Francophone cinema. Aflamin hosts the 1st online festival

Founded in 2022 by Good Fellows, a startup initiated by director Nabil Ayouch and Ali’n’Productions, the Aflamin cinema platform is the first to host My French Film Festival, the first French-language online festival in Morocco. movies.

The platform announces that its subscribers will be able to access all 29 films (12 features and 17 shorts) of the festival from January 13 to February 13, 2023, in addition to the films permanently available in the catalog. The 12 feature films in the selection can be viewed without a subscription, with the option to rent individually within 72 hours.

Films will be available during this period in VOD format (video on demand), digital HD format, original version with a choice of subtitles in Arabic, French or English, on the website www.aflamin.com or on Smartphone applications (Android). and Apple), on Android Smart TV and soon through the Samsung Smart TV app.

“My French Film” festival programs will be published and commented on Aflamin’s social media pages and will be animated on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube through contests and throughout the event from January 9, 2023. It’s also an even program, as 16 of the 29 films are women or mixed. These films will also be programmed in 12 languages, in more than 200 countries and on more than 70 cinema platforms around the world, including Aflamin, which is hosting the festival in Morocco for the first time.

It should be noted that the selection of films was presented from Paris on January 5 within the framework of the press conference. It is organized around 6 themes:

Doing it your way – Characters who relentlessly resist the absurdity and insecurity of our world;

The world after us – Louda Ben Salah-Kazanas feature film in competition (Dramatic comedy, France, 2021);

blood oranges – Feature film by Jean-Christophe Maurice (Black Comedy, France, 2021) in competition;

I don’t mind – Feature film in competition by Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre (Drama, Belgium, 2020);

Cataract – Short film in competition by Faustine Crespy & Laetitia de Montalembert (Dramatic comedy, France, 2020);

King David – Lila Pinelle’s short film in competition (Dramatic comedy, France, 2021);

France has talent – Playing, creating, performing, writing… Impossible is not French!;

between the waves – Anais Volpe’s feature film in competition (Dramatic comedy, France, 2021);

Magnetic – Feature film in competition by Vincent Maël Cardona (Drama, France, 2021);

Paloma – Hugo Barde’s short film in competition (Drama, France, 2021);

leave it for a day – Amélie Bonn’s short film in competition (Musical, France, 2021);

The children turned out well The experience of desire, exile, danger and impulses, many initiatives that point to the loss of innocence;

Small type – Feature film in competition by Samuel Theis (Drama, France, 2021);

Transition – Florence Miailhe’s feature film in competition (Animation, France, 2020);

Marianne – Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s short film in competition (Drama, France, 2021);

We will not go higher – Short film in competition by Simon Helloco (Drama, France, 2021);

Titan – Valery Carnoy’s short film in competition (Drama, Belgium, 2021);

Under your spell – From the 80s to Anatolia, temptation from all sides, from slowness to wild experience;

To our loves – Maurice Pialat’s out-of-competition feature film (Dramatic comedy, France, 1983);

A story of love and desire – Leyla Buzid’s feature film in competition (Romantic, France, 2021);

let the animal rise – Short film in competition by Marthe Sébille (Drama, France, 2021);

Woman in the sea – Céline Baril’s short film in competition (Drama, France, 2022);

Faces + Squares – When places dictate who we are…except those who inhabit them give them soul;

About Joan – Laurent Lariviere’s feature film in competition (Drama, France, 2021);

Bootlegger – Caroline Monnet’s out-of-competition feature film (Drama, Canada, 2021);

we – Alice Diop’s feature film in competition (Documentary, France, 2021);

beautiful river – Out-of-competition short film by Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin (Documentary, Canada, 2022);

It was left unfinished in Tokyo – Short film out of competition by Olivier Assayas (Film noir, France, 1983);

Malmousque – Dorothee Sebbagh’s short film in competition (Comedy, France, 2021);

Enjoy the silence – Plunge into silence when words are meaningless!;

Anxious Body – Yoriko Mizushiri’s out-of-competition short film (Dialogue-free animation, France, 2021);

Story for 2 trumpets – Amandine Meyer’s out-of-competition short film (Dialogue-free animation, France, 2021);

Pests – Short film out of competition by Juliette Laboria (Dialogueless animation, France, 2021);

Please Do Not Touch! – Capucine Gougelet’s out-of-competition short film (Dialogue-free animation, France, 2020);

night patrol – Short film out of competition by Julien Regnard (Dialogue-free animation, France, 2020).

An International Jury convenes during the festival to select the award-winning feature film for the director, producer and exporter.

Members of the International Jury: Emilie Atef (French-Iranian director) / Chie Hayakawa (Japanese director) / Juho Kuosmanen (Finnish director) / Sergey Loznitsa (Ukrainian director) / Albert Serra (Spanish director).

International press awards will be given by a jury of foreign journalists. This year: Foteini Alevra, Athens Voice (Greece), Emilie Gambade, Maverick Life (South Africa), Kong Rithdee, The Bangkok Post (Thailand), Marcelo Stiletano, La Nación (Argentina), Aramide Tinubu, freelance journalist (United United) , Larisa Turea, Timpul (Moldova), independent journalist Albert Zagt (Netherlands) will come together during the festival and select the winning feature and short films.

The public is also invited to vote for their favorite feature and short films on the festival’s website. The Jury Prize and International Press Awards will be announced on February 10, 2023, and the Audience Awards will be announced at the end of the festival on February 14, 2023. The Grand Jury Prize and International Press Awards will be announced on February 10. , 2023. Audience Awards will be announced at the end of the festival.