Cycles

Fête de la francophonie 2024

Du livre au film

12 films

The month of March is an opportunity to celebrate our beautiful language in the four corners of the globe through the links that Cinema and Literature have always nourished.

Fête de la francophonie 2024
  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h30
by Frédéric Sojcher

Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, reunites with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. In an extraordinary masterclass, where the intimate rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie teaches Vincent and his students that the art of screenwriting is the art of living passionately.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h37
by Baya Kasmi

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble starts when his new novel meets with success, because Youssef can't help but draw inspiration from his own environment, for better or worse. Now he has to do everything in his power to prevent his book from falling into the hands of his family...

  • Comedy, Literary adaptation
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h39
by Murielle Magellan

When Eloise wakes up, she has no memories of her past. Her friends, her job, her family, her life: she truly is a mystery to herself. Patching a few pieces together, Eloise manages to find her flat and her job. However, with no recollection of who she was, she finds herself navigating someone else life. As the days go, Eloise discovers who she was and is not fond of it. Eloise realizes her amnesia is an opportunity. It is time for a fresh start!

  • Literary adaptation, Comedy-drama, Biopic, Young audience
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h26
by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre

Once upon a time, there was a little boy drawn in black ink. This little boy went off to win the hearts of millions of readers. From the school yard to the beach, from Paris to the countryside, join Little Nicholas with his family and friends for exciting new adventures.

  • Literary adaptation, Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 2h30
by Xavier Giannoli

Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th-century France. He has great expectations and wants to forge a destiny. He leaves the family printing business in his native province to try his luck in Paris, on the arm of his protector. Soon left to his own devices in the fabulous city, the young man will discover the backstage of a world dedicated to the law of profit and pretense. A human comedy where everything is bought and sold, literature as well as the press, politics as well as feelings, reputations as well as souls. He will love, he will suffer, and survive his illusions.

  • Drama, Literary adaptation
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h45
by Marc Dugain

Felix Grandet tyrannically rules the humble provincial house where he lives with his wife and daughter Eugenie who lead a precarious and joyless existence alongside him. The sudden visit of Grandet’s nephew, an idle and bankrupt Parisian dandy, awakens the tender soul of Eugenie who instantly falls in love with him. But Grandet is more than ever ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of money. Even his own daughter…

  • Drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h25
by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas

Labidi is a struggling young writer who, after a small hit with a short story, is trying to publish his first novel. While he lives in a small room with his roommate and best friend Aleksei, delivering food on his bike to survive, he meets Elisa, a student. Caught up in a whirlwind romance, he doesn’t always make the right choices. Labidi will soon be confronted to the realities of everyday life, at the expense of his writing.

  • Comedy-drama, Thriller
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h27
by Laurent Cantet

I am sharp and wise. I know poetry and politics. I raised from a social underworld to an exposed position as a provocative Parisian author. I published a novel but I also write in 140 signs on social media. And when I do, I hit my target. That's why they all me want out!

  • Literary adaptation
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h17
by Jessica Palud

This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who will not return, his mother, who is imitating him, and his father, with whom nothing was ever possible. He finds everything he ran away from 12 years ago. But today there is Alex, his six-year-old nephew, and Mona, his glowing mother. Film adapted from Serge Joncour's book, "L'Amour sans le faire".

  • Literary adaptation, Adventure, Fantasy and science fiction, Young audience
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h22
by Lorenzo Mattotti

To find his long lost son and food to survive the winter, the great bear king leads his clan down from the mountains and into the world of men. After escaping terrible monsters and defeating an evil duke, the bears and men live together in peace – for a time.

  • Drama, Thriller, Literary adaptation
  • 2019
  • France, Belgium
  • 2h00
by Nicolas Boukhrief

1999 - Olloy - the Belgian Ardennes. A child has just disappeared. The suspicion that falls on various villagers, one by one, quickly brings the whole community to a boiling point. But an unexpected, devastating event will suddenly reshuffle the cards of Fate...

  • Comedy
  • 2018
  • France
  • 1h30
by Félix Moati

Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...

By continuing to browse this website, you agree to our use of cookies to improve your experience.Find out more