The thirtieth annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema competition, hosted by Movie at Lincoln Middle and Unifrance, is celebrating the work of acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon.
Whereas the 2025 competition isn’t totally honoring Lindon himself, the actor seems in a whopping trio of featured movies and in addition can be onsite for Q&As and introductions. Lindon stars in Quentin Dupieux’s meta-comedy “The Second Act,” which opened the 77th Cannes Movie Competition, in addition to Gilles Bourdos’ dramatic thriller “Cross Away” and Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin’s “The Quiet Son” (Lindon received Greatest Actor on the 81st Venice Movie Competition for that drama).
And Lindon isn’t the one beloved French star to hitch this yr’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: Actors Isabelle Huppert and Édgar Ramírez, plus auteurs Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Bonello are amongst those that can have options screening.
The 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema competition takes place from March 6 to March 16. This system has 23 movies included, with a choose few as a part of Unifrance’s 10 to Watch 2025 Program, a yearly initiative honoring a brand new technology of administrators and actors who contribute to the vitality of French creation.
“Unifrance is honored to be celebrating 30 years of French cinema with our accomplice, Movie at Lincoln Middle,” Daniela Elstner, the Government Director of Unifrance, stated. “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema is one in every of our greatest highlights of the yr and we’re grateful to our accomplice for offering a house to French filmmakers in New York for the previous three a long time.”
Florence Almozini, the Vice President of Programming at Movie at Lincoln Middle, added, “French cinema stays as inspiring as ever, with the energy, vitality, and depth of the movies featured within the thirtieth version of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema serving as a testomony to its enduring energy. This strong choice spans from outstanding debuts by first-time filmmakers to unforgettable works by famend administrators, highlighting fascinating performances from rising expertise, celebrated actors, and robust ensembles. Movie at Lincoln Middle is proud to mark 30 years of presenting new French movies to New York audiences, in collaboration with our long-standing companions at Unifrance.”
The competition will open with Emmanuel Mouret’s romantic drama “Three Buddies.” The movie premiered in competitors on the 81st Venice Movie Competition. Mouret, who cowrote the function with Carmen Leroi, will introduce the screening alongside actress India Hair.
Further program highlights embrace Boris Lojkine’s “Souleymane’s Story,” which received the Jury Prize and Greatest Actor in Un Sure Regard at Cannes, and Jessica Palud’s “Being Maria” about Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) filming “Final Tango in Paris” with Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon).
Voting for the sixth annual Rendez-Vous Viewers Award can be open to all moviegoers attending the competition. A jury of six college students pursuing movie and French research levels from New York Metropolis faculties will select their favourite function for the Greatest Rising Filmmaker Award, which calls consideration to the distinctive views of rising filmmakers and their interpretations of France’s new and numerous identities. The 2 awards can be introduced shortly after the shut of the competition. College students from the New York Metropolis space will even be invited to attend free screenings of movies “And Their Kids After Them,” “Arenas,” “Being Maria,” “Ghost Path,” “Holy Cow,” “Planet B,” “Wild Diamond,” and “Winter in Sokcho.”
Two free talks addressing present points in filmmaking can be provided: “Producers Shaping the Way forward for Movie” brings collectively 4 adventurous movie producers from France and the U.S. to debate storytelling and filmmaking within the present enterprise setting; and “Frames of Change: Judith Godrèche and ‘Moi Aussi,’” a dialog with Judith Godrèche, options the filmmaker discussing how talking up about sexual abuse within the movie trade has impacted her profession and made her a pivotal determine of the MeToo motion in France.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema is sponsored by Villa Albertine, TV5 Monde, Maison Occitanie, Champagne Demoiselle – Vranken, SACEM & Copie privée
Tickets will go on sale Thursday, February 6 at 12 p.m. ET, with pre-sale for Movie at Lincoln Middle Members starting on Tuesday, February 4 at 12 p.m. Tickets are $19; $17 for college students, seniors (62+), and individuals with disabilities; and $14 for FLC Members. Opening Evening tickets for Emmanuel Mouret’s “Three Buddies” are $25; $23 for college students, seniors (62+), and individuals with disabilities; and $20 for FLC Members.
Try the complete lineup, with movie descriptions offered by Movie at Lincoln Middle, beneath.
