Running online until 15 February, MyFrenchFilmFestival 2021 is offering award-winning features, contemporary drama and the odd Cocteau classic. Longer works can be viewed for 650 forints each, ten films for 1,500 forints, while 20 animated and shorter pieces can be seen for free. Films are in French but all have English subtitles – a couple of child-friendly animations have no dialogue. See www.MyFrenchFilmFestival.com for details.

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Beauty Boys
1/11
18 minutes
FREE
In this short tale by Florent Gouëlou, young friends in a
small village cross the line about cross-dressing – until a communal night of
open theatre with everyone watching. See
film here.

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Blue Fear
2/11
10
minutes
FREE
A dark
night in the hills of Provence, a woman afraid, and a strange
sisterhood, all in this animation created by Marie Jacotey. Disturbing scenes
feature. See film here.

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Camille
3/11
90 minutes
650 HUF
The Camille in question is a photojournalist covering an
impending civil war in the Central African Republic. While she records events,
her idealistic outlook is significantly challenged. Boris Lojkine’s feature won
the Prix du Public at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019. See film here.

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Dalia’s World
4/11
3 minutes
FREE
An animated short for kids and a tale of discovery by
Javier Navarro Avilés involving Little Dalia, who loses herself in the exotic
splendour of her father’s tropical greenhouse. See film here.

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Felicità
5/11
82
minutes
650 HUF
Tommy’s wacky
parents take her on a bizarre road trip on the promise that their daughter
won’t miss her first day at school – but Dad’s just left jail and Mum’s got something
going on with an astronaut. By Bruno Merle. See
film here.

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Friend of a Friend
6/11
13 minutes
FREE
In this dream-like vision by Zachary Zezima, serious
topics are portrayed such as abuse, revenge and forgiveness, all in a riot of bright
colours. See film here.

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Just Kids
7/11
104 minutes
650 HUF
Both a road movie and a coming-of-age saga, Christophe
Blanc’s feature focuses on three teenagers trying to find their way without
their recently deceased parents. When in doubt, zoom down to the south of
France! See film here.

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Madame
8/11
94 minutes
650 HUF
Granny’s deepest secrets are revealed to her grandson, an
intimate and human portrait of a colourful lady approaching the end of her life in this
Swiss feature by Stéphane Riethauser. See
film here.

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Miss Chazelles
9/11
21 minutes
FREE
Thomas Vernay explores the opaque
relationship between two girls bidding to be beauty queen of
Chazelles-sur-Lyon. See film here.

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o28
10/11
5 minutes
No dialogue
Lisbon’s vertiginous tram 28 takes a turn for the weird as
a German couple try to save their baby from flying out over Lisbon. A short
animation by Otalia Caussé. See film here.

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+1 Orpheus
11/11
95 minutes
650 HUF
A black-and-white classic by poet,
playwright and visual artist Jean Cocteau, fusing Ancient Greek legend with chic
Paris in the years immediately after World War II. Starring Cocteau’s long-term
muse and lover, Jean Marais. See film
here.