In his follow-up to the Palme d’Or–winning Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda casts two titans of French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, in a film structured around the rippling tensions underlying a family gathering.

A philosophy graduate (Anaïs Demoustier) becomes advisor to a mayor (Fabrice Luchini) who is running out of ideas in this heartfelt and thought-provoking tale of political action over empty rhetoric.

With a thoughtful, ruminative script by Claude Lelouch and Valérie Perrin, this sequel to Lelouch’s classic 1966 Palme d’Or–winner A Man and a Woman weaves a career-spanning tapestry for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, reprising their roles.

Winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo, this smoldering feature debut from Stéphane Batut is an entrancing tale of aching romanticism on the precipice of life and death.

As 11-year-old Amy rehearses with a hip-hop dance troupe, her newfound talent conflicts with her family’s traditional expectations in Maïmouna Doucouré’s vibrant debut.

A 12-year-old acrobat is pressured by her church to quit her training in actress-turned-director Sarah Suco’s debut feature, a mesmerizing slow burn set in an insular Catholic community.

Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (Portrait of Lady on Fire) star in this rollicking, absurdist, and lightly surrealist take on the midlife crisis movie, directed by Rendez-Vous mainstay Quentin Dupieux (Reality, Keep an Eye Out!).

Breezy yet sumptuous, Rebecca Zlotowski’s fourth feature taps into the universal hunger of adolescence, and imbues an empathetic coming-of-age story with a sharp class critique.

Taking place over the course of one hectic day, this buoyant and bittersweet ensemble piece directed by Cédric Kahn and headlined by Catherine Deneuve tests the ties that bind a family.

Dance legend Isadora Duncan responded to the tragic death of her children by choreographing a piece called Mother. In Isadora’s Children, Damien Manivel depicts a trio of characters engaging with Duncan’s work of art.

Ten-year-old Lise Leplat Prudhomme commands the center of Bruno Dumont’s inventive reimagining of the story of Joan of Arc, an uncanny, absurdist mood piece, strikingly shot amid rolling hills and vaulted cathedrals.

Chiara Mastroianni won Best Actress in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section for her fierce performance in this playful, fantastical spin on a Rohmerian moral tale, the latest from Christophe Honoré.

Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri) is a university student during the Algerian Civil War whose passion is fashion design. Defying religious conservatism, she custom-makes dresses for her peers that are examples of individual expression.

In this vividly detailed, unsettling thriller, young parents Myriam (Leïla Bekhti) and Paul (Antoine Reinartz) think they’ve found the perfect nanny in Louise (Karin Viard). But as Myriam reimmerses herself in her job, Louise entrenches herself deeper and deeper into their family life, her behavior growing ever stranger.

Alice Winocour’s (Disorder, Rendez-Vous ’16) third feature, which stars Eva Green and Matt Dillon, wrestles poignantly with the earthly loose ends and internal pressures of space travel.

Slam poet Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir’s second collaboration after 2016’s Step by Step is both vivid institutional critique and lively ensemble piece—a rousing look at the importance of encouraging untapped potential despite institutional odds.

In this almost-romance from Cédric Klapisch (Paris, Rendez-Vous 2008), warehouse employee Rémy (François Civil) and research assistant Mélanie (Ana Girardot) have never met, but they live parallel lives; the seemingly star-crossed duo orbit around each other but remain just out of reach.

The haunting, experiential latest from Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche (Story of Judas, Rendez-Vous 2016) centers on a doctor (Ramzy Bedia) in nineties Algeria who finds his moral positions shaken as his world rapidly becomes a war zone.

This heartfelt comic drama from the directing duo behind The Intouchables and starring Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb targets structural neglect in the French medical system.

An uncanny triangle emerges in this update of Henry James’s short story “The Way It Came.” Book critic Coline (Sara Giraudeau) is assigned a profile of a reclusive, brooding painter (Let the Sunshine In’s Nicolas Duvauchelle), who claims to have seen his mother’s spirit just before her death.

A teenager helps his environmentalist father train endangered geese to follow a new migratory path, avoidant of pollution and human-made threats, in this freewheeling adventure of both suspense and enlightening civic action.

When Claire (Juliette Binoche) creates a Facebook profile for a 24-year-old alter ego, her plans veer into uncharted territory, leading to a dizzying game of mirrors between the real and the virtual in Safy Nebbou’s ingenious adaptation of Camille Laurens’s best-seller.

Join Ethan Hawke for a conversation about his career and his relationship with French and international cinema. Moderated by Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival.

Cinema and literature are deeply interconnected art forms that keep inspiring each other. What are the challenges and implications of adapting a book to the screen, and how does literature nurture cinema?

In this talk, Alice Winocour, director of the astronaut drama Proxima, will explore the variety of approaches that artists have taken to crafting such stories, and how those perspectives differ across countries, genres, genders, and production contexts.

Celebrated author Serge Toubiana, president of Unifrance and former director of the Cinematheque française, will discuss the life and work of Helen Scott, subject of his latest book, L’amie américaine.