Schedule:
10:00 a.m: The Ties That Bind Us (L'attachement)
Official Selection - Venice International Film Festival
Exploring the challenges of modern family structures, the film follows a single father, a feminist librarian, and a child seeking a place to belong as they navigate love, desires, and redefining what it means to be a family.
Directed by Carine Tardieu
Written by Carine Tardieu, Agnès Feuvre, Raphaële Moussafir
Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Quenard
1h 46m
12:30 p.m: Jim's Story (Le roman de Jim)
César Award winner for Best Actor
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.
Directed by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Written by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Starring Karim Leklou, Laetitia Dosch, Sara Giraudeau, Bertrand Belin
1h 41m
5:00 p.m: Meet The Barbarians (Les barbares)
Official Selection - TIFF
The town council of Paimpont – a small village in Brittany – has unanimously voted in favor of welcoming a family of Ukrainian refugees. However, the refugees who turn up aren’t Ukrainian but Syrian, and some of the locals are not very pleased with their new neighbors. Yet the Fayad family avoids all the clichés the French villagers may have expected. So much so that, they leave one wondering: who in this little village are the true ‘barbarians’?
Directed by Julie Delpy
Written by Julie Delpy, Matthieu Rumani
Starring Julie Delpy, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, India Hair, Jean-Charles Clichet, Rita Hayek
1h 42m
7:30 p.m: The President's Wife (Bernadette)
César Award nominee for Best First Film
Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac (Catherine Deneuve) arrives at the presidential Elysée Palace in 1995 frustrated and all but cast off by her newly elected husband, Jacques (Michel Vuillermoz). Having always worked in his shadow to help his ascent to the presidency, Madame Chirac now fully expects to finally get the place in the political elite she believes she deserves.
Directed by Léa Domenach
Written by Clémence Dargent, Léa Domenach
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz, Sara Giraudeau
1h 32m
3:00 p.m: That Summer In Paris (Le rendez-vous de l'été)
Official Selection - Berlin International Film Festival
Paris, 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine, 30, arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disoriented by the bustling and chaotic city where nothing seems to go her way, she will unexpectedly renew ties with her estranged half-sister and niece.
Directed by Valentine Cadic
Written by Valentine Cadic, Mariette Desert
Starring Blandine Madec, India Hair, Arcadi Radeff, Matthias Jacquin, Lou Deleuze
1h 15m