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OPENING SOON IN THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

VIOLETTE NOZIERE

| 1978 (New Release in 2026) – 130′ –  Drama, Period & History, Biopic, Thriller, Classic.
Written by: Odile Barski, Hervé Bromberger, Frédéric Grendel, Jean-Marie Fritere.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Lisa Langlis, Bernadette Lafont, Mario David, Dora Doll.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1978 (Winner Best Actress ~ Isabelle Huppert). Four César Nominations 1979 (Winner Best Supporting Actress ~ Stéphane Audran).
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement Classics release. |

Paris, 1933: Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) will turn 18. She lives with her parents, Germaine (Stéphane Audran) and Baptiste (Jean Carmet), in a very modest apartment cluttered with ungainly furniture and objects. Violette can’t stand the cramped quarters or the drab atmosphere at home. Baptiste Noziere is only interested in his card games, while Germaine clumsily tries to raise her daughter according to a petit-bourgeois ideal that excludes any hint of dreaming. So Violette escapes in her own way, leading a double life: an emancipated young woman on the outside, elegantly dressed, with easy money, but a butterfly who folds her wings and slips into her drab chrysalis when she returns to her parents’ house. Her encounter with Jean Dabin (Jean Francois Garreaud), a mediocre and unscrupulous man with whom she falls madly in love, will further widen the gap between her two lives.

 

 

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FRENCH ROULETTE

| 2025 – 4 x 52′ –  Series – Biopic, Drama, Crime.
Created by: Nicolas Jean, Isabelle Dubernet, Olivier Eloy.
Written by: Nicolas Jean, Isabelle Dubernet, Olivier Eloy, Roger-Louis Bianchini.
Directed by: Vincent Garenq.
Starring: Michèle Laroque, Yannick Choirat, Marie Zabukovec, Marc Arnaud, Marion Creusvaux, Maud Imbert, Handy Gedio, Alexandre Angelo Bettanini, Christophe Favre.
In French with English subtitles.
A Walter Presents / PBS Masterpiece release. |

In the 1970s French Riviera, Renée Le Roux runs the city’s historical casino. When she stands against mafioso Jean-Dominique Fratoni, who is doing everything in his power to acquire her establishment, her daughter, Agnes, disappears. So begins a 40-year game of cat-and-mouse–a mother’s battle to uncover the truth. Based on actual events.

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MOLIERE LAST STAGE

| 2025 – 94′ –  Drama, Biopic, Period & History.
Written by: Olivier Py, Bertrand de Roffignac.
Directed by: Olivier Py.
Starring: Laurent Lafitte, Stacy Martin, Bertrand de Roffignac, Jean-Damien Barbin, Emilien-Diard Detoeuf, Gray Orsatelli, Eva Rami.
In French with English subtitles
A Under The Milky Way  release. |

February 17th, 1673, Paris. The King’s troupe is in the middle of a representation of The Imaginary Invalid performed by Molière himself. But suddenly, the French master begins spitting blood. He decides to continue despite everything and, during his agony, memories and ghosts from the past enter the theatre. Desperately hoping for the King’s arrival, he chooses to make the most of the growing chaos and to transform his death into a final burst of laughter.

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BARDOT

| 2025 – 6 x 52′ – Series (Season 1) – Drama, Biopic, Period & History, Films About Cinema, Music & Dance.
Created by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Written by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Directed by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Starring: Julia de Nunez, Hyppolite Girardot, Géraldine Pailhas, Victor Belmondo, Yvan Attal, Anne Le Ny, Noham Edge, Lou Gable , Laurent Stocker.
Official Competition TAFFF 2023 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A PBS Masterpiece release. |

Fresh-faced newcomer Julia de Nunez brings the iconic Brigitte Bardot to visceral, plaintive life in her very first screen performance, opposite the equally charismatic Victor Belmondo (Jean-Paul’s grandson), who plays writer/director Roger Vadim. Touting an all-star French cast, the six-episode biopic series traces the life of the ’50s “French bombshell,” from her first audition at 15, through her explosive international breakout in Vadim’s risqué 1957 …And God Created Woman, to her powerful performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth in 1960. Bardot is more than a myth in her native country — “sex kitten,” Marianne (the national personification of liberty), unrelenting animal rights activist, and what Simone de Beauvoir called “the most liberated woman in post-war France,” all rolled into one. And de Nunez indeed manages to evoke all that with grace, poise and apparent ease in this post-WWII Pygmalion story in which a sheltered bourgeois teen-age girl ignites a veritable sexual revolution in France.

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THE SALT OF THE EARTH

| 2014 – 110′ – A France/Italy/Brazil Co-Production. Documentary, Biopic, Films & Art, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
Directed by: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.
Starring: Sebastião Salgado.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2014 (Un Certain Regard), Telluride International Film Festival 2014, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2014 (Winner Audience Prize). Winner César Award for Best Documentary Feature 2015. Academy Award Nomination for Best Documentary 2015.
In English, in Portuguese and in French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classics release. |

For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He had witnessed some of the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.

