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NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT<\/h2>\n
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Academy Award winners Justine Triet and Michel Hazanavicius, Academy Award nominees Ladj Ly and Ziad Doueiri, along with M\u00e9lanie Laurent, Ma\u00efwenn, \u00c9ric Toledano & Olivier Nakache, Bruno Dumont, Guillaume Canet, Emmanuel Mouret, Yann Gozlan, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9\u2026for 29 years, the festival has introduced future renowned French talent to Hollywood. In 2025, discover a new generation of\u00a0 talented and inspired French filmmakers. Make sure these ten outstanding first or second films selected at TAFFF 2025 are on your must-see list!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ accent_color=”#d41953″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/baise-en-ville.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/baise-en-ville” target=”_blank” title=”BAISE-EN-VILLE” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cassandre.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/cassandre” target=”_blank” title=”CASSANDRE” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/driftinglaurent.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/drifting-laurent” target=”_blank” title=”DRIFTING LAURENT” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/trial-by-fire.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/hearts-on-fire” target=”_blank” title=”HEARTS ON FIRE” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/love-me-tender.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/love-me-tender” target=”_blank” title=”LOVE ME TENDER” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nino_120x160_eng_web_hd-yi-chou.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/nino” target=”_blank” title=”NINO” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/silent-rebellion.jpeg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/silent-rebellion” target=”_blank” title=”SILENT REBELLION” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/summer-beats-fr.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/summer-beats” target=”_blank” title=”SUMMER BEATS” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-girl-in-the-snow.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-girl-in-the-snow” target=”_blank” title=”THE GIRL IN THE SNOW” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/the-wonderers-600×800-eng.jpg” image_width=”250″ frame_style=”gray_border” link=”https:\/\/www.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-wonderers” target=”_blank” title=”THE WONDERERS” caption_location=”outside-image” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758914123674{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] NEXT WAVE SPOTLIGHT Academy Award winners Justine Triet and Michel Hazanavicius, Academy Award nominees Ladj Ly and Ziad Doueiri, along with M\u00e9lanie Laurent, Ma\u00efwenn, \u00c9ric Toledano & Olivier Nakache, Bruno Dumont, Guillaume Canet, Emmanuel Mouret, Yann Gozlan, St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9\u2026for 29 years, the festival has introduced future renowned French talent to Hollywood. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24244"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24790,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24244\/revisions\/24790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}