THE SUCCESSOR / LE SUCCESSEUR
Follows a newly-announced artistic director of a famous fashion house, who after getting his expectations high, starts experiencing chest pain and discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his estranged father’s weak heart. Genre: Drama/Thriller...
THE RAPTURE / Le Ravissement (France)
Lydia, a caring young midwife highly invested in her career, has completely lost control of her life after the relationship with her boyfriend falls apart. Was it due to heartbreak, her best friend’s pregnancy or meeting Milos, with whom she secretly obsessed...
CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – DAY 3 (three films)
TICKETS $15 per film, Tickets at www,CinemaFrancaisPS.com AND at the door. Trailers on website: www.CinemaFrancaisPS.com A short film will precede each feature. 11:00 AM – MARGUERITE’S THEOREM (LE THEOREME DE MARGUERITE) – 112 min – U.S....
CINEMA FRANCAIS PS – NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE
LIE WITH ME (France)
This film is a centerpiece film at Palm Springs 2023 CINEMA DIVERSE. An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. He is also there to face the memories of his first love. The people & places he returns...
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (France) / Trois nuits par semaine
NOTE: This film has been rescheduled to SA, Sep 30 at our regular time. While volunteering at a public-health clinic alongside his girlfriend, 29-years-old Baptiste first meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene, who immediately...
ALL TO PLAY FOR / Rien À Perdre (France)
Barmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home. Starring Cesar Winner /...
THE CRIME IS MINE (France)
In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and...
A LA BELLE ETOILE / SUGAR AND STARS
Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making. Raised between foster homes and group homes, the young man will try to make his dream come true: to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best. Genre: Comedy/Drama Run time: 110 min...
MOTHER VALLEY / LA NUIT DU VERRE D’EAU
Lebanon, 1958. A civil war rages. A young mother and model wife, Layla, spends the summer with her family in a remote village in the Christian mountains. It’s wedding season but her two younger sisters, Eva and Nada, have no desire to follow in Layla’s footsteps by...
MORE THAN EVER / PLUS QUE JAUAIS (France, Norway, U.K.)
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island and Corsage) plays Hélène, a 33-year old woman diagnosed with a rare illness that sees her faced with existential decisions as she grapples with the uncertainty of the future. A decision to travel to Norway alone, Hélène...
NEZOUH (Syria)
14-year-old Zeina and her family are the last to have stayed in their besieged hometown of Damascus in Syria. A missile rips a giant hole in their home, exposing them to the outside world. When a rope is mysteriously lowered into the hole, Zeina gets her first taste...
La syndicaliste (France)
LA SYNDICALISTE is the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistle-blower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world,...
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE (France / Greece)
Genre: Comedy Run time: 111 min Country: France / Greece Language: French w/English subtitles Premiere: West Coast Director: Marc Fitoussi Principal Cast: Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas Distributor: Greenich Sexual references, nudity, coarse...
ANGRY ANNIE / ANNIE COLIERE (France)
A countryside village in France, 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors and women who perform illegal abortions in the...
A FAMILY FOR 1640 DAYS (France)
Inspired by his own family history, Fabien Gorgeart‘s heartfelt, heartbreaking second feature focuses on an excruciating period of transition in one family’s life. Anna, her husband and their two young sons are told they must gradually, definitively, hand 6-year-old...
FOR MY COUNTRY (France)
FOR MY COUNTRY is a selection from ‘Tales of Europe’, a curated touring program dedicated to supporting the circulation of prestigious European films and is supported by Europa International and Europa Cinemas, A young officer of Algerian origin, tragically loses his...
THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH / La Nuit du 12 (France/Belgium)
Just won six 2023 César Awards, including France’s ‘Best Picture’ & ‘Best Actors’ In nearly every police precinct, detectives are inevitably confronted with a case that, for one reason or another, goes unsolved. The more...
DREAM GIRL: THE MAKING OF MARILYN MONROE – France/USA
. How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty nor exceptionally talented, to become this incredibly striking platinum blonde superstar? How did she become the...
FAREWELL MR. HAFFMANN (France)
Occupied Paris, 1941: all members of the Jewish community are instructed to come forward and identify themselves to authorities. Dedicated jeweler Joseph Haffmann (Auteuil), fearing the worst, arranges for his family to flee the city and offers his employee François...
SKIES OF LEBANON / SOUS LE CIEL D’ALICE (France)
Starring the beloved Alba Rohrwacher and Wajdi Mouawad, the film combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon and is inspired by the family history of filmmaker Mazlo based on her grandmother’s stories of life during the Lebanese Civil War,...
ON THE EDGE / Entre la vie et la mort (Belgium/France)
Brussels. Leo, a Spanish metro driver, while conducting his train and arriving at a station, sees a young man in distress on the edge of the platform. He recognizes his son Hugo right before he falls onto the rails and then dies at the hospital. Leo, who had...
PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while...
HAUTE COUTURE (France)
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 year old woman, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to...
MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)
Genre: Psychological Thriller Run Time: 102 minutes Country: France/Belgium/Switzerland Language: French with English subtitles Premiere: Southern California Director: Antoine Barraud Principal Cast: Virginie Efira, Quim Gutierrez, Bruno Salomone &...
FULL TIME / A plein temps (France) – (Southern CA Premiere)
Marie goes to great lengths to raise her two children in the countryside while keeping her job in a Parisian luxury hotel despite the daily commute to Paris. When she finally gets a job interview for a position she had long been hoping for, a national strike...
NIGHT DOCTOR / Médecin de nuit (France)
Mikaël is a doctor on night call. He looks after patients from underprivileged neighborhoods, as well as those whom no one else wants to see: drug addicts, homeless people, those living in challenging areas, His life is chaotic. Torn between his wife and his...
SECRET NAME / La place d’une autre (France)
Trailer: https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film553075.html The Young French Cinema program, presented by Unifrance and Villa Albertine, once again shines the spotlight on new generation French filmmakers whose works offer a combination of visually innovative approaches...
BLACK BOX / Boite noire (France)
Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens...
THE DAZZLED / LES ÉBLOUIS (France)
Trailer: http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramidefilms-international-catalogue/the-dazzled.html THE DAZZLED is a selection from ‘Tales of Europe’, a curated touring program dedicated to supporting the circulation of prestigious European films and is...
PAUL NEWMAN, BEHIND BLUE EYES! (France) + 2 shorts
His beauty, masculinity and intelligence, and of course the color of his eyes, have followed Paul Newman throughout his life. Annoyed by the incessant references to his apparent sex appeal, the actor did everything he could to change the perception of him as a...
CONVICTION (France | Belgium)
Une intime conviction is based on a real-life case. This French courtroom thriller brings together law professor Jacques Viguier (Laurent Lucas) a man accused of killing his wife and Nora, obsessed with proving his innocence. As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial,...
DEERSKIN / LE DAIM showing with THE VILLA / LES GRACIUSES
DEERSKIN (LE DAIM) – 77 min Georges, 44 years old, and his vintage, fringed, deerskin jacket have a plan. His obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. French comedy film directed by Quentin Dupieux opened to...
SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE / DEUX MOI
SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE (DEUX MOI) – 110 min Two lonely neighbors would be perfect for each other if only they could overcome their individual hang-ups and stop substituting computer screens for real connections. She multiplies dates on social networks that lead nowhere...
IN SAFE HANDS / PUPILLE showing with UPSET BODY / CORPS CONTRARIE
IN SAFE HANDS (PUPILLE) – 110 min Jeanne Herry crafts a story stemming from a delicate two-and-a-half-month state of limbo for a newborn child, Théo, who becomes a ward of the state after his mother gives him up for adoption at birth. In Safe Hands choreographs...
LITTLE TICKLES / LES CHATOUILLES showing with LITTLE HANDS
LITTLE TICKLES (LES CHATOUILLES) – 103 min Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Why should she distrust a friend of her parents’ who offers to “tickle” her? Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and...
REMI, NOBODY’S BOY / REMI SANS FAMILLE
REMI, NOBODY’S BOY (REMI SANS FAMILLE) – 105 min This is the adaptation of Hector Malot’s French novel Sans famille (1878). The adventures of the young Rémi, an orphan, collected by the gentle Madam Barberin. At the age of 10 years, he is snatched from his...
THREE DAYS AND A LIFE / TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE
THREE DAYS AND A LIFE (TROIS JOURS ET UNE VIE) – 120 min Master crime writer Pierre Lemaitre’s own adaptation of his haunting novel. It’s Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be...
THE PERFECT NANNY / CHANSON DOUCE (France)
DFS members will receive an E-mail link on 6/6 to enable them to watch this film. Leila Slimani’s critically acclaimed, international bestseller “The Perfect Nanny” — aka “Chanson Douce” — is on the big screen. The story follows Myriam, a lawyer who decides to...
MY DOG STUPID / Mon chien stupide (France & Belgium)
MY DOG STUPID is based on the short story of the same name written by novelist John Fante published in 1985 and translated into French in 1987.. The film is a bitter sweet comedy about a middle-age couple, whose already poor marital bliss is being challenged by the...
PETER FALK VS COLUMBO (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE For many, he is above all the fluffy and at the same time ingenious investigator who transfers the powerful to their luxury villas in a crumpled trench coat. But Peter Falk not only embodied Inspector Columbo, but also worked as an actor with...
