Press Jury
At the end of the festival, the International Press Jury will award a feature film in competition.
The international journalist members of this year’s jury are Elisabeth Vincentelli (The New York Times – USA), Yuko Tanaka (Kinema Junpo – Japan), Boyd van Hoeij (Screen International – UK), Marco Consoli (freelance – Italy), and Gonzalo Lira (El Heraldo TV – Mexico).
Content Creators Jury
The Content Creators Jury will award a short film in competition.
The three content creators with a passion for cinema on this year’s jury are Shruti Nagesh (@thecinemastories / in English), Alejandro Chávez (@jorandro_ / in Spanish), and Jovan Vasiljević (@cinematologist / in English).
Audience Awards
The 18 films in competition are also in the running for the Audience Awards, presented to one feature film and one short film in competition. To vote, sign in to MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, up to and including February 17!
How to participate?
No matter where they’re tuning in from, audiences have one month to discover the 10 French-language feature films and 10 French-language short films in this year’s programme on the MyFrenchFilmFestival.com platform, with subtitles in 8 languages: Arabic, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish.
On MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, short films can be viewed free of charge around the world.
Feature films – except for the film Making of – are available free of charge in the following regions: Latin America (Spanish-speaking), Africa, the Near and Middle East, Russia/CIS, South-East Asia, the Baltic states (except Latvia), and Ukraine. Where feature films are not available free of charge, festivalgoers can opt for a pay-per-view rate of €1.99 or an all-access pass for €7.99.
Please note that geoblocking may apply to certain films in certain regions.
If you haven’t already done so, create an account on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com to watch the films available in your country. If you need help getting set up, feel free to contact us at: contact@myfrenchfilmfestival.com.
You can also watch the films in the programme on one of some 50 partner platforms streaming the festival.
Don’t miss out on the festival!
Don’t forget to follow the festival’s social media accounts to keep up with all the latest news from this 15th edition. Meet the filmmakers from the selection through numerous exclusive interviews, watch the short films from the programme, and take part in our big prize draw to win a return trip for two to Paris* on Air France!