THE ROYAL EXCHANGE (L'Echange des princesses, 100 min)
2017 - Marc Dugain
Friday, June 15 - 7:30pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with William Breazeale, Curator at the Crocker Art Museum & Le Professeur Kevin Elstob.

CHAMPAGNE & DESSERT OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Immediately after the screening in the lobby of the Crest Theatre.
Bubbly by Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, Dessert by Melting Pot, Café by Coffee Works.

CUSTODY (Jusqu'à la garde, 93 min)
2017 - Xavier Legrand
Sunday, June 24 - 7:15pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with Guillaume Caramelle, director of the short film One Night.

PINK CHAMPAGNE & DESSERT CLOSING NIGHT PARTY
Immediately after the screening in the lobby of the Crest Theatre.
Pink Bubbly by Barefoot Wine & Bubbly, Café by Coffee Works.

DON'T GIVE UP THE GHOST (87 min)
2016 - Jean-Louis Milesi
Saturday, June 16 - 1:25pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with director Jean-Louis Milesi and his sons.

THE BRIGADE (Les Hommes du feu, 90 min)
2017 - Pierre Jolivet
Saturday, June 16 - 4:10pm & Sunday, June 17 - 7:10pm

NUMBER ONE (Numéro une, 110 min)
2017 - Tonie Marshall
Saturday, June 16 - 6:15pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the screening.

THE WORKSHOP (L'Atelier, 113 min)
2017 - Laurent Cantet
Saturday, June 16 - 8:45pm & Sunday, June 17 - 4:40pm
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the Sunday screening.

KISS ME! (Embrasse-moi !, 86 min)
2017 - Océan & Cyprien Vial
Sunday, June 17 - 11:15am - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with director & star Océan.
Preceded at 10:45am, by a Petit Déjeuner (coffee & pastries provided by Coffee Works) in the Lobby of the Crest Theatre. FREE with admission to Kiss me!

THE GUARDIANS (Les Gardiennes, 138 min)
2017 - Xavier Beauvois
Sunday, June 17 - 1:45pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Rendez-vous with Mona Siegel, Professor of History, Sacramento State University & Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the screening.

BLOODY MILK (Petit Paysan, 90 min)
2017 - Hubert Charuel
Sunday, June 17 - 9:10pm & Friday, June 22 - 6:15pm
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the Friday screening.

BLOODY MILK (Petit Paysan, 90 min)
2017 - Hubert Charuel
Sunday, June 17 - 9:10pm & Friday, June 22 - 6:15pm
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the Friday screening.

BPM (120 Battemements par minute, 143 min)
2017 - Robin Campillo
Friday, June 22 - 8:20pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with Chris Narloch, film critic at Outword, and Le Professeur Kevin Elstob.

GODARD MON AMOUR (Le Redoutable, 107 min)
2017 - Michel Hazanavicius
Saturday, June 23 - 1:20pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Rendez-vous with film historian J. Greenberg after the screening.

THE HOUSE BY THE SEA (La Villa, 107 min)
2017 - Robert Guédiguian
Saturday, June 23 - 3:45pm & Sunday, June 24 - 4:45pm
Rendez-vous with Le Professeur Kevin Elstob after the Saturday screening.

GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (Gaspard va au mariage, 105 min)
2018 - Antony Cordier
Saturday, June 23 - 6:10pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
U.S. PREMIERE followed by Q&A with director Antony Cordier.

SOME LIKE IT VEILED (Cherchez la femme, 88 min)
2017 - Sou Abadi
Saturday, June 23 - 9pm & Sunday, June 24 - 12pm

LUNA (93 min)
2018 - Elsa Diringer
Sunday, June 24 - 2:05pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with Sionann O’Neill.

A MAN AND A WOMAN (Un Homme et une femme, 105 min)
1966 - Claude Lelouch
Saturday, June 16 - 11:00am - ONE SCREENING ONLY!

CONTEMPT (Le Mépris, 103 min)
1963 - Jean-Luc Godard
Saturday, June 23 - 11:00am - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Rendez-vous with film historian J. Greenberg after the screening.

Zombies and evil twins are on the menu of our 2018 Late Night Screenings.
After the films, discussions around comforting café and pastries provided by Coffee Works will help you ease back into your regular life.

THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD (La Nuit a dévoré le monde, 94 min)
2018 - Dominique Rocher
Saturday, June 16 - 11:15pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Coffee and pastries (provided by Coffee Works) will be served after the screening.

DOUBLE LOVER (L'Amant double, 107 min)
2017 - François Ozon
Saturday, June 23 - 11:05pm - ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Screening followed by Q&A with Sionann O’Neill, official English-language translator of François Ozon.
Coffee and pastries (provided by Coffee Works) will be served after the screening.

The Sacramento French Film Festival is proud to present a selection of shorts from France, in collaboration with Unifrance.

