Discover Art, Cinema and Culture Without Borders with TV5MONDE this Winter

November 7, 2025

TV5MONDE, the global French-language entertainment channel, continues to celebrate the diversity of Francophone culture with bold new stories, fresh debates, and a new way to experience the arts. This winter, audiences can enjoy the very best of French-speaking cinema and culture on TV5MONDE and TV5MONDE+, now united under one platform. TV5MONDE+ now offers the live TV5MONDE TV channel, plus over 6,000 hours of on-demand programmes, all in one place. 

Watch via tv5mondeplus.com, through the TV5MONDE+ App on your device or connected TV, or via Amazon Fire Stick.

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– a new weekly show where art comes alive! Sundays at 6pm © TV5MONDE

Every week, host Ali Baddou and his team of guest commentators welcome French-speaking artists from across the world who are “at the heart of current events and who move the lines.”

Filmed before a live audience, this vibrant new show blends art, conversation, and creation, featuring guests from established icons to emerging talents shaping tomorrow’s art scene.

Expect humour, lively debate, and surprise performances in an atmosphere that celebrates art in all its forms – and shares it with everyone.

Culture, creativity, and conversation from the francophone arts world — watch it live on TV5MONDE, Sundays at 18.00.

Watch via tv5mondeplus.com, through the TV5MONDE+ App on your device or connected TV, or via Amazon Fire Stick

TV5MONDE recommends: Comme une actrice starring Julie Gayet – this November © La Mer a Boire Productions

Don’t miss Comme une actrice, screening on TV5MONDE Sunday 30 November at 20.00 and Tuesday 2 December at 13.00. In this poignant drama by Sébastien Bailly, celebrated actress Julie Gayet delivers one of her most powerful performances, as a woman facing the end of a love story and an era, blurring the line between performance and reality. A film about identity, reinvention, and the courage to begin again.

Watch it live on TV5MONDE, Sun 30 Nov at 20.00.

Thousands of Hours of Films and Drama Free on TV5MONDE+

On TV5MONDE+, discover over 6,000 hours of free programmes – award-winning films, gripping drama, documentaries, and lifestyle shows, all available anytime with English subtitles.

November film highlights:

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Des hommes et des dieux – a moving, multi award-winning reflection on faith and sacrifice.

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Richelieu – a tense, contemporary story of justice and conscience from Quebec.

© Insolence Productions

Chien de la casse – a raw and touching tale of friendship and rivalry in the sun-drenched south of France, winner of Best First Film at the César Awards.

Whether you prefer timeless masterpieces or bold new voices, TV5MONDE+ opens a window on the French-speaking world – completely free.

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Great titles from MUBI this February

February 12, 2021

FROM 28 JANUARY 2021

Watch award-winning films from MUBI

This week we take a look at some of the great titles which are coming up in February on MUBI. To give you some ideas we’ve picked our top four, which are a mixture of feature films, shorts and documentaries.

Included in the line-up is Aude Léa Rapin’s Heroes Don’t Die. It stars Adèle Haenel from Portrait of a Lady on Fire – one of the hits from the 2019 French Film Festival UK.

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We hope you enjoy the films.

Heroes Don’t Die / Les Héros ne meurent jamais

Dir Aude Léa Rapin

Available now

Synopsis

Joachim is approached by a man believing him to be a Bosnian soldier who died on the day Joachim was born. Suspicious that he is the reincarnation of the soldier, Joachim travels to Sarajevo with his friends Alice (Adèle Haenel) and Virginie to uncover his past life. Showing as part of ‘From France with Love’ MUBI’s line-up of new French cinema coming to you fresh from festivals.

Awards

Cannes Film Festival (2019)
Screened as part of Critics’ Week

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Credits

Director Aude Léa Rapin
Cast Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié, Antonia Buresi, Hasija Borić
2020 | France | English subtitles | 85 mins

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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

Dir Terence Dixon

Available 2 February 2021

Synopsis

Documentary. This rare film document of one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature—photographed by Jack Hazan (Rude Boy, A Bigger Splash) – captures the iconic writer in several symbolic locations, including the Place de la Bastille.

Awards

New York Film Festival (2020)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Terence Dixon
1970 | United Kingdom, France | English | 27 mins

WATCH FROM 2 FEBRUARY

The Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc

Dir Carl Theodor Dreyer

Available 3 February 2021

Synopsis

Cinema can be many things: a drama, a poem, a song, a dream. Dreyer’s masterpiece is one of cinema’s greatest expressions of spirituality, and indeed one of the greatest of all films: a daring, radical reimagining of the art form that continues to inspire awe. A tale of feminist passion.

