TV5MONDE Program Highlights – March 2023

Special Programming

Les Magritte du Cinéma – March 9 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT

The 12th edition of Belgium’s Les Magritte du Cinéma. The Belgian equivalent of the Academy Awards, this formal ceremony recognizes the most noteworthy films and professionals of Belgian cinema from 2022. This year’s Honorary Magritte Award will be awarded to actress, director, and scenarist Agnès Jaoui. This year’s nominations include: Rien à foutre, for Best Film and Best First Film (now streaming on Cinema on Demand).

Presenter: Patrick Ridremont, Cathy Immelen (Belgium, 2023)

Genre: Awards show (Belgium, 2023)

Films

Lingui, les liens sacrés – March 2 at 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT

(English ST)

*In celebration of Francophonie Month*

Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country (the Republic of Chad) where abortion is legally and morally condemned.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (France, Germany, Belgium, 2020)

Cast: Achouackh Abakar Souleymane, Rihane Khalil Alio, Youssouf Djaoro

Genre: Drama

Awards: 2021 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Nominee

Une vie démente – March 9 at 8:30pm ET/ 5:30pm PT

(English ST)

Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus beginning March 1

*In celebration of Les Magritte du Cinéma*

Alex and Noémie want to have a child, but their plans are turned upside down by the increasingly strange behaviour of Suzanne, Alex’s elegant and charismatic mother. The doctors diagnose a neurodegenerative disease… Between the child they so desire and the one Suzanne becomes again, things get complicated.

Director: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni (Belgium, 2020)

Cast: Jo Deseure, Jean Le Peltier, Lucie Debay, Gilles Remiche

Genre: Dramedy

Awards: 2022 Magritte Award, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film
     

Documentaries

Mon nom est clitoris – March 5 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT; March 13 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT

(English ST)

*In celebration of International Women’s Day*

Twelve young women aged 20 to 25 tell the story of their sexuality since childhood. In their room, face camera, they address the two women directors in prey to the same questions. They remember the first sensations, the hazardous explorations, the conversations in the dark and the unexpected obstacles. All are moved, each in their own way, by the same impulse: the quest for a fulfilling, free and egalitarian sexuality.

Director: Lisa Billuart-Monet, Daphné Leblond (Belgium, 2019)

Genre: Documentary

Awards: 2020 Magritte Award, Best Documentary Winner

Traverser – March 23 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT

(English ST)

*In celebration of Francophonie Month*

An Ivory Coast refugee has been waiting patiently in an NGO camp in Italy and hopes for a visa to join his fiancée in France. Will he be able to take control of his destiny? 

Director: Joël Akafou (France, Burkina Faso, 2020)

Genre: Documentary

Awards: 2020 Entrevues Film Festival Grand Prix Janine Bazin Award

Series

Marianne – Sundays beginning March 5 at 11:30pm ET/8:30pm PT

Season 1 premiere

(English ST)

Marianne Vauban is an examining magistrate. A woman with a cheerful outspokenness, surprising methods, and a sure and radiant humanity. Accompanied by Captain Pastor and her faithful clerk Yves, Marianne must demonstrate all her experience, sagacity, and humanity to instruct complex and tasty cases in surprising universes.

Director: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier, Myriam Vinocour (France, 2022)

Cast: Marilou Berry, Alexandre Steiger, Stéphane Pezerat, Denis Mpunga, Laurent Olmedo

Genre: Crime, Dramedy

Films

Mobile home – Now Streaming

*In celebration of Les Magritte du Cinéma*

Having left his girlfriend and his job in the city, Simon returns to his home village. There, he rediscovers Julien, his childhood friend, who lives with his father, in remission from a serious illness. One evening, on a whim, the two thirty-somethings decide to go on a camping-car adventure…

Director: François Pirot (Belgium/France/Luxembourg, 2011)

Cast: Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Gouix, Jean-Paul Bonnaire, Claudine Pelletier, Jackie Berroyer, Anne-Pascale Clairembourg

Genre: Dramedy

Awards: 2013 Magritte Award, Most Promising Actress (Anne-Pascale Clairembourg); 2013 Magritte Nominations, Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Script

Une sœur – Now Streaming

(English ST)

*In celebration of Les Magritte du Cinéma*

A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

Director: Delphine Girard (Belgium, 2018)

Cast: Veerle Baetens, Selma Alaoui, Guillaume Duhesme

Genre: Short, Thriller

Awards: 2020 Oscar Nominee, Best Live Action Short Film; 2019 Magritte Nominee, Best Short Film 

Series

En français s’il me plaît – now streaming

(English ST)

*In celebration of Francophonie Month*

They are all authors who have chosen French as their language of expression. A choice often guided by emotion, personal history but also by a desire for deconstruction or to make a point. Writing in French is a response to a pressing need to say something that cannot always be said in one’s native language, or to say it differently, to express thoughts through the use of certain precise words and a complex syntax. But it also offers the possibility of entering into resonance or complicity with the great writers who, over the centuries, were responsible for the glory, wealth and posterity of French thinking.

Genre: Literature, learning series

Rien à foutre – now available until April 13

(English ST)

A 26-year-old flight attendant gets fired from a low-cost airline, forcing her to confront her past.

Director: Julie Lecoustre (2022)

Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Alexandre Perrier, Mara Taquin

Genre: Drama

Awards: 2023 Magritte Nomination, Best Feature Film, Best First Feature Film; 2023 MyFrenchFilmFestival selection

Theme: Thrillers

Les choses humaines – available beginning March 24

(English ST)

A young man is accused of raping a young woman.

Director: Yvan Attal (2021)

Cast: Ben Attal, Suzanne Jouannet, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Genre: Thriller

Awards: 2022 César Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay

L’ennemi – available beginning March 24

(English ST)

Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm.

Director: Stephan Streker (2022)

Cast: Jérémie Renier, Emmanuelle Bercot, Félix Maritaud

Genre: Thriller

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