Festival dates and location

The 30th edition of The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) will take place from November 3 to 8 in Los Angeles, featuring 60 films and series. The event will be held on Sunset Boulevard in the theaters of the Director's Guild of America in Hollywood.

Opening and closing films

The festival will open on Tuesday, November 3, with the animated feature film In Waves by Phuong Mai Nguyen, set in California. It will conclude with The American Dream by Anthony Marciano, inspired by the true story of two unknown French people who became NBA player agents.

Festival lineup details

This year's lineup includes 34 feature films (31 fiction and three documentaries), 12 series, and 14 short films. Among the featured works, 19 will be screened before their release in France and 18 in association with American distributors.

Notable titles featured

Notable titles include the two parts of The Battle of Gaul by Antonin Baudry, two Venice competitors (One Good Soldier by Stéphane Brizé and A Little Before Midnight by Nicolas Pariser), and many titles unveiled at Cannes such as The Life of a Woman by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, The Electric Venus by Pierre Salvadori, Roma Elastica by Bertrand Mandico, The Abandonment by Vincent Garenq, Karma by Guillaume Canet, or the animated films The Corset by Louis Clichy (distributed by Sony Pictures Classics) and Blaise by Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue.

First feature films and comedies

Also notable are seven first feature films, including Gradiva by Marine Atlan (Grand Prix of the Critics' Week on the Croisette), Jupiter by Alexandre Smia, The Golden Triangle by Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz, Congo Boy by Rafiki Fariala, The Second Daughter by Zou Jing, or The Women's House by Mélisa Godet. In the comedy section, Not Seen, Not Known by Marc Fitoussi (American premiere), Just an Illusion by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, and Alter Ego by Nicolas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine are highlighted.

Documentaries and Oscar contenders

Documentaries featured include The Song of the Forests by Vincent Munier, In Gaza by Hélène Lam Trong, and Our Orchestra by Philippe Beziat. The TAFFF will also showcase international co-productions, including five contenders for the next Oscar for Best International Feature Film: the French candidate Minotaur by Andreï Zviaguintsev, the Belgian The Braves by Lukas Dhont, the Romanian Fjord by Cristian Mungiu, the Japanese Suddenly by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, and the Moroccan Strawberries by Laïla Marrakchi.

Featured series

In the series category, the following will be featured: Paolo by Sébastien Marnier, Singapura by Danielle Arbid and Lucie Borleteau, One Day We'll Make Love by Jérôme Bonnell, Alice by Virginie Verrier and Guillaume Lonergan, The Charles by Julien Despaux, Grandiose by Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux and Elsa Bennett, Some Sunday Afternoons Should Be Banned by Isabel Coixet, The Laura Stern Case by Akim Isker, Nannies by Vania Leturcq and Savina Dellicour, The Watcher! by John Wax, A Prophet by Enrico Maria Artale, and the documentary series Rebonds: An Epic of Electro Dance by Loïc Phil and Marianne Getti.