Rendez-vous Festival: New French Cinema in Rome.

3-8 April. The ninth edition of Rendez-vous, the festival dedicated to new French cinema, takes place in Rome as well as Bologna, Florence, Naples, Milan, Palermo and Turin.

The week-long festival, whose programme ranges from blockbuster movies to independent and short films, showcases the best of contemporary French cinema.

An initiative of the French embassy to Italy, the Rome segment of the festival is being held at the Nuovo Sacher, with parallel events at the Casa del Cinema and the Institut Français Centre Saint-Louis.

The festival's guest of honour is the award-winning French director Jacques Audiard who will present his movie The Sisters Brothers at the Nuovo Sacher, as part of a series dedicated to his work.

All films will be shown in their original French version with Italian subtitles. For full programme see Institut Français website.