Inshallah a Boy is the first feature film directed by Amjad Al Rasheed, a portrait of contemporary Jordan, where a woman tries to preserve her daughter's legacy. The first Jordanian film to be selected at the Cannes Festival, it received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution and is supported by...

In La Mère de tous les mensonges, winner of the best director in Un certain regard at the last Cannes Festival, Asmae El Moudir questions her family origins through theprism of the Casablanca bread riots. From fiction to reality, she creates an impactful film, where her personal story meets national...

In Youth (Spring), director Wang Bing continues his observation of his country and exploration of Chinese capitalism with dynamism and precision, developed with support from Aide aux cinémas du monde. Selected at the 2023 Cannes Festival, he unleashes his talent as a documentary filmmaker in the...

As director of La Chapelle, Jean-Michel Tchissoukou was responsible for one of the first Congolese films to be made after independence, in which he depicts colonial Africa with humour and intelligence. The film, unseen for many years, has now been restored with the help of the Institut français'...

A true classic of African cinema, this comedy starring Congolese rumba singer Papa Wemba has recently been restored by the Institut français' Cinémathèque Afrique and has been presented in the "Fespaco Classics" section of the Ouagadougou Pan-African Film and Television Festival (25 February - 4...

With Soula, Salah Issaad delivers a powerful first feature film on the condition of women in Algeria and the weight of conventions. The film, which has won several awards at festivals, tells the true story of Souheila Bahri, where a mother's desperate search for a job becomes a thrilling road movie...

In Chevalier noir, Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi directs an autobiographical story, which combines a quest for freedom with a refusal of a precarious equilibrium. Noticed during the last San Sebastian festival, this film was supported by the Institut français as part of Fabrique Cinéma in 2018 and...

The Road to Mandalay describes the lives of two young Burmese immigrants in Thailand. This pair of illegal immigrants are trying their best to find work and build a better life. 

The Road to Mandalay (“Adieu Mandalay”) was supported by the Institut français’ Fabrique Cinéma in 2012. His director...

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A classic of the 1960s, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) was a springboard for Agnès Varda’s career and a model of freedom for the fast-growing French New Wave movement.

Dénes Nagy flings the door into film wide open with his first film, Natural light. The Hungarian film-maker won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival for his war film.

With Freda, Gessica Généus pays tribute to the youth of Haiti by painting a complex portrait of a woman. Presented at the Cannes Festival, the film offers insight into the challenges of a country still paralysed by the 2010 earthquake.