French Movies at the International Film Series by Belmont World Film

The Belmont World Film’s 24th International Film Series will be held in Newton, MA from March 30, 2026, until June 15, 2026. The festival includes a month dedicated to refuge awareness entitled Pride and World Refuge Awareness Month Observance.

Discover the seven French films featured in the lineup below.

Screenings

• Monday, March 30, 7:00 PM – COLORS OF TIME
  Cédric Klapisch | 2025 | 126ꞌ | French
  A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, inherit Meunier’s old house and, through memories and family history, uncover their ancestor’s life in 19th-century Paris.

• Monday, April 6, 7:00 PM – CASE 137
  Dominik Moll | 2025 | 115ꞌ | French
  A criminal case takes a personal turn, when a police officer in the internal affairs unit in Paris is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris.

• Monday, April 20, 7:00 PM – IN THE LAND OF ARTO
  Tamara Stepanyan | 2025 | 104ꞌ | Armenian, French, English
  Camille Cottin (Call My Agent, House of Gucci) stars as a wife who travels to Armenia to legalize her husband’s death, only to learn that he lied about his military service, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter.
  
• Monday, April 27, 7:00PM – THE INCREDIBLE SNOW WOMAN
  Sébastien Betbeder | 2025 | 101ꞌ | French, Greenlandic
  A 46-year-old Arctic explorer known as “The Incredible Snow Woman,” unexpectedly returns to her childhood home in the Jura mountains to reunite with her brothers. Unable to face her own mortality, she returns to Greenland one last time in this impassioned comedy-drama.

• Monday, May 11, 7:00PM – SIX DAYS IN SPRING
  Joachim Lafosse / 2025 / 94ꞌ / French
  On a whim, a single mother–who is determined to give her twin boys a spring vacation after her original plans collapse—trespasses her former in-laws’ luxury villa on the Riviera, a place she once called home. Joined by the twins’ soccer coach, secretly her boyfriend, they cautiously savor six sun-drenched days.

• Monday, June 1, 7:00 PM – ENZO
  Robin Campillo | 2025 | 102ꞌ | French, Ukrainian
  In this riveting drama set along the breathtaking South of France, a 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship. There he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world. Premiered at the Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and written and partially directed by Laurent Cantet (The Workshop, BWF 2018), who died before being able to finish it.

• Monday, June 15, 7:00 PM – PROMISED SKY
  Erige Sehiri | 2026 | 92ꞌ | Arabic, French
  Three women from Côte d’Ivoire, living together in Tunisia without legal status, take in a young girl who washes ashore after a shipwreck. As this fragile, makeshift family begins to take shape, mounting pressures force each woman to confront where she belongs—and what she’s willing to risk.