The French Film Festival 2025 Is Here
The Alliance Française French Film Festival (AF FFF) has returns for its 2025 season, once again pioneering groundbreaking French cinema.
Now in its 36th year, the largest celebration of French film outside France will arrive in Australia from 4 March – 27 April 2025.
Festival-goers are invited to embark on a unique cultural journey, featuring captivating stories of passion, compelling biopics that delve into the lives of France's most iconic artists, and thought-provoking debuts from a bold new generation of French filmmakers.
The striking 42-film lineup has no shortage of French star power, with icons such as Charlotte Gainsbourg, Call My Agent! favourites Laure Calamy and Camille Cottin, as well as Pierre Niney, Louis Garrel, Vincent Cassel, and many more lighting up the silver screen.
This year’s festival also showcases the exciting rise of a new generation of French talent, with standout performances direct from the Cannes Film Festival.
Don’t miss Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil in Beating Hearts, Abou Sangaré’s outstanding debut in The Story of Souleymane, and Louise Courvoisier as a bold new voice in cinema with Holy Cow.
Hot off the heels of its French box office success, with nearly 2 million tickets sold, Monsieur Aznavour is the AF FFF 2025 Opening Night selection. Golden Globe-nominated actor Tahar Rahim dazzles in the lavishly entertaining rise-to-stardom biography of the man who beat all odds to become one of France’s best-loved entertainers, while personifying French culture to the world. Closing the festival is In the Sub for Love, a buoyant love letter to the screwball romantic comedies of the 1940s. Watch Pio Marmaï and Eye Haïdara star as a stern submarine officer and a carefree steward who dive deep into love and chaos aboard a submarine.
The Festival also features some amazing Australian premieres, like The Count of Monte Cristo, which stormed the French Box office - the first French cinematic treatment of Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of romance and redemption in over fifty years.
Our personal pick? Saint Ex, starring Vincent Cassel and Louis Garrel, which explores the true story of Antoine de Saint-Exupery before he went on to write one of our favourite books as kids; The Little Prince.
Playing across cinemas in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Ballina, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide, and with such an extensive program, there’s almost too much to list! But you can rest assured that between family friendly flicks, love struck romances, classic masterpieces, extraordinary biopics Australian premieres and Cannes favourites, the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival’s full lineup has something for everyone.
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