MyFrenchFilmFestival 2022

feature films are presented in competition


ALL HANDS ON DECK by Guillaume Brac
CALAMITY by Rémi Chayé

HONEY CIGAR by Kamir Aïnouz
GALLANT INDIES by Philippe Béziat

THE NIGHT DOCTOR by Elie Wajeman
PLAYLIST by Nine Antico

SKIES OF LEBANON by Chloé Mazlo

TEDDY by Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma

THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE by David Dufresne

MADLY IN LIFE by Raphaël Balboni & Ann Sirot



3 feature films are presented out of competition



THE LOVER by Jean-Jacques Annaud
BEYOND THE HORIZON by Delphine Lehericey
NADIA, BUTTERFLY by Pascal Plante



10 short films are presented in competition



HOLD ME TIGHT by Léoluna Robert-Tourneur

HORACIO by Caroline Cherrier

THE DEMONS OF DOROTHY by Alexis Langlois
DUSTIN by Naïla Guiguet
ERRATUM by Giulio Callegari
THE RIGHT WORDS by Adrian Moyse Dullin

LOVE HURTS by Elsa Rysto

MALABAR by Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal

LITTLE BEAR by Nicolas Birkenstock

THE UGLY DUCKLINGS by Anton Balekdjian



3 short films are presented out of competition



OLDSCHOOL by Yasmine Bahechar

MOON by Zoé Pelchat

OMNIBUS by Sam Karmann



Organised for several years in thematic sections mixing shorts and feature films, MyFrenchFilmFestival offers "Internet festivalgoers" the chance to discover the best of French and Francophone cinema: poignant, talented and innovative films, arranged by theme.



For the previously mentioned films, this year's themes are:

· Français & survoltés / French & Furious

· Intrépide jeunesse / Bold Youth

· Identités bouleversées / Troubled Identities

· Cinéma du désir / A Cinema of Desire

· Histoires de nuit / Night Tales

· Voyage, voyage



Finally, the Kids Corner section returns this year to share the love of French cinema with the youngest viewers thanks to silent animated short films for kids made by young filmmakers freshly graduated from the best French animation schools:



ASTRALIUM by Lucie Andouche

MIDO AND THE INSTRUMALS by Roman Guillanton

EYE FOR AN EYE by Thomas Boileau, Alan Guimont, Robin Courtoise, Mathieu Lecroq, Malcolm Hunt & François Briantais

TREASURE by Alexandre Manzanares, Guillaume Cosenza, Philipp Merten & Silvan Moutte-Roulet


Members of the International Jury



The International Jury will meet during the festival to choose the feature film that will win a prize of €15,000 (for the director, producer and the exporter):



michelle couttolenc, Mexican sound engineer and mixing engineer

joachim lafosse, Belgian director and screenwriter

Filippo Meneghetti, Italian director and screenwriter

santiago mitre, Argentinian director, producer and screenwriter

Daphné Patakia, Belgian-Greek actress



The International Press Awards are granted by a jury of foreign journalists.

This year: Carlos Heli De Almeida (film critic for O Globo, Brazil), Jason Salomons (critic for Totally Wired, BBC News, "Seen Any Good Films Lately?", United Kingdom), Alejandra Trelles (journalist for La Diara, Uruguay), Dzevdet Tuzlic (journalist for BHT 1, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Fiona Williams (journalist for SBS Television, Australia) will meet during the festival to vote for their favourite short film and feature film.



Internet users are also invited to vote for their favourite short film and feature film on the festival website.



The Grand Prize of the Jury, the International Press Awards and the Audience Awards will be announced at the end of the festival on 15 February 2021.



Short films will be accessible for free worldwide, while feature films will be available on demand for €1.99 (or €7.99 for a pack).



The festival will be entirely free-of-charge in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Poland, Romania and Russia/CIS.



Web users can find the films of the selection on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, but also on over 70 video-on-demand platforms, which will present the festival internationally, including the Apple TV app (in over 90 territories), Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and MUBI.



MyFrenchFilmFestival is organised by Unifrance, with the precious support of:

The French Government, CNC, Institut Français, TitraFilm, Téléfilm Canada, Wallonie Bruxelles Images, Swiss Films, Le Monde, TV5MONDE, France Médias Monde, FrenchMania, Variety, AlloCiné, AdoroCinema, SensaCine México, SensaCine, FILMSTARTS, El País, Flix.gr, Sopitas, Sin Embargo, Semanario ZETA, Quadro por Quadro, Corre Cámara, Under The Milky Way, Orange.