This year, the French Film Festival will present 54 films over 159 sessions, and the premiere screenings offers 14 features, presented in Prague and other regions, including several films that were selected for Official Competition at the latest Cannes Film Festival in May.

The cinemas hosting this anniversary edition are the Institut Français’ Kino 35, Lucerna, Světozor, and Edison Filmhub cinemas, in Prague The festival takes place simultaneously in the cities of Brno, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, and Ostrava.

The event will open with Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be, after the film scooped the top feature film award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The second part of the evening will be devoted to the French director François Truffaut and his film Confidentially Yours starring Fanny Ardant and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

At the Světozor, the cult film Amelie will get things under way, followed by The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani in the evening slot. The director is filmmaker in focus this year.

The festival program

Competition – selected by Czech film critics

• Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon
• Our Brothers by Rachid Bouchareb
• Paris Memories by Alice Winocour
• Eugenie Grandet by Marc Dugain
• Diary of a Fleeting Affair by Emmanuel Mouret
• Petite Maman by Céline Sciamma

Special screenings

• Serial (Bad) Weddings 3 by Philippe de Chauveron
• Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Serial Bad Weddings 2 by Philippe de Chauveron
• Last Year at Marienbad by Alain Resnais

Premieres

• The World of Yesterday by Diastème
• The Young Lovers by Carine Tardieu
• Heart of Oak by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux
• The Kitchen Brigade by Louis-Julien Petit
• Celine and Julie Go Boating by Jacques Rivette
• Nobody’s Hero by Alain Guiraudie
• Julia(s) by Olivier Treiner
• Little Nicholas – Happy as Can Be by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre
• Juste ciel by Laurent Tirard
• Forever Young byValeria Bruni-Tedeschi
• The New Toy by James Huth
• The Innocent by Louis Garrel
• Close by Lukas Dhont
• Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin

Top 10

• Climax by Gaspar Noé
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma
• Samba by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
• Blue is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche
• Two is a Family by Hugo Gélin
• An Officer and a Spy by Roman Polanski
• Yves Saint Laurent by Jalil Lespert
• Lola by Laurent Micheli
• The Chorus by Christophe Barratier
• Serial (Bad) Weddings by Philippe de Chauveron

Short film evening

• Inconnu au bataillon by Alexis Loukakis
• The Umbrella by Claire Ledru
• Breackpoint by Nicolas Panay
• Lucienne in a World Without Solitude by Geordy Couturiau
• By a Hair by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvonnick Muller
• Terra Incognita by Adrian Dexter and Pernille Kjaer
• Skinned by Joachim Hérissé

Tribute to François Truffaut

• The 400 Blows by François Truffaut
• Confidentially Yours by François Truffaut
• Stolen Kisses by François Truffaut
• Jules and Jim by François Truffaut
• The Last Metro by François Truffaut

Focus Maryam Touzani

• The Blue Caftan de Maryam Touzani
• Adam, de Maryam Touzani

Retrospective 2021

• Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven
• Between Two Worlds by Emmanuel Carrère
• Happening by Audrey Diwan
• Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli
• The Test by Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud
• Final Cut by Michel Hazanavicius
• Pacifiction by Albert Serra
• Notre-Dame on Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud

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