25-year-old Martin arrives in Paris from the provinces to try to reunite with his first love Léa. Following the classic Balzac theme, Michaël Dacheux’s debut film updates the stylistic tropes of French New Wave to include queer desire.

Shortly after their chance meeting, Gaspard asks a stranger to pose as his girlfriend at his father’s second wedding. The family home, a working zoo, is full of tigers, monkeys, two-headed caribous, and a sister that believes she is part bear. Directed by Antony Cordier.

Fresh out of juvenile detention with no where to go, 17-year-old Zachary is back on the hard streets of Marseille where he meets and falls madly in love with a teen prostitute. Jean-Bernard Marlin’s feature debut won three Césars in 2018, including Best First Feature Film.

Having lost her husband and job, Irma jumps into a river in Avignon only to be rescued by Dolores, a free-spirited Spaniard. Irma and Dolores strike up an unlikely friendship, and shows us the rarely seen part of France inhabited by factory workers, hunters,
and fisherman. Directed by Anne Alix.

A delicate comedy about the Zuccarelli family as they start to fray: single father Joseph has given up his medical practice to pursue an unlikely dream of becoming a writer, his grown son Joachim moons over his ex to the detriment of his Masters in psychiatry, and 13-year-old Ivan is undergoing a mystical conversion. Directed by Félix Moati.

Having been educated at the Sorbonne, well-bred Laure stuns her family by joining the Navy and attempting to become the first woman to join a
special ops force. Hélène Fillières’ masterfully crafted tale depicts the intense challenges, including sexist prejudice, of a male-dominated environment.

In this whip-smart comedy, first-time director Judith Davis also stars in this film examining the generation that came of age after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Angèle moves in with her communist parents after losing her job, but refuses to give up the revolution.

This unexpected but beguiling mix of documentary film and musical comedy follows the students of the hotel school in Grenoble as they learn to greet guests, fold tablecloths, chop vegetables without looking, all while occasionally breaking into song. Directed by Jacques Deschamps.

An amnesiac former sitcom star desperate for a ride to Paris runs into a heartbroken solder trying to sneak into his late lover’s funeral in this strikingly offbeat comedy that blends pshchedelic absurdity and delirious humor to surprisingly earnest effect. Directed by Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray.