The Alliance Française Central Queensland is delighted to invite you to the 2024 CQ French Film Festival!
Please join us this year at the Walter Reid Centre Rockhampton for a great week-end of French films, culture, fun, food and drinks.
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All films are in French, with English subtitles. All sessions are offered at significantly lower than usual prices, thanks to our fantastic sponsors.
LES PROMESSES | Opening Movie | Friday 7 June
Gala Evening: doors open at 6pm | session starts at 7pm
$20 includes a glass of French wine and finger food. No concession for this film
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Reda Kateb
Duration: 98 mins
Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. With her faithful right-hand man Yazid, she has long fought for this town plagued by poverty, unemployment and slumlords. However, when Clémence is approached to become Minister, her ambition arises, questioning her devotion and commitment to her citizens. Will her political integrity and election promises survive her newly found ambition?
FRANCE | Saturday 8 June
Doors open at 2.30pm | session starts at 3pm
$10 students, concession & members of Rocky Flix, Keppel Coast Flix, Alliance Française CQ | $12 no concession
Cast: Lea Seydoux, Benjamin Biolay, Blanche Gardin
Duration: 133 mins
France is a star journalist running between a television set, a distant war and her busy family life. But everything is turned upside down after she injures a delivery man in a car accident. As France attempts to slow down and retreat into an anonymous life, her fame continues to pursue her.
LES PIRES | Saturday 8 June
Doors open at 6.30pm | session starts at 7pm
$10 students, concession & members of Rocky Flix, Keppel Coast Flix, Alliance Française CQ | $12 no concession
Cast: Mallory Wanecque, Johan Heldenbergh
Duration: 99 mins
A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones »?
LA MONTAGNE | Sunday 9 June
Doors open at 2.30pm | session starts at 3pm
$10 students, concession & members of Rocky Flix, Keppel Coast Flix, Alliance Française CQ | $12 no concession
Cast: Thomas Salvador, Louise Bourgoin
Duration: 118 mins
Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains…
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