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IFI French Film Festival 2020

The IFI French Film Festival runs from November 11th to 22nd, exclusively online on IFI@Home. The full festival line-up can be viewed and pre-ordered HERE.
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THE BIG HIT
Étienne (Kad Merad), a passionate, if frequently-out of-work actor, runs a prison theatre workshop where he introduces an unlikely troupe of would-be actors to the challenging work of Samuel Beckett.…
Wednesday 11th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Thursday 12th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: ADOLESCENTS
This new documentary by Sébastien Lifshitz (The Invisibles; Little Girl; Bambi) follows best friends Emma and Anaïs over a five-year period from the time they start secondary school. Both a…
Thursday 12th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Friday 13th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 14th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: RED SOIL
In this gripping thriller that pits the tireless underdog against forces of corporate greed, Nour (Zita Hanrot), an ER nurse, starts a new job in the infirmary at the chemical…
Thursday 12th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Friday 13th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 14th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: LOLA
Just as 18-year-old transgender Lola (Mya Bollaers, in her first role) learns she can finally have surgery, her mother, her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her last wishes,…
Friday 13th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Saturday 14th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: ENORMOUS
This film is F-rated. Famous, self-absorbed pianist Claire Girard (Marina Foïs) is excessively ‘handled’ by husband Frédéric (Jonathan Cohen), who manages her career but also siphons away her choice and…
Saturday 14th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: LOVE AFFAIR(S)
Due to rights restrictions, Love Affair(s) will be available to rent from 16.00 to 22.00 on Saturday 14th. In addition, please note that all viewings must be COMPLETED by Sunday…
Saturday 14th Nov 2020 From 16.00 to 22.00 on IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: NIGHT SHIFT
This film is F-rated. This devastating new drama from stalwart Anne Fontaine portrays 24 hours in the life of a Paris police department, as seen from the different perspectives of…
Saturday 14th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THE WOMAN WHO DARED
The Gauthier family – Pierre, his wife Thérèse, their two children, and Thérèse’s mother – leave the old country garage they have been running for years to settle in a…
Saturday 14th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Sunday 15th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: JOSEP
February 1939. Serge is a gendarme on the French border, when some 500,000 Spaniards seek refuge in France during the Spanish Civil War. Confined in appalling conditions in camps built…
Sunday 15th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: MAMA WEED
Isabelle Huppert is Patience Portefeux, a French-Arabic translator, specialising in wire-taps for the drug squad. Her mother, who lives in a nursing home, is nursed by Khadija, the mother of…
Sunday 15th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: STORMY WATERS
André Laurent (Jean Gabin), captain of a tugboat, is husband to the frail Yvonne, who suffers from a heart complaint. One stormy night, a wedding party is interrupted by an…
Sunday 15th Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Monday 16th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THOSE WHO WORK
Frank (Olivier Gourmet) is consumed with his work chartering cargo ships for major international companies – night and day, he’s on his phone, putting out fires. Faced with a crisis…
Monday 16th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: À L’ABORDAGE
This film is F-rated. A summer’s night along Paris’s quays, and people are dancing. 20-something Félix (Eric Nantchouang) and Alma (Asma Messaoudene) meet, and wake together next morning in a…
Monday 16th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: #IAMHERE
In this charming romantic comedy, Stéphane (Alain Chabat), a divorced chef in his 50s, has taken over his father’s restaurant in the Pays Basque. He lives a quiet, satisfying life…
Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THE NEST
Director Michel Leclerc’s mother and her friends (and legendary mime Marcel Marceau) were amongst 500 World War II orphans and foster kids raised by Yvonne & Roger Hagnauer, aka Goëland…
Tuesday 17th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THALASSO
Director Guillaume Nicloux reunites ultra-mediatised provocateur Michel Houellebecq and larger-than-life Gérard Depardieu at the laboratory-like seawater spa in Cabourg, Normandy where they undertake a strict health regime. Denied his usual…
Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 21st Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THE SQUAD
This film is F-rated. Olympique Lyonnaise is one of the best soccer teams in the world having, since 2011, won a collective 26 national and European titles. And yet, they…
Wednesday 18th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Thursday 19th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 21st Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: A SON
It is summer 2011 in Tunisia, and wealthy couple Fares (Sami Bouajila) and Meriem (Najla Ben Abdallah) are holidaying in the south of the country with their son Aziz. Accidentally…
Thursday 19th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 21st Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: MARGAUX HARTMANN
50-something Margaux (Emmanuelle Béart) returns to her hometown near Versailles to reconnect with her sister Marianne (Eva Ionesco) following the death of her older husband. Having married young and with…
Thursday 19th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Friday 20th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Saturday 21st Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: THE SALT OF TEARS
This film is F-rated. Luc (Logann Antuofermo) is a young, serial lover: first Djemila (Oulaya Amamra), then Geneviève (Louise Chevillotte), and then Betsy (Souheila Yacoub). In parallel, he is seeking…
Friday 20th Nov 2020 From 18.00 on IFI@Home Saturday 21st Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 23rd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: MY DONKEY, MY LOVER AND I
This film is F-rated. School teacher Antoinette Lapouge (a luminous Laure Calamy) is secretly in love with Vladimir (Benjamin Lavernhe), the father of one of her students. Having organised a…
Saturday 21st Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Monday 23rd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 24th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: CALAMITY
This film is F-rated. Winner of the Cristal Award at the 2020 Annecy International Animation Festival, this is a gorgeous family feature from French animator Rémi Chayé (The Secret of…
Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Monday 23rd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 24th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 25th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home
IFI French Film Festival 2020: LOOKING FOR GILLES CARON
This film is F-rated. French photojournalist Gilles Caron disappeared in Cambodia in 1970, aged 30, at the height of a brilliant career, with more than 100,000 photographs to his name.…
Sunday 22nd Nov 2020 From 12.00 on IFI@Home Monday 23rd Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Tuesday 24th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home Wednesday 25th Nov 2020 On IFI@Home