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French Film Festival Free to View Online

MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, the French film festival that offers viewers all over the world the chance to watch French cinema online, has announced the films that will make up its fifth edition. From January 16 to February 16, 2015, you can enjoy the entire line-up from the comfort of your own laptop.

Created by UniFrance films, MyFrenchFilmFestival.com offers a program of 10 features (first and second films distributed in France in 2013 and 2014) and 10 short films subtitled into 13 languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). The selection includes two films with Belgian origins in competition, two French/Canadian co-productions out of competition, and one classic title.

Below, we present the complete program:

Feature Films in Competition

- Comment j’ai détesté les maths / How I Came to Hate Math by Olivier Peyon (2013)

- Eastern Boys by Robin Campillo (2013)

- L’Étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps / The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (Belgium, 2013)

- Les Gazelles by Mona Achache (2014)

- Hippocrates / Hippocrate by Thomas Lilti (2014)

- Tirez la langue, mademoiselle / Miss and the Doctors by Axelle Ropert (2013)

- Tristesse Club / Fool Circle by Vincent Mariette (2014)

- Une place sur la tierre / A Place on Earth by Fabienne Godet (2013)

- Respire / Breathe by Mélanie Laurent (2014, screened as part of the the 12th FICM)

- Vandal by Hélier Cisterne (2013)

Feature Films Out of Competition

- La Chasse au Godard d’Abbittibbi by Eric Morin (2013, Quebec)

Classic Feature Film

- Plein soleil / Purple Noon by René Clément (1960, restored version)

Short Films in Competition

- Alissa by Clément Tréhin-Lalanne (2014)

- La Bûche de Noël by Stéphanie Aubier & Vincent Patar (2013)

- Dip N’ Dance by Hugo Cierzniak (2013)

- Extrasystole by Alice Douard (2013)

- Guy Moquet by Demis Herenger (2014)

- Les Insouciants by Louise de Prémonville (2014)

- Molii by Mourad Boudaoud, Carine May, Yassine Qnia & Hakim Zouhani (2014)

- Le Retour / The Return by Yohann Kouam (2013)

- Shadow by Lorenzo Recio (2014)

- La Virée à Paname by Carine May & Hakim Zouhani (2013)

Short Film Out of Competition

- Quelqu’un d’extraordinaire / An Extraordinary Person by Monia Chokri (2013, Quebec)

The Filmmaker Jury for the 2015 edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com will be presided over by Michel Gondry (Special Guest at FICM’s 9th edition). Other members include Joachim Lafosse (Belgium), Nadav Lapid (Israel) and Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritius). Gondry also helped to design the festival’s official poster and directed the festival’s trailer, which you can watch below:

MyFrenchFilmFestival.com will award two prizes. The film awarded the Chopard Filmmakers’ Award will be selected by the filmmaker jury and will receive 15,000 euros (5,000 each for the film’s director, producer and sales team). The Lacoste Audience Award will be granted by the public, who can vote for their favourite (favorite) film online.

The films showing as part of MyFrenchFilmFestival.com will be available online on the official festival website, as well as on 25 other online platforms that vary depending on the viewer’s location. The short film selection will be free to view all over the world, while the feature films will be free of charge in certain territories (including Latin America, China, India, Poland and Turkey).

Last year the festival was an extraordinary success, receiving visitors from 205 countries, with a total of four million plays in just one month. If you missed this opportunity in 2014 now is your chance to take note of the festival dates (January 16 to February 16, 2015) and set aside some time to watch quality French cinema free, wherever you are in the world.

For more information please visit www.myfrenchfilmfestival.com/en/

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