27/03/2013 - The world premiere of Les Gamins will open the festival, while Alexandre Desplat and Carole Bouquet will be guests of honour

Rounding up what’s best in each year’s French-speaking productions from around the world, the festival will raise the curtain on April 4 with the world premiere of Anthony Marciano’s Les Gamins, two weeks ahead of its release in France. Patrice Leconte’s The Suicide Shop [+see also:
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Brigitte Rouan will also be visiting to present her latest directorial effort, A Greek Type of Problem [+see also:
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Cannes-screened Thérèse Desqueyroux [+see also:
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The films will be vying for the audience award as well as the one handed out by the festival’s jury, this year consisted of Venice-awarded actress Ariane Labed, acclaimed local director and producer Thanos Anastopoulos, Los Angeles French Film Festival head Alejandra Norambuena Skira and Greek writer Dimitri Stefanakis.