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Nouvelle Vague opens the festival
The 33rd edition of the Frech Film Festival UK runs at venues across the country from November 6 to 24. It opens with Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, a zesty take on the making of Jean-Luc Godard's classic Breathless and features 32 UK premieres. We'll be bringing you coverage throughout.
View Films by Strand:
- Animation
- Classics
- Cult
- Discovery
- Documentary
- Extras
- Gaumont Celebration
- Marcel Pagnol Anniversary
- Panorama
- Quebec Focus
- Restoration
- Showcase
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In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
Documentary exploring a conflict after the re-introduction of brown bears into the traditional shepherding community of the Pyrenees.
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille is knocked back by an accident that starts to make him question his place inside the ring.
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively attempting to re-establish a relationship with her sister. But this illusion is shattered with the morning light: Suzanne is gone and Jeanne is forced to become a mother to children she barely knows.
After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born... and runs into her teenage crush.
A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.
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