The New Orleans French Film Festival is one of the longest-running international language festivals in the U.S., celebrating contemporary and classic Francophone cinema.

For its 28th edition, the festival broadens its definition of French cinema with a lineup of emerging talents and acclaimed auteurs from the Francophone world. All films will be presented in French with English subtitles.

Schedule:

6:00 PM: DAAAAAALI! (Daaaaaalí!) at Prytania Theatre

For journalist Judith Rochant (Anaïs Demoustier) the assignment to interview renowned artist Salvador Dalí is a great career opportunity — if only he would agree to sit still and answer a single question.

What begins as a 15-minute conversation blows up into a bonafide cinematographic documentary portrait, provided the world’s most enormous cameras are available to film it. As Judith’s interview is delayed, detoured, disrupted, and deranged by Dalí’s inexhaustible self-regard, the journalist finds herself becoming the subject.

The legendary painter’s artistry and ego know no bounds, and Daaaaaalí! dutifully casts no less than five actors (Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Giles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, and Didier Flamand) as Salvador Dalí in this prismatic portrait.

The prolific Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy is an exercise in dream logic and surrealist homage, with the rug pulled out from under you again and again before you even manage to get up off the floor.

7:45 PM: When Fall is Coming (Quand vient l'automne) at Prytania Theatre

Michèle, now in her later years, enjoys a peaceful retirement in a quiet village in Burgundy, living close to her lifelong friend, Marie-Claude. But when her daughter Valérie sends her son to spend his school holidays with his grandmother, things take a sudden, disturbing turn.

Mixing a character-driven psychological drama with elements of modern melodrama and thriller, the ever-creative and always unpredictable François Ozon once again tackles the theme of what is real versus what seems to be. In this subtle, melancholic, but full of surprises film about the “autumn” of life, Ozon tones down the pace, darkens the atmosphere, and bravely navigates the murky moral waters that surround the human soul, seeking, among other things, an answer to the question: At what age does a person stop being capable of doing harm?

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