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Une histoire d’amour
February 16
Two women fall in love and decide to have a child, leaving it to chance to decide who will carry the baby.
Director: Alexis Michalik (France, 2022)
Cast: Alexis Michalik, Juliette Delacroix, Marica Soyer
Genre: Drama
Trois couleurs : Rouge
February 18
Valentine, a student and model, runs over a dog. She brings the wounded animal back to its owner, a retired judge. The embittered man spends his evenings spying on his neighbors’ telephone conversations. In time, their initially turbulent relationship evolves into a deep friendship.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski (France, Poland, Switzerland, 1994)
Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy
Genre: Drama
L’exercice de l’État
February 20
Bertrand Saint-Jean, Minister for Transport, is woken in the middle of the night by his chief of staff. A coach has plunged into a ravine. He has no choice, he must go on site. And so the statesman is drawn into an ever more complex and hostile world of intrigue.
Director: Pierre Schoeller (France, 2010)
Cast: Michel Blanc, Olivier Gourmet, Zabou Breitman
Genre: Political thriller
Terrible jungle
February 27
Eliott, a naïve young researcher, heads off to study a mysterious tribe in Amazonia: the Otopis. An opportunity for him to escape his stiflingly possessive mother! But worried about her son, she decides to go in search of him, deep in the jungle…
Director: Hugo Benamozig, David Caviglioli (France 2019)
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Dedienne,
Genre: Comedy
I Love Greece
Jean and Marina, a Franco-Greek couple, go to Athens for the summer vacation. There they find Marina’s exuberant family and a Greece in crisis. While they plan to spend a few romantic days on a small island in the Cyclades, the whole family decides to accompany them.
Director: Nafsika Guerry-Karamaounas (France, 2022)
Cast: Stacy Martin, Vincent Dedienne, Maria Apostolakea
Genre: Romcom
La fiancée du poète
A fan of painting and poetry, Mireille combines her job as a waitress at the Café des Beaux-Arts in Charleville with a bit of petty theft and an illegal cigarette trade. Not able to maintain the big family home that she inherits, she decides to take on three lodgers…
Director: Yolande Moreau (France, 2022)
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Sergi López
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Perdrix
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. A stranger who landed in his family’s unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefine their boundaries and, finally begin to fully live their lives.
Director: Erwan Le Duc (France, 2019)
Cast: Swann Arlaud, Maud Wyler, Fanny Ardant, Nicolas Maury
Genre: Comedy
Ashkal
A charred body is discovered in a building in Jardins de Carthage, an abandoned property project, in Tunis. Two police officers, Fatma and Batal, are put in charge of investigating this mysterious death. Other immolations then follow, using the same modus operandi.
Director: Youssef Chebbi (France, Tunisia, 2022)
Cast: Fatma Oussaifi, Mohamed Grayaâ
Genre: Thriller
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