Thirtysomething Anaïs (Anaïs Demoustier) is in a manic search for stability when she embarks on a breathless love triangle with a middle-aged publisher and his partner, a formidable literary force in her own right, in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s effervescent feature debut.

Doing for French rap duo Suprême NTM what Straight Outta Compton did for N.W.A., Audrey Estrougo’s crowd-pleasing and galvanizing biopic is a dynamic reconstruction of a moment in hip-hop’s global explosion.

When famed journalist Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche) goes undercover to investigate the exploitation of cleaning people in the north of France, she must grapple with the effects of her deception on the fellow workers she has come to befriend.

When a young seminary student confesses to the brutal murder of a 13-year-old in 1905, three doctors are tasked with determining whether or not he’s insane in this unnerving and existentially charged portrait of an enigmatic killer.

Love, Israel, regret, and mortality are all in the heady conversational mix in the newest drama from Arnaud Desplechin—a faithful adaptation of Philip Roth’s classic novel, whose fusion of rigorous intellectual discourse and explosive emotionality is a perfect fit for the master filmmaker.

Unsentimental and often surprisingly funny, the newest film from François Ozon offers a look at the logistics of approaching death on one’s own terms within a nuanced portrait of a complicated family.

Philippe Béziat’s documentary follows a diverse troupe of dancers and singers as they prepare to mount an ambitious new production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes, transplanting the action to 21st-century France in a radical new staging that both honors and transforms the original text.

When filmmaker Christoph Honoré’s plans for a stage adaptation of Marcel Proust’s volume The Guermantes Way are thwarted by the COVID pandemic, he decides to adapt by continuing to rehearse for the pure, communal joy of the theatrical experience in this part-real, part-fictional account.

Harnessing flawless performances from her young leads, first-time feature filmmaker Emilie Carpentier plunges viewers into the midst of a new generation of activists’ coming of age in this story of disaffected teenagers discovering a sense of purpose in political engagement.

Judith Fauvet (Virginie Efira) leads a double life with two families: as the mother of one girl with a partner in Switzerland, and the parent of another two sons in France. The mysterious reasons for Judith’s lies, and the complications that ensue, propel this third narrative feature from Antoine Barraud.

Two teen brothers co-operating a post-punk pirate radio station in early-1980s Brittany fall in love with the same older woman in Vincent Maël Cardona’s feature-film debut, which reconstructs an intense moment of social and cultural change with heady immediacy.

Writer-director Rachel Lang draws upon her own background as an officer in the French army reserves to craft an impressively assured portrait of life in the French Foreign Legion, deftly juggling the perspectives of legionnaires and their romantic partners.

Webcams, casual sex, and the mores of modern love are all explored in this unsparing but nonjudgmental portrait of young Parisians in and out of love and lust from Palme d’Or–winner Jacques Audiard.

Deftly transitioning from comedy to drama, director Axelle Ropert takes inspiration from The 400 Blows in this sensitive divorce drama that places children, rather than adults, at the center of unexpected familial collapse.

Reeling in the wake of devastating physical and emotional injuries, ballerina Elise (Marion Barbeau) slowly rebuilds her life while redirecting her efforts to contemporary dance in this latest crowd-pleaser from Cédric Klapisch.

A past-his-prime actor (Gérard Depardieu) and the young female security guard who takes over as his assistant (Déborah Lukumuena) develop an unexpected friendship in this assured feature debut from Constance Meyer.

Loosely adapted and updated from a Wilkie Collins novel, Aurélia Georges’s latest film, about a World War I battlefield nurse (Lyna Khoudri) who assumes the identity of a patient, brings the intensity of a thriller to thoughtful historical drama.

Two students from very different backgrounds, both enrolled at the Sorbonne, find themselves passionately attracted to each other in Tunisian-born writer-director Leyla Bouzid’s sophomore feature, a sensual and sensitive cross-sectional portrait of Arab diaspora life in Paris.

Jacques Becker’s brilliantly crafted, surprisingly poignant crime drama features Jean Gabin in a tremendous performance that helped relaunch his sagging career, and Jeanne Moreau in one of her earliest film appearances.

The dogged, sometimes thorny relationship between a journalist and his police informant—and the consequences of their revelations—drive this methodical procedural, based on the real-life scandal that led to the indictment of a police chief for drug smuggling.

Join Claire Denis, the singular cinematic visionary whose newest film Fire opens this year’s festival, and Jim Jarmusch, American filmmaker and the official Guest of Honor at the 2022 edition, for an extended conversation about their decades-spanning careers.

Actors Juliette Binoche and Déborah Lukumuena come together to discuss their professional trajectories and creative influences, their philosophies and priorities in selecting new projects, and their respective relationships with the American film industry.

This special panel conversation will bring together French and American filmmakers and cinematographers, working across a range of genres and styles, to discuss their influences, creative philosophies, and artistic practice.