Throughout June, the international French-language network TV5 Monde offers a rich lineup of entertaining films, series, and variety shows.

Discover our round-up of the must-see programs this month below.

TV5 Monde

Films

Le petit blond de la Casbah— June 5 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
(English ST)
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus

Antoine returns to his native Algeria for the screening of his film about his childhood in Algiers in 1960. He wanders along the streets of Algiers with his son and recalls his happy childhood, the independence movements of the time and the birth of his passion for film.

La Reine soleil— June 10 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival
(English ST)

Ancient Egypt, 18th dynasty. The fiery Princess Akhesa, 14, rebels against her father, Pharaoh Akhenaten. She refuses to live confined within the walls of the royal palace and runs away with the help of Prince Tut to find her mother, Queen Nefertiti, who has been exiled on Elephantine Island…

Director: Philippe Leclerc (France, Belgium, Hungary, 2005)
Genre: Animation

Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens— June 12 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/cinema/animation/interdit-aux-chiens-et-aux-italiens
(English ST)

Northern Italy, early 20th century. With life in this mountainous region having become too difficult, Luigi Ughetto crosses the Alps to France and changes his family’s destiny forever. His grandson recounts his story.

Director: Alain Ughetto (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, 2021)
Genre: Animation
Awards: 1 nomination (César 2024), Best Animated Film (European Film Awards), Jury Prize, Gan Foundation Award for Distribution (Annecy 2022), Jury Award for a Feature Film (Annecy 2022)

La Sirène— June 15 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival

1980, in southern Iran. The people of Abadan are resisting the Iraqi siege. Fourteen-year-old Omid is thinking with his grandfather about how to help people escape if the enemy seizes the town. They find an abandoned sailing boat in the harbour, which they now need to repair.

Director: Sepideh Farsi (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2022)
Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-François Stévenin, Jacques Spiesser, Salomé Stévenin
Genre: Animation
Awards: Best Original Score at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France, 2023); Jury Prize at the BIAF (South Korea, 2023); selected for the Berlinale (Germany, 2023), Geneva International Film Festival (Switzerland, 2023), Anima Festival (Belgium, 2024) and Yerevan International Animation Festival (Armenia, 2024)

Un soir au music-hall (Folies-Bergère)— June 19 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of World Music Day (Fête de la musique)
(English ST)

Bob, a GI on leave in Paris, falls in love with Claudie, dancer at the famous cabaret the Folies Bergère. He marries her, settles in Paris and begins a singing career. But as one concert tour follows another, it doesn’t take long for jealousy to rear its ugly head…

Director: Henri Decoin (France, 1956)
Cast: Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire, Nadia Gray
Genre: Comedy

Trois nuits par semaine— June 29 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

Photographer Baptiste plunges into the world of Parisian nightlife. He meets Cookie Kunty, a drag queen with whom he launches an art project. Baptiste gradually discovers this unfamiliar world and gets to know Quentin, the young man behind the character, who doesn’t leave him indifferent.

Director: Florent Gouëlou (France, 2022)
Cast: Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot
Genre: Dramedy
Awards: Selected at the FIFF in Namur (Belgium, 2022), Critics’ Week in Venice (Italy, 2022), Rendez-vous d’Unifrance in Paris (2023), Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York (United States, 2023) and Greek French Language Film Festival (2025)

Series

Wilder—Tuesdays starting June 17 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT
Season 1
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/series-et-films-tv/policier-et-suspense/wilder (English ST)

The investigations of Rosa Wilder, a police inspector from Berne. Now back in her small home town in the Swiss Alps, she faces a succession of particularly dark crimes. The series weaves close ties between the setting, the investigations and Rosa Wilder’s private life.

Ep. 1: Inspector Rosa Wilder has returned to Oberwies, the village where she was born in the Swiss Alps. As a major building project is being planned to bring life back the little mountain community, a murder puts everything in question. Rosa and Manfred Kägi head the investigation…

Director: Pierre Monnard (Switzerland, 2017)
Cast: Sarah Spale, Marcus Signer, Andreas Matti, Ruth Schwegler, László I. Kish, Emanuela von Frankenberg
Genre: Thriller

Documentaries

Résistances— Tuesdays beginning June 3 at 3:00pm ET/12:00pm PT (English ST)

Ep 1: Summer 1940, France is defeated. Many refuse the capitulation, but the vast majority of French fall into line behind Marshal Pétain, who requested the armistice. 18 June; the call to resist from an unknown general, Charles de Gaulle, persuades Jeanne Bohec, Daniel Cordier and Gilbert Renault to head for London.

Ep 2: After Hitler’s invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the communist party begins its armed struggle. In August, Colonel Fabien, head of the Special Organisation, executes a Nazi officer at the Barbès metro station in Paris. The retaliation is immediate and terrible: hostages such as Guy Môquet are shot.

