The French Film Festival UK is currently taking place at 40 venues across the UK until 9th December 2026, its 34th edition. The festival features a rich and diverse programme of contemporary French and francophone cinema, award-winning films, compelling new voices and landmark classics. It’s an excellent way of exploring the vitality, imagination and extraordinary range of French-language filmmaking through an exceptional selection of films.
The Money Maker at The Gate Picturehouse
Screening at Notting Hill’s The Gate Picturehouse on 22nd November 2026 is The Money Maker, which also opened the festival at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh. The Money Maker is based on the extraordinary true story of Jan Bojarski, a Polish engineer who fled to France during the Second World War and who became a master forger. The period thriller follows a man whose counterfeiting skills earned him the nickname the “Cézanne of counterfeit money”. It is a fascinating portrait of ingenuity, ambition and criminal enterprise, offering a compelling opening to a programme deeply engaged with France’s history and identity.
The screening at The Gate Picturehouse will be attended by the film’s director, Jean-Paul Salomé, who will introduce the film and then host a Q&A after the screening. You can buy tickets for the screening online at www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/016/HO00018780/french-film-fest-uk-the-money-maker-q-a?filter=.
The French Film Festival UK brings together acclaimed international filmmakers, exciting emerging talent, major performances, historical reflection, animation, documentaries and classic cinema. In its 34th year, it continues its commitment to bring the best of French-language filmmaking to audiences throughout the country. You can see the full programme, all screening information and details of participating venues at www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk.
With the phenomenal success of the two De Gaulle films at home and abroad, French-language cinema has been on a roll as never before over the last few months. Its richness, diversity and sheer originality is reflected in the official selection of the one and only French Film Festival UK which proudly is made in Scotland but shared across the nations. The films all speak for themselves: there is nothing left to say apart from our rallying cry over the decades: Vive le cinéma!
Festival Director, Richard Mowe
The Money Maker Q&A with director Jean-Paul Salomé
5pm, Sunday 22nd November 2026
The Gate Picturehouse
87 Notting Hill Gate
London
W11 3JZ
www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/016/HO00018780/french-film-fest-uk-the-money-maker-q-a?filter=
French Film Festival UK
4th November – 9th December 2026
Various venues across the UK
www.frenchfilmfestival.org.uk
