OPENING IN US THEATRES ON MARCH 14, 2025.

WHO BY FIRE

| 2025 – 135′ – A Canada/France Co-production, Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Philippe Lesage.
Directed by: Philippe Lesage.
Starring: Noah Parker (II), Aurélia Arandi-Longpré, Arieh Worthalter, Paul Ahmarani, Sophie Desmarais, Antoine Marchand-Gagnon, Guillaume Laurin, Carlo Harietta, Irene Jacob, Laurent Lucas.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024, New York International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A KimStim release. |

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage (Genesis, New Directors/New Films). Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter, 2024 César winner for Best Actor for The Goldman Case) and his longtime friend and former collaborator Albert Gary (Paul Ahmarani), the vacation gradually becomes something far more complex and less stable, especially with the combustible admixture of Albert’s teen son’s best friend, Jeff (Noah Parker), and Albert’s self-asserting daughter Aliocha (Aurélia Arandi-Longpré). Long-simmering middle-aged resentments surface, set against the anxieties of the young, all captured sensitively by Lesage, who in recent years has proven unparalleled in evoking the psychological contours of teenagers finding their paths through treacherous emotional landscapes. Featuring thrillingly choreographed dinner sequences of mounting tension, Who by Fire confirms Lesage as a major contemporary filmmaker, with its assured tonal negotiation of the naturalistic and the oneiric, the joyous (especially an epic dance interlude to The B-52s) and the ominous.

OPENING IN US THEATRES IN 2025.

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

| 2025 – 94′ – Drama, Romance, Films & Literature.
Written by: Durga Chew-Bose.
Based on the book by: Françoise Sagan.
Directed by: Durga Chew-Bose.
Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Aliocha Schneider, Nailia Harzoune, Claes Bang, Lily Mclnerny.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Greenwich Entertainement release. |

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is languishing by the French seaside with her handsome father, Raymond (Claes Bang) and his lover Elsa (Naïlia Harzoune) when the arrival of her late mother’s friend Anne (Chloë Sevigny) changes everything. Amid the sun-drenched splendour of their surroundings, Cécile’s world is threatened and, desperate to regain control, she sets in motion a plan to drive Anne away with tragic consequences. An adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s unforgettable coming of age novel by the same title, Durga Chew-Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse masterfully captures the complexity of relationships between women and how they wield influence over one another’s fates.

OPENING IN THE US IN 2025.

BLOCK PASS

| 2025 – 98′ – Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+, Coming of Age.
Written by: Bérénice Bocquillon, Antoine Chevrollier, Faïza Guène.
Directed by: Antoine Chevrollier.
Starring: Sayyid El Alami, Amaury Foucher, Damien Bonnard, Florence Janas, Arthus, Léonie Dahan-Lamort, Mathieu Demy, Laëtitia Clément.
Official Selection Cannes Critics Week 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other’s side. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret. 

MA VIE EN ROSE (My Life in Pink)

| 1997 – 90′ – COMEDY DRAMA, LGBTQ+, COMING OF AGE, CLASSIC,
A France-Belgium Coproduction
Written by: Alain Berliner, Chris Vander Stappen.
Directed by: Alain Berliner.
Starring: Georges du Fresne, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent, Michèle Laroque, Marie Bunel, Marine Jolivet, Catherine Hirsh, Peter Belay.
Official Selections Cannes Directors Fortnight 1997, San Sebastian International Film Festival 1997. Golden Globe Winner for Best Foreign film 1998.
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl – and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt – as the intense reaction of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.

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THE 400 BLOWS

| 1959 – 100′ –  Drama, Coming of Age, Classic.
Written by: François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy.
Directed by: François Truffaut.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jacques Demy, Patrick Auffray, Henri Virlojeux, Jean Douchet.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 1959. Winner Palme d’Or.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows, is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime.

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OPENING IN US THEATRES ON MARCH 28, 2025, FOLLOWED BY A DIGITAL RELEASE.

HOLY COW

| 2025 – 90′ –  Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Louise Courvoisier, Théo Abadie.
Directed by: Louise Courvoisier.
Starring: Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitri Baudry, Maïwène Barthelemy.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024 (Un Certain Regard – Winner Youth Award 2024).
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Zeitgeist Films release. |

Scrappy 18-year-old Totone is as irresponsible as they come, partying all night and sleeping it off all day. So his father’s sudden death is like a splash of cold water across his face, thrusting him into adulthood without warning. Now forced to care for his little sister, tend the failing family farm and somehow make a living, he decides that his magical “big fix” will come by winning a gold medal for the best Comté cheese at the next agricultural competition… and collecting the €30,000 grand prize. But attaining discipline, not to mention culinary excellence, is not nearly as easy as he thinks. It’s a little like his best buddy’s beloved stock car racing — sometimes you have to take a tumble or two before you can move forward. Louise Courvoisier‘s coming-of-age first feature, Holy Cow, illustrates that bumpy path to maturity in minute, heartfelt detail.