The Fall 2024 Version Restaurée series will feature over twenty exclusive premieres from the French-speaking world, including restored versions of films never before screened in the U.S. This program offers a unique opportunity to revisit beloved classics and make discoveries, promising an exciting chance to reassess Francophone film history through a program of revelations.

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a hitman on assignment and soon on the run, bouncing around town from Beverly Hills to Venice to the strip, cops and mobsters on his tail. With a prime cast of Americans – Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret and Angie Dickinson – a score by Michel Legrand, and a screenplay unlikely credited to Ian McLellan Hunter and Jean-Claude Carrière.

Nominated for the 2019 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Atlantics blends mystery, drama, and romance. Director Mati Diop evokes the topics of economic instability, immigration, and corruption that permeate the lives of young people in Dakar, Senegal. 

A grand experiment: two films, about one relationship, told from the points of view of each partner, and viewable in either order, shot stunning widescreen in black and white. Jean-Marc and Françoise meet, fall in love, marry and separate. Director André Cayatte sought to create a film that presented each story so definitively, that it would be hard for the audience to imagine the other side.

Two films by director Idrissa Ouédraogo; a gripping feature noir revolving around the conflicts between city and rural life, as well as modernity and tradition in Burkina Faso preceded by a short in which Ouédraogo addresses the economic difficulties of making films in Africa as compared to other art forms.

Fernando Arrabal’s first film, Viva la Muerte is an avant-garde creation shot in Tunisia and gained fame in the US as a pioneering midnight movie. The film portrays a little boy’s experience growing up during the Spanish Civil War, blending reality and nightmarish images.

Stunning in beauty, radical in style, incisive in experience, there are not enough superlatives to shower on the quintet of films depicting the ingenuity of artisans in Dakar.

A truly unsettling French splatterfest just in time for Halloween! Discover director Alain Robak’s utterly outlandish horror film; the perfect introduction for the underseen filmmaker.

On the docks of a sleazy port, the captain of the broken down ‘La Rose de le mer’ puts together a crew of the dregs of the waterfront to make a run to Casablanca, plotting to sink the boat at sea for insurance.

Two extraordinary discoveries of regional American independent cinema by filmmaker Glen Pitre, who at age 25 was already referred to as ‘The father of Cajun cinema’ by American Film magazine. Made in Cajun French with mostly non-professional actors, both films dramatize major events in the Bayou.

In 1986, Mosco Boucault interviews members of resistance cells, who assassinated Nazis, but are now living subdued lives, primarily as tailors. Underneath this history, is the long-buried source of the deaths and betrayal of their comrades who wanted to suppress the identity of the heroes of the resistance, primarily Jews and immigrants, from Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy and Hungary.

The first French language film, Mouramani, directed by Mamadóu Touré in Guinea in 1953, is a landmark film. However, is the film still in existence? Thierno Souleymane Diallo is determined to find out, looking for anyone who has seen it, or knows where a print of it may be.

Chris Marker follows Roberto Matta. Alain Resnais ponders Guernica. Philippe Garrel searches with Frédéric Pardo. Niki de Saint Phalle spins a fairy tale. Anthony Ramos takes his practice abroad. For two days, painters and filmmakers in France and America will volley back and forth ideas and experimental forms across the canvas and the screen. Films to include Marker’s Matta ’85 and Garrel’s Le Berceau de cristal.

In this documentary, the first French-language film by American documentarian Frederick Wiseman, he is given unprecedented access to the company, shadowing three female actors, and the production of four classic French plays.

A young, crusading DA in a provincial city tries to take on corrupt politicians, police and exploitative factory owners, soon discovering the link between all is a history with a far-right organization.

A young man returns to Paris — and confronts his demons — after spending five years in a U.S. prison on narcotics charges.

In what he considered his best performance, Patrick Dewaere plays a door-to-door salesman lured into a get-rich-quick murder scheme after meeting a captivating teenager.