My French Stories

20/11/2025

Tomorrow in Sight
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Filmmaker and Tomorrow in Sight jury member Nathan Ambrosioni shares his thoughts on Such a Resounding Silence by Emmanuelle Béart & Anastasia Mikova, which is part of the Tomorrow in Sight label. 🎥
 
In this powerful documentary, Béart breaks the silence surrounding in**st, confronting her own story and opening a space for other survivors to speak. Co-directed with Anastasia Mikova, the film gives a voice to those too often unheard and questions the taboos and legal blind spots around child sexual abuse in France. Through intimate testimonies, Such a Resounding Silence explores the lasting impact of trauma and carries a universal message of resilience and solidarity.
 
Tomorrow in Sight is a label created by Unifrance and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs ().It is supported by patrons of the Unifrance Endowment Fund: (Great Patron), (Patron) & Vranken-Pommery Monopole (Patron)
 

19/11/2025

Tomorrow in Sight 💫
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Actress and Tomorrow in Sight jury member Suzy Bemba shares her thoughts on Alice Douard’s Love Letters, which is part of the Tomorrow in Sight label. 💌
 
Céline is about to become a mother, but it’s her wife Nadia who is pregnant. With tenderness and precision, Love Letters follows this non-gestational mother as she searches for her place under the gaze of friends, family, and the law, questioning what makes someone a “real” parent.
 
Love Letters is part of the Tomorrow in Sight label, highlighting new narratives in French cinema around gender, LGBTQIA+ stories and changing family models.
 
🇩🇪🇫🇷 The film will screen as part of German French Film Week on November 24, 25 & 26 — more info on .
 
Tomorrow in Sight is a label created by Unifrance and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs ().
It is supported by patrons of the Unifrance Endowment Fund: (Great Patron), (Patron) & Vranken-Pommery Monopole (Patron)
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19/11/2025

TRAILER: Case 137 (dir. Dominik Moll)
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Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
 
Case 137 is directed by Dominik Moll and starring Léa Drucker. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival and now premiering in French theatres.

19/11/2025

🇨🇦 And it’s a wrap for the 31st Festival de films CINEMANIA, which closed in Montréal on Sunday, November 16, awarding its Audience Award to “Des preuves d’amour” (« Love Letters ») by Alice Douard, in her presence and of actress Monia Chokri 👏

👏Unifrance wishes to congratulate all French cinema attendees (nearly 100 French productions and coproductions were shown on this edition!)

📸 Let’s take a little photo-trip down memory lane over these superb 11 days, featuring a great bunch of the French cinema talents attending the fest... ✨

🔹 Alice Douard (« Love Letters »), Juliette Binoche (« In-I in Motion » & « Camille Claudel 1915 »), Monia Chokri (« Love Letters »)
🔹 Nadia Melliti (« The Little Sister »)
🔹 Sofia Alaoui (« Animalia »)
🔹 Guillaume de Fontenay, Audrey Ismaël (« Badh »)
🔹 Laura Felpin (« Love Is Overrated »), Jérôme Commandeur (« T’as pas changé »)
🔹 Arnaud Desplechin (« Two Pianos »)
🔹 Thierry Klifa (« The Richest Woman In the World »)
🔹 Jean-Paul Salomé, Reda Kateb (« The Money Maker »)
🔹 Magalie Lépine-Blondeau, Jonathan Cohen, Alice Vial (L’Âme idéale)
🔹 Guilhem Caillard (Cinemania), Zaven Najjar (Allah Is Not Obliged), Thomas Ngijol (Untamable)
🔹 Loury Lagardère, Jérémie Renier (« D’un monde à l’autre »)
🔹 Kev Adams, Brahim Bouhlel (« Le Jour J »)
🔹 Jan Kounen (« The Shrinking Man »)
🔹 Niels Schneider (« The Haunted Minds »)
🔹 Anna Cazenave Cambet (« Love Me Tender »), Laura Wandel (« Adam’s Sake »)
🔹 Félix Lefebvre, Anja Verderosa (« Hearts on Fire »)
🔹 Xavier Dolan (« The Great Arch »)
🔹 Monia Chokri, Nathan Ambrosioni (« Out of Love »)
🔹 Audrey Ismaël (« Badh »), Manon Clavel (« Kika »), Pauline Loquès (« Nino »)
🔹 Guilhem Caillard (Cinemania), Pierre Linhart (« Un autre père »), Diane Magnoux (Cinemania)

📷 Photos © Gaumand - Yagub Photography - Thibault Carron

17/11/2025

17/11/2025

INTERVIEW
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Céline is about to become a mother, but it’s her wife Nadia who is pregnant. In Love Letters, Alice Douard follows this non-gestational mother as she searches for her place under the gaze of friends, family, and the law, questioning what makes someone a “real” parent.
 
After premiering earlier this year at Cannes in Critics’ Week, the film is now reaching new audiences, with releases in Belgium on November 19 and Switzerland on November 27.
 
In our interview, Alice Douard talks about q***r parenthood, the fragile feeling of legitimacy, and how love can be both a protection and a battleground.
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16/11/2025

True or false?

14/11/2025

PLAY 🎧
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🎶Listen to the Spotify playlist ‘Music of the Heart’ made by French composer Laurent Akin 🎼🌟

Each month, discover a new playlist on Spotify curated by a French music composer compiling their favorite soundtracks of French films and TV series. 🎙🎬

Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3pqtFjn8D5nCoBW4e8QAPI

14/11/2025

INTERVIEW
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Step inside the corridors of power in Cairo with Tarik Saleh’s new political thriller, Eagles of the Republic 🦅
 
In this interview, Tarik Saleh looks back on his “Cairo trilogy”, from The Nile Hilton Incident to Boy from Heaven and now Eagles of the Republic – and explains how he uses genre cinema to explore propaganda, desire, and fear. He also talks about working once again with Fares Fares, who plays Egypt’s most beloved actor, suddenly drawn into the inner circle of the regime and into a dangerous affair with a general’s wife.
 
After its world premiere in Competition at Cannes, Eagles of the Republic is now out in theatres in Sweden and Norway. 🇸🇪🇳🇴✨
 

13/11/2025

INTERVIEW
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Blanche Gardin and Sébastien Betbeder tell us about The Incredible Snow Woman (L’Incroyable femme des neiges), a film that follows Coline, a famed Arctic explorer who returns to her family home in the Jura after losing her job, her relationship, and her health. Between Greenland’s ice floes and the mountains of eastern France, the film blends adventure, family ties, and a very tender sense of humour.
 
They look back on creating this “snow woman” who can fight a bear but hesitates to face her own reflection, and on directing the trio formed by Blanche Gardin, Philippe Katerine, and Bastien Bouillon.
 
Selected in Panorama at the 75th Berlinale, The Incredible Snow Woman is now out in French theatres.

12/11/2025

TRAILER
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Élisabeth, an actress, runs writing workshops at Necker Hospital for teenagers in severe psychological distress. Through her interactions with them, she is drawn back into her own past: her internment at age 14. Gradually, memories resurface, along with the discovery of theatre, which once saved her.
 
 
Directed by Isabelle Carré
Cast: Isabelle Carré (Élisabeth, adult), Judith Chemla (Alice), Tessa Dumont Janod (Élisabeth, teen), Alex Lutz (Paul)