Festival "French cinema today" was established more than ten years ago by the agency" Yunifrans "and the French Embassy in Russia. "For many years the festival increasing activity in the regions, inviting French stars for the film presentations," - said the French Ambassador in Russia Jean de Gliniasty.

This year prelude to the festival was the film of Mathieu Amalric "Tournée", received Cannes best director award. Mathieu personally presented the film to Moscow audiences. The festival will start with the film "Arthur and the War of two worlds", an animated continuation of the adventures of young Arthur (personage by Luc Besson). The festival program includes not so many films, but they certainly deserve attention: the last work of Godard "Film-socialism", "Lourdes" - a story about a paralyzed girl who is due to a miracle escaped wheelchair, melodrama "Last Flight" with Marion Cotillard, the movie about the sudden extension of the school novel "Longtime Lovers", "Villain" by Albert Dyupontelya, adaptation of the novel banned in France "Gigolo." "I am happy that my mother is alive," - exclaims the hero of the eponymous film by Claude and Nathan Miller, a young man, who was born by one woman and brought the another. Hero of the drama "Pimp" has to retrain from the banker in a pimp.

In addition, the festival program will include two more films, has not yet acquired the Russian distributor for the national market.  The artists, members of the French delegation, will choose these films. Also Night of short films will be held at the House of Cinema in Krasnoyarsk.

The eleventh festival will take place in the cinema "Pobeda" (Novosibirsk), November 11-14, and 3D-entertainment complex "Luch" (Krasnoyarsk), 15-17 November.

Information on French you can find on the site http://french.ruvr.ru.