As a young woman growing up in the working-class Paris suburb of Creteil, Neïla Salah (Camélia Jordana) dreams of becoming a lawyer. Enrolled at the renowned Assas Law School in Paris, on her first day she runs up against Pierre Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), a professor known for his provocative behaviour and misconduct. To redeem himself,

La Promesse de l’aube  This riveting biopic follows acclaimed novelist Romain Gary, the only writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature twice. Beginning with his childhood in Poland, via growing up in Nice and Paris and his time training as a pilot during the Second World War, the film will appeal to

This documentary follows the career of singer Sinéad O’Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream. The film charts O’Connor’s journey from 1987 to 1993, using archive footage to paint a richly cinematic portrait of the artist through a contemporary feminist lens. Directed by

Jonas Mekas 100! features two landmark works by Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), which depicts Jonas and his brother Adolfas’s return journey to their homeland after several decades in the United States, and was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; and a new digital restoration of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, an epic, 4.5 hour-film that premiered at the 2000 London Film Festival and is currently the fourth highest-rated documentary film on Letterboxd.

Jonas Mekas 100! features two landmark works by Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1976), which depicts Jonas and his brother Adolfas’s return journey to their homeland after several decades in the United States, and was inducted into the United States National Film Registry in 2006; and a new digital restoration of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, an epic, 4.5 hour-film that premiered at the 2000 London Film Festival and is currently the fourth highest-rated documentary film on Letterboxd.

La Promesse de l’aube  This riveting biopic follows acclaimed novelist Romain Gary, the only writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature twice. Beginning with his childhood in Poland, via growing up in Nice and Paris and his time training as a pilot during the Second World War, the film will appeal to

As a young woman growing up in the working-class Paris suburb of Creteil, Neïla Salah (Camélia Jordana) dreams of becoming a lawyer. Enrolled at the renowned Assas Law School in Paris, on her first day she runs up against Pierre Mazard (Daniel Auteuil), a professor known for his provocative behaviour and misconduct. To redeem himself,

Les Enfants du Paradis (PG) Screening as part of the 30th edition of the French Film Festival UK. Cited at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time. Set in the 1840s Parisian theatrical world, Jacques Prévert’s screenplay depicts four men in love with the mysterious Garance. Each loves her in his own way,