{"id":13898,"date":"2023-05-06T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=13898"},"modified":"2025-06-12T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T00:18:03","slug":"gagarine2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/gagarine2\/","title":{"rendered":"GAGARINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13902\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gagarine_poster-236x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gagarine_poster-236x350.jpeg 236w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gagarine_poster-600x888.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/gagarine_poster.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">GAGARINE\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2022 \u2013 98&#8242; \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of age<br \/>\nWritten by\u00a0Fanny Liatard,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh, Benjamin Charbit<br \/>\nDirected by\u00a0Fanny Liatard,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh.<br \/>\nStarring\u00a0Als\u00e9ni Bathily,\u00a0Lyna Khoudri,\u00a0Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Denis Lavant, Farida Rahouadj, Fanny Liatard, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard).<br \/>\nWest Coast Premiere <strong>The American French Film Festival<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Cohen Media Group release.|<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><strong>Fanny Liatard<\/strong>\u2019s and\u00a0<strong>J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh\u2019<\/strong>s poetic, visually stunning, truly magical first feature revolves around Yuri, a 16-year-old boy desperately determined to save his home \u2014 the decaying, outer-city Paris housing project, Cit\u00e9 Gagarine \u2014 from demolition. That\u2019s both the point of departure and rhapsodic theme of this astonishingly ambitious, beautifully realized, terrifically moving film that shoots for the stars, speaking of love and abandonment, community and isolation, dreams of floating through space, and, most of all, that deep, irrepressible need for home, family and human connection. A sort of\u00a0Close Encounters of the Third Kind\u00a0for the 21st Century,\u00a0Gagarine\u00a0was an Official Selection of the unfortunately-canceled 2020 Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/cohenmedia.net\/product\/gagarine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAGARINE\u00a0 | 2022 \u2013 98&#8242; \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Coming of age Written by\u00a0Fanny Liatard,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh, Benjamin Charbit Directed by\u00a0Fanny Liatard,\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh. Starring\u00a0Als\u00e9ni Bathily,\u00a0Lyna Khoudri,\u00a0Jamil McCraven, Finnegan Oldfield, Denis Lavant, Farida Rahouadj, Fanny Liatard, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Trouilh Official Selection Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard). West Coast Premiere The American French Film Festival. In French with English subtitles. 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