French Film Festival 2020

The Centre de recherches francophones belges are supporting a number of online screenings as part of this year's 28th edition of the French Film Festival UK (FFF). The FFF programmers (in collaboration with Festival Scope) have curated a selection of feature films and shorts for you to enjoy and appreciate in the surroundings of your own home under the banner, FFF@Home. 

The festival will be hosted online from Friday 27th November to Friday 4th December inclusive. 

Tickets go on sale on 13 November - full information can be found on the Festival website.

A Sister /Une Soeur

30 Nov 19:30

'A night. A car. A woman in trouble. A call. Oscar nomination for best live action short film.'

Director: Delphine Girard

Our Territory/Notre Territoire

30 Nov 19:30

'When I got to Rignano, the shanty town residents said, "You mustn't keep any trace of our lives here in these makeshift houses. This despair is not yours to display." Winner, Grand Prix, Festival International Signes de Nuit.'

Director: Mathieu Volpe

Each film will be available for 24 hours from the start time indicated.

The French Film Festival has also teamed up with illustration students at Edinburgh College of Art, who were asked to produce a film poster for a selection of 28 MFF one-minute shorts. Each poster will be entered in an Audience Prize draw and three outstanding posters will also be selected by a jury comprised of Bruno Smadja (founder of the Mobile Film Festival), a member of Friends of the Earth and Laurence Païs, Consul General of France in Edinburgh and Glasgow and Director of the Institut français d’Ecosse. Winners will be announced on 25th November.

About the festival 

The French Film Festival UK which was founded in 1992 in Edinburgh and Glasgow and now spans most of the UK from Oban to Plymouth with usually more than 35 different venues, has a pedigree of almost three decades in bringing the best of Francophone cinema to audiences.

The traditional dates of the annual Festival are between the start of November until mid-December with a programme of contemporary and classic films as well as documentaries, animation and shorts. All films are in French with English subtitles. In normal times a range of guests from directors to actors, musicians and other cinema professionals would accompany their films but this year guests have agreed to make virtual appearances. 

About the Centre de recherches francophones belges

The Centre de recherches francophones belges was created in 1995 in the Division of European Languages, and aims to promote the field of francophone Belgian studies in the UK.