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Soudain
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
A deep friendship blossoms between a French nursing home director fighting for compassionate care and a terminally ill Japanese playwright as they navigate institutional struggles and shared mortality.
De La Comédie-Française
Director: Bertrand Usclat & Martin Darondeau
A young theatre director, Nina, faces broken equipment, massive actor egos, and a stranded lead actress in a chaotic, three-hour race against the clock to save her premiere of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Les Braves
Director: Lukas Dhont
A tender, queer love story between two Belgian soldiers trapped in the horrors of trench warfare.
Director: Antonin Baudry
General Charles de Gaulle navigates the parallel struggles of unifying a divided French Resistance, outmanoeuvring political rivals, and asserting France's sovereignty to Allied leaders ahead of the nation's liberation.
Director: Antonin Baudry
An epic historical drama tracking Charles de Gaulle's defiance of the 1940 Nazi invasion, his exile to London, and his turbulent alliance with Winston Churchill to forge the Free French resistance.
Director: Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
A time-bending queer epic that follows the interconnected lives, desires, and struggles of three gay men across three pivotal eras of Spanish history: 1932, 1937, and 2017
Director: Fred Cavayé
The latest adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel, which follows reformed ex-convict Jean Valjean amidst the social unrest of Paris, all the while relentlessly hunted by his obsessed nemesis, Inspector Javert.
Maya donne-moi un titre
Director: Michel Gondry
Charming, handmade stop-motion shorts created by filmmaker Michel Gondry for his long-distance daughter, based entirely on the imaginative titles and story prompts she gives him every evening.
Changer l’eau des fleurs
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cemetery caretaker Violette's routine of offering comfort to visitors is upended when a police officer's arrival forces her to confront her own tragic and mysterious past.
Le Chant des forêts
Director: Vincent Munier
Breath-taking award-winning nature documentary following three generations of the Munier family as they explore the majestic wildlife of France's Vosges forests.
Femmes First
La vie d'une femme
Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
An overworked 55-year-old hospital surgeon finds her carefully structured work-life balance upended and starts questioning her life choices when an inquisitive novelist shadows her for a book.
Garance
Director: Jeanne Herry
An unrecognized Paris theatre actress battles severe alcoholism while holding onto a fragile lifeline through her devotion to her sick younger sister.
L’Objet du délit
Director: Agnès Jaoui
In the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre in the South of France, the cast and crew of an ambitious staging of The Marriage of Figaro is thrown off balance when troubling accusations threaten to derail the entire production.
Le Rendez-vous de l’été
Director: Valentine Cadic
Arriving from quiet Normandy to watch the swimming competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympics, a thirty-year-old woman struggles through the chaos of an electrified capital city while unexpectedly reconnecting with her estranged half-sister.
Histoires de la Nuit
Director: Léa Mysius
As a family prepares a surprise birthday party on an isolated farm, three mysterious men breach the home, triggering a tense hostage situation that forces long-buried secrets to light.
L’Affaire Marie-Claire
Director: Lauriane Escaffre & Yvo Muller
In 1972 France, a fearless lawyer takes on the landmark Bobigny trial to defend a teenage girl prosecuted for having an illegal abortion.
Quelques mots d'amour
Director: Rudi Rosenberg
In 1995 Sarcelles, a devoted single mother struggles to protect her household when her daughter's lifelong fixation on finding her absent father grows into an consuming obsession.
Panorama
Maigret et le mort amoureux
Director: Pascal Bonitzer
Commissioner Jules Maigret investigates the murder of a former ambassador, navigating uncooperative high-society families and a tight-lipped housekeeper to uncover a long-hidden secret.
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Director: Xavier Giannoli
A prominent French journalist and his movie star daughter descend into active Nazi collaboration during the World War II occupation of Paris.
L’Affaire Bojarski
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
A brilliant Polish refugee and engineer builds a secret, multi-million banknote counterfeiting empire in post-war France, triggering a fifteen-year cat-and-mouse chase with a relentless police commissioner
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Director: Alexandre Castagnetti
An 18-year-old ballet dancer at the Opéra Garnier embarks on a forbidden romance with a mysterious figure amid a string of cursed, near-fatal accidents.
La Troisième Nuit
Director: Daniel Auteuil
A righteous Vichy civil servant and a humanitarian priest exploit bureaucratic loopholes to rescue over 100 Jewish children from a deportation camp in 1942 Lyon.
Discovery
Notre Salut
Director: Emmanuel Marre
An opportunistic intellectual climbs the bureaucratic ladder of the Vichy regime, gradually descending into moral decay as he participates in fascist policies.
