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A film festival that celebrates French language through cinema is coming to Dubai in March, thanks to a collaboration between Cinema Akil, Dubai’s independent cinema house, and the embassies of France, Switzerland, Canada, Luxembourg and Belgium in the United Arab Emirates.
Running in its 11th edition, the FrancoFilm Festival will feature regional premieres across genres, opening with the award-winning film
Red Soil (
Rouge) by Farid Bentoumi, which was part of the Cannes film selection last year.
Taking place from March 5 to 11, the selected films revolve around the theme of sustainability and all non-English movies will have English, Arabic or French subtitles.