My French Stories
Barbapapa: One Big Happy Family! (S2) / Barbapapa en famille ! (S2) (2025) - Teaser
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Produced by : Windy Production
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 52 min
Production year: 2024
August 1991, Les-Sables-d’Olonne seaside resort. Camille, 15, meets two best friends, Martin and Gabriel, on the beach, and she collides into their lives like a comet. Perpetually torn between these two men, Camille will live a crazy love story with them over more than thirty years
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/60848/seasons
Premiered in Competition at Cannes, where it received the François Chalais Prize, the film is now in cinemas in Spain.
Sayyid El Alami talks about building that friendship on screen, working with director Antoine Chevrollier, and portraying masculinity, love, and solidarity in a world where being yourself can be dangerous.
Block Pass (La Pampa) is now available to watch on Filmin in Spain.
Produced by : Novoprod
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 2 h 13 min
Production year: 2025
At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her of their son’s custody. Then begins a struggle of several years for Clémence to defend her right to be a mother and a woman – free to make her own choices.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59999/love-me-tender
Produced by : Barney Production
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 26 min
French release: 24/12/2025
Production year: 2024
In a dull, desolate town, Joy (27) is an orphan who lives her faith with intensity and almost never leaves her church. Until the day she meets Andriy, a young man who gets beaten up in front of her. Soon, she becomes convinced their paths were meant to cross...
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/57863/the-book-of-joy
Produced by : Gabman
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 48 min
French release: 10/12/2025
Production year: 2025
After fleeing her troubled childhood, Marion reconnects with her sister 15 years later, hoping to put back together all the pieces of her identity.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59394/the-girl-without-a-name
Produced by : Nord-Ouest Films
Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 1 h 34 min
French release: 04/03/2026
Production year: 2025
Edouard Bergeon (« Au Nom de la Terre ») nous plonge dans la vie de Jérôme Bayle, éleveur charismatique du Sud-Ouest et figure nationale de la ruralité. Avec humour et tendresse, il dresse un portrait sensible de l’agriculture familiale française d’aujourd’hui et de ceux qui se battent pour la faire perdurer.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/63032/rural
Produced by : Balade Sauvage Productions, 2.4.7. Films
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 25 min
French release: 24/12/2025
Production year: 2025
Louise de Pileggi brillante substitut du procureur a toujours eu des relations compliquées avec sa mère Judith qu’elle n’a pas vue depuis 15 ans. Quand elle se retrouve mutée au petit tribunal où Judith est greffière Louise devient la cheffe de sa mère. Et pire encore : elles vont devoir collaborer dans une affaire à première vue banale, mais qui va mettre leurs nerfs à vif.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/60583/mother-and-law
Produced by : Cinéfrance Studios
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 24 min
French release: 03/12/2025
Production year: 2024
His name is Gerald. His goal: to restore the reputation of his beloved region, Normandy. His method: to build the largest amusement park in the country, in honor of William the Conqueror. And to achieve this, he is prepared to go to great lengths... Remember this name, because it will go down in history.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/58125/gerald-the-conqueror
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 2 h 3 min
French release: 14/01/2025
Production year: 2025
A la fin de la première guerre mondiale, alors que l’Italie enterre son soldat inconnu, la grande Eleonora Duse arrive au terme d’une carrière légendaire. Mais malgré son âge et une santé fragile, celle que beaucoup considèrent comme la plus grande actrice de son époque, décide de remonter sur scène.
Les récriminations de sa fille, la relation complexe avec le grand poète D’Annunzio, la montée du fascisme et l’arrivée au pouvoir de Mussolini, rien n’arrêtera Duse « la divine ».
