Filmfest DC is returning for its 28th and final year! The festival runs April 17th -through April 27th. Unfortunately, the festival is $250,000 short of the funding needed to return next year, so if you have any pull with local investors or county governments, the festival can use your help.

This year, one of the main themes is right along our lines, Feast Your Eyes: Films on Food. Below are the pictures, descriptions, and schedule for films selected for this year’s Feast Your Eyes series.

-JAY

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Le Chef:   Daniel Cohen – France, Spain – 84 mins
In this delicious comedy about the behind-the-scenes antics in the food industry, Jean Reno plays veteran chef Alexandre Lagarde, who runs a three-star restaurant that carries his name. A new CEO wants to modernize and bring in a new menu, or chef. As Lagarde frets over his future, brash young cook Jacky (Michaël Youn) stumbles into his kitchen. Jacky … more
Sun, April 20    7:00 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema
Tue, April 22    6:30 PM    Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema

Eden:   Michael Hofmann – Germany, Switzerland – 93 mins
Eden was presented by Filmfest DC eight years ago and though raved about by our audience, never received commercial distribution in the United States. This year’s Feast Your Eyes series provides reason to give it a reprise. Writer-director Michael Hofmann mixes disparate emotions into a filling meal of a film. Eden is the beguiling  … more
Sun, April 20    4:45 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema
Wed, April 23    6:30 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema

Love and Lemons:   Teresa Fabik – Sweden – 99 mins
At first, Agnes (Rakel Wärmländer) seems to have everything going for her: a job at an upscale restaurant, a rock-star boyfriend, and good friends and family. When she gets wrongly fired by her cruel boss and dumped by her cheating boyfriend on the same day, it’s time for some soul searching. Agnes decides to join a former colleague in starting their own … more
Wed, April 23    6:30 PM    AMC Mazza Gallerie
Thu, April 24    8:30 PM    AMC Mazza Gallerie

Paulette:   Jérôme Enrico – France – 87 mins
This crowd-pleasing comedy focuses on Paulette (Bernadette Lafont), who used to run a lovely restaurant filled with friends, music, and fabulous food. Now that she’s a widow living in a housing project outside of Paris, she’s unable to make ends meet on her meager pension. While making her rounds between the church—where she complains instead of confesses—and … more
Wed, April 23    8:45 PM    Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema
Fri, April 25    6:30 PM    Embassy of France

Romantic Brasserie:   Joël Vanhoebrouck – Belgium – 97 mins
Forty-something Pascaline runs a brasserie and her exquisite dining room is fully booked for Valentine’s Day. She thinks she is fully prepared and ready for the heart-shaped holiday, but how could she predict that an old flame from 20 years ago would walk in and ask her to go with him to Rio? Her diners must also cope with the unexpected. There’s Rose, a … more
Sat, April 19    2:15 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema
Mon, April 21    6:30 PM    Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema
Thu, April 24    8:30 PM    Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema

Zone Pro Site: A Moveable Feast:   Yu-Hsun Chen – Taiwan – 145 mins
Taiwan’s traditional ban-doh, an outdoor market where rival caterers vie for the public’s taste buds, is given a magical, musical, and colorful treatment in this stylishly fun film. On the run from her deadbeat boyfriend’s creditors and escaping a failed modeling career, perky Wan (Kimi Hsia), the daughter of a ban-doh chef, returns home to find … more
Sat, April 19    6:15 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema
Sat, April 26    3:00 PM    Landmark E Street Cinema