Our full 2024 French Film Festival UK programme is now available!
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Le Temps d’aimer
Director: Katell Quillévéré
In the aftermath of World War II a marriage of convenience blossoms into true love.
Director: Jacques Audiard
A visually bold musical following a cartel leader who must fake her death to live freely.
Director: Audrey Diwan
A remake of the classic erotic thriller. A woman on a business trip to Hong Kong has an erotic awakening.
Vingt Dieux
Director: Louise Courvoisier
A young man must take care of his little sister after a tragic accident.
Iris et les hommes
Director: Caroline Vignal
A married woman becomes restless with her life, and decides to take a lover.
Julie zwijgt
Director: Leonardo Van Dijl
A dedicated young tennis player must make a decision when her coach is suspended, and rumours start to spread.
Mon Crime
Director: François Ozon
A struggling actress finds unlikely stardom when accused of murder.
L’homme aux mille visages
Director: Sonia Kronlund
A master con artist manipulates multiple women by inventing false identities and lives.
En fanfare
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Surprise family connections bring a renowned composer to lead a community marching band.
La Dégustation
Director: Ivan Calbérac
A jaded wine merchant is energised by a lighthearted, kindly nurse.
Discovery
Un petit truc en plus
Director: Artus
This smash hit follows a father and son as they hide out from the law in a holiday camp for those with disabilities.
Director: Jawad Rhalib
A teacher strives to foster a love of literature among her pupils in a Brussels school, encouraging them to think for themselves, and to seek out other points of view.
L’amour ouf
Director: Gilles Lellouche
Over fifteen years in Northern France, star-crossed lovers come in and out of each other's lives.
Director: Jessica Palud
A biopic of the experiences of actress Maria Schneider as she filmed Last Tango in Paris.
Le Procès du chien
Director: Laetitia Dosch
A feisty lawyer defends a dog accused of biting three people.
Et plus si affinités
Director: Olivier Ducray, Wilfried Méance
A strained husband and wife have their relationship tested by a visit from an uninhibited young couple.
Maoussi
Director: Charlotte Schiøler
An immature dancer agrees to house a Congolese refugee, further complicated by the escape of a lab mouse.
Un año, una noche
Director: Isaki Lacuesta
A pair of millennial lovers must cope with post-traumatic stress after they’re caught up in the mass shooting at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris.
Berger
Director: Sophie Deraspe
Mathyas gives up his uninspiring white collar job to become a shepherd in rural France in Sophie Deraspe's award winning latest.
Bernadette
Director: Léa Domenach
A biopic of Bernadette Chirac, and her attempt to restore her reputation and assert her role as first lady.
Les Loups
Director: Isabelle Prim
The residents of an open hospital stage a play about the Beast of Gévaudan in Isabelle Prim's latest.
Toni en famille
Director: Nathan Ambrosioni
A single mother of five faces life with an empty nest as her children prepare for university.
Panorama
Director: Payal Kapadia
Payal Kapadia's debut explores modern life in Mumbai with a keen and magical eye.
Et la fête continue
Director: Robert Guédiguian
As Marseilles awakens politically, a dedicated nurse discovers love and new purpose when she meets an enigmatic figure.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
A delicate cross-cultural romance ensues when an Ivorian immigrant takes up the art of Chinese tea-making.
Director: Anne Fontaine
A biopic of Maurice Ravel, one of France’s great twentieth century composers.
Coup de Chance
Director: Woody Allen
A bored wife in Paris cheats on her wealthy, aloof husband and triggers fatal consequences.
Director: Nabil Ayouch
A singer dreams of leaving her tiny village for the bright lights of Casablanca
Spectateurs
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
The coming of age of a young cinephile.
C'est pas moi
Director: Leos Carax
In his trademark experimental and comic fashion, Leos Carax tries to answer where he's at.
Le roman de Jim
Director: Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
A family’s life is upended when the son’s biological father re-emerges.
Juliette au printemps
Director: Blandine Lenoir
Juliette returns home to navigate family tensions, buried secrets, and unexpected connections in this tender portrait.
Director: Claire Burger
Two teenage pen pals finally meet in this Golden Bear nominated drama.
Director: Christophe Honoré
Chiara Mastroianni’s life is turned upside down when she decides to live as her father, the legendary Marcello Mastroianni.
Miséricorde
Director: Alain Guiraudie
A man returns to his village for a funeral and stirs up considerable trouble.
Un beau matin
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
A widowed mother must care for both her young daughter and elderly father.
Director: Jean Libon, Stéphanie De Smedt, Régine Dubois, Clémentine Bisiaux, Mathilde Blanc, Yves Hinant
From the creators of the original, controversial Belgium TV series Strip-Tease comes a collection of five sketches exploring big issues in their usual scabrous fashion.
L'Empire
Director: Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont's first take on Sci-fi sees a quiet fishing village face an interstellar threat.
Le Deuxième acte
Director: Quentin Dupieux
The ever-prolific festival favourite Quentin Dupieux brings us his devilish meta-comedy.
