The 32nd edition of one of the most important festivals dedicated to French cinema in the world will take place from March 2 through April 24 across Australia and will allow Australian moviegoers to discover 37 recent French films, including Eiffel which opens the festival.
After a 2020 edition complicated by health restrictions due to Covid-19 (launched in March, then cancelled after a few days, and finally relaunched in July), the 2021 edition of the l'Alliance Française French Film Festival in オーストラリア is back in its classic mode and set to roam throughout the country. Over two months, the 37 films presented will travel to nine Australian cities: after the opening in Sydney, where Eiffel will have its international premiere, the festival will continue on to Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide, Parramatta, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Byron Bay.
Divided into eleven strands, this edition was keen to honor strong female characters, including a horticulturalist in ローズメイカー 奇跡のバラ (performed by Catherine Frot) a famous singer in Aline, the Voice of Love, an outlaw translator in Mama Weed, and a primary school teacher looking for love in My Donkey, My Lover & I. Other themes covered include love and cultural diversity.
Television host Catriona Rowntree will be the patron of the 2021 edition.
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The 2021 selection
Opening Night
Closing Night
Head Over Heels
- Délicieux by Eric Besnard
- My Donkey, My Lover & I by Caroline Vignal
- Love Affair(s) by Emmanuel Mouret
- Summer of 85 by フランソワ オゾン
Thrills and Chills
Exceptional Lives
- How to Become an Astronaut by Jürgen Hansen and Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff
- De Gaulle by Gabriel Le Bomin
Bigger Than Us
- The Big Hit by Emmanuel Courcol
- Miss by Ruben Alves
- Final Set by Quentin Reynaud
- Fahim, the Little Chess Prince by Pierre François Martin-Laval
- Man Up! by Benjamin Parent
Women, Rise
- Aline, the Voice of Love by Valérie Lemercier
- Mama Weed by Jean-Paul Salomé
- ローズメイカー 奇跡のバラ by Pierre Pinaud
In-Stitches
- The Speech by Laurent Tirard
- Delete History by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
- Bye Bye Morons by Albert Dupontel
- I'll Go Where You Go by Géraldine Nakache
- Perfumes by Grégory Magne
Around the World
- Arab Blues by Manele Labidi
- Small Country: An African Childhood by Eric Barbier
- The man who sold his skin by Kaouther Ben Hania
- アリスの空 by Chloé Mazlo
Families
- Little Vampire by Joann Sfar
- カラミティ by Rémi Chayé
- Vicky and her Mystery by Denis Imbert
- Poly by Nicolas Vanier
Film Buffs Quarter
- Mandibles by Quentin Dupieux
- Ibrahim by Samir Guesmi
- Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz
- Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh
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