A wide selection of French cinema production from 2004 and 2005 will be presented April 1 through April 3 at the 13th annual VCU French Film Festival. All films have English subtitles and will be presented by their directors and actors.

The 13th annual Virginia Commonwealth University French Film Festival –- the largest French film festival in the United States -- will be held April 1 through April 3 at the Byrd Theater in Richmond, Va.

Directors and actors will present to an American audience 13 feature films and 13 short films. Over the years, this forum has become an event long-awaited both by American cinema-lovers and by the French actors and directors who discover a new perspective on their work.

Each year, Unifrance, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the SACD and L’ARP support the VCU French Film Festival. Under the aegis of VCU, the festival also enables professors and students from the film and French departments of numerous U.S. universities to meet and be exposed to recent French film production. Television channels and radio stations, including the Community Idea Stations (PBS), exclusive broadcast sponsors of the VCU French Film Festival, and Radio Disney are partners of the festival, which is also sponsored by French international channel TV5.

With the support of the Virginia Film Office, the VCU French Film Festival also welcomes American distributors, such as Cinema Parallel and French Feeling Films, whose representatives can meet the filmmakers, see the reaction of U.S. audiences and discover new films. Five of the features at this year’s festival will be North American premieres.