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- DirectorIsabelle CzajkaStarsAnaïs DemoustierPio MarmaïLaurent PoitrenauxJulie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and small-time trafficking. Ben asks her to come and spend the summer with him in the South. Julie declines. Then one day, on an impulse, she leaves everything behind and joins him.
- DirectorThierry BinistiStarsAgathe BonitzerMahmud ShalabyHiam AbbassTal is 17 years old. Naim is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by email nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?
- DirectorRomain LévyStarsManu PayetClovis CornillacDouglas AttalA group of radio speakers go around France on a bus tour to reach the audience they lost.
- DirectorMaïwennStarsKarin ViardJoeyStarrMarina FoïsA journalist covering police assigned to a juvenile division enters into an affair with one of her subjects.
- DirectorGuillaume BracStarsEric NantchouangSalif CisséÉdouard SulpiceAn unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.
- DirectorKamir AïnouzStarsZoé AdjaniAmira CasarLyès SalemSelma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.
- DirectorMélanie Robert-TourneurTwo silhouettes meet, they start a dangerous and explosive parade.
- DirectorPhilippe BéziatStarsLeonardo García AlarcónClément CogitoreBintou DembéléOn the stage of Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes, offering a dynamic take on the landmark opera.
- DirectorDelphine LehericeyStarsLuc BruchezLaetitia CastaThibaut EvrardGus spends his vacation reading comic books, helping his father who has invested his entire savings in a modern battery henhouse, and running free with Mado.
- DirectorAnton BalekdjianStarsUlysse Dutilloy-LiégeoisAndranic ManetLucile BalézeauxPassing through Paris, Roman, a young archaeologist, gets back to Adam, his unruly younger brother.
- DirectorAmandine MeyerFollows the heroine as a river of tears bursts its banks and washes her away into a surreal world where symbols, references and personal experiences dance together.
- DirectorValery CarnoyStarsPhénix BrossardJef CuppensMarcel DegotteThirteen-year-old Nathan is about to join Malik and his gang for a strange integration ritual.
- DirectorMargot ReumontStarsSalomé RichardBruno GeorisRaphaëlle LubansuAt her father's request, Coline returns to her child's bedroom to sort through her belongings. The different objects she finds will remind her of her childhood memories. In doing so, she finally accepts those she will never be able to get rid of.
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsSami OutalbaliZbeida BelhajamorDiong-Kéba TacuFollows Ahmed, a 18-year old, French of Algerian origin, who meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl. He discovers a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature and falls in love with Farah and he tries to resist the desire.
- DirectorBruno MerleStarsPio MarmaïRita MerleCamille RutherfordFor Tim and Chloe, happiness is day-to-day and unattached. But tomorrow summer ends. Their daughter, Tommy, is going back to school and this year, they promise, she won't miss that big date.
- DirectorAlain UghettoStarsAriane AscarideAlain UghettoStefano PaganiniAt the beginning of the 20th century, the Ughetto family dreamed of a better life abroad. Luigi Ughetto crosses the Alps and starts a new life in France, changing the fate of his beloved family forever.
- DirectorBastien MilheauStarsPierre GomméNina PolettoBarbara SchulzJanus is a young high school student who dreams of leaving his native countryside ravaged by isolation and alcoholism. His daily life changes when he discovers an artisanal distillery hidden in his grandfather's cellar.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJane BirkinJean-Pierre LéaudPhilippe Léotard"I'll look at you, but not at the camera. It could be a trap," whispers Jane Birkin shyly into Agnès Varda's ear at the start of JANE B. PAR AGNES V. The director of CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 and VAGABOND once again paints a portrait of a woman, this time in a marvelously Expressionistic way. "It's like an imaginary bio-pic," says Varda. Jane, of course, is the famed singer ("Je t'aime ... Moi non plus"), actress (BLOW UP), fashion icon (the Hermes Birkin bag) and longtime muse to Serge Gainsbourg. As Varda implies, JANE B. PAR AGNÈS V. abandons the traditional bio-pic format, favoring instead a freewheeling mix of gorgeous and unexpected fantasy sequences. In each, Jane inhabits a new character, playing a cat & mouse game with Varda as they explore the role of the Muse and the Artist, all the while showcasing the multifaceted nature of Birkin's talent. "I'd like to be filmed as if I were transparent, anonymous, like everyone else," says Birkin. But her wish to be a "famous nobody" is impossible to achieve; Birkin is simply too magnificent, too mesmerizing. Here, Varda's signature mix of aesthetic innovation and generosity of emotion results in a surreal and captivating essay on Art, Fame, Love, Children and Staircases. For its first-ever U.S. theatrical release the film has been newly-restored from the original 35mm camera negative, overseen by director Varda herself.
- DirectorZeno GratonStarsKhalil Ben GharbiaJulien De Saint JeanEye HaidaraIn a juvenile reform center, a place governed by the prohibition of physical contact, Joe and William fall in love. To love each other, they will have to break the law.