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MyFrenchFilmFestival, the world’s largest online French-language film festival, kicks off today, offering cinephiles, filmmakers and global audiences alike access to 20 French-language shorts and features.

Created by Unifrance 15 years ago, the festival offers a unique platform for French cinema to be enjoyed by viewers from all corners of the globe. The 2025 edition promises to promote creativity, diversity, and thought-provoking storytelling that explores universal and contemporary themes through an eclectic selection of films.

Running Jan. 17 to Feb. 17, MyFrenchFilmFestival’s 15th edition will showcase 20 films, including nine feature films in competition — four of which are debuts — along with nine short films and a special silent animation short designed for younger audiences.

Mfff’s 2025 competition jury is comprised of French-Iranian actor-producer-director Zar Amir; Danish-American actor-director Viggo Mortensen; French actress-director Noémie Merlant; Swedish filmmaker Tarik Saleh; and Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. Their expertise will be counted on to select the winner of this year’s Grand Prix,...

“Kingdom of the Blind,” “Little Trouble Girls” and “Wind, Talk To Me” were among the projects which won prizes at the milestone 15th edition of Les Arcs Film Festival‘s Industry Village.

The event, held in a popular French Alps resort, was attended by more than 700 professionals, including top sales agents, distributors and festival programmers, on top of high profile talent, such as two-time Palme d’Or winning Ruben Ostlund (“Triangle of Sadness”) who was the festival’s guest of honor.

The growing popularity of Les Arcs’s industry sidebar underscores “the resilience of the independent European film market and the continued interest in original stories along with feature debuts,” said Jeremy Zelnik, an indie producer (“Kubrick by Kubrick”) who heads the Industry Village and co-founded the festival with Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, Guillaume Calop and Fabienne Silvestre.

This year, the Coproduction Village and Work in Progress section received a record 680 projects...

Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia and France are all producing the title.

Urska Djukic’s Little Trouble Girls, a co-production between five European countries, is among the winners at the Les Arcs Film Festival Industry Village, which handed out its prizes this evening.

The film took the €10,000 post-production services award in the Work in Progress section. Slovenia’s Spok Film and Nosorogi, Italy’s Staragara I.T., Croatia’s Izazov, Serbia’s Non-Aligned Films and France’s Sister Productions are all producing the film.

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The feature debut of Slovenian director Djukic, Little Trouble Girls...

Swedish director Ruben Östlund has been announced as a guest of honor at the 15th edition of France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, in the role of its Talent Village Ambassador.

The two-time Cannes d’Or winner has a strong connection with the festival’s Alpine setting, having shot his breakthrough 2014 feature Force Majeure in and around the Les Arcs ski resort, and he has also attended the festival as its jury president in 2018.

Previously announced high-profile guests of this year’s edition of Les Arcs, running from December 16 to 23, include Iranian director Asghar Farhadi as president of the jury.

In his role of Talent Village Ambassador, Östlund will meet with eight emerging directors selected for the sixth edition of Les Arcs’ Talent Village and also give a masterclass.

The Talent Village takes place under the auspices of the Les Arcs Industry Village, running from December 16 to 19.

The program has...

Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker will share advice and experiences with up and coming directing talents.

Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Ruben Ostlund will be guest of honour at the sixth Talent Village of France’s Les Arcs Film festival and will mentor this year’s selection of eight first-time feature directors.

Part of the festival’s Industry Village, the four-day development initiative is aimed at helping emerging filmmakers make their feature debuts and will run from December 16-19 in the French Alps mountain town.

The eight directors taking part in the development initiative have made short films that have played...

While handsomely shot, well-cast, and occasionally atmospheric, the latest from Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz qualifies as a watchable disappointment. Inexorable reaches for the somber allure of Claire Denis’ Bastards and instead has the psychological force of a particularly rote ’90s thriller. A shame when all the ingredients are in place for something deeper and more unsettling.

Benoît Poelvoorde, so memorable as the lead in 1992’s Man Bites Dog—streaming on Criterion Channel, still a must-watch—is Marcel Bellmer, a novelist moving into a gob-smackingly large country estate with his wife and young daughter. Said wife is Jeanne (Mélanie Doutey), and the estate was the home of her late father, a noted publisher. The giant mansion goes oddly unexplored in Inexorable, and that is a literal waste of space. We never get a sense of its geography or feel any sense of its hidden corridors.

Into this environment comes Gloria...