ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2025
This Life Of Mine
(Ma Vie Ma Gueule)
By Sophie Fillières
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2025
Barberie Bichette, known to her despair, as Barbie, may have been beautiful, a good mother, a reliable colleague, a great lover… but that was before she predictably and inevitably turned 55. Now, things are getting darker, sometimes violent and often absurd. How then will she deal with her own self, others, and life in general?
Before What Comes After
(Le Dernier Souffle)
By Costa- Gavras
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2025
Starring Charlotte Rampling, Hiam Abbass [Succession], Denis Podalydès , Kad Merad and Karin Viard .
BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER celebrates life through the lens of death, by renowned, multi-academy award winning auteur Costa-Gavras.
Step into several stories that explore the beauty, dignity, and humanity in how we face the inevitable. Through the lens of different cultures, customs, and personal choices, BEFORE WHAT COMES AFTER invites you to reflect, connect, and even find joy in the conversation we so often avoid. Thoughtful, moving, and unexpectedly uplifting. A film that reminds us that in understanding death, we truly embrace life.
To explore more of the rapidly growing #DyingWithDignity and #choicesindying movements with experts in the field, come along to a special event Q&A following the below screenings at the Alliance Française French Film Festival from March 4.
Niki
(Niki De Saint Phalle)
By Celine Sallette
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2025
From the trauma experienced, Niki de Saint Phalle will find in her art, a weapon to free herself.
Selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2024, this powerful debut from Céline Sallette is an introspective spotlight on one of the contemporary world's most iconoclastic artists. From sculptor and painter to author and filmmaker, who was Niki de Saint-Phalle before becoming the woman who refused to conform?