AF French Film Festival 2026
Films premiering at the 37th annual Alliance Française Film Festival, touring nationally 3 March-22 April 2026. Advance tickets now on sale!
Grégory Gadebois re-teams with writer/director Éric Besnard (Delicious) for a poignant new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece Les Misérables charting the origin story of Jean Valjean, the beloved tale’s iconic protagonist.
The superb new film from François Ozon is a gripping and elegant adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novella about a detached young expat under trial for murder in 1930s French-colonised Algeria.
Featuring Isabelle Huppert in a delicious, tailor-made role, writer/director Thierry Klifa’s film is freely inspired by the captivating real-life scandal surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the heir to the L’Oreal fortune.
Valérie Donzelli stars in the enchanting new comedy of manners from Grégory Magne (Perfumes) as a wealthy heiress whose plan to stage a landmark concert is derailed by the clashing egos of the virtuosos recruited for the performance.
The first-ever debut feature selected to open the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Amélie Bonnin's dramedy stars Juliette Armanet as a rising Parisian chef who's forced to reconnect with her small town upbringing during an unexpected trip home.
Directly following the break-out success of 2025’s The Stolen Painting, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer brings his unique perspective and directorial panache to Georges Simenon’s beloved Parisian detective.
Claes Bang leads a superb cast in Stéphane Demoustier’s darkly comic new film, as an idealistic Danish architect whose quest to build an ambitious landmark in 1980s Paris is threatened by political games, bureaucracy and the limits of artistic freedom.
A razor-sharp portrait of power, ambition, and the flexibility of principle, Carlos Abascal Peiró's all-star political comedy follows a young opportunist who plots for his reluctant, retired father to seize the French Prime Ministership.
The beautiful final work of the late Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet (The Class), brought to the screen by his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, ENZO is a tender meditation of adolescent longing, and the quiet rebellions that shape us.
The deeply affecting new drama from Joachim Lafosse depicts the story of a hard-working single mother whose promise to offer her sons a vacation risks shattering the fragile stability of their everyday lives.