Director: Patrick Rotman (France, 2022)
Genre: Documentary series, History

Archipels— June 4 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of World Oceans Day (English ST)

Journey to the heart of the Southern Lands, vast steppes swept by the winds of the Indian Ocean. A hostile environment inhabited only a few months a year by a handful of men and women. Isolation, omnipresence of the ocean, relationship to the community, sometimes difficult return to their daily lives… Story of their stay.

Director: Célestine Durif, Victor Pinault (France, 2023)
Genre: Documentary, environment

Abers Road— Sundays, beginning June 8 at 4:00pm ET/1:00pm PT
Season 2 premiere
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/culture-et-art-de-vivre/vie-culturelle-et-artistique/abers-road
In celebration of World Music Day (Fête de la musique) (English ST)

Gaëtan Roussel, singer with Louise Attaque, wants to settle in Brittany. At the wheel of his campervan he discovers the region in the company of some of the celebrities that already call it home, happy to welcome him and offer a guided tour.

Ep 1: Direction Nantes, to meet Dominique A. The artist, who spent his teenage years in the city, welcomes Gaëtan Roussel in front of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany and then takes him on a walking tour of the historic town centre. Then, they head for Langon, in Ille-et-Vilaine.

Director: Gérard Pont, Guillaume Klein (France, 2022)
Genre: Documentary series, travel

L’Océan vu du cœur— June 8 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
In celebration of World Oceans Day (English ST)

Surrounded by experts, scientists, explorers, or simple fishermen, the renowned Canadian astrophysicist and ecologist Hubert Reeves, who passed away in 2023, proposes to identify what threatens the ocean today and exposes the latest discoveries on the intelligence of animals and ocean ecosystems.

Director: Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Marie-Dominique Michaud (Canada, 2023)
Genre: Documentary, environment

À la Vie, À la Terre – Nouvelle-Calédonie : L’inconnue du Pacifique— June 11 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT
US premiere; TV5MONDE Original
(English ST)

Climate change is threatening the Pacific Islands: by the end of the century, some atolls may disappear. The inhabitants of Uvea and Vanuatu are trying to resist by launching a race against time. Scientists, guides, fisherman, lawyers, activists, elected representatives… We meet the guardians of a paradise not yet lost.

Host: Chloé Nabédian (France, 2024)
Genre: Documentary series, Environment

Vue sur un périple— June 28 at 9:30pm ET/6:30pm PT
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/memoire-et-societe/enquetes-et-reportages/vue-sur-un-periple (English ST)

John Tomasino and Ginny Duff are blind. Despite their disability, they share a real passion for sport, practicing cycling, swimming, skiing, running, sailing… Anne-Marie Rocher follows them as they head off by bike to explore the fabulous landscapes of Georgian Bay, Ontario.

Director: Anne-Marie Rocher (Canada, 2023)
Genre: Documentary

TV5 Monde Plus

Films

Lola Pater— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/cinema/drame/lola-pater
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

After his mother’s death, Zino decides to go looking for his father, Farid, who disappeared 25 years earlier. When he arrives by motorbike at a house in the south of France, instead of finding Farid he finds Lola. He doesn’t know yet that his father has become a woman.

Director: Nadir Moknèche (France, 2016)
Cast: Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Nadia Kaci, Bruno Sanches, Lubna Azabal
Genre: Drama

L’attente— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/cinema/drame/lola-pater
In celebration of Pride Month(English ST)

Jeanne and Céline are at the maternity clinic for the arrival of their first child. It’s Jeanne who is going to give birth. During the night, in the hospital entrance hall, Céline meets two men who, like her… are waiting.

Director: Alice Douard (France, 2022)
Cast: Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, Émilie Brisavoine
Genre: Dramedy, short film
Awards: Best short fiction at the César Awards (France, 2024), Special Jury Prize and Be TV Prize at the Unifrance Short Film Awards (France, 2022), Best Direction and Best Actor Mention (Julien Gaspar-Oliveri) at the Namur FIFF (Belgium, 2022)

Ya Benti— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/cinema/court-metrage/ya-benti
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

Sabrina, lesbian, is about to marry Younes, her childhood friend, who is also gay. A marriage that suits both of them because it reassures and delights their families. But on the eve of the ceremony, Sabrina begins to have doubts.

Director: Anissa Allali (France, 2022)
Cast: Foëd Amara, Sonia Bendhaou, Nolan Masraf
Genre: Drama, short film
Awards: Selected for the BFI Flare: London LGBT+ Film Festival (United Kingdom, 2023), the Aspen Shortsfest (United States, 2023), The American French Film Festival (formerly COLCOA) (United States, 2022)

Series

La Théorie du Y— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/series-et-films-tv/comedie/la-theorie-du-y
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

Created by Caroline Taillet and Martin Landmeters, a series that questions our taboos on the subject of sexuality by exploring bisexuality and the clichés that surround it.

Director: Caroline Taillet (Belgium, 2016)
Cast: Léone François, Colin Javaux, Salim Talbi, Ophélie Honoré
Genre: Dramedy

Documentaries

Burning man, enflammer le désert— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/memoire-et-societe/enquetes-et-reportages/burning-man-enflammer-le-desert
Read Director’s Q&A here: https://usa.tv5monde.com/en/blog/burning-man-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-utopia-1383765
(English ST)

The Nevada Desert, in the middle of nowhere. Welcome to Black Rock City, the most famous of all ephemeral towns, and the greatest festive gathering on Earth, Burning Man!