Opening Evening
“Three Buddies / Trois amies”
Emmanuel Mouret, 2024, France, 117m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
After the dying of her husband Victor (Vincent Macaigne), widow Joan (India Hair) is stricken with guilt: Simply earlier than his premature demise, she had come to the belief that she was sad within the marriage, and disclosed these emotions to Victor. In his newest meticulously noticed research of the unpredictable path of affection, writer-director Emmanuel Mouret reunites along with his Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Rendez-Vous 2023) star Macaigne, who serves because the fulcrum for this incisive, empathetic research of three conflicted girls. As Joan begins to rebuild, her finest pals Alice (Camille Cottin) and Rebecca (Sara Forestier) negotiate unstable affairs whereas holding one another firm via every stunning emotional growth. Setting his fable in scenic Lyon, Mouret delivers an enthralling, prototypically French tackle the romantic drama, demonstrating the mastery of the style he’s honed during the last 20 years.
Thursday, March 6 at 6:00pm – Introduction by Emmanuel Mouret and India Hair
Thursday, March 6 at 8:45pm
“And Their Kids After Them / Leurs enfants après eux”
Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma, 2024, France, 140m
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Happening towards the backdrop of widespread deindustrialization in ’90s France, And Their Kids After Them dramatizes the long-lasting penalties for 2 boys following a combat at a celebration. Anthony (Paul Kircher) is the son of a stern, embittered alcoholic father (Gille Lellouche) and disconnected mom (Ludivine Sagnier); coming from a in another way fraught household background, Moroccan immigrant Hacine (Sayyid El Alami*) is extra weak earlier than the legislation. One of the vital essential French novels of latest years, Nicolas Mathieu’s 2018 winner of the celebrated French literary award Prix Goncourt involves epic life on this adaptation from twin writer-directors Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma. Impressed equally by the works of Émile Zola and Bruce Springsteen, the Boukhermas anchor their saga with pitch-perfect realism in a vividly evoked mid-’90s interval setting. On the movie’s heart is Kircher, who, following breakout roles in Winter Boy (Rendez-Vous 2023) and Animal Kingdom (Rendez-Vous 2024), confirms his promise as some of the charismatic and compelling younger actors in France right this moment.
Thursday, March 13 at 1:00pm
Saturday, March 15 at 3:15pm – Q&A with Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma
“Arenas / Les Arènes”
Camille Perton, 2024, France, 94m
French and English with English subtitles
North American Premiere
When his father is now not in a position to present for the household, ultra-talented 18-year-old Brahim (Ilies Kadri) faces new strain to embark on a long-anticipated profession as knowledgeable soccer participant. Pissed off that his longtime supervisor and buddy Mehdi (Sofian Khammes) hasn’t managed to shut a deal for a spot on his dream staff, Brahim is intrigued by the providers provided by shadowy energy participant Francis (Édgar Ramírez), whose guarantees of profession development could show all too pricey. An immersive exploration into the shadier enterprise dealings that animate the world {of professional} youth soccer, Camille Perton’s debut function travels from Brahim’s native Lyon to the glittering waters of Good and past, navigating thorny moral dilemmas inside the narrative framework of a nerve-racking thriller. The usually magnetic Ramírez looms giant, delivering a masterful flip as a well-heeled however enigmatically sinister determine who could or could not have his consumer’s finest curiosity at coronary heart.
Sunday, March 16 at 12:30pm – Q&A with Camille Perton
“Being Maria / Maria”
Jessica Palud, 2024, France, 103m
French and English with English subtitles
New York Premiere
“Actors don’t select roles,” actor Daniel Gélin (Yvan Attal) tells his daughter Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei). “Roles select them!” After her galvanizing efficiency as a younger lady looking for out an unlawful abortion in Audrey Diwan’s Occurring (ND/NF 2022), Vartolomei delivers one other indelible portrait of a girl in extremis with writer-director Jessica Palud’s second function, shifting past Schneider’s encounter with director Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of Final Tango in Paris, throughout the shoot of the notorious “get the butter” scene (which the actress repeatedly recognized as a violation of her consent), to ponder the actress’s bigger life and legacy. The shoot itself is meticulously reconstructed—that includes a outstanding flip by Matt Dillon as Schneider’s considerably extra well-known costar and scene accomplice, Marlon Brando—with a view to contextualize the non-public and public fallout from Schneider’s equally iconic and traumatizing breakout efficiency. Palud was herself an assistant director for Bertolucci at age 19 (the identical age Schneider was throughout the manufacturing of Final Tango) and brings a welcome eye for complexity to an unsparing, compassionate reframing of a much-discussed incident—rooted firmly within the perspective of the actress at its heart. A Kino Lorber launch.