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LITTLE AMELIE  ../../../little-amelie/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:35:22 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=22326

LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN

| 2025 – 103′ – Drama, Animation, Family 12+, Films & Literature, Biopic.
Written by: Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Maïlys Vallade, Aude Py, Eddine Noël.
Based on the Book by: Amélie Nothomb.
Based on the Characters by: Marion Roussel.
Directed by: Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang.
Starring (French voices): Loïse Charpentier, Victoria Grosbois, Isaac Schoumsky, Laetitia Coryn, Yumi Fujimuri, François Raison, Marc Arnaud, Haylee Issembourg.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2025, Annecy International Animation Festival 2025. Academy Awards Nomination 2026 for Best Animated Feature.
A Gkids release. |

Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, life is a succession of adventures and discoveries. But on her third birthday, a single event changes everything. Because for Amélie, everything is at stake at her age, happiness as well as tragedy. The first feature film by Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang based on the autobiography by Belgium novelist Amélie Nothomb.

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MY FATHER’S GLORY

| 1990 (Re-released in 2023) – 105′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Films & Literature, Classic, Period & History, Family 14+, Biopic.
Written by: Yves Robert, Louis Nucéra, Jérôme Tonnerre.
Based on the Book by: Marcel Pagnol.
Directed by: Yves Robert .
Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Joris Molinas, Victorien Delamare, Pierre Maguelon, Paul crochet.
4 César Awards Nominations 1991.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

Based on the bestselling memoirs of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (the acclaimed author of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), My Father’s Glory and its sequel My Mother’s Castle recount the nostalgic memories of Pagnol’s youth growing up in Provence at the turn of the twentieth century. During one idyllic summer, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) discovers friendship and wonder amid the rocky peaks surrounding his family’s countryside home while learning new respect for his gentle and caring schoolmaster father Joseph (Philippe Caubère). Upon his return to Marseilles, Marcel longs to escape back to his beloved hills and is granted his wish when his adoring mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). devises a plan that allows them to visit the cottage more frequently.

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MY MOTHER’S CASTLE

| 1990 (Re-released in 2023) – 108′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Films & Literature, Period & History, Classic, Family 14+, Biopic.
Written by: Yves Robert, Jérôme Tonnerre.
Based on the Book by: Marcel Pagnol.
Directed by: Yves Robert .
Starring: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Joris Molinas, Victorien Delamare, Pierre Maguelon, Paul crochet, Jean Carmet.
3 César Awards Nominations 1991.
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |

Based on the bestselling memoirs of French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (the acclaimed author of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), My Father’s Glory and its sequel My Mother’s Castle recount the nostalgic memories of Pagnol’s youth growing up in Provence at the turn of the twentieth century. During one idyllic summer, 11-year-old Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) discovers friendship and wonder amid the rocky peaks surrounding his family’s countryside home while learning new respect for his gentle and caring schoolmaster father Joseph (Philippe Caubère). Upon his return to Marseilles, Marcel longs to escape back to his beloved hills and is granted his wish when his adoring mother Augustine (Nathalie Roussel). devises a plan that allows them to visit the cottage more frequently.

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TURNING TIDE

| 2014 – 96′ –  DRAMA, SPORT, BIOPIC, ADVENTURE, ACTION, TAFFF AWARDS WINNER.
Written by: Jean Cottin, Pierre Marcel, Christophe Offenstein, Frédéric Petitjean.
Directed by: Christophe Offenstein.
Starring: François Cluzet, Samy Seghir, Virginie Efira, Guillaume Canet, Karine Vanasse, Arly Jover, Dana Prigent, José Coronado, Jean-Paul Rouve, Guillaume Nicloux, François Jerosme, Emmanuelle Bercot.
Official Competition COLCOA 2014 (Winner Audience Award).
In French with English subtitles.
A France Channel / Gaumont release. |

Sailor Yann Kermadec has always dreamed of competing in the prestigious Vendée Globe round-the-world solo yacht race. When a star skipper is injured in an accident at the last minute, he gets his shot. Determined to make the most of his golden opportunity, Kermadec fearlessly weathers storms like the seadog he is and seizes the early lead. Just when it looks like nothing, even a broken rudder, can keep him from victory, Kermadec discovers something hidden on his boat. Something that’s not supposed to be there at all – another person. His mysterious passenger appears sickly, but if discovered, it will mean his immediate disqualification, his golden opportunity squandered. Kermadec decides to do what anyone would do – continue the race.

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THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT ../../../the-divine-sarah-bernhardt/ Tue, 13 May 2025 13:05:15 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=22017 THE DIVINE SARAH BERNHARDT

| 2025 – 98′ – DRAMA, ROMANCE, FILMS & ART, BIOPIC, PERIOD & HISTORY.
Written by: Nathalie Leuthreau.
Directed by: Guillaume Nicloux.
Starring: Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, Amira Casar, Pauline Etienne, Mathilde Ollivier, Laurent Stocker, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clément Hervieu-Léger.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US / FRANCE Channel release. |

A romantic biopic about the world’s first diva. Known as “La Divine”, French actress Sarah Bernhardt (Sandrine Kiberlain) left an indelible mark, shattering societal norms thanks to her daring personality and performances. This decadent film explores her passionate relationship with actor Lucien Guitry whilst she navigates stardom, wealth, scandals and sickness.

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