Film

Alliance Française French Film Festival 2025

A cultural highlight of the arts calendar

by Felicity Chaplin •

ABR Arts • 14 March 2025

Film

Alliance Française French Film Festival 2025

A cultural highlight of the arts calendar

by Felicity Chaplin •

ABR Arts • 14 March 2025

When Fall Is Coming

The Alliance Française French Film Festival continues to be one of the cultural highlights of the Australian arts calendar. In 2024, the festival attracted a record-breaking audience, eclipsed only by the Taylor Swift tour. This year, the festival is expanding to deliver an eclectic programme of forty-two French and Francophone films across twenty cities (including the former Regent Cinema in Ballarat, Palace Cinema’s latest acquisition). Below are just some of the highlights in what is a strong program overall.

When Fall is Coming ★★★★☆

Felicity Chaplin

Felicity Chaplin is Lecturer in European Languages at Monash University. She is the author of two books, Charlotte Gainsbourg: transnational and transmedia stardom (Manchester University Press, 2020) and La Parisienne in cinema: between art and life (Manchester University Press, 2017), and is a contributor to the forthcoming edited collection Refocus: The films of François Ozon (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Felicity has written extensively on cinema, stardom, celebrity, fashion, French female identity, and cultural histories of Paris. Her work appears in Australian Book Review, Australian Journal of French Studies, Celebrity Studies, Metro, Screening the Past, and Senses of Cinema.