Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long) won the Bafta
award for Best Foreign Film, while the company Thales Angénieux picked
up its third Sci-Tech Oscar in Hollywood.
 I've Loved You So Long (I’ve Loved You So Long) was honored last night with the  BAFTA - British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Foreign Film.
The debut film by the writer Philippe Claudel has doubled its French
attendance figures in international theaters, with 1.1...
Raking in $24.7 million in ticket sales, the EuropaCorp production got off to a flying start in the USA, hitting No. 1 on its opening weekend.
Following in the tracks of The Fifth Element ($17 million) and Transporter 2 ($16.5 million), this marks the third time that a French film tops the US box office on its opening weekend.
Released in France 11 months ago, where it attracted over 1 million spectators, Taken now boasts a running total of 12.5 million admissions around the world, wi...
A review of French films at festivals (selections, awards) and funding support for commercial release in January 2009.
Festivals: delegations, selections, and awards (feature films)
Unifrance’s 11th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris
In keeping with its annual tradition, Unifrance welcomed this year 420 distributors from 45 countries, 34 French sales companies, 140 journalists from 25 countries, and around 100 artists at the Rendez-Vous event held in Paris over four days...
As is the case every year, Unifrance will pursue the promotion of French cinema at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, to be held from February 5 through 15, 2009.
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The festival’s Official Competition features a French film (Ricky) and three co-productions: Cheri, Dans la brume électrique (In the Electric Mist), and London River. Three other French productions will be presented out of competition: Bellamy, Eden à l’Ouest (Eden is West), and Singularités dâ€...
The Academy Award nominations have been unveiled, with Entre les murs (The Class) and two French shorts joining international contenders.
Entre les murs (The Class) is one of five films competing in the Best Foreign-Language Film category. The film is up against two French co-productions, Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir) by Ari Folman and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (The Baader Meinhof Complex) by Uli Edel.
One year after the triumph of The Mozart of Pickpockets, French short films may ...
Entre les murs by Laurent Cantet has won the Distribution Aid Award aimed at supporting the release of a French film in Germany.
Coming with a check of €20,000, this award jointly offered by Unifrance and the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, was presented Wednesday evening to the film’s distributor Concorde Filmverleih in the presence of the actress Anne Langlois, the French Consul in Stuttgart, Christian Dumont, and Gabriele Röthemeyer, director of MFG Filmförderung....
Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre was elected as Unifrance President this morning by absolute majority by Board of Directors members present.
The Unifrance Board of Directors is composed of 48 members: 23 members from the four Committees elected by the association’s Councils (the Feature Film Producers’, Directors’, Actors’, Writers, and Artists’ Agents’, Film Exporters’, and Short Film Producers’ and Distributors’ Councils), 10 ex officio members, 12 statuary member...
Foreign media representatives based in Paris gathered at the Académie des Lumières to present the 2008 Lumiere Awards honoring the year’s most outstanding achievements in French and francophone films.
Paris, January 20, 2009. Foreign media representatives based in Paris gathered together at the Académie des Lumières last night, presented the 2008 Lumiere Awards, France’s answer to the Golden Globes, in recognition of outstanding achievement in the French and French-...
French films attracted close to 78 million spectators abroad in 2008 (provisional figures). According to Unifrance estimates...
French films attracted close to 78 million spectators abroad in 2008 (provisional figures). According to Unifrance estimates, the final figure is expected to cross the 80 million admissions mark. French film production reached an all-time high in 2008, outshining the exceptional year of 2005 (76 million admissions).
Moreover, movie attendance ...
For its 11th consecutive year, Unifrance will welcome 350 distributors and 120 journalists from around the world in Paris from January 15 through 19, 2009.
As is the case each year, foreign distributors will gather in Paris to sample the latest offerings from the French film industry at film market screenings (with 82 films screened including 39 titles yet to be released), and to meet with sales agents (34 companies will attend the event, representing the entire film ...
On January 9, Catherine Deneuve inaugurated the new Ciné Lumière in London, reopened to the public after major renovations.
The Ciné Lumière has reopened with a gala launch featuring three high-profile preview screenings: Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale), Entre les murs (The Class), and Faubourg 36 (Paris 36). Arnaud Desplechin and Catherine Deneuve presented Un conte de Noël on Friday, while Christophe Barratier, Nora Arnezeder, and Gérard Jugnot presented F...
A review of French films at festivals (selections, awards) and funding support for commercial release in December 2008.
Festivals: delegations, selections, and awards (feature films)
Unifrance accompanied French artists attending the following 5 film festivals:
The 2008 Beirut International Film Festival, the 2008 French
Cinepanorama in Hong Kong, the 2008 Jakarta International Film
Festival, the 2008 French Cinema Today Festival in Russia, and the 2008
Dubai Int...
Unifrance and the French Embassy in Vietnam are hosting the 2nd Panorama of French Cinema in Vietnam.
Unifrance and the French Embassy in Vietnam are presenting the 2nd Panorama of French Cinema in Vietnam, which will be held in Hanoi from October 20 through 22 in partnership with MegaStar Cinemas, in Ho Chi Minh City from October 22 through 24, in Da-Nang from October 27 through 28, and in Haiphong from October 29 through 30.
This year’s Panorama will showcase a selection of 6 French fi...
