– New on Digital – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:34:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:31:40 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21113

SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

| 2024 – 150′ – A France/Belgium/Netherlands co-production – Documentary, Music & Dance,
Written by: Johan Grimonprez.
Directed by: Johan Grimonprez.
Starring: Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba,
Nina Simone, Malcolm X.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024. Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film 2025.
In English, in French, Dutch & Russian with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber release. |

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo’s leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today’s geopolitical climate.

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CULTE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/culte/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/culte/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:07:57 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=21108

CULTE

| 2024 – 6×52′ – Season 1 – Series – Drama.
Created by:  Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka.
Written by:  Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka, Marina Rollman, Jean-Alain Laban .
Directed by: Louis Farge
Starring:  Marie Colomb, Anaïde Rozam, César Domboy, Sami Outalbali,  Nicolas Briançon, Jacqueline Corado, Lila Guennas, David Marsais.
In French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime Original release. |

 

In 2001, Isabelle, Raphaël, Karim, and their teams had less than four months to get a new show on the air: Loft Story, a French remake of the Big Brother format. In France, they are the first ones to produce a ‘reality TV’ show and have to invent everything from scratch. Culte is a fictional series inspired by real events.

 

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CASSANDRE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/cassandre/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/cassandre/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:38:34 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20930

CASSANDRE

| 2015 – 16 x 90′ – Season 1~4 – Series – Crime, Drama, Mystery.
Created by: Bruno Lecigne, Mathieu Masmondet.
Written by: Fred Monard, Thomas Evanno, Alysse Hallali, Thibault Martin, Marie-Cécile Françon.
Directed by: Floriane Crépin, Eric Le Roux.
Starring: Gwendoline Hamon, Alexandre Varga, Dominique Pinon, Jessy Salomée Ugolin, Emmanuelle Bougerol, Sören Prévost, Vincent Jouan, Yann Sundberg.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

 

Parisian cop Florence Cassandre (Gwendoline Hamon, Perfect Murders, Murder In…) moves to Annecy and takes a new job investigating crimes in the stunningly beautiful Haute-Savoie region near the Swiss border. As a city girl, she’ll have to adapt to a team that isn’t expecting her and to a world where neighbors have known each other for generations. Yet the countryside is far from quiet, and it turns out the crimes committed in Annecy and the surrounding region are no less intriguing and complex than those in the big city. The cast also includes Alexandre Varga (who played Mathieu in Alice Nevers and Raphael in Pacific Criminal), Dominique Pinon (Amélie, The Island of 30 Coffins) and Jessy Salomée Ugolin (Storm Warning, Love and Trouble in Paris).

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AD VITAM https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/ad-vitam/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/ad-vitam/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:20:27 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20560

AD VITAM

| 2025 – 90′ – Action, Thriller, Drama.
Written by: Guillaume Canet, Rodolphe Lauga, David Corona.
Directed by: Rodolphe Lauga.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes, Zita Hanrot, Alexis Manenti, Johan Heldenbergh, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, Jamel Blissat.
In English or French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

After escaping an attempted murder, Franck Lazareff must find his wife Leo, who has been kidnapped by a mysterious group of armed men. He is caught up by his past and plunged into a state affair that is beyond him.

 

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SHAFTED https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/shafted/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/shafted/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:16:58 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20557

SHAFTED

| 2025 – 6 x 52′ – Season 1 – Series,  Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy.
Written by: Noémie Saglio, Estelle Koening, Julien Teisseire.
Directed by: Noémie Saglio, Olivier Rosemberg.
Starring: Manu Payet, Guillaume Labbé, Vincent Heneine, Antoine Gouy, Ariane Mourier, Mélanie Bernier, Olga Kurylenko.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

An outrageous comedy about four friends Cédric, Tom, Jérémie and Tonio, whose romantic and professional lives are turned upside down by the women in their lives.

