De Gaulle Triumphs in Los Angeles: French Wartime Epic Wins Top Audience Prize at 30th American French Film Festival
LOS ANGELES — Antonin Baudry’s two-part wartime epic De Gaulle has won the Audience Award, the top honour for best film, at the 30th American French Film Festival (TAFFF) in Los Angeles, capping a six-day anniversary edition that drew more than 18,000 people to the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theater Complex in Hollywood. The Franco-American Cultural Fund and the festival’s programme committee announced the 2026 winners on Monday, 9 November, a day after the awards were presented at the festival’s closing ceremony on 8 November. The prize is a significant American milestone for a film that has already become a box-office phenomenon in France, where its two instalments have together passed five million admissions since their June releases, according to Screen Daily. It also underlines the festival’s role as a bridge between French cinema and Hollywood: the event exists to put French and French-co-produced films directly in front of American audiences, criti...