The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, has kicked off in March going through April 2018, with 5 weeks of the French cinema in: Sydney
We have handpicked some films screening for you during the festival that have been classified for under 18’s.
AVA
MA+15
Thirteen-year-old Ava is on a summer holiday in the Medoc region when she learns a degenerative condition that is turning her blind has accelerated. Rather than wallow in her imminent disability, Ava chooses to embrace her remaining senses and explore her burgeoning sensuality.
BPM (Beats per minute)
rated MA 15
BPM shines a light on the fight for social acceptance by people living with HIV in the face of drug manufacturers reluctant to expedite treatment breakthroughs.
RODIN
rated M
For our art students – Rodin – A bio pic France’s beloved sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
and GAUGUIN rated M, explores French post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin during his self-imposed exile in Polynesia in 1891; a period that coincided with the creation of some of the artist’s most lauded works.
THE WORKSHOP
rated M
From director of 2008 Palme d’Or-winning docu-drama The Class, Laurent Cantet returns with The Workshop; (Un Certain Regard Premiere at Cannes Film Festival).
For our younger film lovers:
BELLE & SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE
rated PG
Sebastian (Félix Bossuet) 12, adventures in the French Alps with his dog Belle who’s now become mother to three beautiful pups.
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
rated PG
A young boy’s life is changed forever when he is taken to live in rural France from a Parisian orphanage.
TOMORROW AND THEREAFTER
rated G
Seen from this child’s perspective, Tomorrow and Thereafter follows Mathilde; a precocious nine-year-old living in a Paris apartment with her mentally fragile mother (Noémie Lvovsky).