The 19th edition of the French Film Festival will be organized in eight Romanian cities between October 26 and November 8. The event will take place in Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, Constanta, Brasov, Buzau, and Sibiu.

The 2015 edition of the event pays tribute to Belgian director Chantal Anne Akerman, well known for her feminine and feminist movies. The public will have the chance to see La Folie Almayer, starring Stanislas Merher, Aurora Marion and Marc Berbe.

The Semaine de Cahiers section will include seven movies, namely Alphaville directed by Jean-Luc Godard, L’Etrangleur by Paul Vecchiali, Vivement dimanche! by François Truffaut, J’ai pas sommeil by Claire Denis, La Cérémonie by Claude Chabrol, and Le chambre bleu by Mathieu Amalric.

The festival’s Competition section also includes a selection of seven films directed by young French directors. The event also has another section, called Panorama, which includes iconic films of the contemporary French cinema.

All films will be screened in their original versions, with Romanian subtitles.

Another film festival that takes place in Bucharest in the following week will screen several French movies. Les Films de Cannes a Bucharest, which was launched in 2010 by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, will feature tens of short films by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, the French pioneers of cinematography.

The movies, which have been restored with modern technologies, will be screened on October 29, at the Cinema Pro movie theatre in Bucharest. Thierry Fremaux, the director of the Institut Lumière and of the Cannes Film Festival, will come to Bucharest to comment the movies live during the screenings.

Les Films de Cannes starts today, October 23. The renowned French actress, writer and director Emmanuelle Bercoti will open the festival with a screening of her film La Tête Haute / Standing Tall, which also opened the Cannes Film Festival.

Festival brings 12 Cannes-winning films to Bucharest this October

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com