Lumières Françaises

July 17 at 7:15 PM| July 20 at 7:15 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

Naëlle (Najaa Bensaid) is 17, with an already complicated past behind her. During an integration workshop, Naëlle meets Hélène (Agnès Jaoui), her instructor, who gets her an apprenticeship with a craft guild. Despite her missteps, Naëlle manages to find her way, but not without support from Hélène and from Paul (Pio Marmai), the master craftsman who mentors her.

July 15 at 4:30 PM | July 16 at 9:30 PM | July 18 at 7:15 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun's past.

July 15 at 2:00 PM | July 18 at 4:45 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes. From rehearsals to public performances, it is a human adventure and a meeting of political realities that we follow: can a new generation of artists storm the Bastille today?

July 17 at 12:30 PM | July 21 at 5:00 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

On the northern outskirts of Paris, where housing projects rise out of fields, Adja, 18, burns with the desire to live intensely. With Arthur, who becomes more than a friend, her political and environmental awareness rises, and Adja joins the fight of her generation.

July 17 at 2:30 PM | July 20 at 2:30 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

Jean-Louis, a pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife, although when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged.

July 15 at 9:30 PM | July 17 at 5:00 PM | July 18 at 2:30 PM | July 19 at 2:30 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main
2013. A 15-year-old gymnast from Ukraine is torn between Switzerland – where she is training for the European Championship in preparation for the Olympics – and Kiev, where her mother works as a journalist reporting on the Euromaidan protests.

July 15 at 7:00 PM | July 19 at 7:15 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

Clémence, the fearless mayor of a town near Paris, is completing the final term of her political career. When Clémence is approached to become Minister, her ambition arises, questioning her devotion and commitment to her citizens. Will her political integrity and election promises survive her newly found ambition?

July 16 at 3:00 PM | July 19 at 5:00 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

George is an aging film star in decay. Aïssa, a semi-pro wrestler who earns a living as a security officer, has a hard time handling her love life. When Georges right-arm man and only friend takes a leave of absence for several weeks, Aïssa is immediately appointed as his replacement. Despite their individual differences, life has shaped them in ways more similar than they thought.

July 16 at 7:15 PM | July 20 at 5:00 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

Artisanal horticulturalist Eve Vernet (Catherine Frot) honors her father’s legacy by continuing the family business, breeding and growing unique roses that compete in showcases all over France. With her business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation, Eve’s trusted secretary, Vera, makes a last-ditch effort to turn things around by hiring three new employees from a prison rehabilitation program behind Eve’s back.

July 16 at 5:15 PM | July 21 at 7:15 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

The Castillon seem to be the perfect family. That is until Annie, the mother, fnds a positive pregnancy test in the bathroom. Is it Juliette’s, her son’s girlfriend? Poupi’s, her teenage daughter? Another woman in her husband’s life? Does her other son actually have girlfriends? Whatever the answer, this is no good news…

July 16 at 12:30 PM | July 21 at 2:30 PM
Lumières Françaises French Film Festival | MSP Film at The Main

A kaleidoscopic portrait of people from the Parisian suburbs, their lives and work connected by the RER B commuter train that cuts through the city from north to south. A migrant mechanic, a care worker for the elderly, a writer, and the director herself, all make up the “we” of the title.