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MyFrenchFilmFestival unveils its programme for 2018

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- The 8th online festival, organised by UniFrance, will be accessible from 19 January-19 February on 50 platforms around the globe

MyFrenchFilmFestival unveils its programme for 2018

An undeniably influential international event, with 6.7 million views last year alone, MyFrenchFilmFestival, piloted on the Internet by Unifrance, is all set to begin. 10 feature films and 10 short films will be competing at the eighth edition of the festival, which will run from 19 January to 19 February. The jury is due to be chaired by the Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, with the support of filmmakers Julia Ducournau, Brilliant Mendoza, Kim Chapiron and Nabil Ayouch.

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The 2018 selection will be available directly on the MyFrenchFilmFestival website or via its fifty partner platforms (including iTunes). Short films will be to free to view worldwide, while feature films will be available on a pay-per-view basis (€1.99 per film or €7.99 per pack), except in Africa, Latin America, India, South Korea, Poland, Romania and Russia, where the festival will be free of charge. Note that feature films will not be viewable in China due to censorship laws.

The feature films competing in the programme this year are Rock'n Roll [+see also:
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by Guillaume Canet, a few titles from Cannes, such as Ava [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Léa Mysius
film profile
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by Lea Mysius, Victoria [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Justine Triet
film profile
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by Justine Triet and Willy 1er [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
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by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier and Hugo P. Thomas, Struggle for Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
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by Antonin Peretjatko, Paris Prestige [+see also:
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film profile
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by Hamé and Ekoué, In the Forest [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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by Gilles Marchand, Crash Test Aglaé [+see also:
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film profile
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by Eric Gravel, the documentary Swagger [+see also:
trailer
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by Olivier Babinet and A Wedding [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Stephan Streker
film profile
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by Belgian director Stephan Streker.

A total of 30 feature and short films will be featured in the WTF…Rench!?, Hit The Road!, Teen Stories, French and Furious, Love "à la française" and New Horizons sections. Out of competition, the Swiss-French production Before Summer Ends [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maryam Goormaghtigh
film profile
]
by Maryam Goormaghtigh as well as three virtual reality films are worth looking out for.

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(Translated from French)

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