As part of a series of events organized by the French Institute of Hungary, a total of 23 contemporary Francophone works will be screened at the Uránia National Film Theatre and the French Institute of Hungary. The films will be shown in their original language with Hungarian subtitles, the announcement highlighted.

This year's event will focus on female artists: the opening film will be the two-César Award-nominated The Divine Sarah Bernhardt, directed by Guillaume Nicloux and starring Sandrine Kiberlain, which will be screened at the Urania. The romantic drama Girlfriends, the production The Amazing, which tells the true story of twin pianists, and the film Emilia Pérez, which received 13 Oscar nominations, will also be shown.

A roundtable discussion will be organized in connection with the film Girl Gang on violence against women and cybersexism, and the closing film will be the biographical film about the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle, directed by Céline Sallette, the press release revealed.

On February 28, the French Institute will screen the animation film The Most Valuable Commodity by Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius, and the Swiss-French comedy The Dog Case will be screened at Urania. On the same day, at 8 p.m., the French Institute will screen the French romantic comedy The Heart of the Tiger, starring Adele Exarchopoulos and François Civil, they wrote.

The festival will also screen the drama Playing with Fire, for which Vincent Lindon won the Best Actor award in Venice in 2024. The comedy about racism The Barbarians Next Door, directed and starring Julie Delpy, and the drama Insistence, directed by Carine Tardieu.

On March 2 at 3 p.m., the animation The Savages will be shown at Urania, but François Ozon's latest film, When Autumn Comes, which won the Best Screenplay award in San Sebastián, will also be screened.

The 91-year-old Costa-Gavras's work The Last Breath, starring Denis Podalydes and Charlotte Rampling, and Leos Carax's new film This Is Not Me will also be screened. The world-famous director will be visiting Budapest for the festival and will also participate in an audience meeting after the screening.

The festival also includes the Hungarian film The Game with French subtitles, as well as the Belgian-French-Congolese drama The Curse, the Moroccan drama The Frozen Oasis, and the French film Happy Cheesemakers, which tells the story of Totone, who is forced to take care of his seven-year-old sister, coming of age.

Urania will also screen the Swiss-Italian comedy Bonjour, Switzerland, the Canadian film Ru, based on the novel by Kim Thuy, and Greece's Oscar nominee The Murderer and the Romanian-Serbian-North Macedonian-Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Swiss-Swedish historical drama Malmkrog.

It was noted that between March 1 and 31, a smaller selection from the film days program will also be screened in Balatonfüred, Debrecen, Eger, Győröt, Jászberény, Miskolc, Kecskemét, Pannonhalma, Pécs, Sopron, Szeged, Székesfehérvár, Szolnok, Szombathely and Veszprém.

More information about the 15th Francophone Film Days can be found at https://filmnapok.franciaintezet.hu