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Are you ready, Community Member?
We are proud to celebrate the 30th edition of the Alliance Française French Film Festival as it comes to Adelaide, starting
Thursday, 21 March! Get the most out of the Festival with 54
films on offer
and 317
screenings over two cinemas, Palace Nova Eastend and Prospect. And if
that's not enough, you can even enter our special French Film
Festival competition with 5 fantastique prizes to
win!
Let us know on Facebook
and Instagram what films you've seen
and loved
during the Festival, using the hashtags: #af_fff_aus and #afadelaide. We hope you'll enjoy this year's Festival, here are just
some of the amazing films in the 2019 line-up!
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The Trouble With You
(En liberté!)
Thursday 21 March
Palace Nova Eastend
6:30pm Reception
7pm Screening & Opening Night Party
Let's kick-start our 30th Anniversary together with this romantic action comedy directed by talented French filmmaker, Pierre Salvadori.
Enjoy a glass of wine, food and music!
Tickets and information
here
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Raising
Colours
(Volontaire)
Tuesday 26 March
Palace Nova Eastend
6:15pm Reception
7pm
Screening
Come and celebrate Brittany with this powerful movie filmed in one of the most beautiful regions of France. Enjoy a delicacy from Brittany
and a cider on arrival.
Tickets and information here
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Sink or Swim
(Le grand bain)
Thursday 4 April
Palace Nova Eastend
6:15pm Reception
7pm Screening
Dive into this refreshing comedy, which has been making waves as French cinema's biggest hit of the year with its superstar cast of
French screen legends. Enjoy it with a glass of wine and a cheese tasting!
Tickets
and information here
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The Fall
of the American Empire
(La chute de l'empire américain)
Thursday 11 April
Palace Nova Eastend
6:15pm Reception
7pm Screening
Join us for this witty and sardonic thriller that looks deep into Québec society, with finger food and drink provided for you to
enjoy. This special night is supported by the High Commission of
Canada in Australia.
Tickets and information here
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Kiss & Tell
(Voyez comme on danse)
Thursday 18 April
Palace Nova Eastend
6:30pm Reception
7pm Screening
All good things must come to an end - so
join us for the last screening of the Festival with finger food, a glass of wine, and this intergenerational family comedy, starring some of
the all-time greats of French cinema.
Tickets and information here
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The Sisters Brothers
(Les frères sisters)
Set in gold rush California of the 1850s, Eli and Charlie Sisters (John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix) are notorious, cold-blooded
assassins hired by an Oregon City crime
boss, The Commodore, to settle a score.
Winner: Best Director
(Jacques Audiard)
Tickets and info here
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Guy
(Guy)
While sorting through his recently deceased mother’s belongings, Gauthier discovers that he is the product of an affair between his mother
and Guy Jamet, an ex-music-mega-star who is now derided in today's media.
Winner: Best Actor
(Alex Lutz)
Tickets and info here
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Memoir of War
(La douleur)
Marguerite Duras remembers her past in the Resistance during Nazi-occupied France with her husband, Robert Antelme. She throws herself
desperately into securing his return, after the Gestapo deports her husband.
Nominated: Best Film,
Best Director, Best Actress
Tickets and info here
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Juliette Binoche
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Pierre Niney
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Miou-Miou
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Who You Think I Am
(Celle que vous croyez)
Binoche plays Claire, a university lecturer and
mother of two teenage boys, who is contending with the approach of middle age and worries of
her lover's infidelity. She impulsively creates a fake Facebook profile so she cankeep an eye on him: she’s ‘Clara’, vivacious, blonde...
and 24 years old.
Tickets and info here
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Through the Fire
(Sauver ou périr)
Franck is a firefighter beyond reproach. His commitment to his job and motto “to save or perish” is mirrored in the
loving relationship he
shares with his wife, Cécile and their children. His greatest test comes when, in the line of duty, Franck gets horribly burned, his
survival being nothing less than a miracle.
Tickets and info here
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Dumped
(Larguées)
Two siblings, Rose and Alice. who don’t often see eye-to-eye, agree that their mother, Françoise (Miou-Miou) needs some urgent cheering up
after being dumped by their father for a younger woman. To celebrate Françoise
60th birthday, the sisters take her to the beautiful
tropical island of La Réunion.
