French Film Festival at GFT

Friday 15 – Thursday 28 November, 2024

Vive le cinéma! The much-loved French Film Festival UK returns to GFT, bringing latest and greatest in French cinema as well as some golden oldies.

The programme kicks off with Robert Guédiguian’s charming romantic drama And the Party Goes On, and a special screening of dazzling debut Mousey followed by a Q&A with director/actor Charlotte Schiøler.

Look out for a touching tale of long-lost siblings in The Marching Band and the propulsive social realist Souleymane’s Story, for which Abou Sangare won Best Actor in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes. And if you love animation, highly recommended is Savages — a fable about an indigenous people who live at the heart of a tropical forest from My Life as a Courgette director Claude Barras.

For classics fans, Claude Lelouch’s Oscar-winning A Man and a Woman is screening in honour of Anouk Aimée, who died earlier this year, with a filmed tribute by Lelouch. Not to be missed.