The last edition of the Mon^1er Long festival we co-founded in Istanbul took place in 2019. Recently settled in Barcelona, we discovered an exciting new French-language film festival, Ohalalà!, created in 2018 by Mélody Brechet-Gleizes and Ana-Belen Fernández. The 6th and latest edition ran from November 27 to December 3, 2024.

The Ohlala! festival presents films subtitled in Spanish or Catalan, with a selection of previously unreleased works presented at major international festivals. It has two sections: an official section of previously unreleased films, and a retrospective dedicated to a leading figure in French-language cinema.
The films come from France as well as Belgium, Switzerland, North Africa, French-speaking Africa, Quebec...

We have decided to support this festival for its 5th edition in 2023, which has welcomed: Thierry Fremaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, actor Samir Guesmi, directors Florence Miailhe and Céline Devaux, and directors Thierry Binisti and Rachid Bouchareb.

Films on the bill for this fifth edition 2023:
L'innocent by Louis Garrel (2022)
Haut et fort by Nabil Ayouch (2021)
La Traversée by Florence Miailhe (2021) in the presence of the director
La Nuit du 12 by Dominik Moll (2022)
Le prix du passage by Thierry Binisti (2022) with director
Annie Colère by Blandine Lenoir (2022)
La Mif by Fred Baillif (2021)
Tout le monde aime Jeanne by Céline Devaux (2022) with director
And in the closing session :
Incroyable mais vrai by Quentin Dupieux (2022)

2024, was a very fine edition, with wonderful encounters, whether with Nicole Garcia, guest of honor, Sébastien Lifshitz(Madame Hofmann) or Antoine Chevrollier(La Pampa), all generous and fascinating in their exchanges with the public or during masterclasses, and feedback from spectators and associations, particularly during the screening of L'histoire de Souleymane (for which Abou Sangaré won the César for Best Young Actor), was even more enthusiastic than for previous editions.

This 2024 edition will have brought together on the Institut Français screen, among other films:
Chien de la casse by Jean-Baptiste Durand (2023)
Divertimento by Marie-Castille Mention-Shaar (2023)
En fanfare by Emmanuel Courcol (2024)
Le royaume by Julien Colonna (2024)
Le syndrôme des amours passés by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni (2023)
Le quatrième mur by David Oelhoffen (2025)
Se souvenir des tournesols by Sandrine Mercier and Juan Gordillo Hidalgo
L'adversaire by Nicole Garcia (2002)