IN THEATERS ON MARCH 27, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

LA SCALA: THE FORCE OF DESTINY

| 2026 – 95′ – Documentary, film & Art, Music & Dance, Women Directors
Written by: Anissa Bonnefont, Myriam Weil.
Directed by: Anissa Bonnefont.
Starring: Riccardo Chailly (conductor), Léo Muscato (stage director), Silvia Aymonino (costume designer), Federica Parolini (set designer), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Brian Jadge (tenor), Ludovic Tezier (baryton), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (soprano), Roberto Bolle (ballet dancer).
Official Competition TAFFF 2025 (North American Premiere).
In English and in Italian with English subtitles.
A Juno Films release. |

A performance of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino marks the opening of the Milan opera season at La Scala. A major cultural event since 1951, “la prima” draws opera lovers from all over the world. La Scala: The Force of Destiny takes us behind the scenes, from the first rehearsals with singers, musicians and dancers, all the way to opening night. Capturing the tension, passion and brilliance that define La Scala, the film plunges us into the day-to-day creative processes that take place behind the closed doors of the world’s most iconic opera house – which opened those doors to cameras for the very first time for this film.

OPENING IN THEATERS ON MARCH 20, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

LUMIERE, LE CINEMA!

| 2026 – 104′ –  Documentary, Films about Cinema .
Written by: Thierry Frémaux.
Based on the Work by: Louis Lumière
Directed by: Thierry Frémaux.
Voice Over: Thierry Frémaux.
Official Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2024. Telluride International Film Festival 2025.
In French with English subtitles.
A Janus Films release. |

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 years. Institute Lumière director Thierry Frémaux uses Lumière, Le Cinema! to guide the viewer through over a hundred shorts—some famous, some forgotten, some never before seen—directed by Lumière and company. In the process, Frémaux illuminates how the brothers employed the camera as a creative instrument as they (and their operators) mastered framing, staging, and subject selection for quotidian and exotic microdocumentaries as well as the first ever fictional motion pictures. The result is not only a glorious re(telling) of the genesis of cinema but a profound meditation on the beautiful world captured—and the mysterious world imagined—by the Lumières.

THE EYE OF VICHY

| 1993  – 110′ – Documentary, War, Classic, Period & History
Written by: Robert O. Paxton, Jean-Pierre Azéma.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol.
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox.
In French with English subtitles.
A First Run Features release. |

The Eye of Vichy is a brilliantly chosen compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War Two and masterfully used by filmmaker Claude Chabrol to examine the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. Michel Bouquet narrates.

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OPENING ON NETFLIX IN 2026

THE BUS: THE BLUES ON STRIKE

| 2025 – 8 x 35′ – Series  – Documentary, Sport.
Written by: Christophe Astruc.
Directed by: Christophe Astruc.
Starring: Raymond Domenech, Patrice Evra, Djibril Cissé, William Gallas, Roselyne Bachelot.
In English and French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

In the direct lineage of docu series like Bad Sport and Untold, The Bus: The Blues on Strike revisit a very unique event in French soccer: the strike decided aboard a bus by the National team during the 2010 World Cup to protest against the exclusion of their star player Nicolas Anelka. French media had revealed the insult directed at his coach, Raymond Domenech, at halftime of a match. The series includes never-before-heard testimonies of the main players, alongside involved parties at the time, such as Sports Minister Roselyne Bachelot. 

FROM THE OTHER SIDE

| 2002  – 103′ – A Belgium/France Co-production. Documentary, Women Directors, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Chantal Akerman.
Directed by: Chantal Akerman.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2002.
In English. In Spanish and in French with English subtitles.
An Icarus Films release. |

The border between the United States and Mexico is the backdrop for Chantal Akerman’s look into tightening immigration policies. Technology has limited illegal immigration into San Diego, diverting it to the Arizona border. Akerman jumps back and forth from the Mexican city of Agua Prieta to Douglas, Ariz., to demonstrate the harrowing journey some hopeful immigrants make. Many of these travelers never arrive, and Akerman speaks with their families as well as with American authorities.

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NEWS FROM HOME

| 1976  – 90′ – Drama, Documentary, Classic, Films & Literature, Women Directors.
Written by: Chantal Akerman.
Based on the Book by: Rose Leiman Goldemberg.
Directed by: Chantal Akerman.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

In one of Chantal Akerman’s most elegantly minimalist and profoundly affecting meditations, the filmmaker reads letters sent by her mother years earlier over a series of exactingly composed shots of Manhattan–creating a poignant reflection on personal and familial disconnection that doubles as a transfixing time capsule of New York in the 1970s.

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NO HOME MOVIE

| 2016  – 103′ – A Belgium/France Co-production. Drama, Documentary, Women Directors, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Chantal Akerman.
Directed by: Chantal Akerman.
Official Selection Locarno International Film Festival 2015.
In French with English subtitles.
An Icarus Films release. |

Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz. “This film is above all about my mother, my mother who is no longer with us. About this woman who arrived in Belgium in 1938 , fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the violence. This woman who is only ever seen inside her apartment. An apartment in Brussels. A film about a world in motion that my mother does not see.”

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AGNES VARDA: FROM HERE TO THERE

| 2014 – 5×45′ – Documentary, Series, Films About Cinema, Women Directors.
Written by: Agnès Varda.
Directed by: Agnès Varda.
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Chris Marker, Manoel de Olivera, Anouk Aimée, Aleksander Sokurov, Agnès Varda, Michel Piccoli.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cinema Guild release. |

The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda’s The Beaches of Agnes, From Here to There is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the peerless and indefatigable director’s travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers, for an expansive view of the contemporary art scene. 

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