These three films have garnered international awards recognition.

Two critically rewarded films. The Little Sister won the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, while In a Whisper made its premiere at the high-profile Berlinale.

The series includes the latest by the prodigious Olivier Assayas, Denis Podalydès as Inspector Jules Maigret, and Charlotte Rampling, whose arch stares can turn you into stone.

The exhilaration of making music together.

In a Paris-set, candy-colored—though melancholic—portrait, a young sex worker finds herself at a crossroads.

First-time director Agathe Riedinger’s gives us a glimpse into an influencer’s world—a callous yet naive place with its own fickle rules.

Two journalists and one academic from France receive, and accept, an invitation to interview the notorious dictator.

Restraint here is powerful and multifaceted and dramatically effective, signaling terrors rather than drowning us in them.