The 16th-edition of Rendez-vous, the festival dedicated to new French cinema, will be held at Cinema Nuovo Sacher from 7 to 11 April 2026.

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The 16th-edition of Rendez-vous, the festival dedicated to new French cinema, will be held in Rome and will then make stops, with special sections and guests, in Bologna, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo, and Turin. In the capital, it will run from April 7th to April 11th at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher. The program allows local audiences to explore contemporary French cinema in all its diversity, from arthouse to mainstream films.

This is the most important Italian film event dedicated to French cinema; it was born from an initiative of the French Embassy in Italy, and is co-organized by the Institut français Italia and Unifrance, the French cinema and audio-visual promotion agency in the world.

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Opening the sixteenth edition, which will take place from April 7 to 11 at Cinema Nuovo Sacher, will be The Richest Woman in the World | La Femme la plus riche du monde by Thierry Klifa, in the presence of the director and lead actress Isabelle Huppert, an absolute icon of international cinema. The film, a powerful and contemporary portrait of power and its contradictions, will be released in Italian cinemas on April 16, distributed by Europictures.

Among the new features of the 2026 edition is the introduction of a Young Jury, made up of university students from different Italian cities, who will be invited to engage with contemporary French cinema and award a prize to a first or second feature. Also returning is the traditional Prix Palatine, the prize awarded by a jury of very young high school students from 23 Italian cities to a film selected and presented in collaboration with the festival.

All films will be screened in their original language with Italian subtitles.

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