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The UK’s only French cinema festival will kick off its 34th edition in Edinburgh next month.
French Film Festival UK is set to bring francophone cinema to more than 40 venues across the nation, including the capital’s Filmhouse Cinema and the Institut Français d'Écosse on Parliament Square.
A highlight of the festival will be the screening of Jean-Paul Salomé’s The Money Maker at the Filmhouse, one of more than three dozen screenings in Scotland’s capital.
According to the festival, The Money Maker is "based on the extraordinary true story of Jan Bojarski, a Polish engineer who fled to France during the Second World War and became a master forger”.
The Money Maker will be shown at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. (Image: Supplied)
The film is described as a "fascinating portrait of ingenuity, ambition and criminal enterprise, the film offers a compelling opening to a programme deeply engaged with France’s history and identity".
Films screened at the Institut Français d'Écosse include That Summer in Paris Bizarre, Bizarre The Ties That Bind Us, Marcel, Santa Claus (and the Little Pizza Delivery Boy andThe Waste Commons, while those to be shown at the Filmhouse include* Divertimento, Rookies, Maigret and the Dead Lover, Another Dayand Whispers in the Woods*.
In addition to offering a variety of programming across a number of strands, including Showcase, Documentary, Animation, and Femmes First, the festival will also provide an opportunity for thousands of pupils to watch French-language films.
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The festival comes on the heels of Antonin Baudry’s two-part epic De Gaulle, which dominated box offices in France this summer, selling more than 5.3 million tickets.
"With the phenomenal success of the two De Gaulle films at home and abroad, French-language cinema has been on a roll as never before over the last few months,” said Festival Director Richard Mowe.
“Its richness, diversity and sheer originality is reflected in the official selection of the one and only French Film Festival UK which proudly is made in Scotland but shared across the nations.
“The films all speak for themselves: there is nothing left to say apart from our rallying cry over the decades: Vive le cinéma!"