SHORT FILMS SHOWN PRIOR TO FEATURE FILMS

ANTONY CORDIER

Antony Cordier was born in Tours in a working-class family to whom he dedicated his first feature film, the documentary Beau comme un camion (As Beautiful as a Truck). He studied cinema at La Fémis, in the editing department. His first feature fiction film, Douches Froides (Cold Showers), premiered at the Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2005, and won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film and major awards at Verona and Taiwan film festivals. His second feature film, Happy Few (Four Lovers), starring Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Elodie Bouchez and Nicolas Duvauchelle, was selected in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2010. 
Gaspard at the Wedding, presented this year at the SFFF in its U.S. PREMIERE, is his third feature film.

GASPARD AT THE WEDDING will be shown on Saturday, June 23 at 6:10pm.

SIONNAN O'NEILL

Sionann O’Neill was born in the Bay Area and grew up in Quincy, a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Sacramento. After graduating from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, she worked for three years to save money, then left for Europe in 1988.
She settled in France and began studying cinema at the Sorbonne, where she formulated a desire to do subtitles.
A stroke of good fortune led her to meet then-fledgling filmmaker François Ozon, who needed someone to subtitle his shorts. She has gone on to translate all of Mr. Ozon’s films, and has been working for Agnès Varda and a host of emerging young directors in France. For several years, she supervised the French subtitling team for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She also works as an interpreter for actors and directors at the Cannes Film Festival. She currently lives in Normandy.

Sionann will be providing her insights in Q&As following the screenings of DOUBLE LOVER (Saturday, June 23 at 11:05pm) and LUNA (Sunday, June 24 at 2:05pm).

GUILLAUME CARAMELLE

Guillaume Caramelle is a young director (short films and advertisements) and screenwriter who scrutinizes society to translate it into images.
His films tell his story, but more generally that of a dissolute youth in search of identity. Caramelle's goal is not only to observe, but to probe the woes of our society and explore its limits in a decidedly modern tone that alternates between sarcasm and solemnity.
At 25, he directed his first short film, Au Souvenir d'une lune, which follows a young
graduate anxious about his future. His second film, Nikki Marianne, a humorous teenage short, was selected in many festivals in Europe and the United States and bought by OCS and Short TV. In his third and latest short film, One Night, presented this year at the SFFF, he tackles in less than four minutes the themes of disability and prostitution.

ONE NIGHT will be shown on closing night, Sunday, June 24 at 7:15pm, prior to the closing feature, CUSTODY.

JEAN-LOUIS MILESI

Jean-Louis Milesi was born in Italy. He came to France at two months old, was in Paris by age 27, and in California at 54.
A graduate from Kindergarten, he left college after only a few weeks to engage in a series of odd jobs that led him to discover the heart of a nuclear power station in the south of France, a desert region on the Iran-Iraq border, and the heady vapors of the wine tanks of a cooperative cellar,…
He finally made it to Paris to make films, and became a screenwriter by accident (he just wanted to write his own stories). He met filmmaker Robert Guédiguian and wrote for him highly acclaimed and successful films that are now considered part of French cinema's heritage. Several have been presented at the SFFF including The Town is Quiet selected for our very first edition in 2002. Jean-Louis Milesi came to Sacramento to present the Guédiguian's features Marius and Jeannette (SFFF 2011), and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (SFFF 2012), as well as his own film Lino (starring his youngest son Lino - SFFF 2011).
He moved his family to California in 2010 for what was meant to be a year or so, and they have lived in Berkeley ever since! California’s trembling earth shook his neurons and helped him come up with new ideas: an American feature film, Don't Give Up the Ghost; an American historical screenplay, The Vanishing Catcher; and a French novel, Les Bottes de Clint Eastwood (Clint Eastwood’s Boots).
We are thrilled that Milesi and his sons will be attending the SFFF this year to present his first American film, Don't Give Up the Ghost!

DON'T GIVE UP THE GHOST will be shown on Saturday, June 16 at 1:25pm.

OCÉAN

After studying modern literature at the Sorbonne, while taking drama, music and singing lessons, Océanerosemarie first became known as a singer under the name Oshen (she published three albums released between 2005 and 2008 under the music label V2).
She then realized that she was «an assumed lesbian but a repressed comedian» and consequently decided to focus on acting to create her first one woman show, The Invisible Lesbian, a huge success with more than 500 performances and 40,000 spectators over a period of 4 1/2 years.
In 2011, she met her producers Romain Rousseau and Maxime Delauney (Nolita Cinéma) and later Cyprien Vial, with whom she would write and direct the film Kiss Me!, a romantic comedy revolving around the character of Océanerosemarie, presented this year at the SFFF. The film was released by Haut et Court in France in July 2017.
In May 2018, Océan - previously known as Océanerosemarie (Océane Michel) - came out publicly as a trans man, and our screening of Kiss Me! will mark the one-month anniversary of his coming out! Océan is currently working on a documentary about his transition, started on January 2018. (Photo ©SMITH)

KISS ME! will be shown on Sunday, June 17 at 11:15am.
The screening will be preceded by a Petit Déjeuner (coffee & pastries) in the Lobby of the Crest Theatre. FREE with admission to Kiss me! Provided by Coffee Works