All About Corinne by Marc Fitoussi (which was well received as the closing film of the Locarno Film Festival and is set to be released in French cinemas on 7 October) will open the 19th Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (FFA) next Monday.

The centrepiece of the line-up is a ten-title competition to be assessed by a jury chaired by Franck Dubosc (flanked notably by Jean-Paul Salomé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Julien de Saint-Jean and Déborah Lukumuena). Contending for the Valois d’Or are the Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Ben'Imana by Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo and four other films unveiled on the Croisette: Congo Boy by Congolese director Rafiki Fariala (Un Certain Regard Best Actor Award), Think Good by Géraldine Nakache, Sanguine by Marion Le Corroller and The Blow by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri. Also in the running are Voilà, c'est fini by Gustave Kervern (Jean Vigo Award 2026), Les princes by Antoine Giorgioni (see the news), Ce qui nous mène à toi by Khalil Cherti (see the article), Les filles d'Abraham by Hanaël El Yousfi and Rédemptions by Canadian filmmaker Luc Picard.

Seventeen films feature among the preview screenings, including the Cannes selections Coward by Lukas Dhont (which scooped the Best Actor Award on the Croisette), the Competition title The Birthday Party by Léa Mysius, the animated feature Iron Boy by Louis Clichy (Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize), Words of Love by Rudi Rosenberg, and Women on Trial by duo Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller. Also on the menu, among others, are Love Lessons by Martin Provost (unveiled at Locarno), Violette by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, En haut de la pile by Louis-Julien Petit, Les jours d'après by Stéphanie Pillonca, Mon fils président by Mathias Mlekuz, Justin Le Juste by Éric Barbier, Le lièvre by Gonzague Legout, Les héros du Louvre by Élie Chouraqui, Camembert by duo Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka, and Call My Agent! The Movie by Émilie Noblet (which will close the festival).

The "Les Flamboyants" section will showcase the Cannes competitor A Woman's Life by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, Strawberries by Moroccan filmmaker Laïla Marrakchi (also shown on the Croisette, in Un Certain Regard) and The Arab by Algerian helmer Malek Bensmaïl (discovered in IFFR’s Big Screen Competition).

The "Premiers rendez-vous" strand notably includes the features Goodbye Cruel World by Félix de Givry (unveiled in the Cannes Critics’ Week), Vigilante by Belgian filmmaker Olivier Pairoux and Blue Hour by Ornella Pacchioni.

The "Les bijoux de famille" programme will this year be dedicated to distributor KMBO, the "Les coups de cœur" section will notably present Instinct de famille by Maurice Hermet, and the "Nouveaux regards" category will feature, among others, Josèphe by Anaïs Aidoud and La quadrature des autres by Maxime Pothérat.

The remainder of the line-up includes tributes to the late Nathalie Baye and to Cambodian cinema, a Docs & Ciné programme, the documentary Lumière by Thierry Frémaux as a special screening taking place at the theatre, and a special event screening for the miniseries Le rouge et le noir by Gaël Morel.