Schedule:
2:30 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
7:30 p.m: The Marching Band (En fanfare)
7x César Award nominee, including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother's exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate. Jimmy begins to dream of a different life...
Directed by Emmanuel Courcol
Written by Emmanuel Courcol, Irène Muscari, Oriane Bonduel, Marianne Tomersy, Khaled Amara
Starring Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco, Ludmila Mikaël, Jacques Bonnaffé, Nathalie Desrumaux
1h 43m
5:00 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