Throughout May, the international French-language network TV5 Monde offers a rich lineup of entertaining films, series, and variety shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Discover our round-up of the must-see programs this month below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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L’invit\u00e9<\/strong>\u2014May 13-24 at 1:45pm ET\/10:45am PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet Special<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Host Patrick Simonin will be on the red carpet interviewing the stars at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Host: <\/strong>Patrick Simonin (France, 2025) Peaux de vaches<\/strong>\u2014May 1 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Two brothers set fire to the family farm, inadvertently causing the death of a tramp hiding there. The elder shoulders the blame, protecting his younger brother. Ten years later, Roland leaves prison and returns to see G\u00e9rard who immediately thinks Roland is out for revenge…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director<\/strong>: Patricia Mazuy (France, 1989) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Adieu Berthe – L’enterrement de M\u00e9m\u00e9<\/strong><\/strong>\u2014May 2 at 11:30pm ET\/8:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Podalyd\u00e8s Brothers’ Film<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Armand is kept on his toes by his pharmacy and his passion for magic. Sentimentally, he is torn between his wife H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and his mistress Alix and also has to juggle his father, who has Alzheimer’s and his busybody mother-in-law. When his grandmother passes away, he is rapidly overwhelmed. Michel is a computer graphics designer and an avid fan of airmail. One day, he discovers a new passion for kayaking. He decides to buy a kit boat and, encouraged by his wife Rachelle, heads off on a solo trip. He is soon meets more and more people along the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director<\/strong>: Bruno Podalyd\u00e8s (France, 2011) <\/p>\n\n\n\n La d\u00e9rive des continents (au sud<\/strong><\/strong>)\u2014May 4 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nathalie is on a mission for the European Union to organize visits by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to a refugee camp in Sicily. Her son Albert is also there with his NGO. With his brothers in arms, he is there to protest against his mother and this diplomatic trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director<\/strong>: Lionel Baier (Switzerland, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Une aussi longue absence<\/strong><\/strong>\u2014May 6 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Langlois is intrigued by a tramp, who looks just like her husband, deported by the Germans fifteen years earlier. She decides to follow him, to be certain that it is indeed him. But he’s suffering from amnesia. Patiently, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se tries to find a way to reawaken his memories…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director<\/strong>: Henri Colpi (France, Italy, 1960) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Les Harkis<\/strong> \u2014May 6 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Set during the Algerian War (1954-1962), a group of impoverished young Algerian men, known as Harkis, volunteer to join the French Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director<\/strong>: Philippe Faucon (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dalva<\/strong>\u2014 May 11 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Les pires<\/strong>\u2014 May 13 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Un petit fr\u00e8re<\/strong>\u2014 May 15 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00c0ma gloria<\/strong>\u2014 May 18 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Roubaix, une lumi\u00e8re<\/strong>\u2014 May 20 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n La bataille du rail<\/strong>\u2014 May 22 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Goutte d\u2019or<\/strong>\u2014 May 25 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n La salamandre<\/strong>\u2014 May 27 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeelen la lumi\u00e8re<\/strong>\u2014 May 29 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT Neumatt<\/strong>\u2014Sundays starting May 4 at 11:30pm ET\/8:30pm PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n Season 2 Premiere<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Michi leads a frenzied life in the city. When his father Kurt dies, he returns to Neumatt and discovers a general a farm in chaos: his brother is overwhelmed by everything, his sister couldn’t care less. Their mother, Katharina, tries to hide the real cause of her husband’s death: suicide. Director<\/strong>: Sabine Boss and Pierre Monnard (Switzerland, 2023) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Zetwal cara\u00efbes<\/strong>\u2014Tuesdays starting May 13 at 11:30pm ET\/8:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Toute la vie<\/strong>\u2014Wednesdays starting May 28 at 11:30pm ET\/8:30pm PT Juste une mise au point<\/strong>\u2014 Sundays starting May 4 at 4:00pm ET\/1:00pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n Romy Schneider, face \u00e0 son destin<\/strong>\u2014 May 21 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre: <\/strong>News<\/p>\n\n\n\nFilms<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois St\u00e9venin, Jacques Spiesser, and Salom\u00e9 St\u00e9venin
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards:<\/strong> Cannes Un Certain Regard Official Selection (1989) and C\u00e9sar Award Best First Work Nominee (1990)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Denis Podalyd\u00e8s, Val\u00e9rie Lemercier, and Isabelle Candelier
Genre<\/strong>: Comedy
Awards<\/strong>: Nominated at the Cesar Awards – Best Original Screenplay (France, 2013), the French Film Festival in Cuba (Cuba, 2014), the Hong Kong French Film Festival (Hong Kong, 2012), and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Official Selection (France, 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Isabelle Carr\u00e9, Th\u00e9odore Pellerin, and Ursina Lardi
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Official Selection (France, 2022), Angoul\u00eame French Film Festival (France, 2022), Swiss French Film Festival (Switzerland, 2022), Hamburg International Festival (Germany, 2022), and Montreal Festival of New Cinema (Canada, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, and Charles Blavette
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Palme d’Or Winner (1961) and Louis Delluc Prize Winner (1960)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Th\u00e9o Cholbi, Omar Boulakirba, and Pierre Lottin
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Director\u2019s Fortnight official selection (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival
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12-year-old Dalva behaves and dresses like a grown woman. The authorities are notified and her single father’s custody is withdrawn. She is put in a hostel where she starts to rebel against this situation, which she finds unfair before gradually realizing what she has endured.
