EVERYBODY LOVES JEANNE

Tout le monde aime Jeanne

Synopsis

Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.

Practical Info

Language French • Subtitles English • Running time 95 • Rating 16 • Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance • Release year 2022 • Director Céline Devaux • Cast Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual, Marthe Keller • Producer Les Films du Worso Awards Shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Week

Les Femmes du square THE NANNIES

Synopsis

Angèle, a young undocumented woman in her thirties lives off small tricks and scams in the outskirts of Paris. One day, threatened by gangsters she conned, she has to hide. Her plan: working as a nanny in a chic Parisian neighborhood for Hélène, a single mom of 10-year-old Arthur.

PRACTICAL INFO

Language French

Running time 105

Rating P16

Release year 2022

Director Julien Rambaldi

Cast Eyé Haidara, Ahmed Sylla, Léa Drucker, Vidal Arzoni

Producer Les Films du Kiosque

Awards Shown at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival

De son vivant PEACEFUL

Synopsis

A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and help them find acceptance. The four of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.

PRACTICAL INFO

Language French • Subtitles English • Running time 112 • Rating P16 • Genre Drama • Release year 2021 • Director Julien Rambaldi • Cast Catherine

Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, Gabriel Sara, Cécile de France • Producer Les Films du Kiosque

Awards César Awards for Best Actor in 2022

À plein temps FULL TIME

Synopsis

Marie goes to great lengths to raise her two children in the countryside while keeping her job in a Parisian luxury hotel. When she finally gets a job interview for a position she had long been hoping for, a national strike breaks out, paralyzing the public transport system. The fragile balance that Marie has established is jeopardized. Marie then sets off on a frantic race against time, at the risk of foundering.

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Awards Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Best Actress at 2021 Venice International Film Festival

Allons enfants ROOKIES

Synopsis

In the heart of Paris, a prestigious high school takes an audacious bet: to integrate students from working-class districts and to make them break the circle of school failure through hip hop dance. Rookies tells their story.

PRACTICAL INFO

Language French • Subtitles English • Running time 110 • Rating P13 • Genre

Documentary • Release year 2022 • Director Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai Producer Falabracks

Awards Shown at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival; nominated for Best Documentary at the 2023 Césars awards

Robuste ROBUST

Synopsis

When his right-hand man and only mate has to go away for a few weeks, Georges - an ageing film star - is given a substitute, Aïssa. The disillusioned actor and the young female security guard forge a special relationship.

Practical Info

Language French • Subtitles English • Running time 95 • Rating P16 • Genre Drama, Comedy • Release year 2022 • Director Constance Meyer • Cast Gérard Depardieu, Déborah Lukumuena, Lucas Mortier • Producer Dharamsala

Awards Shown at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival International Critics’ Week