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/63012/duse
Produced by : Ecce Films
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 34 min
French release: 28/01/2026
Production year: 2025
Sprite, 25, is desperate to find a job. To work, he needs a driver’s licence; and to pay for his driver’s licence, he needs a job. He is hired by a startup that cleans villas after parties; but how can he possibly commute late at night in suburbs with insufficient public transportation? On the advice of Marie-Charlotte, his driving instructor, he signs up for a dating app to charm young women living close to the houses he has to clean. One small problem: Sprite is not really one to seduce.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59892/baise-en-ville
Produced by : Diaphana
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 57 min
French release: 16/08/2000
Production year: 2000
Summer vacation promises to be tough for Michel and Claire. Their three little girls, irritated by the heat wave, are very demanding. Their holiday home, an ongoing renovation job that still isn’t completed after five years’ labor, is a constant source of bother. The couple are at the end of their rope… And then in walks Harry. A friend who is prepared to do anything to help Michel…
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/16031/harry-he-is-here-to-help
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 50 min
French release: 07/01/2026
Production year: 2024
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is a feature film, though carefully constructed in the form of a triptych. The three stories all concern the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other. Each of the three chapters takes place in the present, and each in a different country. FATHER is set in the Northeast US, MOTHER in Dublin, Ireland, and SISTER BROTHER in Paris, France. The film is a series of character studies, quiet, observational and non-judgmental – a comedy, but interwoven with threads of melancholy.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59833/father-mother-sister-brother
In This Is My Body, filmmaker Jérôme Clément-Wilz revisits the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of a Catholic priest, and documents six years of legal proceedings up to the 2024 trial. Filmed in the first person, the documentary becomes a raw, political journal: a film about trauma and memory gaps, about a body that remembers when words fail, and about the silences of family and Church that allow abuse to continue.
In our interview, Jérôme Clément-Wilz talks about filming as a way to stay alive, reclaiming his own story, and exposing the micro-stories that make up rape culture.
👉 This Is My Body is now streaming on arte.tv.
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From tormented little mermaid to the blossoming woman she is today, GiGi recounts her journey of transition with humor and sensitivity, turning inner storms into a playful, deeply moving tale of self-acceptance. 🐚💫
Tomorrow in Sight is a label created by Unifrance and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (@francediplo).It is supported by patrons of the Unifrance Endowment Fund: @accor (Great Patron), @bnpparibas (Patron) & Vranken-Pommery Monopole (Patron)
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In Signal, an animated short by Mathilde Parquet and Emma Carré, Claudie is devoted to her job: scanning the universe in search of extraterrestrial life. As her obsession with making contact grows, the world around her starts to slip out of focus, and reality itself might not be as solid as it seems.
Premiered earlier this year at Annecy, the film is now screening on December 6 at LIAF – London International Animation Festival.
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In Mother, Teona Strugar Mitevska focuses on seven decisive days in Kolkata, when a restless nun named Anjezë Bojaxhiu steps out of her convent to found what will become the Missionaries of Charity. Starring Noomi Rapace as a woman torn between faith, ambition, doubt, and duty, the film offers a sharp, intimate look at sainthood, power, and sisterhood.
In our interview, Teona Strugar Mitevska talks about revisiting Mother Teresa through fiction, working with Rapace, and how her cinema navigates belief, rebellion, and the politics of compassion.
Mother is now in cinemas in Austria and Serbia.
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A playful, tender short film about friendship, distance, and the moment when a project exists only as a shared daydream.
Watch the film now on our YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Production company: Envie de Tempête
Available worldwide until June 4, 2026.
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EPISODE 1 – Screenwriting: Working as a Team ✍️
How do stories take shape between reality and fiction, solitude and collaboration?
In this first episode of Anatomy of a Scene, we talk to Romane Bohringer about Tell Her I Love Her and the porous line between documentary and fiction: how you adapt a book that lives inside you, and how your own story inevitably slips into the work.
Then Anne Berest and Rebecca Zlotowski join us to discuss A Private Life: what changes when you move from novels to screenwriting, from screenwriting to directing, and how friendship can become a writing method, a shared rhythm.
An episode about the invisible gestures of storytelling, the ties that sustain us, and the unexpected paths through which ideas become stories.
🎧 Hosted & produced by Jeanne Boëzec🎵 Music by Fanny MartinA podcast commissioned by Unifrance
Listen now on all platforms (Spotify, Deezer, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music)
In this interview, director Violette Gitton talks about her short film Changing Rooms, choosing to look at sexual violence through the eyes of a younger brother and questioning how boys learn, and can unlearn, certain forms of violence in male spaces.
Changing Rooms is now available to stream on our YouTube channel and Facebook page
Changing Rooms is part of the label Tomorrow in Sight by Unifrance. Tomorrow in Sight is a label created by Unifrance and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs is supported by patrons of the Unifrance Endowment Fund: @accor (Great Patron), @bnpparibas (Patron) & Vranken-Pommery Monopole (Patron).
