Introducing the French Film Festival 2025
Published October 24, 2025
For the first time, Studio 74 is thrilled to be part of the French Film Festival, a nationwide celebration of cinéma français, with a hand picked selection of 5 of the best French Films available to audiences in 2025.
Our selection was created with Studio 74 audiences at its heart, which is why we have gone brave and bold with a blend of new (wave), animated story telling and thrilling big screen experiences.
There really is something pour tout le monde!
The Shepherd and the Bear
Le Berger et l’Ours
Fri 07 Nov | 5.45pm
The Festival opens on Fri 07 Nov with The Shepherd and the Bear, a documentary featuring breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling of a community’s relationship with a vanishing natural world (and bear tracking).
Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, this modern folktale tells of tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world. UK film-maker Max Keegan moved to France for three years to make it.
Nouvelle Vague
Fri 07 Nov | 8.15pm
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague headlines Friday night. A mischievous declaration of love for the 1959 cult film, Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard), sees the director revisits this film movement that changed the history of cinema by using techniques characteristic of that time; elliptical editing, black and white, breaks in tone, and hand-held cameras.
Nouvelle Vague is as stylish and inspired as we all hoped it would be. Linklater appears again in Studio 74 this month with Blue Moon.
A Magnificent Life
Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol
Sat 08 Nov | 3.30pm
Saturday 8 November offers a tricolour of french fancies starting with the stunning animation by The Illusionist director, Sylvain Chomet and his new film A Magnificent Life.
French playwright, filmmaker, and inventor Marcel Pagnol at 61 appears very close to giving up on his career, so a younger Marcel comes to the rescue. When asked to write a memoir, Pagnol simply can’t do it––not without the help of hope and optimism personified in the figure of young Marcel.
A Private Life
Vie Privée
Sat 08 Nov | 5.45pm
Jodie Foster leads as a renowned psychiatrist in A Private Life, investigating the death of one of her patients. She becomes deeply troubled and is convinced that it was murder. She decides to investigate…
The director plays with the duality of tones: between deliberate comedy and deep dives into a personality full of grey areas. It's thrilling, comical and gripping.
Sirât
Sat 08 Nov | 8.15pm
The festival ends with an absolute banger, Sirât, which follows a father across a rave strewn desert in search of his missing daughter. Winner of Grand jury Prize at Cannes 2025 this is a mystical odyssey that packs a punch.
After the film, join us in the bar for a rave inspired DJ set.
Explore our French Film Festival line up and get your tickets here. Amusez vous bien!