Watch African films this June

June 10, 2022

Watch African films this June

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This month, TV5MONDEplus have curated an amazing selection of visionary films that will take you all across Africa. Included in the line-up is Moussa Touré‘s compelling drama The Pirogue, screened during the 2012 French Film Festival. Read on to find out more.

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FFF Recommends: Olga

June 3, 2022

27 May 2022

Olga

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Olga (15)

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Dir Elie Grappe

Olga (Anastasiia Budiashkina) is a talented 15-year-old gymnast with a bright future. Given the chance to train in Switzerland, she leaves Kyiv just as Ukraine experiences unprecedented political turmoil. Ruthlessly focused on her training, Olga is left a distant bystander as her mother, an investigative journalist, challenges a brutal regime.

Cast Anastasiia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio
France / Switzerland / Ukraine | 2021 | 85 mins
French and Ukrainian with English subtitles

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Awards & Festivals

🏆 Winner, SACD Award (Critics’ Week), Cannes Film Festival (2021)

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FFF Recommends: Between Two Worlds

May 27, 2022

27 May 2022

Between Two Worlds

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Between Two Worlds / Ouistreham (15)

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Dir Emmanuel Carrère

Juliette Binoche stars as an author who goes undercover as a cleaner in a northern French port to research a book on job insecurity and social precariousness.

Cast Juliette Binoche, Hélène Lambert, Didier Pupin, Emily Madeleine
France | 2021 | 106 mins
French with English subtitles

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Awards & Festivals

🏆 Winner, Audience Award (Best European Film), San Sebastián International Film Festival (2021)
🎬 Official Selection, French Film Festival UK (2021)

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FFF Recommends: TV5MONDEplus

May 9, 2022

9 May 2022

Great coming-of-age cinema

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To celebrate the Cannes Film Festival later this month, our friends at TV5MONDEplus are screening a unique selection of coming-of-age films previously shown at Cannes. Best of all they’re free and available to watch throughout May from the comfort of home.

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FFF Recommends: Paris 13th District

March 19, 2022

19 March 2022

Paris, 13th District

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Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (18)

Dir Jacques Audiard

Jacques Audiard trains his lens on the brutalist apartment towers of the 13th arrondissement, known as the Chinatown of Paris, where he once lived. Shot during the pandemic, and predominantly in black-and-white, it follows Émilie, Camille, Nora and Amber – four young adults who are friends and sometimes lovers.

Cast Noémie Merlant, Stephen Manas, Geneviève Doang
France | 2021 | 105 mins
French with English subtitles

Awards & Festivals

🏆 Winner, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival (2021)
🏆 Nominated, Best Adapted Screenplay, César Awards (2022)
🎬 Official Selection, French Film Festival UK (2021)

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March 5, 2022

5 MARCH 2022

Great French language cinema from Africa

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Our friends at TV5MONDEplus aim to support and broadcast audio-visual works in French from around the world. Here we focus on four exceptional films from Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso that they are screening this March.

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FFF Recommends: Petite Maman

February 18, 2022

18 February 2022

Petite Maman

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Petite Maman (U)

The much-anticipated latest treasure from Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Girlhood) is now showing exclusively on MUBI. After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a mysterious girl the same age in the woods. Together they embark on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps Nelly come to terms with her loss. This latest masterwork is a sublime modern fairy tale about the quiet wonder of mother-daughter relationships, told with Sciamma’s typically elegant touch.

Director Céline Sciamma
Cast Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse
France | 2020 | 73 mins
French with English subtitles

Awards & Festivals

Official Selection, French Film Festival UK (2021)
Nominated, Best Film Not in the English Language, BAFTA Awards (2022)

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FFF and the César Awards

February 17, 2022

17 February 2022

French Film Festival UK

at this year’s César Awards

Feature films which were part of the official Festival selection in 2020 and 2021 are widely represented at the 47th awards ceremony taking place later this month.

In total, films from the Official Selection collected 18 nominations across ten categories, including six for Catherine Corsini’s The Divide, five for Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13^th District and four for Titane by Julia Ducournau.

Leïla Bekhti (The Restless), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (The Divide) and Léa Seydoux (France) will all compete for Best Actress, while Damien Bonnard (The Restless), Benoît Magimel (Peaceful) and Pio Marmaï (The Divide) will do the same for Best Actor.

Catherine Corsini’s The Divide is nominated for Best Film. We were delighted to welcome her to this year’s Festival at Ciné Lumière in London where she introduced the film and took part in a Q&A afterwards. Two from our official selection in 2021 are vying for Best First Film: Gagarine, (Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh) and Slalom (Charlène Favier).

The themes evoked testify the variety and vitality of Francophone cinema. The French Film Festival UK wishes them well-deserved success and recognition during the ceremony to be held on Friday 25 February and compered by Antoine De Caunes.

FFF titles in Key Categories

🏆 Best Film 🏆

The Divide / La Fracture (Catherine Corsini)

🏆 Best Director 🏆

Julia Ducournau (Titane)

🏆 Best Screenplay 🏆

Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, Agnès Feuvre (The Divide / La Fracture)

🏆 Best Screenplay Adaptation 🏆

Céline Sciamma, Léa Mysius, Jacques Audiard (Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades)

🏆 Best Actress 🏆

Leïla Bekhti (The Restless / Les Intranquilles)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (The Divide / La Fracture)
Léa Seydoux (France)

🏆 Best Actor 🏆

Damien Bonnard (The Restless / Les Intranquilles)
Benoît Magimel (Peaceful / De son vivant)
Pio Marmaï (The Divide / La Fracture)

🏆 Best Actress in a Supporting Role 🏆

Aissatou Diallo Sagna (The Divide / La Fracture)

🏆 Best Female Newcomer 🏆

Noée Abita (Slalom)
Agathe Rousselle (Titane)
Lucie Zhang (Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades)

🏆 Best Male Newcomer 🏆

Sami Outalbali (A Tale of Love and Desire / Une histoire d’amour et de désir)
Makita Samba (Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades)

🏆 Best First Film 🏆

Gagarine (Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh)
Slalom (Charlène Favier)

The ceremony takes place on Friday 25 February! Remember to keep an eye on their website for all the latest from the ceremony.

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FFF Recommends: Lola

February 11, 2022

11 February 2022

Lola and the Sea

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Lola and the Sea / Lola vers la mer (PG)

Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery her mother, her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who have a thorny relationship and have not seen each other for two years, have to undertake a journey to the Belgian coast.

Director Laurent Micheli
Cast Benoît Magimel, Mya Bollaers
France / Belgium | 2019 | 90 mins
French with English subtitles

Awards & Festivals

Official Selection, French Film Festival UK (2020)
Winner Most Promising Actress and Best Production Design, Magritte Awards, Belgium (2020)

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FFF Recommends: Lingui

January 29, 2022

29 JANUARY 2022

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds

In cinemas: Friday 4 February

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds / Lingui (N/C 15)

Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s gorgeous, affecting drama centres on a single mother and her pregnant teen daughter as they seek an abortion in a country where it is technically legal but impossible to access. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of the bonds among women, gradually revealing how far they will go to protect themselves and one another.

Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Cast Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro
Chad, France, Germany | 2021 | 87 mins
French with English subtitles

Awards & Festivals

Official Selection, French Film Festival UK (2021)

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