French Film Festival Aotearoa 2025
Films premiering in New Zealand at the French Film Festival, touring nationally 28 May-29 June 2025
Just as Marion Cotillard was to La Vie en Rose, Golden Globe-nominated actor Tahar Rahim is to Charles Aznavour, transforming into the iconic singer-songwriter for this grand, lavishly entertaining rise-to-stardom biography.
Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic and iconic tale of romance and redemption, France's first cinematic treatment in over fifty years.
The phenomenal Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil star in Gilles Lellouche’s vibrant, genre-spanning romantic epic that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries, betrayal and circumstances beyond all control.
The engrossing new pulled-from-the-headlines legal thriller from Daniel Auteuil follows a jaded lawyer who rediscovers his passion when he takes on the case of a father of five accused of murder.
Following the international success of The Big Hit, the wildly entertaining new film from writer/director Emmanuel Courcol follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music.
The often cynical world of art dealing is on show with Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp new dramedy, following a self-assured auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged by the discovery of a long-lost masterpiece.
The phenomenal Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet take centre stage in writer-director Gianluca Jodice's transfixing historical drama, evocatively depicting the last days of the French Revolution and the fates of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI.