This year, the festival is built around the theme Échos, and the films explore how the stories and images resonate along the generations.

The 27 selected films are grouped in four sections, combining essential works with films made by emergent voices, thus reflecting the diversity and vitality of French cinema. The sections of the festival are: Panorama, Young Talents (with French debut features running for the Audience Award, as well as a competition for five French short films), Jeune Public, and an Homage to Louis Malle, 30 years after his death.

For the first time this year, the French Institute will organise spoken language workshops around three films from the festival’s selection.

Monsieur Aznavour by Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir will open the festival on 20 March at the Cinema Elvire Popesco of the French Institute in Bucharest.