OPENING NIGHT: LONDON CINE LUMIERE:
2 November
GALA PREVIEW OF AURORE AT LONDON CINE LUMIERE
3 November
Director Blandine Lenoir and Agnès Jaoui at the UK premiere of Aurora at Cine Lumière London with Emma Jones and Ilona Morison.
Peccadillo Pictures plan to release the film early next year.
GALA PREVIEW OF AURORE AT EDINBURGH FILMHOUSE
4 November
GALA PREVIEW OF AURORE AT GLASGOW FILM THEATRE
5 November
With Agnès Jaoui’s departure for Paris early that day to continue work on editing her next feature with Jean-Pierre Bacri, tentatively titled Place publique (set around a house warming party) Aurore director Blandine Lenoir greeted Glasgow audiences at GFT in the company of French Film Festival UK chair James Steel, co-director Ilona Morison, programmer Coline Pelard Lassalle, and transport co-ordinator George Ormiston.
GALA PREVIEW OF MARIE CURIE: THE COURAGE OF KNOWLEDGE AT LONDON CINE LUMIERE
7 November
GALA OPENING OF THE 25TH FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL LOTHIAN CHAMBERS, EDINBURGH
10 November
French Film Festival UK’s Edinburgh launch saw actor Félix Kysyl travel from Paris on Air France to present Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable at its Scottish premiere at Filmhouse preceded by a reception at the new premises of Institut Français d’Ecosse in Lothian Chambers hosted by Emmanuel Cocher, Consul General of France in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Marie Vassallo, the Deputy Consul General. Attendees included film editor Andrew Dunn from The Skinny and newspaper columnist Siobhan Synnot; author Ron Butlin; members of the Franco Scottish Society; Lise Morel from Edilang.com; Martine Pierquin and Marion Schmid (University of Edinburgh); Edouard Notte (University of Edinburgh and Wallonie Bruxelles); designer Emma Quinn, FFF deputy director Ilona Morison and many more. Images by Stephen Dunn Thunderbird Releasing will release Redoubtable in the UK next year. uniFrance INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Tonight (11 Nov) Kysyl presents Redoubtable at GFT at 18.20

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