Alliance Française French Film Festival 2015
Alliance Française French Film Festival
2015
Press release for all regions: Thursday 29 January 2015
For immediate release
The Alliance Française French Film Festival announce their 2015 line-up.
Festival organizers are delighted to unveil the official film selection for the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2015 in New Zealand!
The 2015 line-up is dynamic, engaging and entertaining, and this year marks the festival’s largest and most diverse film selection to date. The selection, which features 32 feature films, includes successful French titles that have recently premièred at international film festivals, notably Toronto and Cannes.
“It has been a really exciting year for us from a film selection point of view,” notes Festival Director Sarah Reese, “We think New Zealand audiences are going to love discovering what we have in store.”
The
festival’s much-coveted opening night spot has been filled
by Eric Lartigau’s The Bélier Family, starring
Karin Viard, François Damiens and captivating newcomer
Louane Emera.
Hot off the success of their Toronto Film
Festival screenings, François Ozon’s The New
Girlfriend, Stefan Liberski’s Tokyo Fiancée,
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, Abd Al Malik’s May
Allah Bless France! and Anne Fontaine’s Gemma
Bovery starring English superstar Gemma Arterton, will
all première during the festival. The festival will close
with an exclusive one-off screening of the
eagerly-anticipated Sambafrom the directors of The
Intouchables.
Other highlights include Cannes favourite The Blue Room by actor-come-director Mathieu Amalric, Mélanie Laurent’s Breathe and the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner, Love at First Fight by Thomas Cailley.
The 2015 selection will also feature a special category of films which will commemorate the centenary of the World War One. This category will consist of a beautiful digital restoration of Jean Renoir’s masterpiece Grand Illusion, Bertrand Tavernier’s gritty drama Capitaine Conan, and a very special series of screenings of the Franco-Canadian production Apocalypse WWI, which has been produced using over 500 hours of restored, colourized, and never-before-seen archive footage.
Tickets are on sale from 30 January 2015. For more information on the festival and how to book tickets, please visitwww.frenchfilmfestival.co.nz.
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