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Céline is about to become a mother, but it’s her wife Nadia who is pregnant. In Love Letters ('Des preuves d'amour'), 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 arriving in German cinemas on December 4.
In our interview, Monia Chokri and Ella Rumpf talk about bringing Céline and Nadia to life on screen, building a believable couple navigating queer parenthood, and how they balanced humour, vulnerability, and conflict in this story of love, doubt, and recognition.
Love Letters is also part of the Tomorrow in Sight label, highlighting new narratives in French cinema around gender, LGBTQIA+ stories and changing family models.
Tomorrow in Sight is a label created by Unifrance and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (@francediplo).It is supported by patrons of the Unifrance Endowment Fund: @accor (Great Patron), @bnpparibas (Patron) & Vranken-Pommery Monopole (Patron)
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A new podcast where the people behind French film & TV walk us through their creative process, one key scene at a time.In each episode, crews and creators revisit a moment they helped bring to life, breaking down the choices, challenges, and small miracles that shaped it, and sharing the behind-the-scenes moments that never make it to the screen.
Our first episode, dropping in 2 days, dives into screenwriting with Romane Bohringer (Tell Her I Love Her), Rebecca Zlotowski & Anne Berest (A Pirate Life) ✍️
📅 See you on December 3 on all streaming platforms: Spotify, Deezer, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music.
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Director Cédric Klapisch looks back on making Colours of Time (La Venue de l’avenir): bringing 19th-century Paris back to life, working with a young ensemble cast led by Suzanne Lindon, and exploring how four cousins in 2024 are transformed when they uncover the story of their ancestor Adèle. From a house in rural Normandy to the streets of 1895 Paris, he reflects on the links between past and present, and how cinema can question the future by revisiting what came before.
Colours of Time is now out in cinemas in the Czech Republic. 🇨🇿
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Produced by : Arte GEIE - Strasbourg, Ellis Films
Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 55 min
Production year: 2024
A new light on Hollywood’s greatest director, offering a unique perspective on his work, digging into the Cinema Master’s personal influences. Discover what makes Spielberg’s whole world so special through great archives and testimonies.
Singular and conventional, daring and conformist, worldly and solitary, these are the paradoxes that define the life and work of Steven Spielberg from start to finish. Centered around three main themes – his childhood, America, and the Holocaust – this portrait of the director, the incarnation of the "New Hollywood", will focus as much on the director's biography as on his works, in a never-before-seen documentary thanks to the numerous archives and testimonies he has given throughout his career. Because masterpieces’ creation is also the fruit of personal obsessions (skillfully concealed behind imaginary or historical plots), the documentary will use many clips from his films, influenced by his life experience, to illustrate the rise of a young prodigy who started on television before becoming one of the most emblematic filmmakers of the last four decades, and a prolific producer in a very competitive industry.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/63825/steven-spielberg-the-new-hollywood-prodigy
Produced by : MIAM! Animation (MIAM! distribution)
Genre: Animated film - Runtime: 11 min
Production year: 2025
Welcome to Attic Town, a town built and inhabited by toys, where each day brings new challenges to overcome together!
Like in any other village, every toy has its own quirks - but luckily for our funny characters, they can count on our two heroes, Ollie, the enthusiastic and self-confident doll, and Titus, her crafty best friend.
Together, they team up to solve Attic Town's squabbles so that their community of toys can enjoy a great day!
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59777/the-tinies
Produced by : JLA Production
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 52 min
Production year: 2022
Astrid and Raphaelle are teaming up again to solve mysterious crimes, but this time they are recruited by the French secret services! The duo will have to face new challenges: tracking a hit man, discovering the Mormons’ world, horseracing, meeting the last descendant of an Aztec tribe, criminal affairs in a Buddhist temple and a film set but also dealing with a felon who takes a dangerous form during the full moon…
Our two characters will also have a lot on their plate emotionally and sentimentally wise: How will Astrid stop Tetsuo from going back to Japan forever? How will Raphaëlle handle her new relationship with Nico whilst being pregnant?
