Eye For Film >> Festivals >> A-Z >> French Film Festival >> 2019
The 27th edition of the French Film Festival UK runs 1 November to 15 December. Films will include Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.
View Films by Strand:
View previous years coverage of the French Film Festival festival:
French Latest Reviews
A sequel to The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc.
A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.
When Alexandre learns that the priest who abused him as a boy is still working with children, he and other victims take action against the perpetrator.
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the life she shared with him.
A teenager becomes radicalised.
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
A man assumes a new responsibility for his niece as a potential guardian.
French Film Festival Features
French Film Festival News
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema
US streaming edition of a Romanian filmmaking retrospective
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Scotland's oldest film festival
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Touring festival of films with a human rights focus
Sheffield DocFest
Britain's premier factual film festival
Cannes Film Festival
Archive of festival coverage.
Sundance Film Festival
Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.
Berlin Film Festival
Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.
