Angoulême 2025 French -speaking film Festival: Ask the program!

Dominique Besnehard and Marie-France Brière unveiled this morning the main lines of her 18th edition which will take place from August 25 to 30 and of which Diane Krüger will be the president of the jury

There was a crowd this Wednesday at the General Delegation of Quebec (La Belle Province which will be doubly celebrated through a journey through its cinematography in 9 feature films – of Crazy of the late Jean- Marc Vallée to Just the end of the world by Xavier Dolan – and a particular focus, in his presence, on the work of Denys Arcand, the man of Decline of the American Empire) where Dominique Besnehard and Marie-France Brière revealed the programming of the 18th Festival of the Francophone Cinema of Angoulême, the demonstration which launched, with a success which continues to grow over the years, the background cinematographic. And constitutes a decisive launch ramp for the films awarded there, like two cards of the 2024 edition, Twenty gods de Louise Courvoisier (Valois de Diamant) and especiallyHAS bicycle ! by Mathias Mlekuz left with three trophies, including that of the public while finding his distributor)

The richest woman in the world by Thierry Klifa, comedy incisive freely inspired by the Betncourt affair with in particular Laurent Lafitte and Isabelle Huppert will open on Monday 25 June the festivities that will close on the 29th It was better tomorrowthe first feature film by Vinciane Millereau where a couple from the 1950s (Didier Bourdon and Elsa Zylberstein) and their children suddenly found themselves powered in 2024!

Between these two dates, the jury chaired by Diane Krüger will have to decide between 10 films in competition and find the successor to Twenty gods. A race for Valois which promises to be uncertain and therefore exciting in view of the works concerned. We are impatiently waiting to discover in particular Children are doing well by Nathan Ambrosioni who finds Camille Cottin, his heroine of Family tonealongside Juliette Armanet and Monia Chokri. The woman ofthe second feature by David Roux (The order of doctors) to the Chabrolien universe with Mélanie Thierry (Valois for the best actress in 2021 for The real family by Fabien Gorgeart) in wife of a rich industrialist Lorraine suffocating in an existence too much adjusted for her. Furcy, born free From Abd Al Malik, the fight on Reunion Island in 1817 of a slave launched in a legal battle for the recognition of his rights. Or The Amazons gang by Mélissa Drigeard (Everything smiles at us), a story of robberies in the casting of fire: Mallory Wanecque, Laura Felpin, Lyna Khoudri, Izia Higelin and Kenza Fortas

In parallel with the competition, we will be able to discover a retrospective of the films distributed by Apollo since its creation ago 8 years ago (with the first, first, That shines in combatthe remarkable first long made by Joséphine Japy), a forerunner host (including the very moving A place for Pierrot Hélène Médigue with Marie Gillain and Grégory Gadebois or the highly anticipated new feature by Jérôme Bonnell, The condition With Swann Arlaud), master classes (Diane Krüger, Denys Arcand, etc.), photo exhibitions or the projections of the two favorites of the bosses of Angoulême: the magnificent Tell him that I love him by Romane Bohringer for Dominique Besnehard and, for Marie-France Brière, Speedwella documentary by Tom Volf on Véronique Sanson which will be present for the occasion

To find out all of the programming: www.filmfrancophone.fr