Saturday, March 15 at 6:45pm – Q&A with Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei
“Cross Away / Le Choix“
Gilles Bourdos, 2024, France, 77m
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Rounding out sturdy ensemble casts on this yr’s Rendez-Vous choices The Quiet Son and The Second Act, the good Vincent Lindon is nearly the complete present in Cross Away. On this Gallic tackle Steven Knight’s acclaimed 2013 drama Locke, Lindon is Joseph Cross, a development foreman who supervises concrete pours. The evening earlier than a very massive job, he’s compelled to depart the worksite in a rush and set out, for obscure causes, to an undisclosed vacation spot. As Cross, driving deep into the evening whereas struggling—one telephone name at a time—to maintain his life and work from falling aside, Lindon crafts a completely authentic tackle the character indelibly performed by Tom Hardy within the authentic movie, leading to a riveting one-man present that starkly externalizes a protracted, darkish evening of the soul.
Friday, March 7 at 6:00pm – Q&A with Gilles Bourdos and Vincent Lindon
Monday, March 10 at 1:30pm
“DJ Mehdi: Made in France”
Thibaut de Longeville, 2024, France, 240m (incl. 15m intermission)
French and English with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
A key determine of French music within the final 30 years, DJ Mehdi bridged the worlds of hip-hop and digital dance music in his too-brief 34 years, mirroring the French music trade’s journey from stagnation to unprecedented heights of worldwide prominence and success. Directed by one in every of his closest pals, this outstanding six-episode documentary miniseries is a deep-dive deal with for music followers and the uninitiated alike. Getting his begin as a baby prodigy who constructed his personal sampler in early adolescence, Mehdi was launched to prominence as a DJ for the rap group Supreme J when he was simply 13—an appropriately meteoric origin story for a generational expertise. Bringing viewers alongside for an in depth celebration of his legacy and his enduring affect on musicians throughout genres, starting from foundational hip-hop group 113 to mega dance stars Justice, DJ Mehdi: Made in France additionally tells a bigger story about how rap broke out of the banlieue to reshape the nationwide cultural panorama.
Sunday, March 9 at 6:00pm – Q&A with Thibaut de Longeville
“International Tongue / Langue étrangère”
Claire Burger, 2024, France/Germany, 101m
French and German with English subtitles
New York Premiere
When Fanny (Lilith Grasmug) meets her German pen pal Lena (Josefa Heinsius), their preliminary rapport is rocky: the shy, insecure French teen has arrived from Strasbourg for an prolonged go to at a troublesome second for the extra assertive Lena. With time, nonetheless, the 2 women’ relationship grows and deepens into actual friendship; when Lena agrees to go to Fanny in France, their shared curiosity in political activism takes a troubling flip. In her third function, Claire Burger (co-director of Occasion Lady, Rendez-Vous 2015) casts an up-to-the-moment eye on two younger girls exploring their wishes and discovering themselves within the context of dangerously charged political and societal circumstances. With excellent supporting performances from Nina Hoss and Chiara Mastroianni as the 2 women’ moms, International Tongue is directly intimate in its portrait of two in another way wounded women at weak moments of their lives, and thrilling within the surprising revelations and twists that propel the 2 via the upheavals of younger maturity.
Wednesday, March 12 at 1:00pm
Thursday, March 13 at 6:00pm – Q&A with Claire Burger
“Ghost Path / Les Fantômes”
Jonathan Millet, 2024, France/Belgium/Germany, 94m
French, Arabic, Turkish, and English with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Two years after being launched from Syrian jail, Hamid (Adam Bessa*) is making ends meet as a development employee within the French metropolis of Strasbourg, the place, haunted by the reminiscence of his imprisonment, the younger man searches tirelessly for the person who tortured him, decided to get his revenge—however what’s the true value of vengeance for the individual looking for it? Impressed by true occasions, Jonathan Millet’s deeply researched thriller excavates the too-little-examined ethical dilemmas and political negligence that traumatized migrants should confront amid the wrestle to rebuild their lives and take management of their destinies on the margins of latest French society, inviting audiences to higher empathize with France’s latest residents, and to higher perceive their place on this planet—and our personal. A Music Field Movies launch.
