French Films / English Subtitles

🎬 Date & Time: Sunday, May 24th, Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug!) and Screening at 7:30pm
📽️ Cinéma: Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris 5
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.40 – €9.40
https://parisstudioursulines.cine.boutique/media/1006?showId=5949&title=DILILI+A+PARIS&visanumber=143646

In Belle Époque Paris, accompanied by a young delivery boy on a tricycle, the little Kanak girl Dilili investigates the mysterious kidnappings of young girls. She meets extraordinary men and women who give her clues. She discovers a very peculiar breed of villains underground: the Male Masters. The two friends will fight with enthusiasm for an active life in the light and for living together in harmony…

Watch the trailer with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHkhWIBVz4M

🎬 Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26th, French New Wave Movie Tour at 4:30pm, Drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm introduced by Camille from Cinégraphe
📽️ Cinéma: Lucernaire
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €6.00 – €11.00 https://www.lucernaire.fr/cinema/la-femme-de-laviateur/
🎟️Tour Tickets: €18 https://my.weezevent.com/lost-in-frenchlation-x-cine-balade-present-french-new-wave-movie-tour-7

François works nights, he loves Anne who works days, but they can never see each other. One morning, he sees her leaving her apartment with a pilot. He confronts her. That afternoon, instead of sleeping, he wanders the streets and recognizes the pilot with another woman. He follows them to the Buttes-Chaumont park and meets Lucie, a curious and mischievous high school student. Together, they follow the couple like detectives.

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mZCpo3Mxh0

🎬 Date & Time: Friday, May 29th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: Le Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris 8
🎟️ Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €11.50 https://www.cinemabalzac.com/reserver/F608564/D1780077600/VOST/271729/

When Fred asks his ex-wife, Marguerite, to have their church marriage annulled so he can remarry, she's delighted to see him move on. But what should have been a simple formality turns out to be more complicated than expected and takes them all the way to Rome with their children and new partners. A colorful journey for all the members of this blended family.

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAvwPn5oQo

🎬 Date & Time: Friday, June 5th, Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm
📽️ Cinéma: L’Entrepôt, 7 Rue Francis de Pressensé, Paris 14
🎟️Movie Tickets: €5.00 – €9.50 https://www.cinemalentrepot.fr/evenement/2201666-lost-in-frenchlation-le-lyc-en

17-year-old Lucas is in his final year of boarding school when his father's sudden death shatters everything he took for granted. Filled with rage and despair, he visits his older brother in Paris to seek solace in this new city.

Watch the trailer with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpDXPylQHPs

Queer French Film Series-Program Note
Notes on the History of French Queer Cinema: https://nostalgiaandliquor.substack.com/p/queer-french-cinema-a-historical

The history of French queer cinema is rich and diverse. During June 2026 in Paris—Pride Month—Lost in Frenchlation presents a series of films dedicated to French queer culture and lives. The series showcases a range of films from leading queer French-speaking filmmakers. Time-honored filmmakers such as Céline Sciamma, Christophe Honoré, Alain Guiraudie, Robin Campbillo, Julia Ducournau and Xavier Dolan are included in the program along with a new generation of French queer filmmakers such as Anna Cazenave Cambet and Hafsia Herzi. Through dramas and comedies, their films explore lesbian relationships, trans lives, “coming-out,” AIDS, and the pleasures of being queer.

*The Queer French Film Series is funded, in part, by the City University of New York’s Research Foundation.

Bio
David A. Gerstner is Professor of Cinema Studies at the City University of New York. In 2024, he was awarded Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is the author of Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship (2023).