The French Film Festival, the yearly event dedicated to showcasing French cinema, is to take place between June 1 and June 12 in Bucharest and ten other cities. Cluj-Napoca, Iaşi, Timişoara, Brăila, Braşov, Constanţa, Sfântu Gheorghe, Sibiu, Suceava and Târgu-Mureş. The screenings will be held both in cinemas and in an open-air format, according to Romania-Insider.com.As part of the festival, the Young Talents – Feature competition will highlight the new names of French cinema. Five debut features to be screened at the event will compete for the Public’s Choice Award, a EUR 1,000 fellowship offered by the French Institute to the director of the winning film, as well as financial support granted by TV5 Monde to the Romanian distributor who opts to take on the film. This section includes two films selected in the Semaine de la Critique program in Cannes: Vincent Le Port’s ”Bruno Reidal” and Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ”Les Amours d’Anaïs/ Anaïs in Love”.
As always, the festival will screen the recent hits of French cinemas, among them Alain Guiraudie’s ”Viens, je t’emmène/Nobody’s Hero”, which premiered at this year’s Berlinale, and Audrey Diwan’s ”L’événement/ Happening”, the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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