A week before announcing the full line up of films in competition at the COL•COA (City of Lights, City of Angels) awards, Hollywood’s annual French film festival has revealed some of the titles slated to play during the 17th edition.
Following their win of the festival’s 2012 audience award, “The Intouchables” directing duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano will return to Hollywood to kick off the short films competition with their new short “Clean,” starring Laurent Lafitte. Other additions to the lineup include the North American premiere of “The Sons of Wind,” Bruno Le Blanc’s documentary about the ‘spiritual sons’ of guitarist Django Reinhardt; “The Invisibles,” winner of this year’s Best Documentary César award, that traces the evolution of French society from the post-war to the present via the perspective of homosexuals; and “Becoming Traviata,” an in depth look at the modern staging of Verdi’s famous opera.
The festival runs April 15-22 in the Directors Guild of America complex in Hollywood. Below, find the full shorts lineup.
505G, written and
directed by Jérémy Azencott
75 Canaries, written
and directed by Philippe Prouff
À la française,
co-written and co-directed by Morrigane Boyer, Julien Hazebroucq, Ren-Hsien
Hsu, Emmanuelle Leleu, William Lorton
Clay, written and
directed by Michaël Guerraz
Just Before Losing
Everything, written and directed by from Xavier Legrand
Bella B., written
and directed by Jan-Luck Levasseur
Bet She’an, written
and directed by Julien Soler
Bad Toys II,
written and directed by Daniel Brunet et Nicolas Douste
Clean, co-written
and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
Come What May,
co-written and co-directed by Maxime Feyers et Mathieu Bergeron
Fragments of a standstill
trip, written and directed by Lionel Mougin
Fuck U.K., written
and directed by Benoît Forgeard
The Inn, written
and directed by Izú Troin
The Lizards,
written and directed by Vincent Mariette
Kiki of Montparnasse,
written and directed by Amélie Harrault
My Sweetheart,
written and directed by Daniel Metge
Leaving, written
and directed by Joanna Lurie
Time 2 Split,
written and directed by Fabrice Bracq
City of Light,
written and directed Pascal Tessaud
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