Sunday, March 9 at 3:15pm – Q&A with Jonathan Millet
Tuesday, March 11 at 9:00pm
“Holy Cow / Vingt Dieux”
Louise Courvoisier, 2024, France, 92m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Following the sudden dying of his farmer father, hard-partying 18-year-old Totone (Clément Faveau) is abruptly obliged to step into the position of man of the home in Louise Courvoisier’s directorial debut, which premiered within the Un Sure Regard part ultimately yr’s Cannes Movie Competition. Taking a job at a close by dairy farm, the place he rapidly falls for the farmer’s daughter, Totone makes up his thoughts to jump-start his household’s future by way of an unorthodox shortcut: successful a 30,000 Euro prize for producing the perfect Comté within the area. On this heat, lived-in coming-of-age fable—a deal with for cheese-loving cinephiles particularly—Courvoisier brings collectively a forged of non-professional actors from the Jura area the place she herself grew up, making a wealthy depiction of rural agricultural life that’s additionally a crowd-pleasing story concerning the unlikely detours that form the completely unpredictable strategy of rising up. A Zeitgeist Movies launch in affiliation with Kino Lorber.
Saturday, March 8 at 12:30pm – Q&A with Louise Courvoisier
“In His Personal Picture / À son picture”
Thierry de Peretti, 2024, France, 115m
French, English, and Corse with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
An acclaimed actor and, in his capability as director, a Rendez-Vous common courting again to his first function, 2013’s Apaches, Thierry de Peretti returns to that movie’s Corsican setting in his newest, an ambitiously sweeping account of latest Corsican historical past that operates in an intimate register. Tailored from the acclaimed novel by Jérôme Ferrari, de Peretti’s retelling follows Antonia (Clara-Maria Laredo), an enigmatic however pushed photographer, from the Eighties to the second, bearing witness to her love affair with the more and more radical activist Pascal (Louis Starace) because it intersects with the intricacies of the island’s often-violent combat for independence. Taking pictures in masterfully managed lengthy takes to evoke a long time of turmoil, de Peretti conjures a imaginative and prescient of a girl who stays deeply and passionately engaged with the realities of her place and time, steadfastly refusing to separate the political from the private.
Wednesday, March 12 at 6:00pm – Q&A with Thierry de Peretti
Friday, March 14 at 1:30pm
“Jim’s Story / Le Roman de Jim”
Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu, 2024, France, 101m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Adrift in his early twenties, Aymeric (Karim Leklou) runs into former coworker Florence (Laetitia Dosch), six months pregnant with a baby for whom already-married father Christophe (iconic actor and musician Bertrand Belin) refuses to take accountability. Aymeric proves himself to be a beneficiant accomplice to Florence and an ideal, loving guardian, adored by his adoptive youngster—however when Christophe decides he desires to construct a relationship along with his rising son, Jim (Eol Personne), the safety of Aymeric’s cherished position within the household unit begins to falter. Equally relaxed making use of their offbeat imaginative and prescient to thrillers (Love Is the Good Crime, Rendez-Vous 2014) and comedies (21 Nights with Pattie, Rendez-Vous 2016), the Larrieu brothers make a triumphant return with this spectacular adaptation of Pierric Bailly’s novel of the identical title, crafting a heartfelt and practical portrait of the bonds of fatherhood, superbly embodied by Leklou in a beneficiant, weak lead efficiency.
Friday, March 7 at 1:00pm
Saturday, March 15 at 9:30pm
“The Marching Band / En fanfare”
Emmanuel Courcol, 2024, France, 103m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
They couldn’t be extra totally different: Thibault (Benjamin Lavernhe) is a world-famous orchestra conductor and pianist; Jimmy (Pierre Lottin) is a blue-collar kitchen employee who performs trombone within the native marching band. Separated of their infancy, the 2 brothers are reunited unexpectedly as adults and, after some preliminary friction, discover themselves rising nearer when Thibault decides to assist nurture Jimmy’s nascent musical expertise. An equally hilarious and affecting crowd-pleaser from Emmanuel Courcol (The Massive Hit, Rendez-Vous 2021), this Cannes favourite attracts equally nuanced and delicate portraits of affluence and working-class life within the northern city of Lille to convey texture and substance to a universally resonant story concerning the energy of household. At its heart are a pair of glowing performances from Lavernhe and Lottin, two of France’s most promising rising stars.
