How the American French Film Festival Is Bringing French Cinema to 3,000 Los Angeles High School Students With Packed Screenings of ‘In Waves’

How the American French Film Festival Is Bringing French Cinema to 3,000 Los Angeles High School Students With Packed Screenings of ‘In Waves’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 9, 2026 6:11pm PT How the American French Film Festival Is Bringing French Cinema to 3,000 Los Angeles High School Students With Packed Screenings of ‘In Waves’ By Elsa Keslassy Plus Icon Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent @elsakeslassy Latest French Judo Legend Teddy Riner Announces 2027 Presidential Bid, Drawing Praise From Emmanuel Macron 43 minutes ago Prime Video, Scanbox Entertainment Team on New ‘Hamilton’ Films and TV Series Based on Bestselling Swedish Spy Franchise (EXCLUSIVE) 5 hours ago ‘De Gaulle’ Wins Top Prize at American French Film Festival as 30th Anniversary Edition Draws 18,000 Attendees 5 hours ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments The American French Film Festival , which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, has been on a journey to cultivate a new generation of French movie lovers for two decades with its educational program for Los Angeles high school students. This milestone edition brought around 3,000 students to the DGA theater for five packed screenings of “In Waves,” Phuong Mai Nguyen’s heart-wrenching animated feature which was bought Netflix at Cannes.

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Spearheaded by Anouchka Van Riel , the festival deputy director, the program brings together more than 60 schools over five days, with roughly half coming from the public school system and half from private institutions. It also reaches beyond French-language classes to students studying performing arts and other creative disciplines.

In an interview with Variety , Van Riel discussed the importance of the programme to allow younger audiences to discover international cinema at a time when arthouse moviegoers are aging and foreign-language films face growing challenges in U.S. She also talked about the program’s rapid growth, why subtitles are no longer the barrier they once were, and the powerful response to “In Waves” which Netflix is positioning in the Awards race.

How many students and schools participate in the program? We have more than 60 schools participating over five days, so that’s more than 12 schools a day.

We organize five screenings of the same film, each with around 600 students. That’s approximately 3,000 students every year.

I’ve built a database of around 300 schools, and we start reaching out in May. Within a week of sending the first email, half the seats — around 1,500 — are already booked.

Then I spend the summer filling the remaining places. There’s enormous demand.

We also make a point of having a mix of public and private schools, roughly 50/50. That’s very important to us.

For public schools, transportation can be a challenge. Some have to apply for grants just to pay for the buses.

There’s an entire economy around organizing these trips, and a lot depends on the teachers. How does the festival work with teachers to prepare students for the screenings?

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