WINNER: CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Best Actress: Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto
ALL OF A SUDDEN
by the director of DRIVE MY CAR
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drama | Japan/ France
A CANNES STANDOUT. A PROFOUND SENSE OF HOPE AND HUMANITY
★★★★★
Financial Times
RYÛSUKE HAMAGUCHI SHOULD HAVE TWO PALMES BY NOW, ONE FOR HIS EXQUISITE HARUKI MURAKAMI ADAPTATION, DRIVE MY CAR (2021), AND ANOTHER FOR THIS QUIETLY ASTONISHING NEW WORK.. [ALL OF A SUDDEN]
The New Yorker
A LIFE-AFFIRMING MIRACLE OF A MOVIE. A TREASURE, A TRANSCENDENT FILM WHOSE POWER IS CAPABLE OF REKINDLING ONE'S HOPE IN HUMANITY
The Playlist
A TRANSCENDENT FILM ABOUT CARE AND CONVERSATION THAT, WITHOUT HYPERBOLE, MAKES THE WORLD FEEL LIKE A KINDER PLACE.
Variety
Marie-Lou, the director of an aged care facility, strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy called Humanitude, based on listening, compassion and respect for residents' dignity, despite resistance from her staff. When she meets Mari, a Japanese theatre director with cancer, their encounter profoundly reshapes her path. As the two women forge a deep, supportive friendship, they unite in a shared effort to make the impossible possible.
This Life Of Mine
Dir. Sophie Fillières | Comedy | France | 99 Mins
Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival SACD Best Screenplay award and opening night film of the Cannes Director’s Fortnight section, Sophie Fillières' THIS LIFE OF MINE is a sharply funny and deeply resonant take on midlife crises. With her signature wit and humour, Fillières delivers a tender portrait of a woman navigating the chaos of family, work, and the absurdities of aging.
Barberie "Barbie" Bichette (Agnès Jaoui, Place Publique, AF FFF19) is a woman under siege: her kids cringe at her quirks, her soul-crushing copywriting job barely inspires her, and her body feels like it’s rebelling. Caught between hot flushes and existential dread, Barbie stumbles through the comedy of life at 55.
“Few filmmakers working in comedy have ever been quite as subtle, quite as attuned to quiet cadences as Sophie Fillières.”
INDIEWIRE
“A highly personal and darkly amusing chronicle”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
NIKI
(Niki De Saint Phalle)
Dir. Céline Sallette | Drama | France | 98 Mins
Starring Charlotte Le Bon (White Lotus 2025) in the titular role. Escaping the grip of 1950s America, a young Niki de Saint Phalle arrives in Paris desperate to find freedom and self-expression. While navigating motherhood, Niki’s haunted past emerges — until trauma explodes into uncontainable, revolutionary art.
Iconic artist Niki de Saint Phalle shattered rigid expectations of womanhood, forging a fearless new language of feminism through bold, explosive art. Against all odds, she transformed personal pain into monumental works like HON, the 25M long supine pregnant woman where the public enter the scuplture via the vagina” espousing female strength and the unapologetic power of womanhood, emerging as a trailblazing force: sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and fearless feminist.
NIKI is not just a biopic — it is a visceral, visually rich meditation on resilience, female agency, and the unstoppable drive to create ART.
The release of NIKI the movie, coincides with the opening of the landmark Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris from JUNE 26, 2025.
Before What Comes After
(Le Dernier Souffle)
Dir. Costa-Gavras | Drama | France | 100 Mins
BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER celebrates life through the lens of death, by renowned Multi-Academy Award winning Director Costa-Gavras.
A stunning philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death...
A number of vignettes in which the palliative doctor guides his patients and family through fear, anxieties & decisions around the end of their lives… A poetic ballet, where each patient is a tome of emotions, laughter and tears… A journey to the throbbing heart of our loves and lives.
“End-of-life drama is softly reflective and profoundly moving.”
DEADLINE
“Therapeutic cinema at it’s finest”
DMOVIES
”A truly marvelous film.”
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