The festival will visit Szeged, Pécs, Debrecen, Miskolc, Győr and Kecskemét, Szolnok and Eger, as well as Budapest. As in previous years, the festival will offer filmgoers in Hungary the chance to see the latest French films before their official release in the country.
Among the films on the programme are Caramel, which tells interlocking stories anchored in a beauty parlour in Beirut. The film is directed by and stars Nadine Labaki.
Claude Berri's Hunting and Gathering (Ensemble, c'est tout) is a love story starring Audrey Tautou based on a novel by Anna Gavalda. In the same genre is Shall We Kiss (Un baiser s'il vous plait) by Emmanuel Mouret and starring Virginie Ledoyen.
Francois Ozon's latest film, Angel, was nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The film shows the rise and fall of a young English writer at the beginning of the 20th century. It stars Romola Garai, Lucy Russell and Charlotte Rampling.
Paris, directed by Cédric Klapisch, is about a dancer waiting for a hear transplant who watches the French capital from his balcony. It stars Romain Duris and Juliette Binoche.
For fans of the Lucky Luke comic series, the animated Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure (Tous a l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke) will be shown.
Guillaume Canet and Audrey Tautou in Hunting and Gathering
For the first time, the festival will feature shorts - seven in all, including The Mozart of Pickpockets, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
Many artists will make special appearances during the festival, among them Lucy Russel, from Angel, who is perhaps best known to international audiences for her roll in Batman Begins; Caramel director Nadin Labaki, who will be accompanied by her husband, the composer Khaled Mouzanar; Julie Ferrier from Paris; and the producer of Hunting and Gathering Pierre Grünstein.