Above all, both women will have to deal with Lamark’s return, Astrid’s nemesis, for one ultimate challenge…
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/55715/bright-minds
Produced by : DEMD Productions
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 52 min
Production year: 2023
Best friends since high school, Tom and Lola are two cops who couldn't be more different: she's a hot-headed captain at the PJ, and he's a calm and collected officer from the STUPS. They love each other like brothers and sisters. But when Tom's wife decides she wants a divorce, Lola asks him to come live with her. Lola's relaxed way of living might take a beating, especially because she already has two kids of her own that she raises alone. What Lola hadn't seen coming was that Tom would also apply to Lola's squad! Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, roommates, and coworkers. How's that going to work?
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/58260/tom-lola
Produced by : Bellota Films
Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 52 min
Production year: 2023
In 1999, a unique cinematographic object shook an entire generation and reached the top of the box-office world-wide. The Matrix saga was born and quickly became a pop-culture phenomenon revealing a duo of filmmakers: the Wachowskis.
Its prophetic aspects will be at the heart of this unprecedented documentary. By propelling the audience into the 21st Century, it foresaw many social and political issues of our current times: use of technologies, hacking, gender and identity issues, fake news, conspiracy-theory…
Forging ahead, the Wachowskis’ cinema has been leading a global fight for emancipation, inspiring generations in their quest for truth, choice and freedom.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/56986/the-matrix-generation
Genre: Animated film - Runtime: 11 min
Production year: 2025
Working together, they make the impossible possible!
Join the adorable trio – Cornelia, Cesar and Charlie – charismatic siblings with curly tails, as they embark on their passion for construction, every day. They share a deep love for building, problem solving and their wonderful community in Fine Forest. There’s one more thing they have in common: they all have a lot to learn about working together. When they manage to work as a team, the impossible becomes possible!
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/62898/piggy-builders
Produced by : Studio Hari
Runtime: 22 min
Production year: 2019
Strange things are going on in London. Clever - a young hamster with extraordinary analysis capacities - and her little brother Bro lead investigations. Will they be able to resolve the most unusual cases, ones that baffle even Scotland Yard?
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/57443/mystery-lane
Produced by : Electron Libre, France Télévisions, Kisayang
Genre: Documentary - Runtime: 52 min
Production year: 2024
A prime-time film encapsulating the 5-year endeavor and challenges in securing, consolidating, and restoring Notre-Dame, as it reopens to the public in December 2024.
Shot from 2020 to 2024, the film captures the hours of meticulous skills and team-work it took to bring Notre-Dame back to life in a race against time. With more than 350 hours of never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews with the main protagonists, the film looks back on this exceptional human adventure, engineering challenge and state-of-the-art craftsmanship.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/60446/notre-dame-resurrection
Produced by : Baf Prod, Pathé Films
Genre: Fiction
French release: 04/02/2026
Production year: 2025
Pour sauver son emploi, David accepte un plan foireux : ramener un mystérieux colis d’Amérique du Sud.
Il se retrouve à bord d’une croisière avec son ex Tess, son fils Léo, et son collègue Stéphane, aussi benêt que maladroit, dont David se sert pour transporter le colis à sa place.
Tout dérape lorsque ce dernier l’ouvre accidentellement : un adorable bébé Marsupilami apparait et le voyage vire au chaos !
La bande à Fifi est de retour et elle s’est fait un nouveau copain…
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/59653/marsupilami
Produced by : La Huit
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 44 min
Production year: 2025
Céline arrives in Armenia for the first time to legalize the death of Arto, her husband. She discovers that he has lied to her, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter. A new journey begins for her, as she encounters Arto's past: invalids from the battles of 2020, veterans of the victorious battles of the 90s, hauntings from a war that never ends. A woman chases a ghost, but how do you bury it? Can the dead be saved?
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/62099/in-the-land-of-arto
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 29 min
French release: 26/11/2025
Production year: 2025
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
More info: en.unifrance.org/movie/62098/the-voice-of-hind-rajab
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When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients, she is deeply troubled. Convinced that it was murder, she decides to investigate…
In A Private Life (Vie privée), Rebecca Zlotowski turns therapy, family ties and buried secrets into a sharp black comedy mystery, led by Jodie Foster in a rare French-language role, alongside Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste and Luana Bajrami.
In our interview, Rebecca Zlotowski talks about working with Jodie Foster, mixing psychoanalysis with the codes of the whodunit, and how far we’re willing to go to protect our loved ones.
🎬 A Private Life is now in French theatres.
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A new name, but the same mission: to make French creativity shine in all its expressions and emotions.