Tuesday, March 11 at 6:15pm – Q&A with composer Michel Petrossian
Sunday, March 16 at 3:15pm
“Assembly with Pol Pot / Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot”
Rithy Panh, 2024, France/Cambodia/Taiwan/Qatar/Turkey, 112m
French and Cambodian with English subtitles
New York Premiere
In 1978, three French journalists arrived in Cambodia to survey the nation and interview its chief, Pol Pot—however after a picture-perfect arrival, cracks started to emerge within the murderous regime’s facade of respectability. For Cambodian-born Rithy Panh, the injury inflicted upon his homeland by the Khmer Rouge has fueled a lifetime of progressive work within the vein of 2013’s The Lacking Image, which reconstructed the interval’s occasions partly via clay-figurine dioramas. This real-life journalistic tour, primarily based on true occasions detailed in Elizabeth Becker’s nonfiction guide When the Conflict Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, is delivered to life due to exemplary lead performances from Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, and Cyril Gueï, meticulously conjuring the sights and sounds of 1978 Cambodia with the help of archival footage and extra clay collectible figurines. The result’s a novel admixture—historic horror paired with a wealthy meditation on the impossibility of portraying it—that solely Panh might make. A Strand Releasing launch.
Friday, March 7 at 8:30pm – Q&A with Rithy Panh and Elizabeth Becker
Thursday, March 13 at 8:45pm
“Planet B / Planète B”
Aude Léa Rapin, 2024, France, 118m
French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles
New York Premiere
2039: after a bunch of environmental activists identified solely as “R” are arrested within the midst of an tried bombing, they get up on Planet B—the world’s first digital jail. R’s members, amongst them Julia (Adèle Exarchopoulos), wrestle to determine escape, however quickly discover that the best problem of all could be resisting the temptation to activate one another; in the meantime, undocumented Iraqi journalist Nour (Souheila Yacoub) learns of the power’s existence and units about discovering her manner in. Unnervingly tapping into up to date anxieties about VR and local weather change, Aude Léa Rapin’s progressive thriller appears to be like barely into the long run to supply a disturbingly convincing imaginative and prescient of what might be in retailer. Alongside cutting-edge visible results, Planet B boasts a usually ominous and atmospheric rating from director-composer Bertrand Bonello (director of NYFF61 Principal Slate choice The Beast).
Wednesday, March 12 at 3:30pm
Friday, March 14 at 8:45pm
“The Quiet Son / Jouer avec le feu”
Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, 2024, France/Belgium, 118m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Pierre (Vincent Lindon), a widower who has devoted his life to his two youngsters, is shaken to find that his older son Fus (Benjamin Voisin) has begun hanging out with violent right-wing nationalists. Whereas their earlier collaborations (17 Women, Rendez-Vous 2012; The Stopover, Rendez-Vous 2016) skilled an eye fixed on the expertise of girls in France, for his or her third function the Coulin sisters have utilized an equally analytical and empathetic perspective to a decidedly masculine setting. This sobering contemplation of radicalization takes a nuanced have a look at two equally sturdy, competing impulses: loyalty to household on one hand, and accountability towards the higher social good on the opposite. At its heart is the usually masterful Lindon, delivering a career-best efficiency for which he was awarded Greatest Actor ultimately yr’s Venice Movie Competition.
Saturday, March 8 at 6:00pm – Q&A with Delphine and Muriel Coulin and Vincent Lindon
Tuesday, March 11 at 1:00pm
“The Second Act / Le Deuxième Acte”
Quentin Dupieux, 2024, France, 80m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
A movie-within-a-movie (or is it?), the newest quirkily imaginative function from Quentin Dupieux (Smoking Causes Coughing, Rendez-Vous 2023) is, amongst different issues, a showcase for a few of France’s most gifted working performers to riff on their very own personas to hilarious impact. Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Quenard are among the many actors trying to make their manner via the manufacturing of a film none of them appears to love very a lot. Repeatedly breaking the fourth wall and irreverently lampooning all the things from AI to Paul Thomas Anderson, Dupieux’s meta-movie—the opening evening choice ultimately yr’s Cannes Movie Competition—is an ebullient and thought-provoking behind-the-scenes comedy that gleefully deconstructs itself, inciting loads of stomach laughs alongside the best way.