OH MERCY! (France)
Based upon a true murder case where during a somber Christmas season, a French-Algerian detective is investigating the fatal strangulation of a poor, elderly woman in her apartment with suspicion falling on her next-door neighbors. Starring Roschdy Zem and Léa...
THE ORCHESTRA CLASS (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE When violinist Simon Daoud is hired to teach the violin to a class of unruly junior high school students in an immigrant suburb of Paris, his first instinct is to run back to his rarefied world of classical string quartets. His mission to teach...
SINK OR SWIM (France/Belgium)
With buoyant energy, Gilles Lellouche choreographs and directs a stellar ensemble in pursuit of grace and discarded dreams—that is, a group of varyingly coordinated middle-aged men who find an outlet in synchronized swimming. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric, soulful yet...
GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Shortly after their chance meeting, Gaspard asks Laura if she will accompany him to his family home and pose as his girlfriend at his father’s second wedding. At this point, viewers will probably assume they’re dealing with a familiar and...
MY POLISH HONEYMOON (France)
Anna and Adam, a young Parisian couple with Jewish origins, are about to travel to Poland for the first time. Technically speaking this will be their honeymoon. They will attend a ceremony in memory of the Jewish community in the village of Adam’s grandfather,...
DYING FOR A CHILD (France)
US PREMIERE The body of Florence Varthy, daughter of a well-known entrepreneur, is found dead in her garage. Over the last few months, Florence and her partner, unable to have a child of their own, had faked her pregnancy and arranged for a surrogate mother, which is...
DEATH IN THE SOUL (France)
A hideous crime, an even worse truth. Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain. He’s guilty and that’s that: no need to look any further for a culprit. Tristan Delmas, an ambitious young lawyer, is appointed to defend...
ME AGAINST THE WORLD (France)
Unemployed Audrey is not a fighter. She lives alone with her 16 year-old-son, Enzo, a smart young boy in sport studies. One day he finds himself fighting for his life after taking a certain medication. While the doctors refuse to confirm the link between the drug and...
HER WORD AGAINST HIS (France)
Laura has a promising career as a young auctioneer, but her life looks set to fall apart when she’s the victim of a rape. The rapist is a well-known and respected gallery owner, and the assault takes place after a cocktail party. Laura knows it’s unlikely...
CHILDREN OF THE LIE /Un Mensonge Oublié (France)
A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered. He decides to investigate by himself, despite...
RETURN OF THE HERO/LE RETOUR DU HEROS (France/Belgium)
France, 1809 and the dashing Capitaine Charles-Grégoire Neuville has just become engaged to the young Pauline when he is called away to the front. He promises that he will write every day, but he does not. The impressionable Pauline hysterically falls ill with...
TAZZEKA (Morocco/France) Showing with PRESTIGE INGREDIENTS
Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces...
DJAM (France-Greece-Turkey) and WINK (USA)
Djam, a young Greek woman, is sent to Istanbul by her uncle Kakourgos, a former sailor with a passion for Rebetiko, to find a rare part that will repair their boat. In Istanbul, she encounters Avril, a nineteen-year-old French girl, alone and without any money, who...
CATCH THE WIND (France)
Edith sees her life turned upside down when the factory where she has always worked is relocated to Tangiers, leaving the workers with a choice between unemployment and moving to Morocco to keep their jobs. Estranged from her son and without any ties, Edith is the...
HOLY FAMILY (France)
U.S. PREMIERE The story of a traditional Catholic family in northern France, part of society but subject to all its changes. A wealthy family with close ties to a church that is facing up to the modernizing approach of Pope Francis. Madeleine de...ROSALIE BLUM (France)
U.S. Premiere Based on the award-winning series of graphic novels by Camille Jourdy, Julien Rappeneau’s enchanting directorial debut ROSALIE BLUM is a warm, witty and impeccably performed comedy about a random encounter that has unexpected and far-reaching...
ADVENTURES OF MAX & LEON (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE “Max & Leon is the first feature film from the stars of the French TV sensation The Palmashow: the creation of stand-up comedians Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais. In this epic WW2 comedy—in the vein of La Grande Vadrouille (which was for 40...
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR (France)
Southern California Premiere Rolling off HIPPOCRATES, doctor-turned-filmmaker Thomas Lilti delves once again into the medical world with THE COUNTRY DOCTOR. The social dramedy stars Francois Cluzet (“Intouchables”, “Tell No One’) as a devoted and revered countryside...
A KID (France)
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Mathieu, a Parisian, is 33, but he has never met his father. His late mother always told him that he was the result of a casual encounter. One day, Mathieu receives a call telling him that his father was Canadian, and that he had just passed away....
THE ORIGIN OF VIOLENCE (France/Germany)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Nathan Fabre, a young Catholic teacher, while working on his thesis about French resistance to the Nazis during World War II, discovers a photograph of a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp whose resemblance to his father is uncanny....
