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Another Day (Garance) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Jeanne Herry; Writer: Jeanne Herry; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sara Giraudeau)
A young actress finds herself in a spiral.
The Birthday Party (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Léa Mysius)
Nora is turning 40, and for her birthday she’ll be getting three uninvited guests who claim she isn’t who she says she is, plus the unraveling of her carefully constructed life
Crescendo (L’Objet Du Delit) (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Agnès Jaoui; Writer: Agnès Jaoui; Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Daniel Auteuil, Eye Haïdara, Claire Chust, Oussama Kheddam, Lucie Gallo, Tiphaine Daviot, Maxime Pambet, Loic Legendre, Vincenzo Amato, Patrick Mille, Hervé Pierre, Emmanuel Salinger, Jacques Weber)
Satire sees the cast of an opera rocked by an accusation of sexual assault.
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That Summer In Paris (Le rendez-vous de l'été) (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Valentine Cadic; Writer: Valentine Cadic, Mariette Désert; Stars: India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Blandine Madec, Lou Deleuze, Matthias Jacquin)
Paris, the 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disorientated by the hustle and bustle of the city where nothing seems to go her way, she navigates the chaos of Paris and an unexpected reunion.
A Woman's Life (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Stéphane Brizé; Writer: Stéphane Brizé, Guy de Maupassant, Florence Vignon; Stars: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse, Olivier Perrier, Clotilde Hesme, Alain Beigel, Finnegan Oldfield, Lucette Beudin, Jérôme Lanne, Mélie Deneuve, Père François-Xavier Ledoux, Lise Lamétrie, Marc Olry)
The harsh realities of a woman's life in 19th century France.
Women On Trial (L'Affaire Marie-Claire) (Year: 2026; Director: Lauriane Escaffre, Yvo Muller)
True story of a woman who was tried for having an abortion after she fell pregnant as the result of a rape.
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