When mankind is plagued with a mysterious infection that selectively mutates the bodies of ordinary people into animal hybrids, widower François (Romain Duris) and his teenage son Émile (Paul Kircher) must fight to survive in Thomas Cailley’s darkly imaginative exploration of a human ecosystem undergoing inexplicable—but potentially liberating—transformation.

When one of her sons has an accident while she’s at work, single mother Sylvie (Virginie Efira) must contend with a stubbornly dispassionate child welfare service system to regain custody of her youngest in Delphine Deloget’s compassionate, carefully observed feature debut.

When six-year-old Cléo (Louise Mauroy-Panzani) travels with her beloved nanny Gloria (Ilça Moreno Zego) to visit Gloria’s native Cape Verde, the ripple effect of her presence brings underexplored emotions and familial tensions to the surface.

The latest from Pascal Bonitzer is a closely observed drama following André Masson (Alex Lutz), a modern art appraiser whose routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost painting, a masterwork by Egon Schiele that had gone missing decades earlier after falling into the hands of Nazi officers.

In Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s feature debut, set in rural Senegal, Banel (Khady Mane) and her husband Adama (Mamadou Diallo) find their relationship tested by pressures from the community, possibly triggering supernatural repercussions when they resist the roles and responsibilities that tradition dictates for them.

When his backers threaten to wrest control of his new film away from him, director Marc Becker (Pierre Niney) steals the hard drives that store the existing footage and retreats with his crew to the countryside home of his aunt Denise (Françoise Lebrun) in Michel Gondry’s imaginative, heartfelt, and memorably madcap comedy.

Vanessa Filho offers a powerful and unflinching examination of sexual predation in her adaptation of author Vanessa Springora’s 2020 memoir, which recounts Springora’s early-adolescent relationship with middle-aged writer Gabriel Matzneff (Jean-Paul Rouve).

Inexperienced 26-year-old lawyer Nora (Noée Abita) is tasked with monitoring the interrogation of the teenage suspect in a murder case while also navigating her uneasy attraction to the officer in charge of the investigation in Victoria Musiedlak’s tense, thoughtful feature filmmaking debut.

Following the demolition of his Parisian suburb’s old public housing towers, interim mayor Pierre (Alexis Manenti) comes into conflict with community activist Haby (Anta Diaw) in Ladj Ly’s incisive depiction of racial and social tensions in contemporary France.

A marriage that seemed to offer a bright new beginning soon takes on a sinister dimension in writer-director Valérie Donzelli’s tensely effective erotic thriller, featuring a virtuosic Virginie Efira in a double role as twin sisters Rose and Blanche.

The lives and legacies of three generations of extraordinary women artists are unpacked in Mona Achache’s hybrid documentary examining the fraught life and complicated legacy of her mother Carole, blurring the line between truth and fiction to create a rounded portrait of a troubled but outstandingly creative mind.

When a flaw is discovered during the presentation of her research, mathematics PhD student Marguerite (Ella Rumpf) abandons her dissertation and finds herself rethinking the parameters of the life she’s made for herself in Anna Novion’s affecting feature debut.

Single father Étienne (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) and daughter Rosa (Céleste Brunnquell) are set on a path of self-discovery by n unexpected echo from the past in Erwan Le Duc’s stylistically bold, warmly eccentric examination of the ties that bind us.

Veteran documentarian Nicholas Philibert’s award-winning latest feature follows the dedicated caretakers and patients who populate the Adamant, a barge in central Paris that serves as a day care facility for neurodivergent adults.

In the wake of an unexpected breakup with her boyfriend, midwife Lydia (Hafsia Herzi) gradually sublimates her emotional life into the pregnancy of her best friend in this dreamily stylish feature debut from director Iris Kaltenbäck, a deceptively slow-burning portrait of a desperate, inscrutable woman.

Writer-director Thomas Lilti trains an observant and empathetic eye on the travails of Benjamin (Vincent Lacoste), a freshly accredited substitute teacher who must contend with the challenges of balancing an involving home life with the varied demands of students, parents, and administrators.

Director Robin Campillo draws on personal history to evoke a sumptuously visualized 1970s childhood spent on one of the last remaining French colonial bases on Madagascar.

When teen Zineb (Salma Takaline) is harassed at a party, she and her longtime best friends Amina (Léah Aubert) and Djeneba (Médina Diarra) find their mutual affection and loyalty put to the test when the repercussions of their subsequent actions begin to tear the tight-knit group apart.

The sophomore feature from director Héléna Klotz is an up-to-the-minute, stylishly directed look at the world of high finance, built around a nuanced character study of nonbinary quant Jeanne (Claire Pommet) whose future hinges on an unexpected chance to rocket to the top of the professional ladder.

Bébé (Philippe Petit) and five friends from his housing project decide to rob a Saudi prince (Mohamed Aroussi), setting off a series of events that none of the participants could have anticipated, in Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s arrestingly original perspective on the heist genre.

In his sophomore feature, director Nathan Ambrosioni crafts an effortlessly affecting study of a former pop sensation and single mother of five (Camille Cottin) who, along with her lively brood, must adapt to a moment of collective transformation.

The Animal Kingdom director Thomas Cailley is joined by French-American director Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls) for an extended conversation about the filmmakers’ playful, up-to-the-minute experiments with genre, and the use of speculative fiction to examine political realities and probe timeless emotional truths.

This special panel conversation brings together esteemed film producers from France and the US to delve into their unique journeys, share insights into their craft, and explore the evolving role of film and entertainment production in a world dramatically reshaped by recent events.