Cycles

Premiers films

11 films

Ce cycle met à l'honneur les premiers longs-métrages de cinéastes soutenus par l'IF. Ces œuvres inaugurales révèlent déjà une vision singulière, une audace narrative ou esthétique et parfois les prémices de thèmes qui traverseront toute leur filmographie. À travers cette sélection, nous vous invitons à redécouvrir les débuts brillants et passionnants de cinéastes qui marquent l’histoire du cinéma. Chaque projection sera l’occasion de s’interroger sur la naissance d’un style et sur la force des premiers élans créatifs.

Premiers films
  • Drama
  • 2023
  • 1h34
by Anaïs Tellenne

Raphaël, a one-eyed man, is the caretaker of a mansion where no one lives anymore. Soon to turn 60, he lives with his mother in a small house located at the entrance to the grounds of the stately manor. Between mole hunting, bagpipe practice and the occasional ride in the postwoman’s Kangoo van, the days resemble one another. But one stormy night Garance, the estate’s heiress, comes back to the family’s abode and now nothing will ever be the same again.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 1h43
by Julie Navarro

Arthur is a music critic for a famous magazine. After yet another malpractice, he is relegated to field reporting. While covering the evacuation of a migrant camp on the outskirts of Paris, he is victim of police violence and accidentally becomes the face of the refugee cause. Due to his new status, he gets to spend more time with the brilliant and attractive Mathilde, a former lawyer now head of an association support- ing migrants, but also to welcome Daoud, a young Afghan, whom he agrees to accommodate until his asylum application is processed, which shouldn’t take more than a few days...

  • Musical comedy, Biopic
  • 2023
  • 1h24
by Justine Harbonnier

Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues. 

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 1h36
by Karim Bensalah

Sofiane, son of a former Algerian embassy clerk, has travelled a lot. Now a student in Lyon, his visa has been revoked and he lives under the threat of expulsion. Hoping to regularize his situation, he agrees to work for a Muslim funeral home. Amidst parties, encounters and his job, Sofiane will start an initiatory journey that will lead him to find himself, shape his own identity and gradually move towards adulthood.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 1h30
by Noé Debré

Bellisha is a good Jewish boy. He is a curly-haired, weakling and nonchalant 27-year-old struggling to become a grown-up. He still lives with his mother, Giselle, in a poor neighbourhood. After the last syna- gogue closes, it’s time for the last kosher grocery store to shut down. This is it, they are the last Jewish family in the area. But much to Giselle’s dismay, Bellisha doesn’t particularly want to leave. He is com- fortable there and remains positive, despite tensions arising in the community and his mother’s health quickly deteriorating.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 1h34
by Mehdi Fikri

Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.

  • Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h24
by Emmanuelle Nicot

Although Dalva is 12, she dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman. One evening, she’s suddenly taken away from a father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2022
  • 1h33
by Jean-Baptiste Durand

Childhood pals Dog and Mirales live in a little village in the south of France and spend their days just hanging out. To kill time, Mirales has got into the habit of teasing Dog mercilessly. But this summer is different: Dog meets Elsa and romance blossoms. While jealousy eats away at Mirales, the distance that opens up between the two friends will allow each to grow and define himself.

  • Drama, Adventure, Classics
  • 1958
  • 1h33
by François Truffaut

A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the big stick. He inhabits a Paris of dingy flats, seedy arcades, abandoned factories, and workaday streets, a city that seems big and full of possibilities only to a child's eye.

  • Literary adaptation, Comedy-drama, Drama, Fantasy and science fiction
  • 2022
  • 1h40
by Charlotte Le Bon

A love and ghost story.

  • Drama
  • 2023
  • 1h37
by Iris Kaltenbäck

Lydia, a dedicated midwife, is in the middle of a breakup. At the time, her best friend Salomé tells her she is pregnant and asks her to monitor her pregnancy. One day, she comes across Milo - a one-night stand - as she is carrying her friend’s baby in her arms and embarks on a deceitful journey that may cost her everything.

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