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Léa Drucker is drawn to films that ask difficult questions. “It’s really being part of stories that raise questions, shake things up, and challenge the status quo,” she tells Richard Mowe, Director and Co-founder of French Film Festival UK, in a new interview for Eye For Film.

French cinema comes to the Institut français d’Écosse from 10–18 November 2026, as part of the 34th French Film Festival UK.

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Comédie-Française, Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau’s award-winning backstage comedy, joins the official selection of French Film Festival UK 2026. Set inside the world’s oldest active theatre company, this gleeful farce follows producer Nina as she battles mounting chaos just hours before the premiere of Macbeth.

Screen Argyll is delighted to announce the UK release of Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, donne-moi un titre), the latest film from internationally acclaimed filmmaker Michel Gondry, marking a significant milestone as the organisation’s first ever theatrical film distribution release and a first collaboration with French Film Festival UK.

With support from Adventures in Cinema through Film Hub Scotland, the French Film Festival UK presents a four-film programme for children and young people, offering new audiences the chance to discover the fun, excitement and shared experience of cinema.