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Love Me Tender and In A Whisper
Affection Affection
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray; Writer: Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray; Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Nathalie Richard, Christophe Paou, Marc Susini, Clémentine Kaul-Surdez)
A teenage girl disappears on her birthday.
Alpha
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2025; Director: Julia Ducournau; Writer: Julia Ducournau; Stars: Emma Mackey, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Charles Clichet, Christophe Perez, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Louai El Amrousy, Mélissa Boros, Fabien Giameluca)
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mother. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
At Work
(À pied d’œuvre)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Valérie Donzelli; Writer: Valérie Donzelli, Gilles Marchand; Stars: Bastien Bouillon, André Marcon, Virginie Ledoyen)
The true story of a successful photographer who gives up everything to devote himself to writing - and discovers poverty.
Case 137
(Dossier 137)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Dominik Moll; Writer: Gilles Marchand, Dominik Moll; Stars: Léa Drucker, Yoann Blanc, Antonia Buresi, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, Guslagie Malanda, Kevin Debonne, Laurent Bozzi, Dorothée Martinet)
Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
Colours of Time
(La venue de l'avenir, The Coming Of The Future)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Cédric Klapisch; Writer: Santiago Amigorena, Cédric Klapisch; Stars: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Julia Piaton, Julia Piaton, Vincent Macaigne, Zinedine Soualem, Vassili Schneider, François Berléand, Sara Giraudeau, Paul Kircher, Cécile de France)
After a group of distant relatives inherit a house, they begin to investigate the life of their predecessor.
The Girl In The Snow and Nino
Enzo
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet; Writer: Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand; Stars: Eloy Pohu, Pierfrancesco Favino, Élodie Bouchez, Malou Khebizi, Nathan Japy, Maksym Slivinskyi)
A 16-year-old boy breaks out from his bourgeois family and starts an apprenticeship as a stonemason. He also meets a Ukrainian colleague who turns his world upside down.
The Girl In The Snow
(L'engloutie)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Louise Hémon; Writer: Louise Hémon, Maxence Stamatiadis, Anaïs Tellenne; Stars: Samuel Kircher, Galatéa Bellugi, Matthieu Lucci, Sharif Andoura)
1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
The Great Arch
(L’inconnu de la Grande Arche)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Stéphane Demoustier; Writer: Laurence Cossé, Stéphane Demoustier; Stars: Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Swann Arlaud, Alessandro Bressanello, Michel Fau, Olivia Hahn Reichstein, Pierre-François Grunenwald, Thomas Garcia)
1982. French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition...
Guess Who's Calling!
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Fabienne Godet; Writer: Fabienne Godet, Claire Barré; Stars: Salif Cissé, Denis Podalydès, Clara Bretheau, Aure Atika, Manon Clavel, Ismaël Sy Savané, Harrison Arevalo, Serge Postigo, Thierry Bosc, Camille Cayol, Yun-Ping He, Yvon Martin, Catherine Griffoni, Marie Courtel, Renaud Blanc)
An unlikely friendship forms when a stand-up comic agrees to impersonate a novelist for his personal and professional communications.
Hearts On Fire
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Aurélien Peyre)
Tale of young love.
The Great Arch and Alpha
In A Whisper
(A Voix Basse)
(Year: 2026; Director: Leyla Bouzid; Writer: Leyla Bouzid; Stars: Marion Barbeau, Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, Feriel Chamari)
Lilia returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral and reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, especially not about the woman she loves.
The Little Sister
(La Petite Dernière)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Hafsia Herzi; Writer: Fatima Daas, Hafsia Herzi; Stars: Park Ji-min, Aloïse Sauvage, Némo Schiffman, Vincent Pasdermadjian, Sophie Garagnon, Olivia Courbis, Rita Benmannana, Victorien Bonnet, Elisa Libri, Luna Ribeiro, Anouar Kardellas, Nacer Bouhanni)
Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family.
Love Me Tender
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Writer: Anna Cazenave Cambet; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri, Viggo Ferreira-Redier, Féodor Atkine, Park Ji-min, Manuel Vallade, Aurélia Petit, Salif Cissé)
One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.
Maigret And The Dead Lover
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Pascal Bonitzer; Writer: Pascal Bonitzer; Stars: Denis Podalydès, Olivier Rabourdin, Micha Lescot, Laurent Poitrenaux, Irène Jacob, Manuel Guillot, Anne Alvaro, Julia Faure, Arcadi Radeff, Dominique Reymond, Noël Simsolo, Stéphane Mercoyrol, Natalia Pujszo, Hugues Quester)
The sleuth investigates the murder of a former ambassador.
Meteors
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Hubert Charuel; Writer: Hubert Charuel, Claude Le Pape; Stars: Paul Kircher, Idir Azougli, Salif Cissé, Stéphane Rideau)
France’s rural wasteland. Three long-time friends, Tony has become the construction king, Mika and Daniel the kings of nothing. They have big dreams but little luck. Cornered after another blunder, they end up working for Tony at the nuclear dumping ground. So far, so bad…
Enzo and Case 137
The Money Maker
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Writer: Jean-Paul Salomé, Bastien Daret; Stars: Reda Kateb, Sara Giraudeau, Bastien Bouillon, Quentin Dolmaire, Pierre Lottin, Camille Japy, Lolita Chammah, Olivier Loustau, Arthur Teboul, Victor Poirier, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Héléna Sadowy, Julien Massetti, Cédric Weber, Francis Leplay)
Drama about the story of the “Cézanne of counterfeit money” and the French cop on an epic quest to take him down.
Nino
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Pauline Loquès; Writer: Pauline Loquès; Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Salomé Dewaels, Jeanne Balibar, Camille Rutherford, Victoire Du Bois, William Lebghil, Mounir Belhidaoui, Estelle Meyer, Mathieu Amalric)
Seventy-two hours before Nino's chemotherapy, he must complete the two missions given to him by his doctor.
The Stranger
(L'Etranger)
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: François Ozon, based on the book by Albert Camus; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Swann Arlaud, Denis Lavant)
Algiers, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother's funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a work colleague. He quickly slips back into his usual routine. However, his daily life is soon about to be disrupted by his neighbor, Raymond Sintès, who draws Meursault into his shady dealings.
Two Pianos
(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Arnaud Desplechin)
Returning to France after a long exile, pianist Mathias Vogler reunites with his mentor, Elena, to prepare a concert. In a park, an encounter with a child who looks just like him will lead him to Claude, the woman he once loved.
The Wizard Of The Kremlin
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas, Emmanuel Carrère, based on the novel by Giuliano Da Empoli; Stars: Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander)
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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