Director: Sarah Fortin, Pascal Brouard (Canada, 2024)
Genre: Documentary, 4-part series

Les invisibles— Now streaming: https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/en/cinema/documentaire/les-invisibles
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

Born between the two wars, these men and women chose to accept their homosexuality at a period when society rejected them for it. Today, they give their accounts of a life torn between the desire to live like everybody else and the need to assert their freedom to seek fulfilment.

Director: Sébastien Lifshitz (France, 2012)
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Best documentary (César, 2013), Special screenings (Cannes, 2012)

Coperni, le couple qui révolutionne la mode— Streaming beginning June 4
In celebration of Pride Month
(English ST)

On October 1, 2024, Disneyland Paris hosted its first-ever fashion show, featuring the brand Coperni, founded in 2013 by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant. Partners in both life and fashion, the duo are a perfect match: Meyer leads the creative vision, while Vaillant runs the business.

Director: Loïc Prigent (France, 2024)
Genre: Documentary

Adamo, le film de sa vie— Streaming beginning June 4
In celebration of World Music Day (Fête de la Musique)
(English ST)

In a journey full of intimacy and surprises, the life of Belgian-Italian musician, singer, and composer Salvatore Adamo is recounted by seventeen of his fans. In the company of Bruno Tummers and Joëlle Scoriels, seated in the front row of the Théâtre royal de Mons, the artist relives the highlights of his career, projected on the big screen.

Director: Franck Villano (Belgium, 2024)
Genre: Documentary

Le dernier chant de la baleine— Streaming beginning June 4
In celebration of World Oceans Day
(English ST)

There currently remain some 350 North Atlantic right whales in the waters off eastern Canada, of which perhaps only 100 are female. Collisions with ships, fishing nets and pollution are amongst the many dangers threatening the species. Julien Robichaud meets some of those fighting to save them.

Director: Julien Robichaud, Gilles Doiron (Canada, 2022)
Genre: Documentary, Environment

TV5 Monde Cinema

Theme: Documentaries and films based on true events

Diên Biên Phú— available beginning June 6
(English ST)

French and Vietnamese forces clash in a 57-day siege that ends with the country’s partition—paving the way for the Vietnam War. A U.S. journalist defies censorship to report the story to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer (1992)
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Ludmila Mikaël
Genre: War
Awards: 1993 Cesar Awards Best Music Nominee

Une exécution ordinaire— available beginning June 6
(English ST)

The 1950s, a young urologist desperately tries to conceive with her husband, a disillusioned physician who clings to life solely because of the love he feels for her.

Director: Marc Dugain (2010)
Cast: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Édouard Baer
Genre: Drama

Voyage au pôle sud— available beginning June 6
(English ST)

“March of the Penguins” director Luc Jacquet embarks on his latest adventure, exploring the few thousand kilometers that separate Patagonia from the South Pole.

Director: Luc Jacquet (2023)
Genre: Documentary

L’armée du crime— available beginning June 13
(English ST)

The poet Missak Manouchian becomes the leader of a group of Resistance fighters in occupied France during World War II. Based on true events.

Director: Robert Guédiguian (2009)
Cast: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin
Genre: War
Awards: 2009 Cannes Film Festival Hor Compétition Official Selection

Casablancas, l’homme qui aimait les femmes— available beginning June 13
(English ST)

John Casablancas founded Elite Model Management in the 1970s, helping to invent the concept of the ‘supermodel.’

Director: Hubert Woroniecki (2016)
Genre: Documentary

Tirailleurs— available beginning June 20
(English ST)

During World War I, a father enlists in the French army to stay close to his 17-year-old son, who is forced to serve. Together, they are sent to the front in the French colony of Senegal.

Director: Mathieu Vadepied (2023)
Cast: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet
Genre: Drama, War
Awards: 2022 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Award

Traffic d’influence— available beginning June 20
(English ST)

French, English subtitles. Two elected officials, sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, are escorted to Melun Prison by a young and honest police officer.

Director: Dominique Farrugia (1999)
Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Aure Atika
Genre: Comedy

Paparazzi— available beginning June 20
(English ST)

After being fired, a man begins following the photographer he holds responsible and starts mimicking his every move.

Director: Alain Berberian (1998)
Cast: Patrick Timsit, Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot
Genre: Comedy

Revivre— available beginning June 27
(English ST)

Two couples do everything they can for their critically ill children as they await life-saving organ donations.

Director: Karim Dridi (2024)
Genre: Documentary

HLM Pussy— available beginning June 27
(English ST)

Three best friends face public outcry after posting a video exposing an aggressor.

Director: Nora El Hourch (2024)
Cast: Léah Aubert, Médina Diarra, Salma Takaline
Genre: Drama
Awards: 2023 Toronto International Film Festival Plaform Prize Nominee