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Annie colère
March 9
A working mother of two teenagers becomes pregnant in the 1970s and decides to meet with a movement that performs illegal abortions.
Director: Blandine Lenoir (2022)
Cast: Laure Calamy, Zita Hanrot, India Hair
Genre: Drama
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Gardez le sourire
March 11
Vienna in the 1930s. Jean has no work and nowhere to live. He is so desperate that he thinks about drowning himself in the Danube. But a young woman, Marie, jumps off a bridge just before him. Jean saves her and comforts her. Suicide is never an option again.
Director: Paul Fejos, René Sti (France, 1933)
Cast: Annabella, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Drama
La cordonnière
February 20
Victoire Du Sault, a bold and visionary shoemaker, founded the company that made the fortune of the Dufresne family. But to achieve the success she sought, she had to abandon her first great love. A secret that, whatever happened, she needed to keep secret from her husband.
Director: François Bouvier (Canada, 2023)
Cast: Rose-Marie Perreault, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Madeleine Péloquin
Genre: Drama
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Vivants
March 30
Gabrielle joined a prestigious news program. With no formal training, she must prove herself and find place among an experienced team of special correspondents.
Director: Alix Delaporte (France, 2023)
Cast: Alice Isaaz, Roschdy Zem, Vincent Elbaz
Genre: Drama
Cigare au miel
1993. Selma, 17, lives in a Berber, bourgeois and secular family. When she meets Julien, she becomes aware of the family patriarchy that surrounds her and prevents her from flourishing. While at the same time radical Islamism rages in Algeria and her family collapses, Selma discovers the power of her own desire…
Director: Kamir Aïnouz (France, 2020)
Cast: Zoé Adjani, Amira Casar, Lyes Salem
Genre: Drama
Discrètes
Macha and Gaby are housekeeping attendants for Discrètes, a company commissioned to clean an office tower. The night Macha saves Gaby from the hands of her attacker, in this case a lawyer from Cabinet Fichaud, they begin a quest to take justice into their own hands.
Director: Sophia Belahmer (Canada, 2024)
Cast: Juliette Gosselin, Aurélia Arandi
Genre: Drama
Les meilleures
In a working class district of Paris, 18 year-old Nedjma, a strong personality everyone respects, discovers love in the arms of another girl. A relationship that makes her question how she can live her love freely and still escape the judgement of those around her?
Director: Marion Desseigne-Ravel (France, 2022)
Cast: Lina El Arabi, Esther Rollande, Kiyane Benamara
Genre: Romance
Alice et le maire
Paul Théraneau, the mayor of Lyon, is in a sticky situation. After 30 years in politics, for the first time in his life he’s run out of ideas! As a solution, he hires a young and brilliant philosopher, Alice Heimann. Their discussions see their respective certainties severely challenged…
Director: Nicolas Pariser (France, Tunisia, 2019)
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Anaïs Demoustier
Genre: Dramedy
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