Classic
Mélodie en sous sol
Director: Henri Verneuil
Released from prison, an aging gangster teams up with a young, cocky crook to execute one final, meticulous casino heist on the French Riviera.
Drôle de drame
Director: Marcel Carné
Ameek botanist who secretly moonlights as a popular crime novelist fakes his wife's disappearance, unwittingly triggering a chaotic murder investigation by his overly suspicious bishop cousin.
Director: Agnès Varda
This moving tribute chronicles the childhood of legendary filmmaker Jacques Demy in Nazi-occupied Nantes, capturing the early artistic awakenings and love for cinema that shaped his future masterpieces.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Three friends from a marginalized Paris suburb navigate escalating racial tensions and potential violence following a brutal police riot.
Remorques
Director: Jean Grémillon
A dedicated tugboat captain's loyalty is pushed to the limit when he falls into a passionate affair with a woman he saves.
Documentary
Le Chantier
Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron
Filmed over several years, this documentary captures the multi-layered human network of architects, engineers, and construction crews rebuilding Paris's iconic Pathé Palace under the direction of architect Renzo Piano.
Autour de Lucio
Director: Etienne Barrier & Pierre-Alain Delisse
Lucio, a young man battling dystonia, as he sets out on a gruelling 99-day running and biking trek across France alongside his devoted mother.
Lumière, le cinéma
Director: Thierry Frémaux
The documentary chronicles the history and genesis of early motion pictures by weaving together over 100 beautifully restored 50-second silent films shot by the Lumière brothers.
Les Sentinelles de l’oubli
Director: Jérôme Prieur
The documentary re-examines World War I war memorials across France, transforming these everyday stone monuments into a visible museum that uncovers the lasting grief and ghosts of the Great War.
De l’ordure à l’or dur
Director: Rosalind Fredericks, Sarita West
A waste picker community fights for survival as Dakar's massive Mbeubeuss dump faces a government-mandated closure.
Le Chant des forêts
Director: Vincent Munier
Breath-taking award-winning nature documentary following three generations of the Munier family as they explore the majestic wildlife of France's Vosges forests.
Animation
Director: Jean-Paul Guigue, Dimitri Planchon
An introverted teen's silent, awkward demeanour is mistaken for deep political radicalism and he's swept into an impromptu, violent revolutionary crusade.
Director: Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané
A narcissistic Parisian gay influencer whose life collapses when he contracts "Heterosis"—a viral STI that turns gay men straight.
Marcel le père Noël et le petit livreur de pizzas
Director: Tom Chertier, Julie Rembauville, Nicolas Bianco-Levrin
A pizza delivery boy teams up with his community to save Christmas after an exhausted Santa Claus named Marcel gets into a scooter accident.
Maya donne-moi un titre
Director: Michel Gondry
Charming, handmade stop-motion shorts created by filmmaker Michel Gondry for his long-distance daughter, based entirely on the imaginative titles and story prompts she gives him every evening.
Extras: Screenings supported by IFCinéma
Le Répondeur
Director: Fabienne Godet
A struggling voice impressionist is hired by a reclusive novelist to act as his human answering machine, only for the mimic to gradually take over the writer's real life and relationships
Director: Julien Menanteau
Ethan, a 20-year-old apprentice jockey, navigates the dangerous and highly competitive world of steeplechase horse racing.
Marmaille
Director: Grégory Lucilly
A poignant, coming-of-age drama about two siblings fighting to rebuild their lives after being abandoned by their mother.
À bicyclette !
Director: Mathias Miekuz
A deeply moving French comedy-drama about a grieving father who goes on an epic bicycle trip across Europe to honor his late son.
Remorques
Director: Jean Grémillon
A dedicated tugboat captain's loyalty is pushed to the limit when he falls into a passionate affair with a woman he saves.
L'Attachement
Director: Carine Tardieu
A fiercely independent feminist bookseller's structured, solo life is turned upside down when a sudden tragedy strikes her neighbours, thrusting her into an unexpected role as a foundational support system for a grieving single father and his young children.
Adventures in Cinema
Calamity, une enfance de Martha Jane Cannary
Director: Rémi Chayé|
In this vibrant animated Western, a young girl must disguise herself as a boy and brave the dangers of the American frontier to clear her name after being falsely accused of theft by her wagon train.
Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse
Director: Michel Ocelot
A visually stunning anthology film that weaves together three distinct folklore tales spanning ancient Sudan, medieval France, and 18th-century Turkey to celebrate themes of epic love, justice, and resilience against oppressive societies.
