The French Film Festival, organized by the French Embassy in Dushanbe, will take place in Dushanbe from October 28 to November 1. Every evening at 6:00 PM, a French film with Russian subtitles will be shown at the "Vatan" cinema. Admission is free and open to the public.
The festival covers a wide range of genres, from comedies to dramas and animated films, featuring works by some of the greatest classics of French cinema as well as contemporary films that address relevant themes.
On October 28, the festival will open with the popular comedy La Grande Vadrouille (Gérard Oury, 1966), which follows the hilarious adventures of Louis de Funès and Bourvil during the German occupation of France as they help three British pilots escape Paris to a region free of German control.
On October 29, the drama While the Sun Shines (Philippe Petit, 2022) will be screened, portraying a landscape designer's efforts to breathe new life into a drab city center.
On October 30, the animated film The Pharaoh, the King, and the Princess (Michel Ocelot, 2022) will be shown, telling three colorful stories from ancient Egypt, medieval France's Auvergne, and the 18th-century East.
On October 31, the film The Promise (Thomas Kruithof, 2021) will feature Isabelle Huppert as a long-serving mayor who fights to save a suburb of Paris from unsanitary conditions.
On November 1, the festival will close with an adaptation of Balzac’s novel Eugénie Grandet (Marc Dugain, 2021), narrating the story of Eugénie Grandet, whose dull and monotonous life is transformed by the arrival of one of her cousins from Paris.
