French Film Festival 2019

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The Swallows Of Kabul The Swallows Of Kabul
The Swallows Of Kabul and I Lost My Body
Dilili In Paris (Dilili A Paris) (Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Michel Ocelot; Writer: Michel Ocelot; Stars: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay)
With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant; Stars: Voices of, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Hakim Faris)
A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.
The Swallows Of Kabul (Les Hirondelles De Kaboul) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec; Writer: Zabou Breitman, based on the book by Yasmina Khadra; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon Abkarian)
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
Yellowbird (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Christian De Vita; Writer: Antoine Barraud, Cory Edwards, Guilhem Lesaffre; Stars: Dakota Fanning, Seth Green, Christine Baranski, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash, Richard Kind, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christopher L. Parson)
A ladybird hatches a plan to help a frightened bird.
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