29/10/2024 - The 28th edition of the American French Film Festival will screen 60 films and series, including many North-American premieres, between 29 October and 3 November

Emilia Perez [+see also:
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Standing out amongst the 27 fiction feature films in the programme are the international premieres of Rabia [+see also:
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interview: Mareike Engelhardt
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interview: Michel Hazanavicius
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interview: Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
film profile] by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Dog on Trial [+see also:
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interview: Laetitia Dosch
film profile] by Laetitia Dosch (distributed in the US by Quiver), The Marching Band [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Courcol
film profile] by Emmanuel Courcol, Being Maria [+see also:
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interview: Jessica Palud
film profile] by Jessica Palud and The Balconettes [+see also:
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interview: Noémie Merlant
film profile] by Noémie Merlant (distributed by Forge Entertainment), and for Venice titles Three Friends [+see also:
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interview: Carine Tardieu
film profile] by Carine Tardieu, for Berlin winner The Empire [+see also:
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interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile] by Bruno Dumont (US distribution by Kino Lorber), but also for Saint-Ex [+see also:
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Having their American premieres are Cannes winner The Story of Souleymane [+see also:
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interview: Boris Lojkine
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film profile] by Anne Fontaine, while West side premieres are planned for The Second Act [+see also:
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film profile] by Quentin Dupieux, Through the Night [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Girard
film profile] by Delphine Girard and the comedy Maybe More by Oliver Ducray and Wilfred Méance. Also premiering in Los Angeles are Auction by Pascal Bonitzer (US distribution by Menemsha Films) and Cannes discoveries Wild Diamond [+see also:
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interview: Agathe Riedinger
film profile] by Agathe Riedinger (Strand Releasing) and Holy Cow [+see also:
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interview: Louise Courvoisier
film profile] by Louise Courvoisier (Zeitgeist Films). Finally, a special screening will be dedicated to Le Royaume [+see also:
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interview: Julien Colonna
film profile] by Julien Colonna (Metrograph).

Five documentaries are also screening, including Cannes-selected titles Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand by David Herzog-Dessistes and My Way by Thierry Teston and Liza Azuelos and Berlin title A Family [+see also:
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film profile] by Christine Angot, but also The Man with a Thousand Faces by Sonia Kronlund and Tehachapi by JR.

The very vast programme (which will give rise to audience, critics and youth jury awards) also includes 14 short-films, 3 television films and 11 series. The latter are In the Shadows by Pierre Schoeller, The Trigger by Ziad Doueiri, The Confidante by Just Philippot, Samber by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Ça c’est Paris by Marc Fitoussi, The Disappearance of Kimmy Diore by Sébastien Marnier, Becoming Karl Lagerfeld by Audrey Estrougo and Jérôme Salle, Zorro de Jean-Baptiste Saurel and Émilie Noblet, Extra. [+see also:
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Finally, it is also worth noting that the American French Film Festival will, for the first time, give the TAFFF Impact Award (a prize recognising an American professional for their contribution to French cinema), to distributor Richard Lorber (Kino Lorber) and that The Count of Monte-Cristo will be at the heart of the High School Screenings Program (which will reach 3,000 students in 60 schools).

(Translated from French)