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César Award for Best First Film: The Winners

Fr. 2024. Dramatic comedy by Louise Courvoisier with Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard. To support his 7-year-old sister, a young partygoer from the Jura region enters a cheese-making competition with a 30,000 euro prize.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2022. Drama by Alice Diop with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Salih Sigirci. An author attends the trial of a young woman who drowned her 15-month-old daughter, with the intention of making it the subject of her next book.
Runtime: 122 min.

Magnetic beats

V.O.: Les Magnétiques
Fr. 2021. Drama by Vincent Maël Cardona with Thimotée Robart, Marie Colomb, Joseph Olivennes. In the early 1980s, between a pirate radio station, their father’s garage, and the threat of military service, two brothers live out the last days of a world on the verge of disappearing.
Runtime: 98 min.

Two of Us

V.O.: Deux
Fr. 2019. Sentimental drama by Filippo Meneghetti with Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker. The secret love affair between two next-door neighbours is compromised by the arrival of a home care worker.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2019. Drama by Mounia Meddour with Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda. In 1990s Algeria, a student defies the Islamist militants by organizing a fashion show at her university.
Runtime: 106 min.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 2017. Drama by Hubert Charuel with Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Isabelle Candelier. The owner of a small dairy farm goes to extreme lengths to prevent the slaughter of his cows who have been hit with contagious hemorrhagic fever.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 2016. Mores drama by Houda Benyamina with Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kevin Mischel. Newly admitted to a gang led by a drug dealer, a young girl meets a dancer with a disturbing sensuality.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 2015. Drama by Deniz Gamze Erguven with Gunes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan. Deemed indecent by a neighbour, five Turkish orphans are locked up by their uncle in the family home, until husbands are found for them.
Runtime: 97 min.

Me, Myself and Mum

V.O.: Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!
Fr. 2013. Comedy by Guillaume Gallienne with Guillaume Gallienne, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian. Due to the way his mother always distinguished him from his brothers, a boy grows up thinking he is a girl.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 2009. Mores comedy by Riad Sattouf with Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Tremolières. The adventures of two virgin and unattractive teenagers who dream of seducing the most beautiful girls in their high school.
Runtime: 90 min.

I've Loved You So Long

V.O.: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
Fr. 2008. Psychological drama by Philippe Claudel with Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius. After serving fifteen years in prison for murder, an ex-doctor is welcomed into the family of her sister: a teacher.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2007. Animation by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud. From 1978 to today, the experiences of a young Iranian woman with a rebellious temperament.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 2001. War drama by Danis Tanovic with Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic. In 1993, while war is in full swing in Bosnia, two enemy soldiers find themselves isolated in a trench.
Fr. 1991. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro with Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Douniac. In a ravaged suburb, a young janitor befriends the daughter of the disturbing butcher who owns the building.
Runtime: 99 min.

Life Is a Long Quiet River

V.O.: La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille
Fr. 1987. Comedy by Étienne Chatiliez with Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Benoît Magimel. Switched at birth by a nurse, two children are raised in opposite environments to those of their natural parents.
Runtime: 91 min.

Dangerous Moves

V.O.: La Diagonale du fou
Fr. 1983. Psychological drama by Richard Dembo with Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron. Two Russian chess players with different ideologies compete for the world championship.
Runtime: 110 min.
Runtime: 117 min.
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