Years after a fraught falling out, siblings Louis (Melvil Poupaud) and Alice (Marion Cotillard) are forced to try to negotiate some kind of coexistence after their parents are involved in a near-deadly car crash in this deeply felt new drama from Arnaud Desplechin.

After happily married Simon (Vincent Macaigne) meets happily single Charlotte (Sandrine Kiberlain), they agree to begin an affair devoid of heavy feelings—but love, inevitably and maybe impossibly, emerges over the course of this acutely observed comic drama from Emmanuel Mouret.

The sophomore directorial effort from renowned screenwriter Léa Mysius is a wrenching family drama telling the story of Vicky (Sally Dramé), a young girl with a supernatural talent for reproducing the scent of anyone and anything she encounters.

After French-Algerian military recruit Aïssa (Shaïn Boumedine) dies while being hazed, older brother Ismaël (Karim Leklou) and his family converge upon the military academy to bury him and demand answers about how this tragedy occurred in the elegant and mournful new feature from Rachid Hami.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi draws upon her own chaotic and loving recollections in this fond, often rowdy group portrait of a tight-knit class navigating their first year studying under the late director Patrice Chéreau at famed French theater school Les Amandiers.

As eight planets prepare to align, drug dealer Christophe (Jean-Baptiste Anoumon) returns home to the housing projects after serving time in prison, only to find that the familiar milieu has changed in his absence. French-Burkinabe actor and writer-director Cédric Ido puts a sci-fi twist on the crime saga genre to comment on race, class, and the struggles of the recently incarcerated.

Writer-director Nicolas Pariser crafts a humorous, finely-tuned, thoroughly French evocation of Hitchcock’s lighter work in this suspenseful thriller that follows an actor (Vincent Lacoste) on a pan-European journey to discover the forces behind a mysterious killing.

Unfolding from 1959 to 1962, as the Algerian War definitively turns against the French colonial powers, the new film from Philippe Faucon takes its title from the term given to native Algerian recruits who joined the occupying army, only to find themselves abandoned when their would-be protectors lost the war.

The latest comedy from actor-writer-director Louis Garrel follows Abel (Garrel), a young man who finds himself in over his head while navigating a world of criminal mischief after his mother marries a reformed convict just before the man’s release from prison.

Léonor Serraille returns with this portrait of the complex, sometimes painful relationship between an African immigrant mother and her sons, spanning 20 years of their ever-shifting relationship following their arrival in France from the Ivory Coast in 1989.

Twelve-year-old Neneh (Oumy Bruni Garrel) wants to dance ballet—but, as a Black girl attempting to find a foothold in a historically white cultural milieu, the obstacles she faces seem overwhelming. With encouragement from a dedicated teacher, Neneh strives to find herself—and her place—in this inspiring story about overcoming systemic disadvantages on the path to artistic achievement.

Two detectives investigate the murder of Clara, a young woman set on fire one night after leaving a party in a small quiet Alpine town, in this stark new thriller from Dominik Moll that delivers the genre hallmarks of true crime to excavate insidious strains of misogyny in contemporary French society.

When Stéphane (Laure Calamy) gets in touch with wealthy Serge (Jacques Weber), announcing that she is his long-abandoned daughter, she quickly becomes entangled with the hostile women who share a tense existence in the patriarch’s mansion by the sea in this wildly entertaining thriller from writer-director Sébastien Marnier.

Paying tribute to the director’s late father’s background as a puppeteer, Philippe Garrel’s new film centers on Simon (Aurélien Recoing), the aging head of a puppet troupe who works alongside his children, all played by members of Philippe’s own family: son Louis (Louis Garrel) and daughters Martha (Esther Garrel) and Lena (Lena Garrel).

Police detective Guillaume (Arieh Worthalter) decides to gift the family bowling alley to his estranged half-brother, Armand (Achille Reggiani), following the death of their father. When their already contentious relationship is further strained by a series of murders, what began as a tense drama transforms into a twisty neo-noir.

The adventures of a curiously low-rent band of superheroes—the Captain Planet-esque anti-smoking Tobacco Force—are merely the starting point for this gloriously goofy new outing from the relentlessly imaginative Quentin Dupieux.

Trapped in a dead-end retail job while trying to develop his photography portfolio, Baptiste (Pablo Pauly) is in search of a subject for his art—but, in writer-director Florent Gouëlou’s feature debut, the choice to follow drag performer Cookie Kunty (Romain Eck) and document the rituals of the drag world ultimately leads him on a profound journey of self-discovery.

In the wake of his father’s sudden death, adolescent Lucas (Paul Kircher) is plunged into deep grief, leading his mother, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), to send him to live temporarily with his brother, Quentin (Vincent Lacoste), in Paris. Inspired by the experience of losing his own father at the age of 15, writer-director Christophe Honoré renders his past immediate and universal in this raw, tender, and gorgeous work.

Belgian director Gabriel (Johan Heldenbergh) arrives in the small town of Boulogne-sur-Mer to cast non-professional teenagers for his debut feature, planning to fill out a loosely sketched script with local performers scouted from working-class northern France—but some residents, concerned with improving their town’s image in the media, disapprove of his choices.

We’re excited to bring together Alice Winocour and Sophie Barthes for an extended conversation about Winocour’s vibrant body of work, her artistic influences and collaborations, and her unique storytelling sensibility.

Join us for a wide-ranging conversation in which we’ll discuss the evolution of Virginie Efira’s craft and her approach to portraying profoundly complicated, endlessly compelling women.

This special panel conversation will bring together French and American filmmakers whose work grapples in real time with urgent questions around LGBTQIA+ representation, centering and celebrating queer identities with great nuance while thoughtfully interrogating the social and political realities that their characters must navigate.

In this career-spanning conversation moderated by filmmaker Owen Kline (Funny Pages), we’ll explore Louis Garrel’s distinctive sensibility, his thematic and stylistic interests, and the ways in which his work as an actor informs, and is shaped by, his process behind the camera.