Sport – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:17:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 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

| 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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THE CAGE

| 2024 – 5 x 52′ –  Season 1 – Series – Drama, Action, Sport.
Created by: Franck Gastambide.
Written by: Sylvain Caron, Nicolas Laquerrière, Alain Moreau, Elsa Vasseur.
Directed by: Franck Gastambide, David Krespine.
Starring: Franck Gastambide, Melvine Boomer, Bosh, Edwige Ahonto, Georges Saint-Pierre, Cyril Gane, Salahdine Parnasse, Morgan Charrière.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

A new original action Series produced by Netflix France and taking place in the MMA world. 

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JAPPELOUP

| 1995 – 135′ – Drama, Adventures, Biopic.
Written by: Guillaume Canet.
Based on the Book by: Karine Devilder.
Directed by: Christian Dugay.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Marina Hands, Daniel Auteuil, Lou de Laâge, Tchéky Karyo, Marie Bunel, Joel Dupuch, Donald Sutherland, Jacques Higelin.
Official Competition COLCOA 2013.
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

In the early 1980s, abandoning a promising career as a lawyer, Pierre Durand (Guillaume Canet) devotes himself, body and soul, to his passion: show jumping. Supported by his father, he invests everything in a young horse called Jappeloup, even though no one else Pierre has made a good choice. Too small, too temperamental, and too unpredictable, the horse has many flaws but also has remarkable poise and abilities. From competition to competition, horse and rider progress and impose themselves in the horse-riding world. But the Olympic Games in Los Angeles are a terrible failure and Pierre becomes aware of his weaknesses. With help from Nadia, his wife, and Raphaëlle, Jappeloup’s groom, Pierre wins the horse’s trust and builds a relationship which will lead them both to the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988.

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FAIR PLAY

| 2007 – 105′ – Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure.
Written by: Lionel Bailliu.
Directed by: Lionel Bailliu.
Starring: Benoît Magimel, Academy Award-winning Marion Cotillard, Jérémie Renier, Mélanie Doutey, Eric Savin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Malcom Conrath. 
Official Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2006 (winner Young Director’s Prize), Seattle International Film Festival 2007.
Official Competition COLCOA 2007.
In French with English subtitles.
An Under The Milky Way release. |

A compulsively domineering boss, a hell-bent careerist of a new recruit, a calculating and Machiavellian executive, and an employee who’s too much of a victim to be honest settle their scores on the sports field. Sweat mixes with underhand maneuvers, sportsmanlike domination turns into harassment, and physical stamina becomes a protection against dismissal…Rowing, squash, fitness trail, golf, canyoning, the nest of vipers continues to vent its venom until masks and men fall.

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THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

| 2003 – 82′ – Animation, Comedy.
Written by:ylvain Chomet.
Directed by: Sylvain Chomet.
Starring: Michel Robin, Jean-Claude Donda, Monica Viegas. 
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2003. Toronto International Film Festival. Three César Awards Nomination including Best Film. Winner Cesar Award Best Music. Nominated for Best Animated Feature, Academy Awards 2004.
In French with English subtitles. Rated PG-13.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

 

This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey to find Champion, and stumbles across unlikely allies in the form of three sisters who are veterans of the vaudeville stage. Tracking down Champion’s criminal captors, the quartet of old women use their wits to try and win the day.

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THE MOUNTAIN

| 2023 – 113′ – Drama
Written by: Thomas Salvador, Naïla Guiguet.
Directed by: Thomas Salvador.
Starring: Thomas Salvador, Louise Bourgoin, Martine Chevallier.
Official Competition Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing release. |

 

Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains…

 

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UNDER PARIS

| 2024 – 90′ – Horror, Thriller.
Written by: Xavier Gens.
Directed by: Xavier Gens.
Starring: Academy Award Nominee Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Léa Lévia, Iñaki Lartigue, Léa Lévian.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

 

Summer 2024. For the first time Triathlon World Championships take place in Paris. Sofia, a brilliant scientist, comes to know that a large shark is swimming deep in the Seine river.

 

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THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS

| 2021 –  95′  – ANIMATION, DRAMA
Written by: Jean-Charles Ostorero, Patrick Imbert, Magali Pouzol.
Directed by: Patrick Imbert.
Voices: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, François Dunoyer, Philippe Vincent, Luc Bernard, Marc Arnaud, Jerome Keen.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 2021.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021: Winner American Students Award.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

Were George Mallory and Andrew Irvine the first men to scale Mount Everest in 1924? That innocent question, challenging recorded mountaineering history, launches a young Japanese photo-journalist on his own philosophical path of discovery in Patrick Imbert’s elegantly animated adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi’s and Baku Yumemakura’s manga masterpiece. Meticulous graphics and pitch-perfect sound design convey both the thrill of the quest and the film’s heightened sense of impending danger at each vertiginous step. The Summit of the Gods is ultimately a suspenseful, profound discourse on Man’s unfathomable need to surpass nature and the catharsis inherent in climbing walls of stone and ice.

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OLGA

| 2021  –  85′  – Drama, Coming of Age.
France/Switzerland.
Written by: Elie Grappe, Raphaëlle Desplechin.
Directed by: Elie Grappe.
Starring: Anastasia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Théa Brogli, Caterina Barloggio, Jérôme Martin, Alicia Onomor.
Official selection Cannes Critic’s Week 2021. Switzerland’s Official Entry for the 2022 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
Official competition COLCOA 2021
In French, Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles.
A Kino Lorber film release. |

Olga is a driven 15-year-old gymnast training for the Olympics in Kiev in 2013. Her mother is an outspoken journalist with their dictatorial President Yanukovych in her crosshairs. As a result, both of their lives are in danger. So, Olga is sent off to the safe haven of Switzerland, with the hope of joining the Swiss Olympic team. Almost documentary-like in its realism, Elie Grappe’s riveting portrait of a determined young athlete, set against the backdrop of a revolution unfolding in Ukraine, is as much a balletic ode to the passion and discipline of athletes everywhere, as an exploration of the profound, unyielding power of national identity. 

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