Awards

National Board of Reviews (1929)
Winner: Top Foreign Films

Berlin International Film Festival (1997)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
1928 | France | No dialogue | 98 mins

WATCH FROM 3 FEBRUARY

If It Were Love / Si c’était de l’amour

Dir Patric Chiha

Available 11 February 2021

Synopsis

Documentary on the creation of Crowd, Gisèle Vienne’s evocative dance piece based on the undulating, liquid physicality of the 90s clubbing scene in Berlin. We follow the fifteen dancers from theatre to theatre – their work along with their strange, intimate relationships. The line between the stage and real life becomes blurry, creating a troubling journey into our nights, our parties, our loves.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival (2020)
Winner, Teddy Award

BFI London Film Festival (2020)
Official Selection

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Credits

Director Patric Chiha
2020 | France | English | 82 mins

WATCH FROM 11 FEBRUARY

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Titles from TV5MONDE this month

February 12, 2021

FROM 3 FEBRUARY 2021

February Cinema Selection from TV5MONDE

This time we take a look at some of the great films that TV5MONDE will be screening for free online in February. Here are some of the highlights.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day on 14 February they’ll be screening Isabelle Mergault’s comedy Je vous trouve très beau about a farmer from the countryside looking for love. Daniel Auteuil (from 2019 Festival favourite La Belle Epoque) stars in another Isabelle Mergault comedy Donnant, donnant later in the month.

All films will be available to watch live on the TV5MONDE website, or via the new TV5MONDE App for Samsung / Android and Amazon Fire TV at their scheduled time – just visit the platform and the film will be ready to watch. Catch up is also available via the TV5MONDE App: just search in your TV App Store to find it.

In the meantime why not take a look at some of the other great content available for free from TV5MONDE, including news, TV drama and programmes aimed at younger audiences? We hope you enjoy the films.

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Blame it on Fidel / La faute á Fidel!

Dir Julie Gavras

Available Sunday 7 February (20:00)

Synopsis

1970. Nine year old Anna leads a peaceful, comfortable life. The only concern is her communist uncle fighting Franco. His execution and a trip to Chile, where Allende has just been elected, completely transform her parents.

Awards

Deauville Film Festival 2006
Winner, Michel d’Ornano Award

Credits

Director Julie Gavras
Cast Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Marie Kremer, Olivier Perrier
2006 | France | English subtitles | 99 mins.

You Are So Beautiful / Je vous trouve très beau

Dir Isabelle Mergault

Available Sunday 14 February (20:00)

Synopsis

When farmer Aymé Pigrenet loses his wife, he is not exactly overwhelmed by sorrow, rather by the sheer amount of work that suddenly falls on his shoulders. He decides he needs to find a new wife.

Awards

César Awards (2007)
Winner – Best First Feature Film

Credits

Director Isabelle Mergault
Cast Michel Blanc, Medeea Marinescu, Wladimir Yordanoff, Benoît Turjman
2006 | France | English subtitles | 97 mins.

Daydreams / L’indomptée

Dir Caroline Deruas-Garrel

Available Sunday 21 February (20:00)

Synopsis

Past and present, fantasy and reality collide in this boldly original feature debut from Caroline Deruas-Garrel. A group of young French artists converge at Rome’s Villa Medici for a one-year residency. One is haunted by spectral visions of the villa’s past. A beguiling tale of creative struggle, romantic rivalry, and ghosts.

Awards

Les Arcs European Film Festival (2016)
Winner: Best Original Score
Winner: Young Jury Prize

Credits

Director Caroline Deruas-Garrel
Cast Clotilde Hesme, Jenna Thiam, Tchéky Karyo, Bernard Verley
2016 | France | French with English subtitles | 98 mins

Donnant, donnant / Donnant, donnant

Dir Isabelle Mergault

Available Sunday 28 February (20:00)

Synopsis

A man escapes from prison and holes up in an abandoned barge near an isolated village by a canal. One of his new neighbours recognises him, but she agrees to keep silent on condition that he commits murder for her. He agrees but events take a different turn…

Credits

Director Isabelle Mergault
Cast Daniel Auteuil, Sabine Azéma, Medeea Marinescu, Ariane Pirié
2010 | France | French with English subtitles | 100 mins

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