JFF2024

★・・・14th Francophone Film Days・・・★

◘► 14th Francophone Film Days - from February 28th to March 10th in Budapest
◘► Francophone Film Days and Festival – All around in Hungary in March
◘►Official site : https://filmnapok.franciaintezet.hu/fr

Screenings with English and Hungarian subtitles:

Party of Fools | Captives |​ Zártosztály

✱ In Paris in 1894, a young woman voluntarily allowed herself to be locked up in the Salpêtrière hospital in order to look for her mother. A ball is being prepared there. 

◘ 03.03. Sunday, 17:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.08. Friday, 18:00 Francia Intézet

All your faces | Je verrai toujours vos visages | Az arcuk mindig előttem lesz

✱ Victims of violent crime and perpetrators meet up in a restorative justice group in order to have a dialogue and heal from their trauma.

◘ 03.05. Tuesday, 18:00 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.10. Sunday, 19:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

The Animal Kingdom | Le rè​gne animal | Mutánsok

✱ An adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.

◘ 03.01. Friday, 20:00 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.07. Thursday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház 

Four Daughters | Les filles d'Olfa | Négy nővér

✱ Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.

◘ 03.01. Friday, 18:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.08. Friday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

Acid | Acide | Sav

✱ In the middle of a heat wave, an ominous cloud appears and with it, a lethal acid rain. A separated family will have to come together to escape this plague ravaging the world.

◘ 03.02. Saturday, 17:00 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.04. Monday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

Bernadette | Bernadette - A főnökasszony

✱ Bernadette expected to finally get the position she deserved when she arrived to the Elysée Palace because she had always worked behind her husband's back to elect him president. She took revenge by becoming a major media figure.

◘ 03.01. Friday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.08. Friday, 20:30 Francia Intézet

Second Tour | Második forduló

✱ Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

◘ 03.03. Sunday, 19:30 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.09. Saturday, 15:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

All to Play For | Rien à perdre | Mindent egy lapra

✱ Barmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home.

◘ 03.01. Friday, 18:00 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.05. Tuesday, 20:30 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

Salem 

✱ A former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who save his community from an curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.

◘ 03.06. Wednesday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.09 Saturday, 20:00 Francia Intézet

Yannick

✱ In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

◘ 03.06. Wednesday, 18:00 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.08. Friday, 18:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

The Beast | La Bête | Vadállat

✱ The plot is set partly in a near future in which artificial intelligence is in control of everyone's lives and human emotions are perceived as a threat.

◘ 03.02. Saturday, 20:00 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
◘ 03.09. Saturday, 17:00 Francia Intézet

Out of Season | Hors saison | Őszi sanzon

✱ Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small balnearic town. They have a short affair, and then each one follows their own path. To wash his melancholy, Mathieu goes to a thalasso, where by chance founds Alice.

◘ 02.29. Thursday, 20:30 Francia Intézet
◘ 03.02. Saturday, 17:30 Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház

All movies of the Festival are in French with Hungarian subtitles the above liste have double subtitles (English and Hungarian).