Cycles

This cycle offers three emblematic films from the career of Maurice Pialat, a filmmaker of the moment and of conflict, an uncompromising observer of human passions, whose cinema continues to touch us with its strength, its modernity and its irreducible truth.

For the 2026 Night of Ideas, this film series explores the theme "Paving the Way" by examining the major trends of our time. The films highlight emerging youth and voices, inspiring figures offering new solutions, and science and technology seen as sources of hope. A cinematic perspective open to possible futures.

This series shines a spotlight on an emerging generation asserting its identity and aspirations. Through a diversity of narratives and sensibilities, these films give voice to their stories, reveal their fresh perspectives, and unveil intimate, creative, fragile, and powerful journeys. This multifaceted youth questions its connection to the present, looks toward the future, and claims its place in a changing world. Between audacity, fragility, tenderness, anger, and enlightenment, "Us, Now" brings together works that affirm cinema as a space for expression, experimentation, and emancipation.

This series of French and African films offers an open perspective on the Francophonie as a space for encounters, creation, and exchange. A language of adoption for some, a language of heritage for others, French appears here as a tool of expression shaped by journeys of exile, cultural fusion, and transmission. These films also engage in dialogue with other art forms (song, theater, poetry, etc.) that enrich the narratives and extend the voices on screen. Through these works, the Francophonie is championed as much by those who reinvent it as by those who make it resonate beyond its borders.

Plongez au cœur d’un voyage cinématographique où l’amour, sous toutes ses formes, devient le fil conducteur d’histoires sensibles, passionnées ou parfois inattendues. Ce cycle explore la puissance du sentiment amoureux, du coup de foudre irrésistible aux romances impossibles, des élans passionnels aux liens qui se tissent patiemment avec le temps.

Pour accompagner la fin de l'année, proposez à vos publics les films ayant été récompensés cette année dans des événements majeurs français, en grande partie notamment aux César

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Michel Piccoli on December 27, 1925 in Paris, revisit the journey of an exceptional actor, a major figure in French and European cinema. From his iconic roles with Sautet, Buñuel and Godard to his more secret and daring collaborations, he reveals an incomparable interpretive palette. This program, which offers classics and restored films, offers a living portrait of a free, demanding and profoundly modern artist.

Through the eyes of young filmmakers, this program explores the plural, vibrant, often disrupted Middle East, but always driven by dazzling creativity. These works offer a striking panorama of new perspectives, bold aesthetics and powerful stories that paint another face of the Middle East, between crisis, memory and creation.

Depuis ses débuts, le cinéma a su faire rire, divertir, et parfois même émouvoir à travers la comédie. Ce cycle propose un voyage à travers les multiples formes de la comédie au cinéma : burlesque, satirique, romantique, absurde ou sociale. Des éclats de rire du muet aux dialogues percutants de la comédie contemporaine, ce genre incontournable offre un reflet vivant des sociétés et des époques.

Discover a selection of films supported by La Fabrique Cinéma de l'Institut français, a tailored program helping talented young directors from emerging countries increase their international exposure. Each year, this program, developed by the Institut français, in partnership with France Médias Monde and the International Organisation of La Fancophonie invites ten directors working on their first or second feature films to attend the Festival de Cannes along with their producers.