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French Film Festival · 2025

French Film Festival 2025

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Arco

Review preview for Arco

It’s the sort of sweet-natured fable that makes adults nostalgic for childhood, but both the near and far futures it presents are, to children themselves, already likely to seem out of date.

Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.

(Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Ugo Bienvenu; Writer: Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry; Stars: Natalie Portman, Louis Garrel, Swann Arlaud, Alma Jodorowsky, Vincent Macaigne, Oxmo Puccino)

Josep

Animation charts a Spaniard's escape from an internment camp in France.

(Country: France, Spain, Belgium; Year: 2020; Director: Aurel; Writer: Jean-Louis Milesi; Stars: Sergi López, Emmanuel Vottero, Xavier Serrano, David Marsais, Valérie Lemercier, Thomas Vandenberghe, Gérard Hernandez, Bruno Solo, François Morel, Alain Cauchi, Bamar Kane, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Alba Pujol, Sophia Aram, Sergi López)

Nina And The Hedgehog's Secret

(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol; Writer: Alain Gagnol; Stars: Loan Longchamp, Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Keanu Peyran, Guillaume Bats, Patrick Ridremont, Saabo Balde, Hugues Boucher, Julie Carli, Eve Lorrain, Noé Chabbat, Nada El Belkasmi, Saeed Mirzaei, Barrett Leddy)