Saturday, March 8 at 9:00pm – Introduction by Vincent Lindon
Thursday, March 13 at 4:00pm
“Souleymane’s Story / L’Histoire de Souleymane”
Boris Lojkine, 2024, France, 94m
French, Fulah, and Malinka with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Within the opening scenes of Boris Lojkine’s pressing third function, a Guinean immigrant bicycles frantically from one meals supply pickup to a different, the digital camera racing alongside simply behind him, revealing a singular new view of Paris from the attitude of a few of its most underappreciated staff. Over the 2 days that observe, Souleymane (performed by non-professional actor Abou Sangaré in a riveting first efficiency) struggles to remain afloat whereas making ready for an important immigration asylum interview. Stylistically impressed partly by Cristian Mungiu’s 2007 Cannes winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and a couple of Days, Lojkine’s bracing, suave realism gives an equally affecting account of a migrant laborer’s expertise discovering himself caught up within the mechanisms of an uncaring and unforgiving society. Taking pictures on metropolis streets with hid cameras, Lojkine creates a concurrently pulse-pounding and heartrending view of latest Parisian life.
Sunday, March 9 at 1:00pm – Introduction by producer Bruno Nahon
Friday, March 14 at 4:00pm
“Suspended Time / Hors du temps”
Olivier Assayas, 2024, France, 105m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
“By no means have I felt like much less of a filmmaker,” frets Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne). It’s April of 2020, and the movie director has escaped to the provinces, residing in lockdown along with his brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), a middle-aged music journalist, and their respective romantic companions. The {couples} attempt to keep their sanity within the midst of prolonged isolation on this tonally masterful dramedy from the good Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Private Shopper). In an autobiographical vein, Assayas presents a disarmingly private (and sometimes very humorous) perspective on the pandemic, going down on the director’s very family home. Amassing a wealth of insights into the foundational relationships and rural background that formed him, Assayas is equally adept at thoughtfully reconstructing an unprecedented second in our shared historical past with the grace and compassion that solely a grasp filmmaker can convey.
Friday, March 14 at 6:15pm
Sunday, March 16 at 8:15pm
“This Lifetime of Mine / Ma vie ma gueule”
Sophie Fillières, 2024, France, 99m
French and English with English subtitles
New York Premiere
A beloved performer, the late Sophie Fillières was additionally an influential writer-director, cited as a key affect by filmmakers together with Anatomy of a Fall’s Justine Triet. For her ultimate function—which she completed taking pictures shortly earlier than her dying—Fillières forged one other essential French actress-writer-director to inhabit a number one position impressed by Fillière’s personal expertise. Agnès Jaoui (The Style of Others, Have a look at Me) stars as Barbie, a middle-aged author whose psychological well being is unraveling. Alienated from her grown youngsters, the one lady is compelled to confront her issues when an uncanny encounter with a person who claims to know Barbie lands her within the hospital. Concurrently fearless, exasperating, and endearing, Jaoui’s efficiency probes the obscure interior lifetime of a girl whose complexities and contradictions finally lead her on a journey of discovery, progress, and rebuilding; the ensuing movie is as hilarious as it’s poignant—a becoming final work from an awesome filmmaker.
Thursday, March 6 at 3:00pm
Monday, March 10 at 6:00pm – Introduction by producer Julie Salvador
“Visiting Hours / La Prisonnière de Bordeaux”
Patricia Mazuy, 2024, France, 108m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Two of France’s best working actresses—the legendary Isabelle Huppert and The Secret of the Grain star Hafsia Herzi—are paired on this shifting drama from Patricia Mazuy. Prosperous Alma (Huppert) meets working-class Mina (Herzi) throughout visits to the jail facility the place each of their husbands are serving time. Regardless of their totally different backgrounds, the 2 girls rapidly type a detailed connection—however can their bond survive the conflicting pressures of their respective circumstances? Revered at house however sadly under-celebrated right here, co-writer and director Patricia Mazuy has confirmed exceptionally adept at repurposing conventions of tone and style to her personal ends in movies just like the offbeat police-comedy-thriller Paul Sanchez Is Again! (Rendez-Vous 2019) and the grim neo-noir Saturn Bowling. Together with her new movie, Mazuy as soon as once more demonstrates her mastery of tonal shifts and her steadfast refusal to be pigeonholed on this trenchant depiction of the French carceral system and the shaky relationships it engenders.
