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.
1/11
Beauty Boys
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.
3/11
Camille
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.
4/11
Dalia’s World
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.
6/11
Friend of a Friend
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.
9/11
Miss Chazelles
21 minutes
FREE
Thomas Vernay explores the opaque
relationship between two girls bidding to be beauty queen of
Chazelles-sur-Lyon. See film here.
11/11
+1 Orpheus
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.