L'histoire de Souleymane
Director: Boris Lojkine
A Guinean migrant lives a precarious life as a bike courier in Paris.
Ma vie, ma gueule
Director: Sophie Fillières
A writer navigates mental illness, a midlife crisis, and self-discovery in Sophie Fillières' final film.
Trois amies
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Emmanuel Mouret's latest take on modern romance follows the travails of three friends, and the ups and downs of their relationships.
Documentary
7 promenades avec Mark Brown
Director: Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
Paleobotanist Mark Brown guides through you through the flora of Normandy in this gorgeous documentary.
Abel Gance et son Napoléon
Director: Nelly Kaplan
Using vintage footage and production insights, explore Abel Gance's innovative filmmaking techniques in creating the silent epic Napoléon.
Director: Mathieu Amalric
An intimate document of the recording of the Emerson String Quartet's final album.
Director: Marie-France Brière
An exploration of the Delamain family in their twin pursuits of cognac and literature.
De chaque instant
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Follows a group of nursing students in France as they navigate rigorous training and confront human fragility.
Apprendre
Director: Claire Simon
Captures the daily life, conflicts, and creativity of students and staff at a multicultural school near Paris.
Director: Fiona Lloyd-Davies
A breathtaking documentary on institutionalised sexual violence towards Congolese women, and their stories.
La Belle de Gaza
Director: Yolande Zauberman
In this timely documentary, Yolande Zauberman seeks out a mysterious trans woman who walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv.
Animation
Le Grand Noël des animaux
Director: Camille Alméras, Caroline Attia Lavrivière, Ceylan Beyoglu, Haruna Kishi, Natalia Chernysheva, and Olesya Shchukina
In a festive, fairytale setting, animals embark on five heartwarming adventures, discovering generosity, teamwork, and nature's beauty.
Drôles d’oiseaux
Director: Charlie Belin
A short film exploring a quiet little girl’s love of birds, and the adventure it takes her on.
Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens
Director: Alain Ughetto
A portrait of workers in an Italian mountain village when the Fascists come to power, told in stop-motion.
Sauvages
Director: Claude Barras
A beautiful ecological fable about an indigenous people living in a tropical forest.
Classic
La Cérémonie
Director: Claude Chabrol
Return to Claude Chabrol's masterpiece of tension, build on the crackling intensity of Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert's chemistry.
Un homme et une femme
Director: Claude Lelouch
Two widowers’ blossoming romance is challenged by memories of their late spouses.
César et Rosalie
Director: Claude Sautet
Two men compete for a woman's love after her divorce rekindles past emotions.
La Nuit américaine
Director: François Truffaut
François Truffaut humorously portrays the chaos and romance of filmmaking through a troubled movie set.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci’s landmark and controversial erotic film focuses on a young Parisian woman meeting a middle-aged American businessman, who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
La Boum
Director: Claude Pinoteau
Revisit Sophie Marceau's star-making debut in this eighties classic.
La Piscine
Director: Jacques Deray
Violence and jealousy are brought to the fore for a vacationing couple when an old acquaintance and his daughter arrive.
Extras: Screenings supported by Institut français
La Bataille de Solférino
Director: Justine Triet
One manic day in the life of news reporter who must balance chaos both at work and at home.
Je verrai toujours vos visages
Director: Jeanne Herry
As part of France’s Restorative Justice programme, several victims and offenders meet to try and create a dialogue, and hopefully achieve forgiveness.
De nos frères blessés
Director: Hélier Cisterne
The true story of a young communist worker and his part in the struggle for Algerian independence.
Director: François Ozon
A loose remake of Lubitch’s Broken Lullaby in which a woman in post-first world war Germany forms a bond with a mysterious man.
Director: Samir Guesmi
A father and son must negotiate the trials and travails of adolescence.
Chien de la casse
Director: Jean-Baptiste Durand
Childhood pals have their rural boredom rocked when romance blossoms for one of the pair.
En corps
Director: Cédric Klapisch
A young ballerina must weather many storms in the attempt to reach greatness.
La Petite Bande
Director: Pierre Salvadori
Five young friends become eco warriors in small town Corsica
La Montagne
Director: Thomas Salvador
An engineer flees civilisation to live in the glaciers of Mont Blanc.
Mystère
Director: Denis Imbert
A father and daughter discover the dog they have adopted is really a wolf
Shorts
Director: Alliah Fafin
A young boy’s passion for dance must withstand the perils of life.
Auxiliaire
Director: Lucas Bacle
Director: Jean-David Rodrigue, Franie-Éléonore Bernier
Director: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Sabine searches for images of the Maalbeek metro station attack to trigger her memory of the event.
Montsouris
Director: Guil Sela
Pupuce
Director: Chloé Larrère
Spot the film-making talents of tomorrow in this selection of garlanded francophone shorts from France, Belgium and Quebec, curated by Martine Pierquin.
Été 96
Director: Mathilde Bédouet