Saturday, March 8 at 3:00pm – Q&A with Patricia Mazuy
Monday, March 10 at 8:30pm
“When Fall Is Coming / Quand vient l’automne”
François Ozon, 2024, France, 102m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Retiree Michelle (Hélène Vincent) lives within the countryside, peacefully having fun with her ample free time with lifelong buddy Marie-Claude (Josiane Balasko). Regardless of being estranged from her hostile daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier), Michelle appears to be like ahead to a go to from her grandson Lucas (Garlan Erlos)—however when issues don’t go as deliberate throughout his keep, a long-simmering mother-daughter battle erupts. Making use of his characteristically destabilizing artistry to the shapeshifting contours of this deceptively low-key drama, Rendez-Vous common François Ozon (All the pieces Went Positive, Rendez-Vous 2022; Summer time of ’85, Rendez-Vous 2021) devotes loving consideration to the advanced experiences of an aged lady whose previous retains rearing its head in unforeseeable methods. Boasting impeccable turns from a robust ensemble forged, the movie’s many pleasures embrace Ozon’s reunion along with his Swimming Pool main woman Sagnier for his or her first collaboration in additional than 20 years. A Music Field Movies launch.
Friday, March 7 at 3:30pm
Sunday, March 16 at 5:45pm
“Wild Diamond / Diamant brut”
Agathe Riedinger, 2024, France, 103m
French and English with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Nineteen-year-old Liane (Malou Khebizi) lives along with her mom and sister in a small southern city and harbors goals of attaining fame as a actuality TV contestant. When she auditions for Miracle Island, her breakout second appears imminent—however anticipation quickly curdles into disillusionment, and Liane’s hopes begin crashing as she spirals into self-doubt. Scouting nonprofessional performers for her function debut (the one first movie chosen to compete for the Palme d’Or ultimately yr’s Cannes Movie Competition), writer-director Agathe Riedinger treats doubtlessly sensationalistic materials with an genuine and refreshingly non-judgmental gaze, bringing a posh perspective to a topic typically diminished to well-worn sound bites, and introducing viewers to the lesser-known rhythms of life within the workaday small cities of the Côte d’Azur area. A Strand Releasing launch.
Monday, March 10 at 3:30pm
Saturday, March 15 at 12:30pm – Q&A with Agathe Riedinger
“Winter in Sokcho / Hiver à Sokcho”
Koya Kamura, 2024, France/Korea, 94m
French, Korean, and English with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Having by no means met her long-absent French father, Son-ha (Bella Kim) is startled when artist Yan Kerrand (Roschdy Zem) arrives to remain on the small lodge the place she works in a Korean seaside city. The half-Korean literature pupil and the French outsider type a tentative bond, however Son-ha can’t assist however surprise concerning the fact behind his identification and his purpose for visiting. An intimate drama set towards the naturally majestic background of its wintry setting, Koya Kamura’s understated triumph sketches out a nascent parental relationship during which newcomer Kim proves an actual discovery, greater than holding her personal towards veteran performer Zem (The Harmless, Rendez-Vous 2023). The delicately rendered result’s a narrative of tentative beginnings, cross-cultural bonding, and the endless seek for self-understanding.
Tuesday, March 11 at 3:30pm
Wednesday, March 12 at 9:00pm
FREE TALKS
“Producers Shaping the Way forward for Movie”
This panel unites trailblazing movie producers from France and the U.S. to look at how they’re redefining the craft and enterprise of filmmaking as leaders in right this moment’s dynamic panorama. Producers Flore Biet (DJ Mehdi: Made in France), Muriel Meynard (Holy Cow), Alex Lo (Being Maria), and Gabriel Mayers (A Completely different Man) will talk about navigating unprecedented challenges within the movie trade—from shifting distribution fashions to the rise of AI—whereas championing progressive storytelling. Happening on Worldwide Girls’s Day, the dialog is organized in collaboration with French in Movement and Gotham Movie & Media Institute.
Saturday, March 8 at 5:00pm
“Frames of Change: Judith Godrèche and Moi Aussi”
French actress Judith Godrèche has emerged as a number one determine and power for change for the MeToo motion within the French movie trade. Godrèche filed a criticism in 2024 towards two French administrators for sexual violence when she was a minor (the investigation continues to be ongoing). She was additionally one of many first girls in France to go public about her expertise with Harvey Weinstein. Her highly effective brief movie Moi Aussi, impressed by the over 6,000 messages she obtained after testifying, premiered in Un Sure Regard on the 81st Cannes Movie Competition in 2024. Be part of Godrèche in a dialog about how her actions impacted her profession and shook up the French movie trade. A screening of her movie Moi Aussi will precede the dialog.
Tuesday, March 11 at 5:00pm