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SIFF 2023 French-Language Cinema

The Alliance Française de Seattle is a proud sponsor of SIFF 2023, where it is co-presenting 4 French-language feature films. AF members get access to an exclusive discount code, plus free vouchers for the below films.

AF members: check out the screenings below and request your free voucher via email. Max. 2 vouchers for individual memberships, and up to 4 vouchers for family memberships.

Discount codes sent to members via email on Friday 5/5.



Passages

France | 2023 | 91 min. | Ira Sachs | with Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adéle Exarchopoulosv

From SIFF alum Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On, Little Men) comes this sexy, messy, and mordantly funny relationship drama/cautionary tale about a queer auteur director, his husband, and the woman with whom he has an affair.

20 free vouchers available for AF members:
Thursday, May 18 @ 4pm Egyptian

Falcon Lake

Canada, France | 2022 | 101 min. | Charlotte Le Bon | with Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual

A shy young teenage boy on summer vacation in Canada comes of age the hard way when he falls for the outgoing, older Chloe in the gorgeous and haunting directorial debut from actress Charlotte Le Bon (The Hundred-Foot Journey).

20 free vouchers available: 
Saturday, May 13 @ 7pm SIFF Film Center

The Night of the 12th (La Nuit du 12)

France, Belgium | 2022 | 115 min. | Dominik Moll | with Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Theo Cholbi, Johann Dionnet

Winner of six César Awards including Best Picture, this deeply satisfying true crime police procedural from filmmaker Dominik Moll (suspense classic With a Friend Like Harry…) follows two detectives investigating the shocking murder of a young suburban woman.

20 free vouchers available:
Saturday, May 20 @ 8pm Shoreline


Yuku and the Himalayan Flower (Yuku et la fleur de l'Himalaya)

Belgium, France, Switzerland | 2022 | 65 min. | Rémi Durin, Arnaud Demuynck

A mouse on a mission! In this gorgeously animated musical fable, little Yuku must locate a fabled Himalayan flower to restore her grandmother back to health, heading on a perilous adventure armed only with a ukulele and a song in her heart. All ages, in French with English subtitles.

20 free vouchers available:
Sunday, May 21 @ 11am Pacific Place
     All vouchers have been claimed!