3 BRAND NEW RELEASES
ON VIRTUAL CINEMA!
  
The Sacramento French Film Festival is happy to announce the release, in partnership with Distrib Films, of three brand new films on Virtual Cinema:
- NIGHT SHIFT, a dark thriller from prominent female writer-director Anne Fontaine (with Zoom Discussion!)
- 10 DAYS WITH DAD, a laugh out loud comedy starring one of France's most beloved comedians
- SOL, a feel-good dramedy full of music and love by first time director Jézabel Marques.
All three films are available starting today!
NIGHT SHIFT (POLICE)
A film by Anne Fontaine
Drama, Thriller – France – 2020 – 99′
In French with English Subtitles
Please join us on a Zoom Discussion with le Professeur Kevin Elstob & the SFFF Team, to discuss Night Shift on Friday, December 11 @ 6:30pm.
RSVP to kelstob@csus.edu, to receive the Zoom invitation.
A moody and dark police drama set almost entirely during one night, directed by filmmaker Anne Fontaine (Gemma Bovery – 2015 SFFF, Coco Before Chanel).
Police officers Virginie (the versatile Virginie Efira, Sibyl - Virtual Cinema 2020, Sink or Swim - MiniFest 2019 & An Impossible Love - SFFF 2019), Erik (Omar Sy, Samba - SFFF 2015) and Aristide (Grégory Gadebois, Pile Poil - SFFF 2019) are each going through personal hardships while trying to deal with the violence they encounter every day in their jobs. One night, they are assigned the unusual mission of driving a migrant to the airport for deportation. On their way, Virginie discovers in the prisoner's file that he will be sentenced to death if he goes back to his country. Faced with an unbearable dilemma, they start to question their mission. They have the night to decide one man’s fate...
→ TRAILER
WATCH THE FILM HERE!
10 DAYS WITH DAD (10 JOURS SANS MAMAN)
A film by Ludovic Bernard
Comedy – France – 2020 – 98′
In French with English Subtitles
In this hilarious and very silly comedy, Antoine (one of France's most popular comic actors, Franck Dubosc) is the head of HR at a big company. Managing people is his thing, so when his overwhelmed wife (Aure Atika) suddenly decides to take a vacation and leaves him alone with their four kids for ten days, Antoine is confident it will be a piece of cake for him. But he has drastically underestimated the mess that four mischievous kids can make...
→ TRAILER
WATCH THE FILM HERE!
SOL
A film by Jézabel Marquez
Dramatic Comedy– France – 2019 – 98′
In French with English Subtitles
Solange, nicknamed Sol, (Chantal Lauby) emigrated to Buenos Aires many year ago and is now a famous tango singer. She became estranged from her son, a guitarist, when he decided, against her will, to move back to Paris to marry Eva. Now that he has died, Sol is back in France, determined to make up for time lost and finally connect with the seven-year-old grandson and the daughter-in-law (Camille Chamoux) whom she has never met. But after finding the courage to show up at their apartment, she gets cold feet and pretends to be there to see the room that Eva is renting...
→ TRAILER
WATCH THE FILM HERE!
ZOOM Q&A
Please join us on a Zoom Discussion
with le Professeur Kevin Elstob & the SFFF Team,
to discuss
NIGHT SHIFT
Friday, December 11 @ 6:30pm
Please RSVP to kelstob@csus.edu, to receive the Zoom invitation.
FIND OUR CURRENT VIRTUAL CINEMA OFFERINGS HERE.
We currently offer 7 new releases, 5 classics
& 1 program of short films.
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