War – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:35:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 PALESTINE 36 ../../../palestine-36/ Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:58:07 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25673

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.

PALESTINE 36

| 2025 – 119′ –  A Palestine/France/Great Britain Co-Production. Drama, Period & History, War, Women Directors, Co-Produced by France.
Written by: Annemarie Jacir.
Directed by: Annemarie Jacir.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Hiam Abbass, Kamel El Basha, Yasmine Al Massri, Jalal Altawil, Robert Aramayo, Saleh Bakri, Liam Cunningham, Billy Howle.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2025. Chicago International Film Festival 2025.  Palestine’s Oscar® 2026 Entry for Best International Feature.
In English and in Arabic with English subtitles.
A Watermelon Films release. |

The year is 1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain’s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

 

 

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WOMEN AT WAR ../../../women-at-war/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:25:36 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25403

WOMEN AT WAR

| 2025 – 8 x 52′ –  Series – Drama, War, Period & History, Romance.
Created by: Cécile Lorne, Camille Treiner.
Written by: Cécile Lorne, Camille Treiner, José Caltagirone, Iris Ducorps, Cécile Lorne, Sophie Hiet, Hélène Le Gal.
Directed by: Alexandre Laurent.
Starring: Audrey Fleurot, Julie de Bona, Camille Lou, Sofia Essaïdi, Sandrine Bonnaire, Tchéky Karyo, Laurent Gerra, Tom Leeb, Yannick Choirat,Grégoire Colin, Vincent Rottiers, Florence Loiret Caille.
In French with English subtitles.
A Walter Presents / PBS release. |

September 1914. For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in eastern France, a few kilometers from the German area, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant, who is suspected of being a spy; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor Dewitt, owner of a car factory, who has left for the front. She finds herself at the head of the family business, a colossal and unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century; Agnès (Julie de Bona), Mother Superior of a convent requisitioned and transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed by the influx of wounded, Agnès is increasingly tormented and questions her life choices; and Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an abortion gone wrong…

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13 DAYS 13 NIGHTS ../../../13-days-13-nights-2/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:35:40 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25383

OPENING IN THEATERS IN MARCH 2026, BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

13 DAYS 13 NIGHTS

| 2026 – 112′ –  Drama, War, Thriller.
Written by: Martin Bourboulon, Alexandre Smia.
Based on the Book by: Mohamed Bida.
Directed by: Martin Bourboulon.
Starring: Roschdy Zem, Lyna Khoudri, Sidse Babette Knudsen, Christophe Montenez, Yan Tual, Jean-Claude Muaka, Nicolas Bridet, Shoaib Saïd.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2025. 1 nomination César Awards 2026: Best Editing.
Official Competition TAFFF 2025 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Samuel Goldwyn Films release. |

August 15, 2021. American troops are pulling out of Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents are in the process of seizing Kabul. The French Embassy is preparing to evacuate… when commander Mohamed Bida takes in 500 refugees seeking asylum. Determined to save every life, he hatches a plan to transport the group to the airport. What ensues is a grueling 13-day race against time, amidst the utter pandemonium all around them, before the Taliban closes in. Martin Bourboulon (Eiffel, The Three Musketeers) is back with another action-packed, big-budget crowd-pleaser, adapted from Mohamed Bida’s memoir recounting how ten police officers, left to their own devices and risking their own lives, courageously led those stranded masses to freedom.

 

 

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ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS ../../../all-i-had-was-nothingness-2/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:30:05 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25369

COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.

ALL I HAD WAS NOTHINGNESS

| 2026 – 94′ –  Documentary, War
Written by: Guillaume Ribot.
Directed by: Guillaume Ribot.
Starring: Claude Lanzmann, Claude Ribot (narrator).
In French, German, Polish, Hebrew & Yiddish with English subtitles. In English.
A Janus Films release. |

Forty years after the release of Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece Shoah, Guillaume Ribot uses outtakes from that groundbreaking film, and a voiceover in the director’s own words, to recount his relentless pursuit of truth in a quest to capture the concrete reality of the Holocaust. In doing so, Ribot reveals the enormous emotional, physical and financial toll that the 12-year odyssey took on Lanzmann, as he crisscrossed the globe, tracking down survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators alike. Yet, in the master’s own words, “The act of transmitting is all that matters.”

 

 

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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAD ../../../the-voice-of-hind-rajad/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:21:14 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25341

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING TO DIGITAL ON MARCH 3.

