Details: Emmanuel Courcol / France / 2024 / 103 mins

Starring: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco

Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother’s exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate. Jimmy begins to dream of a different life…

“The Marching Band is an old-fashioned tearjerker that asks large questions about identity and destiny through music. How choices are made for us in childhood are given an unusually sharp contrast here, combined with three excellent lead performances and the love of music at the story’s centre… making this an excellent depiction of talent and community.” Next Best Picture

Official Selection, Cannes 2024
Audience Award, San Sebastian Film Festival 2024
Audience Award, The American French Film Festival 2024

Details: Michiel Blanchart / Belgium / 2024 / 90 mins

Starring: Jonathan Feltre, Natacha Krief, Jonas Bloquet, Romain Duris

Mady works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and robbed something that belonged to a dangerous man, Yannick. Mady gets embroiled in a manhunt and will have one night to prove his innocence. But what a night, as he races across Brussels to survive one crazy night, where the story confounds expectation, with one delicious twist at the end.

“A breathless tour of Brussels. This thriller sprints to a hard deadline, with the audience as breathless as the locksmith.” Wall Street Journal

“A a lean and brilliant thriller that is uniquely thrilling” Mashable

Jury Grand Prize, Rome Film Fest 2024

“He made us cry with laughter and moved us to tears. A monument of French cinema, Michel Blanc has gone” President Emmanuel Macron

Saturday March 8th at 1.40pm

Mr. Hire
Patrice Leconte / France / 1989 / 81 mins
Cast: Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Marie Gaydu

Monsieur Hire (Blanc), the prime suspect in the murder of a young girl, spends much of his time secretly gazing from his window at Alice, a beautiful 22-year-old blonde who lives alone in the apartment opposite. His solitude, however, is broken when Alice, having glimpsed his face in the light of a storm, visits him in his room and bluntly asks why he spies on her.

“In this oddly touching, enigmatic adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novel, Leconte focuses less on the murder mystery than on the unexpectedly tender relationship that develops between watcher and watched, gently manipulating audience sympathies to create a poignant study of amour fou.” Time Out

Details: Emmanuel Mouret / France / 2024 / 117 mins

Starring: Camille Cottin, Vincent Macaigne, Sarah Forestier

Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her. She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.

“Emmanuel Mouret spins a sophisticated and brilliantly directed web of feelings and flirtations in pure paradoxical Rohmer-esque style.” Cine Europe

Official Competition, Venice International Film Festival 2024

Details: Sophie Deraspe / Canada / 2024 / 113 mins

Starring: Félix-Antoine Duval, Soléne Rigot, Guilane Londez

Mathyas, an aspiring writer, trades his life in Montreal as a young advertising executive for that of a shepherd in beautiful pastoral Provence. But the road to his desired pastoral tranquillity is filled with hard work. A visit from Elise, a civil servant who boldly quit her job, gives Mathyas’ quest a new direction. Together, they embark on the good life. Facing the challenges of the mountains, with a herd to take care of, they will forge a new life for themselves. A beautifully captured soulful tale based on the memoir ‘D-où viens-tu, berger?’.

“A touching, soul-stirring film that rejuvenates the viewer like a crisp flick of fresh air” That Shelf

Best Canadian Feature Film – Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Details: Gilles Lellouche / 2024 / 165 mins

Starring: Adele Exarchopoulos, Francois Civil, Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah

A sweeping romance over several decades, Beating Hearts plays with the language of cinema, in a pulsating epic tale, that is both heady and intoxicating. Raised in a troublesome neighbourhood, local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, charmed by her fearless spirit and sharp wit. As powerful first love blossoms between the two, he is enticed into a much darker path one that threatens all they have built. After many years apart, now leading profoundly different lives, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they’ve taken leads them back together. But will love triumph? A visually exhilarating romantic trip.

Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2024

12 César Awards nominations, 2025 including:
Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress, Most Promising Actor, Best Original Music, Best Editing, Best Sound

Date & Time: Sunday March 9th at 11am

Details: Jean-Francois Lauionie / France / 2024 / 76 mins / Animation

In the 1950s, on the banks of the River Marne, François, a young 11-year-old boy, is intrigued to discover that his parents are building a boat in their little garden, a replica of the famous sailor Joshua Slocum’s sailboat. As the years go by François drifts from adolescence to adulthood. While the boat is being built, and with a tender and poetic look at his mother and father, the young boy embarks on his own adventure, one that will take him down a passionate route of the sea and drawing.

Special Distinction Prize, Bucheon International Animation Festival 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024

“He made us cry with laughter and moved us to tears. A monument of French cinema, Michel Blanc has gone” President Emmanuel Macron

Sunday March 9th at 2.00pm

Sweet Little Things / Les petites victoires

Mélanie Auffret / France / 2023 / 89 mins

Cast: Michel Blanc, Julia Piaton, Lionel Abelanski

Between her obligations as Mayor and her role as a teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice’s days are already busy. The arrival in her class of Émile (Blanc), a sixty-year-old with an explosive character, who has finally decided to learn to read and write, will make her daily life unmanageable. Alice will have to face new challenges while trying to save both her village and her school.

Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival

Details: Julie Delpy / 2024 / 101 mins

Starring: Julie Delp, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, India Hair

All is well in Paimpont, Brittany, where harmony reigns among the locals. There’s Joëlle, the schoolteacher who’s inclined to lecture people; Anne, who owns a convenience store and likes a good aperitif; Hervé, a plumber from Alsace who’s even more Breton than the locals; and Johnny, the local ranger and Johnny Hallyday fan.

In a show of solidarity, the town enthusiastically votes to host some Ukrainian refugees. But the refugees, it turns out, aren’t so Ukrainian after all. They’re Syrian! And some of the folks in this charming little town aren’t very pleased with having them for neighbours. So, when all is said and done, who are the barbarians?

“A movie that proves eye-wateringly funny” Variety

“A delightful setting, heroes and villains, five distinct acts and a strong moral lesson… unexpectedly lovely.” The Wrap

Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Details: Mati Diop / France, Senegal, Benin / 2024 / 68 mins / Documentary

Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey that are due to leave Paris and return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin. Using multiple perspectives Diop questions how these artifacts should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence. Dahomey is an affecting though altogether singular conversation piece that is as spellbinding as it is essential.

Golden Bear, Berlinale 2024

Best Documentary Film, Toronto Film Critics Association, 2024

Best Documentary, the Lumières Awards 2025

Nominated for Best Documentary at the Césars 2025