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TOUTOUYOUTOU https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/toutouyoutou/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/toutouyoutou/#comments Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:17:27 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20546

TOUTOUYOUTOU

| 2024 – 22′ x 10 – Season 1 – Series, Comedy, Period & History.
Written by: Maxime Donzel, Géraldine de Margerie, Benjamin Adam, Julien Patry.
Directed by: Julien Patry.
Starring: Claire Dumas, Alexia Barlier, Sophie Cattani, Jérôme Pouly, Apollonia Louisetti, Souad Arsane.
Official Competition TAFFF 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |


The deliciously upbeat Toutouyoutou brings together a delightful concoction of disco music, female empowerment… and spies! The feel-good series swoops us back to the early ’80s, when the French aeronautics industry was just getting off the ground. A buff American Jane-Fonda type (who’s actually named Jane) moves into a sleepy Toulouse suburb and turns the community upside down by introducing a handful of local women to aerobics.  First and foremost among them is her clever next-door neighbor, Karine, the frustrated wife of a local aeronautics engineer. Jane’s aerobics class is soon the talk of the town, changing attitudes and knitting together a sense of mutual support and female bonding. There may be more to the beguiling American than originally meets the eye… but the lives of all these women will never be the same again.

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TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED  https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/tour-de-france-unchained/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/tour-de-france-unchained/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:05:51 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20177

SEASON 1 & 2 NOW PLAYING ON NETFLIX. SEASON 3 COMING SOON IN 2025.

TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED

| 2023~2025 – 22 x 45′ -Seasons 1,2 & 3 – Series – Documentary, Sport.
Directed by: Yann L’Hénoret, Jamy Batten, Roeland Doust.
Starring: Alec Newman, Julian Alaphilippe, Fabio Jakobson, Christian Prudhomme, Steve Chainel.
Official Selection: International Emmy Awards 2024.
In English and in French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

Tour de France: Unchained closely follows all the Tour’s actors, from riders to team managers, to understand the multiple stakes of a race that has become a true international symbol, broadcasted in 190 countries. The backstages of the most iconic teams and riders will be unveiled, from the preparation phase to the finish line.

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GTMAX https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/gtmax/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/gtmax/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:26:18 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20103

GTMAX

| 2024 – 100′ –  Drama, Action, Sport.
Written by: Jean-André Yerles, Rachid Santaki, Jordan Pavlik, Rémi Leautier, Olivier Schneider.
Directed by: Olivier Schneider.
Starring: Ava Baya, Jalil Lespert, Jérémie Laheurte, Thibault Evrard, Riadh Belaïche, Samir Decazza, Gérard Lanvin, Clémentine Célarié.
In English and in French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

When a notorious gang of bikers recruits her brother for a heist, a former motocross champion must face her deepest fears to keep her family safe.

 

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ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/endless-summer-syndrome/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/endless-summer-syndrome/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:49:01 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20083 ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME

| 2024 – 98′ – Drama.
A France-Czech Republic Coproduction.
Written by: Kaveh Daneshmand, Laurine Bauby, Gem Deger.
Directed by: Kaveh Daneshmand.
Starring: Sophie Colon, Mathéo Capelli, Gem Deger, Frédérika Milano, Roland Plantin.
In French with English subtitles.
An Altered Innocence release. |


A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband’s colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children. Before leaping to conclusions she decides to quietly observe her family for a shred of evidence; anything to subside her fear and erase doubt. After the truth presents itself in an unexpected, shocking manner, Delphine chooses to look past the blame for a permanent solution. This boundary pushing debut feature by Kaveh Daneshmand paints an intimate portrait of an upper-class French family with sly black humor and sensuality aplenty.

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SURVIVE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/survive-2/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/survive-2/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:48:44 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20052

SURVIVE

| 2025 – 90′  – Horror, Adventure, Fantasy, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Matt Alexander.
Directed by: Frédéric Jardin.
Starring: Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Arben Bajraktaraj, Olivier Ho Hio Hen, Simon Rérolle.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Samuel Goldwyn Films release. |

Since its formation, the Earth has experienced five mass extinctions. The sixth is just beginning… when Julia, Tom and their two kids celebrate their son’s 13th birthday on a boat in the middle of the ocean. In the midst of the festivities, a brutal storm rises, nearly capsizing the boat. The family awakens to find itself on a ravaged desert landscape. It seems the Earth has undergone an inconceivable reversal of its magnetic poles, literally draining water from the oceans. Danger lurks everywhere in this post-apocalyptic world, where crazed humans and hungry creatures from the abyss forage for human flesh, and a family must fight for its survival. Because when the poles reverse again, it will be too late.

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