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAD

| 2025 – 90′ –  A France/Tunisia Co-Production – Drama, War, Directed by Women.
Written by: Kaouther Ben Hania.
Directed by: Kaouther Ben Hania.
Starring: Saja Kilani, Amer Hlehel, Clara Khoury, Motaz Malhees.
Official Selections Venice International Film Festival 2025 (Winner Jury Grand Prize), Toronto International Film Festival.
In Arabic with English subtitles.
A Willa release. |

Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. From the writer/director of acclaimed documentary Four Sisters.

 

 

 

 

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DRACULA ../../../dracula/ Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:23:19 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=25226

NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.

DRACULA

| 2026 – 129′ –  Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Film & Literature.
Written by: Luc Besson.
Based on the Book By: Bram Stoker
Directed by: Luc Besson.
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bleu, Matilda De Angelis, Ewens Abid, Guillaume de Toncquedec, Jassem Mougari, Bertrand-Xavier Corbi.
In English.
A Vertical release. |

When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife (Zoë Bleu), he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death itself, guided by a single hope — to be reunited with his lost love. From the Writer/Director of Leon, The Big Blue, Lucy and The Fifth Element.

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THE EYE OF VICHY ../../../the-eye-of-vichy/ ../../../the-eye-of-vichy/#respond Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:27:23 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=23588

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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SOLDIERS ../../../soldiers-2/ Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:30:44 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=23264

SOLDIERS

| 2025 – 7 x 52′ – Series (Season 1) – Drama, War.
Created by: Thibaut Valetoux, Frédéric Krivine.
Written by: Thibaut Valetoux, Frédéric Krivine.
Directed by: Jean-Philippe Amar.
Starring: Pauline Parigot, Louis Peres, Birane Ba, Yannick Choirat, Samir Seghir, Vanessa Fonte, Raphaëlle Rousseau.
Official Competition TAFFF 2022 (North American Premiere. Winner Best Series Award).
In French with English subtitles.
A MHz Choice release. |

Soldiers plunges us into the daily lives of a platoon of dedicated French soldiers simply trying to do their jobs — against almost impossible odds — in Mali.  Lieutenant Anaïs Collet, a highly disciplined officer with an uncompromising moral code, and her unit have been deployed as part of Operation Barkhane, an anti-insurgent military campaign to quell Islamist extremists in Africa’s Sahel region.  But tracking down terrorists, bolstering practically nonexistent local governments and simply protecting the lives of innocent villagers turns out to be an extremely complex assignment.  The tactical balancing act it requires and the emotional toll it takes on these young men and women pushes them to their very limits.  Yet the series offers a touching portrait of their commitment, their inner struggles, and their palpable courage at every turn. 

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PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK ../../../put-your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk-2/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:28:48 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=23114

PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK

| 2025 – 110′ – Documentary, War.
Written by: Sepideh Farsi.
Directed by: Sepideh Farsi.
Starring: Fatma Hassona, Sepideh Farsi.
Official Selection Cannes Acid 2025. 1 nomination César Awards 2026: Best Documentary.
Official Competition TAFFF 2025 (West Coast Premiere).
In English.
A Kino Lorber release. |

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and Fatma Hassona, who was tragically killed with her family in a targeted Israeli airstrike on her home on April 16, 2025 just one day after the film’s Cannes selection was announced. Combining raw immediacy with deep humanity, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk portrays daily life during the conflict through the eyes of a generation caught in an endless cycle of war and living under siege.

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THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES ../../../the-most-precious-of-cargoes/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:21:27 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=22830

COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE

THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES

| 2025  – 81′ –  Animation, Drama, War, Period & History, Films & Literature, Family 12+.
Written by: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg.
Based on the Book by: Jean-Claude Grumberg.
Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius.
Starring (French voices): Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Blanc, Denis Podalydès, Grégory Gadebois.
Official Selections Cannes International Film Festival 2024, Annecy International Film Festival.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films US release. |

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty and the war raging all around them had made their lives very difficult. One day, the woodcutter’s wife rescues a baby girl who is thrown from one of the many trains chugging through the forest. That child will change their lives, as well as those of everyone she comes in contact with. Some will do all they can to protect her, whatever the cost, revealing both the worst and the best in the hearts of men. Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius recounts this beautifully animated, timeless tale to remind us that, in the darkest of times, the soul of humanity can only be preserved through the bright light of love and the heroism of ordinary people.

 

 

 

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