{"id":213454,"date":"2026-03-10T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213454\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:22:09","slug":"2026-fullerton-college-french-film-festival-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213454\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Fullerton College French Film Festival Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted on March 10, 2026&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Fullerton College\u2019s much-loved French Film Festival is back for its fourteenth year.\u00a0Fullerton again becomes the \u201cParis of Orange County,\u201d featuring two nights of recent French film releases to delight enthusiasts of all ages. This year\u2019s screenings will be held at the Campus Theatre on two evenings, April 7th and 8th. A cultural hour featuring complimentary food, music, dance and art starts at 6:30 p.m. in the patio area outside the box office, and all films begin at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The French Film Festival began in 2010 as a unique educational opportunity sponsored by the Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival through the French American Cultural Exchangeand the Fullerton College Humanities Division\u2019s hard-working staff and faculty.\u00a0It has since grown into a popular cultural celebration of French life.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will be greeted by the friendly faces of Fullerton College students and members of the French Club who have created a dynamic cultural scene that will entertain visitors the hour before each evening\u2019s screening.\u00a0French inspired food-tasting stations will be available from Cr\u00eapes Bonaparte, Cr\u00eapes de Paris, Fraise Caf\u00e9, Les Amis, Let it Brie, Zombees, Moulin and Roscoe\u2019s. Additional sponsors include Vista Higher Learning, cultural collaborator Alliance Fran\u00e7aise and Clotilde French Bookstore.\u00a0Attendees will enjoy an eclectic Paris street scene come to life, featuring caricatures, magic, a photo booth and P\u00e9tanque and other games. There will be drawings at the games to win berets on Tuesday and a French national soccer jersey Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.fullcoll.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FC-20250408-FrenchFilmFestival-19-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FC-20250408-FrenchFilmFestival-19-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14466 lazy\"  data-\/><\/a>The French Film Festival invites Fullerton College families and local communities to immerse themselves in French culture. From food to art and film, the festival brings France to Fullerton College. Every year is an exciting opportunity to enjoy impactful films and make memories. <\/p>\n<p>Fullerton College French Club students are excited to introduce both films at the festival:<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday April 7th: L\u2019HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE \/ SOULEYMANE\u2019S STORY (2024)<\/p>\n<p>Souleymane, a Guinean immigrant in Paris, races daily to meet his food delivery quota and secure a shelter bed. As an asylum seeker, he has just two days to prepare for a critical interview that will determine his legal residency. First-time actor Abou Sangar\u00e9 won the Un Certain Regard prize for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Male Revelation prize at the French C\u00e9sar Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for L\u2019Histoire de Souleymane is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VkFbTK4oP1g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday April 8th: LA VENUE DE L\u2019AVENIR \/ COLOURS OF TIME (2025)<\/p>\n<p>Four cousins, brought together by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, uncover a shared ancestral mystery: two centuries earlier, their ancestor, Ad\u00e8le Munier, left for Paris to uncover her mother\u2019s identity. As they retrace her steps, the cousins\u2019 modern lives intertwine with the captivating world of 19th-century Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for La Venue de l\u2019avenir is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_sTdOm2BID8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Parking will be free on the 3rd and 4th floors of the parking structure on Fullerton College Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets can be purchased now through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/french-film-festival-tickets-1983460936053\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eventbrite<\/a> or at the Campus Theater box office. The box office is open 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and opens at 6:15 p.m. on the night of each show.\u00a0Prices are $10 for the general public and $7 for students.\u00a0All films are subtitled in English.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/humanities.fullcoll.edu\/foreign-languages\/french-film-festival\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French Film Festival website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to follow the French Film Festival team on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FCFrenchFilms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fcfrenchfilms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@fcfrenchfilms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Posted on March 10, 2026&#13; &#13; Fullerton College\u2019s much-loved French Film Festival is back for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-213454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}