From January 15th to February 15th the online film festival MyFrenchFilmFestival will take place for the eleventh time – this time with a total of 13 feature films and 17 short films. We present an overview of the films in the feature-length film competition.
The cinemas will remain closed for the time being. But the MyFrenchFilmFestival, which traditionally takes place online, will also offer you in 2021 a selection of the most fascinating films that French cinema currently has to offer.
Once again FILMSTARTS.de is one of the media partners of the festival, which has counted more than 54 million views of the films on offer in its ten editions to date.
While feature films cost 1.99 euros per piece (or 7.99 euros for all of them), the short films can be viewed free of charge worldwide. Here you can browse through the program and watch the films:
» MyFrenchFilmFestival
There is a competition program for each of the 13 feature-length films and 17 short films – with not only an international jury of filmmakers and a selection of film critics awarding their prizes. There is also a prize that is awarded by the audience. So you can not only watch the films – you can also influence which of the entries will be awarded at the end of the festival.
But before we introduce you to the ten films in the main feature-length film competition, here is the festival trailer for you:
The 10 feature films in the competition
“You deserve a lover” by Hafsia Herzi: Lila loves her boyfriend Rémi more than anything. But after he has cheated on, he also announces to Lila that he wants to travel to Bolivia alone to find himself again there. Although he realizes that he wants to continue the relationship with Lila, Lila has found solace in other ways in the meantime …
»Here you can watch” You Deserve a Lover “
“Youth” by Sébastien Lifshitz: In the documentary version of “Boyhood” the director accompanied his two protagonists from the age of 14 until they came of age. It’s five years that tell a universal story of growing up …
»Here you can watch” Youth “
“Enorm” by Sophie Letourneur: The 40-year-old Frédéric desperately wants a baby – and impregnates Claire without her consent. The thoroughly original film is not a serious drama, but a burlesque-evil, playful-caustic farce – contradictions that only French cinema can bring together in this form …
»Here you can watch” Enorm “
“Happiness” von Bruno Merle: A poetic-surreal road movie on the last day of the summer vacation in which daughter Tommy disappears without a trace, but a cosmonaut ends up in the middle of the story. Absurd feel-good cinema with sunshine guarantee …
»Here you can see” Felicità “
“Children only” by Christophe Blanc: Three young people, 10, 17 and 19 years old, suddenly become orphans. Each of them deals with the situation differently – until they all recognize together that they have to use the energy of their youth and not lapse further into stasis. A sad, but above all hopeful film …
»Here you can watch” Children Only “
“The liquid mirror” by Stéphane Batut: A poetic fairy tale in which a ghost wanders the streets of Paris to help the souls of the dead set out on their way to the afterlife. But then he meets Agatha, a woman from his previous life. How can that go well when he is a ghost and she is a person?
»Here you can see” The Liquid Mirror “
“Joy girls” by Frédéric Fonteyne & Anne Paulicevich: The story of three women who cross the border from France to Belgium together every day in order to earn their living as sex workers. “Freudenmädchen” is not a classic problem film, but a combative, feminist drama …
»Here you can see” Joy Girls “
“Camille” by Boris Lojkine: The sensitive portrait of a young photographer who sets out for Central Africa full of ideals and hopes to report on an impending civil war …
»You can watch” Camille “here
“Heroes Don’t Die” by Aude Léa Rapin: Ever since an unknown man mistook him for a dead soldier on the street, Joachim has not shaken off the idea that he himself could be the reincarnation of the dead person – he was born on the very day the soldier was killed in action in Sarajevo Life has come …
»Here you can watch” Heroes Don’t Die “
“Josep” from Aurel: In his feature film debut, the comic artist Aurel tells the true story of the artist Josep Bartoli, who ended up in a reception camp in 1939 as an anti-Frankist who fled from Spain to France. Through the barbed wire, he made an unusual friendship with a French police officer …
»Here you can watch” Josep “
You can find more information about the festival as well as the full program of the current edition on the official homepage, on Facebook and on Instagram.
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