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 ICE TOWER

| 2025 – 103′ – Fantasy, Drama, Films About Cinema, Women Directors
Written by: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Geoff Cox.
Directed by: Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
Starring: Academy Award Winning Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé, Lilas-Rose Gilberti, Marine Gesbert, Dounia Sichov, Romain Reboul.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival (Competition – Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution)
In French with English subtitles.
A Yellow Veil Pictures release. |

Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart…. The 1970s. Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge. A mutual fascination grows between the actress and the girl.

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CONTEMPT

| 1964 – 105′ – Drama, Romance, Classic, Films & Literature, Films About Cinema.
Written by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Based on the Book By: Alberto Moravia.
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard.
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Gorgia Moll, Fritz Lang, Raoul Coutard, Jean-Luc Godard, Linda Veras.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2023 (Cannes Classics).
Official Selection TAFFF 20224 (Digitally restored version. Homage to Jean-Luc Godard).
In French with English subtitles.
A Rialto Pictures / BFI Player Classic release. |

Based on Moravia’s novel, Jean-Luc Godard’s sardonic look at the world of filmmaking boasts superb performances by Michel Piccoli as a compromised writer, Brigitte Bardot as his bored wife, Jack Palance as a manipulative producer and Fritz Lang as himself, about to film Homer’s Odyssey in Cinecittà and Capri. Raoul Coutard’s camerawork and Georges Delerue’s music enhance the beauty and poignancy.

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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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MEETINGS WITH ANNA

| 1978  – 128′ – a Belgium/France Co-Production. Drama, Classic, Films About Cinema, Women Directors, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Chantal Akerman.
Directed by: Chantal Akerman.
Starring: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alain Berenboom, Laurent Taffein.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

Chantal Akerman’s penetrating, quasi self-portrait of a woman’s soul-deep malaise is a mesmerizing odyssey through a haunted Europe. While on a tour through Germany, Belgium, and France to promote her latest movie, an accomplished filmmaker (Aurore Clément) passes through a series of brief encounters that gradually reveal her emotional and physical detachment from the world. 

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BERGMAN ISLAND

| 2021  – 103′ – Comedy, Drama, Romance, Films About Cinema, Women Directors.
Written by: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Directed by: Mia Hansen-Løve.
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie, Hampus Nordenson, Anki Larson, Kerstin Brunnberg, Melinda Kinnaman.
Official Selections: Cannes international Film Festival 2021, Toronto International Film Festival 2021, New York Film Festival 2021.
In English.
An IFC Films release |

A couple of American filmmakers, Chris (P.T. Anderson’s Phantom Thread superstar Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth) retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the Summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively blur and tear our couple even more apart.

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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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