IFI French Film Festival 2018

The IFI French Film Festival runs from November 14th to 25th 2018.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: REAL LOVE
When Mario (Bouli Lanners) and Armelle separate, the family unit is thrown into disarray. Mario stays at the family home trying to cope with his two teen daughters, Niki (Sarah…
Wednesday 14th Nov 2018 20.00 Sunday 25th Nov 2018 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SINK OR SWIM
Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), an unemployed family man in midlife crisis, joins an amateur male synchronised swimming team in this heart-warming comedy. Bertrand is not the only one in crisis, and…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 20.40 Saturday 24th Nov 2018 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOFIA
20-year-old Sofia (Maha Alemi) is from a traditional middle-class Moroccan family living in Casablanca. When she finds herself pregnant she seeks the advice of her more open-minded medical student cousin…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 16.15 Friday 16th Nov 2018 18.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SORRY ANGEL
Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps, Stranger by the Lake), a middle-aged, HIV-positive Parisian writer who has a young son to raise, and bisexual Arthur (Vincent Lacoste), a university student and aspiring filmmaker…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 18.00 Saturday 17th Nov 2018 20.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PRAYER
The screening on Friday 16th will be followed by a Q&A with Cédric Kahn. 22-year-old Thomas (newcomer Anthony Bajon) joins a community of reformed drug addicts living in mountain isolation, dedicating…
Friday 16th Nov 2018 20.20 Saturday 24th Nov 2018 15.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: OUR STRUGGLES
Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Laetitia Dosch (Jeune femme) star in Guillaume Senez’s latest offering which, like his previous film Keeper, explores the topic of fatherhood.…
Friday 16th Nov 2018 16.40 Wednesday 21st Nov 2018 20.45
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CÉDRIC KAHN MASTERCLASS
We are delighted to welcome screenwriter, director and actor Cédric Kahn to this year’s Festival where he will take part in a masterclass on Saturday 17th at 13.00. Kahn is the…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: THE RAVEN
In German-occupied France, the populace of a provincial town are plagued by a series of anonymous poison-pen letters signed by ‘The Raven’; and fear soon leads to paranoia, accusations and…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ROBERTO SUCCO
This screening will be introduced by Cédric Kahn. He will also take part in a Masterclass on November 17th.  In 1986 Roberto Succo escapes from an Italian psychiatric institution where…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 15.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCHOOL’S OUT
When the teacher of an elite class of intellectually advanced children commits suicide by leaping from a top floor classroom window in front of his students, six pupils look on…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AT WAR
The sudden closure of a profitable automobile parts factory in the French city of Agen causes the loss of 1,100 jobs. An ensuing protest led by union rep Laurent (Vincent…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 15.30 Monday 19th Nov 2018 20.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: THE WAGES OF FEAR
Trapped in a remote South America town, four men are hired to drive two trucks loaded with nitro-glycerine explosives across 300 miles of treacherous roads to a blazing oil well.…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: PLACE PUBLIQUE
Director, writer and star Agnès Jaoui (I Got Life! and last year’s Festival guest of honour) reunites with her regular collaborator Jean-Pierre Bacri for this droll comedy of manners set over…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 20.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 16.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AMIN
Migrant labourer Amin (Moustapha Mbengue) has come to France to provide for his wife and three children who have remained back home in Senegal. Having lived in Paris for nine…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 18.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE TROUBLE WITH YOU
Detective Yvonne (Adèle Haenel), widow of French Riviera police chief and local hero Santi, learns that her beloved husband was corrupt. Trying to right his wrongs she crosses paths with…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 16.00 Friday 23rd Nov 2018 18.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LITTLE TICKLES
The screening on Thursday 22nd will be followed by a Q&A with co-directors Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer. An adaptation of her award-winning, autobiographical one-woman play, this powerful film explores the…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 13.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 20.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION
‘Movies lie, not sports’ declares Jean-Luc Godard in a 2001 interview for L’Équipe. In the early 1980s Gil de Kermadec filmed tennis players at the French Open, John McEnroe amongst…
Monday 19th Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: YOUNG AND ALIVE
Paris, fifty years on from May '68: In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, the Nuit Debout movement, and the May 2017 presidential elections, Matthieu Bareyre’s documentary is a…
Tuesday 20th Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: KNIFE+HEART
Set in the lurid underworld of the gay porn industry in late 1970’s Paris, Yann Gonzalez’s vividly realised, high-camp murder mystery thriller is a playfully cine-literate ode to Italian Giallo…
Tuesday 20th Nov 2018 20.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MEMOIR OF WAR
Nazi-occupied France 1944: Marguerite (Mélanie Thierry) fights with the Resistance alongside her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported to Dachau, she befriends French collaborator Rabier (Benoît Magimel) to gain…
Wednesday 21st Nov 2018 18.10 Friday 23rd Nov 2018 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SAUVAGE
22-year-old Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a rent boy on the streets of Strasbourg; an enigmatic figure, he is by turns a streetwise hustler and a lonely boy lost, craving non-transactional…
Friday 23rd Nov 2018 20.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: LES DIABOLIQUES
Based on the novel by Boileau and Narcejac (She Who Was No More) this is Clouzot’s most famous, most enduring film. Set in a boarding school for boys, a sadistic…
Saturday 24th Nov 2018 13.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: I FEEL GOOD
Jean Dujardin (Oscar-winning star of The Artist) is Jacques, a ‘good-for-nothing loser businessman’, estranged brother of big-hearted Monique (Yolande Moreau), a model of comradeship and solidarity, who runs an Emmaüs…
Saturday 24th Nov 2018 20.30
IFI FAMILY: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The hugely successful French family film trilogy, adapted from the much-loved novel by Cécile Aubry, features young Sebastian and his rescued dog, the Great Pyrenean, Belle. Having won many hearts…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
On the 50th anniversary of May 1968, a period of civil unrest punctuated by demonstrations and general strikes, we are delighted to screen the complete three-hour version of A Grin…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 12.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this invaluable document allows us to watch Picasso at work, and explore his methods and inspiration. Picasso paints on…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 13.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: GIRL
A gender non-conforming teenager prepare for imminent sex reassignment surgery whilst having to prove her credentials at a prestigious dance company in Lukas Dhont’s strikingly assured debut feature, which resonates…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MAYA
32-year-old war photographer Gabriel (Roman Kolinka) returns to Paris having been held hostage for four months in Syria. Suffering the effects of PTSD and struggling to readjust and connect with…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 20.10