Goals and Principles

"To celebrate and promote French language cinema in Ontario."

• Cinéfranco goals:
  To celebrate and promote the diversity and richness of French language cinema as an opportunity for Francophones, Francophiles and film lovers:
  • To enjoy films rarely seen or not distributed in Toronto cinemas
  • To give a voice and an identity to the Francophone communities in Toronto, in Ontario and outside the borders of Quebec
  • To foster tolerance through the discovery and understanding of other cultures and civilizations
  • To enable students of the French language to listen to, practice and enjoy the language in a resonant cultural milieu
  • To enable the fragmented Francophone communities to mingle and interface
  • To enrich the filmic culture in Toronto and Ontario
  • To foster and develop a taste for French language cinema in order
  • To demand a stronger commercial presence and distribution of French language cinema
  • To further and promote friendship, cultural exchanges between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec
  • To enhance the international profile of Toronto in Canada and in the worldwide film community.

  
  

• Cinéfranco main principle: ACCESSIBILITY
  • The English subtitles:
    All films are subtitled in English to enable the non-French speaker who is a cinephile to come to Cinéfranco and enjoy the films.
    Cinéfranco becomes accessible to all.

  • The audience:
    Cinéfranco is accessible to all thanks to:
    • a special programme for schools (3 times during the weeklong festival)
    • special authorizations requested from the Ontario Film Review Board to open up some screenings to families when appropriate
    • the bilingualism of the screenings (French language with English subtitles) to give equal access to Francophones and non-French speakers

  • The films:
    Cinéfranco showcases feature films of fiction with a broad popular appeal, crowd-pleasers including few challenging films.
    The goal here is to burst the myth of French language cinema as too intellectual thus inaccessible to the public at large.

  • The venue:
    Historically the choice of the venue is dictated by the principle of accessibility for
    • Transportation (public transit)
    • Parking (garages, parking lots)
    • Wheel chairs
    • Restaurants

    The programme books:
    Approximately three weeks before the start of Cinéfranco you will have two options:

  • A detailed programme (films title, summary and schedule) will be available from our website or
  • A special section of www.cinefranco.com entitled «programme books» will keep you informed on the locations where you can pick up a programme book. As in the past, the brochure will have a schedule easy to detach and carry with you.