Tickets and info here
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Non-Fiction
(Doubles vies)
Selena is caught in a personal rut as a policewoman on a popular TV show. Her lover is author Léonard whose publisher and long-time
friend just happens to be her husband, Alain. Their professional and
personal conflicts reach boiling point when Alain refuses to publish
Léonard’s new work, while Selena is convinced it’s a masterpiece.
Tickets and info here
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Promise
at Dawn
(La promesse de l'aube)
Romain Gary gives a ‘fictionalised’ telling of his early life, attributing his success to his endearing yet eccentric mother who
simultaneously burdened him with her boundless maternal love. Twists and turns are abound from Gary's difficult childhood in Poland and a
sun-drenched
adolescence in Nice, through to piloting adventures in Africa.
Tickets and info here
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In Safe Hands
(Pupille)
When baby Theo’s birth mother surrenders him to adoption, child protection services, and officers such as Karine, are called to action, and
the harsh realities of the adoption process are pulled into sharp focus, exposing the conflicting conundrums faced by many women – those
giving up their babies and those desperate to have their own.
Tickets and info here
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Genesis
(Genèse)
[Canada]
Two storylines are intertwined as half-siblings Charlotte and Guillaume explore first love with different stages of experience. Genesis captures the singularity of first love while incorporating a healthy current of humour.
Tickets and info here
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Keep Going
(Continuer)
[Kyrgyzstan]
Having reached a stalemate in their relationship, Sybille has persuaded her adult son Samuel to join her on a trek in the hope of
establishing a
new rapport as they undertake a cross-country odyssey through Kyrgyzstan.
Tickets and info here
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Girls of the Sun
(Les filles du soleil)
[Kurdistan]
Lawyer-turned-freedom fighter Baha prepares to liberate her Kurdistan village and free her son taken hostage by extremists. French
journalist Mathilde, arrives to cover the story of Baha and her Kurdish army.
Tickets and info
here
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Astérix:
The Secret of the Magic Potion
(Astérix, le secret de la potion magique)
This latest big-screen adventure sees Astérix, Obélix and a cast of old favourites go on the hunt for a talented druid to entrust a secret
recipe.
Tickets and info here
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Dilili in Paris
(Dilili à Paris)
Dilili, a stowaway from the Pacific island of New Caledonia, takes it upon herself to get to the bottom of a series of
kidnappings, in this
exquisite journey that will bring you back to Belle Époque Paris.
Tickets and info here
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Remi, Nobody's Boy
(Rémi sans famille)
Remi, a young orphan raised by a peasant woman, Mrs Barberin, is snatched away at the age of 10 and entrusted into the care of an
eccentric, wandering musician, Vitalis, as they they criss-cross France of a bygone era.
Tickets and info
here
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Sorry Angel
(Plaire, aimer et courir vite)
An intimate chronicle of a romance and a portrait of life in early 1990s
France, Sorry Angel follows the intertwining journeys of
Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to find
himself, and thrive.
Tickets and info here
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Girl
(Girl)
Lara
is an adolescent transgender girl from Belgium with a passion to become a professional ballerina. She commences her journey into gender
reassignment with the support of her family, but her teenage impatience and the immense pressures of ballet push Lara to the
brink.
Tickets and info here
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Knife+Heart
(Un couteau dans le cœur)
Shunned by Loïs, her girlfriend and editor, in 1979 Paris, Anne is driven to regain Loïs’ love by shooting her most ambitious film yet.
However, when one of the actors is brutally murdered, she finds herself caught up in a very strange and twisted investigation.
Tickets and info here
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Members of the Alliance
Française d'Adélaïde are entitled
to 25% off General Admission Adult tickets (saving $5.50)
as well as $5 off tickets for our Special events!
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To purchase your Alliance Française Membership, visit our Members page. Two
discount tickets per membership card per session will apply. Proof of concession/membership
must
be presented at the cinema box office to obtain discount. See all ticketing information for
our French Film Festival films, visit the French Film Festival website.
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