MonteCarlo Film Festival de la Comédie 2025

Monte-Carlo, Principality of Monaco – November 12–15, 2025
A look at the world through the films in competition: stories of emancipation, freedom, and rebirth, featuring the finest contemporary international comedies.

🎬 Short Comedy Award 2025

Sparkling stories that make you smile and think

The 22nd edition of the MonteCarlo Film Festival de la Comédie, the only international festival entirely dedicated to comedy, conceived and chaired by Ezio Greggio, will take place from November 12 to 15, 2025, in the Principality of Monaco.
This year’s program presents seven films in competition, an international selection celebrating the many forms of cinematic storytelling.

Once again, the festival will be hosted in the prestigious Grimaldi Forum in Monte-Carlo, where screenings and meetings with leading figures from Argentine, Cuban, Algerian, German, Danish, Italian, Spanish, and French cinema will take place, culminating in the traditional Gala Awards Night on Saturday, November 15.

Opening Film: Homo Argentum

The festival opens with Homo Argentum, a dark comedy by the duo Cohn & Duprat (previously in Monte-Carlo in 2022 with Official Competition), composed of 16 stories performed by Guillermo Francella, who explores with sharp irony the vices and virtues of modern society.

The seven competing films address key themes of our time—dictatorships, freedom, food as a symbol of emancipation, family, and human relationships—always viewed through an ironic or satirical lens.

🎥 The 7 Films in Competition

LA CENA (106’, Spain) – International Premiere

Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira
Cast: Alberto San Juan, Mario Casas, Asier Etxeandia
Synopsis: Spain, 1939. Days before the end of the Civil War, General Franco orders a grand dinner celebration. A group of Republican prisoners forced to cook for their enemies secretly plans an escape during the banquet.

COMANDANTE FRITZ (106’, Germany/Cuba) – International Premiere

Director: Pavel Giroud
Cast: Yany Prado, Dennis Mojen, Alexis Valdés
Synopsis: In 1972, an East German Stasi officer is sent to Havana to prevent a CIA attack on Fidel Castro. His encounter with a young Cuban woman will change his life. A political comedy blending satire and romance, exploring Cuba–East Germany relations.

PARTIR UN JOUR (98’, France) – Monaco Premiere

Director: Amélie Bonnin
Cast: Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, François Rollin
Synopsis: A successful chef returns to her hometown to care for her ailing father, only to reconnect with her childhood love and question her ambitions.

THE LAST VIKING (116’, Denmark) – French Premiere

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen
Synopsis: Two brothers search for a hidden loot after a robbery, embarking on an absurd yet touching journey about identity, memory, and brotherhood.

LA PETITE CUISINE DE MEHDI (104’, France/Algeria) – French Premiere

Director: Amine Adjina
Cast: Younès Boucif, Clara Bretheau, Hiam Abbass
Synopsis: Mehdi, a young Algerian chef, struggles to balance tradition and modernity. Through humor and emotion, the film turns cuisine into a metaphor for identity and freedom.

HOMO ARGENTUM (98’, Argentina) – French Premiere

Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat
Cast: Guillermo Francella, Aurora Quattrocchi
Synopsis: Sixteen satirical stories depict the contradictions of Argentine society, with Francella delivering a masterful, chameleonic performance full of humor, discomfort, and tenderness.

COME TI MUOVI, SBAGLI (97’, Italy) – International Premiere

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Iaia Forte, Greta Scarano
Synopsis: A retired professor’s peaceful life is turned upside down by the sudden arrival of his daughter and grandchildren. A witty and heartfelt comedy about love, family, and emotional rebirth.
Iaia Forte will attend the Festival to present the film.

🎞️ Short Comedy Award 2025

In addition to the main competition, the festival hosts the Short Comedy Award, dedicated to original, humorous short films that inspire reflection through laughter.

Selected short films:

• TÊTES D’ENTERREMENT (15’29”, Belgium) – Dir. Nicolas Galoux
  A bittersweet comedy about a single father unable to cry at his mother’s funeral.

• AQUELE ABRAÇO (18’06”, Portugal) – Dir. Michael Joaquim Matias
  Two men about to end their lives meet under a tree and start an absurd, existential conversation.

• SATURN IN VENUS (5’, Georgia) – Dir. Alla Eliseeva
  A romantic and surreal short about astrology, destiny, and unexpected love.

• ANDROMEDA (15’, Russia) – Dir. Anna Melykian
  A young woman about to give up on life finds a reason to live through sarcasm and absurdity.

⭐ Collaborations and Patronage

The event, organized in collaboration with EFG Bank (Monaco), is held under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and the Embassy of Italy.
As every year, Radio Monte Carlo is the official radio partner of the Festival.