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MyFrenchFilmFestival continues to expand

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- The 15th online festival organised by Unifrance will unspool across 50 or so platforms around the world between 17 January and 17 February, with a eye-catching jury for the feature films competition

MyFrenchFilmFestival continues to expand
Along Came Love by Katell Quillévéré

French-Iranian actress Zar Amir, American-Danish actor and filmmaker Viggo Mortensen, French actress and director Noémie Merlant, Swedish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Tarik Saleh and Russian director and screenwriter Andreï Zviaguintsev are all set to grace the splendid jury of filmmakers (set to award the festival’s Grand Prize, consisting of 15,000 euros, to the winning feature film) which Unifrance has assembled for the 15th MyFrenchFilmFestival, which is the first French-language film festival in the world to fully unfold online and which is making its return this year from 17 January to 17 February.

Having pulled together a vast community of international cinephiles over the years, the event will be accessible via MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, as well as across fifty or so platforms around the world. For the record, the festival has clocked up 104 million viewings since its creation (12 million of which were recorded last year).

The nine feature films jostling in competition consist of movies approved by Cannes (Along Came Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Katell Quillévéré
film profile
]
by Katell Quillévéré, All To Play For [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile
]
by Delphine Deloget, No Love Lost [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Erwan Le Duc
film profile
]
by Erwan Le Duc and Jérémie Périn’s animated feature Mars Express [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jérémie Périn
film profile
]
), Venice (Making of [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cédric Kahn
film profile
]
by Cédric Kahn, The Dreamer [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Anaïs Tellenne
film profile
]
by Anaïs Tellenne and Through the Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Delphine Girard
film profile
]
by Delphine Girard) and San Sebastian (A Real Job [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Thomas Lilti
film profile
]
by Thomas Lilti), rounded off by Sonia Kronlund’s documentary The Man With A Thousand Faces.

Three other prizes will be awarded respectively by the audience, the international press jury and a jury composed of content creators.

Equally noteworthy in the heritage film category and screening out of competition is Pierre Salvadori’s Les apprentis (1995), not to mention the 10 short films elevating the agenda (nine of which are screening in competition).

The festival’s short films will be available for free all around the world on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com while the feature films will cost €1.99 each (or €7.99 per package). The event will unfold exclusively online (with the exception of the movie Making of) in Spanish-speaking Latin America, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Ukraine, the Baltic States (apart from Latvia) and Southeast Asia. All of this year’s films will be subtitled in 8 languages - German, English, Arab, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Portuguese - in all countries.

(Translated from French)

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