SUMMERTIME (France) Co-Sponsor w/Cinema Diverse
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Sensual and elegant, Catherine Corsini’s SUMMERTIME follows Carole and Delphine as they fall in love against the backdrop of early feminist activism in 1971 France. After living in the city, Delphine is called home to help with her family...
JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN – CALIFORNIA PREMIERE + 2 shorts
JERRY LEWIS: THE MAN BEHIND THE CLOWN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Since the early days, Jerry Lewis – in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel – had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far more than just...
MY KING / MON ROI (France)
PREVIEW Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot, in a performance that won her the Best Actress Award at Cannes) and Georgio (Vincent Cassel) are an odd match—or so Tony’s brother Solal (Louis Garrel) thinks when she tells him that they’re falling quickly, recklessly in love. ...
IN HARMONY (France) Showing w/short THE MAN WHO SHOT HOLLYWOOD (USA)
Marc Guermont used to be a very much sought after horse stuntman in films. One day unfortunately, he had a bad fall from his mount during the shooting of a historical movie. And not only has he become a paraplegic but his insurance company tries to rip him off into...
L’AFFAIRE SK1 (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE One of the most shocking events of the last two decades of the 20th century. SK1 is French police slang for “Serial Killer 1,” the codename given in the 1990s to a rapist and murderer who preyed on young women in Paris. Nicknamed “The Beast of...
ATTILA MARCEL (France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Paul is a sweet man-child, raised – and smothered – by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. He does express himself through colorful...
YELLOW EYES OF THE CROCODILES (France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Directed by Cécile TELERMAN Synopsis Based on the runaway bestseller, Katherine Pancol’s novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles – Editions Albin Michel. When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his...
EADWEARD (Canada)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE EADWEARD is the perfect movie to play both at a film festival and an art museum. It recounts the endeavors of the real-life Eadweard Muybridge, whose 19th-century photographic methods would serve as a template for what became movies. It is...
HIPPOCRATES – Diary of a French Doctor (France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Closing night of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week, Hippocrates, Diary of a French Doctor is a darkly comic portrait of a Paris hospital as seen through the eyes of a young intern, Benjamin, played by Vincent Lacoste (Eden), who...
ROCK THE CASBAH (France/Morocco)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE When successful entrepreneur and businessman Moulay Hassan (Omar Sharif) dies, in accordance with Muslim tradition, his family reunites at their home in Tangiers to spend three days sharing their memories and grieving his loss. Sparks start...
THE FINISHERS (Belgium/France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice. The catch? Seventeen-year-old Paul (Fabien Héraud) has congenital palsy. His distant father is a former Ironman competitor, now unemployed...
THE GILDED CAGE (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE For 30 years Maria & José Ribeiro have been living In an upscale Paris neighborhood,in the cozy little concièrge’s apartment of a handsome 19th century building. This Portuguese émigré couple are universally liked: Maria is a diligent...
24 DAYS (France)
For Israeli audiences, this scenario may sound horrifyingly familiar. A young man is kidnapped and brutally tortured. Except this didn’t happen this summer, but eight years ago – and in Paris. The victim was Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Parisian Jew whose murder has...JE M’APPELLE HMMM…. /MY NAME IS HMMM… (France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE French fashion designer and film producer Agnes Trouble makes her directorial and screenwriting debut under the pseudonym agnès b. with fictional JE M’APPELLE HMMM… Dark and designed to unsettle. An 11 year old runaway, the oldest daughter of...
PARIS-MANHATTAN (France)
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Alice is an offbeat pharmacist surrounded by a nice but dysfunctional family. She’s still single to the great consternation of her parents. She actually met the perfect man 20 years ago… but he married her sister!...
PAULETTE (France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE In this amusing fairytale, based upon true events, cranky and racist Paulette lives alone in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension she can no longer make ends meet. Writers: Laurie Aubanel, Jérôme Enrico Director: Jérôme Enrico...
NAOMI / HITPARTZUT X (Israel, France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Ilan Ben Natan, a 58-year-old Astrophysics Professor, is obsessively in love with his young wife, Naomi. When Ilan discovers that his deepest fears have come true – Naomi has a lover – he is unable to control himself. He stalks and confronts...
POUR UNE FEMME/FOR A WOMAN (France)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Anne has a very active imagination, only natural for a writer. But in her mid-thirties, she still knows practically nothing of her own family’s past. After her mother’s death, Anne discovers old photos and letters that convince...
JIMMY P.: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN (France – in English)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE In the late 1940s, at the progressive Menninger Clinic, two mavericks bonded, not simply as therapist and patient, but as friends united by their personal experiences as outsiders. Arnaud Desplechin’s extraordinarily intelligent and...Donate Today!
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