Director<\/strong>: Emmanuelle Nicot (Belgium, France, 2022)
Cast<\/strong>: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassi, and Marie Denarnaud
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award, FIPRESCI Prize Winners, Critics<\/strong>\u2019 Week Grand Prize, and Golden Camera Nominees (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
A film crew sets up in a disadvantaged suburb of Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the end of the casting, the inhabitants are stunned: the four teenagers selected to play the leading roles are considered to be the bad lot in the suburb. Lily, Maylis, Jessy, and Ryan, the happy chosen ones, cannot believe it themselves.
Directors<\/strong>: Lise Akoka and Romane Gu\u00e9ret (France, 2021)
Cast<\/strong>: Mallory Wanecques, Tim\u00e9o Mahaut, Lo\u00efc Pech, and M\u00e9lina Vanderplancke
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival A Certain Regard Winner, Golden Camera Nominee (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus beginning May 7
Rose leaves the Ivory Coast for France with her two sons Jean and Ernest. The single mother gets a job as a chambermaid and struggles every day to keep her family afloat. As teenagers and then young adults, Jean and Ernest are confronted by the difficulties of integration.
Director<\/strong>: L\u00e9onor Serraille (France, 2022)
Cast<\/strong>: Annabelle Lengronne, St\u00e9phane Bak, Ahmed Sylla, and Kenzo Sambin
Genre<\/strong>: Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Palm d\u2019Or Nominee (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival
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Six-year-old Cl\u00e9o lives with her kind, but often absent father, and her nanny Gloria, whom she loves. But Gloria has to definitively return to Cape Verde to look after her children. The separation is brutal and Cl\u00e9o is crushed. Her father sends her to spend the summer with Gloria.
Director<\/strong>: Marie Amachoukeli (France, 2022)
Cast<\/strong>: Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Il\u00e7a Moreno Zego, Arnaud Rebotini, and Abnara Gomes Varela
Genre<\/strong>: Dramedy
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Critics\u2019 Week Official Opener (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
Roubaix on Christmas Eve. Superintendent Daoud and his colleague Louis are investigating the murder of an old lady. The loot stolen from her home was derisory. The neighbours of the deceased, drug addicts and alcoholics, quickly appear to be the main suspects\u2026
Director<\/strong>: Arnaud Desplechin (France, 2019)
Cast<\/strong>: Roschdy Zem, L\u00e9a Seydoux, Sara Forestier, and Antoine Reinartz
Genre<\/strong>: Thriller
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Palme d\u2019Or and Queer Palm Nominees (2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
During the Second World War, many French railway workers took part in the resistance. Daily acts of sabotage, spectacular derailments: the French railway network took many actions against Nazi occupation. A station manager Camargue, and his deputy Athos risk their lives in managing the network in their sector.
Director<\/strong>: Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment (France, 1945)
Cast<\/strong>: Tony Laurent, Lucien Desagneaux, Charles Boyer, and Jean Clarieux
Genre<\/strong>: Historical Drama
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival International Jury Prize, Best Director Winners (1946)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
Rames, a crafty fraudster with a certain talent for dramatics, runs a successful clairvoyance practice in the Goutte d’Or district in Paris. Up until a gang of street children arrive and start to spread terror there: the fake witchdoctor is going to have his first real vision.
Director<\/strong>: Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore (France, 2022)
Cast<\/strong>: Karim Leklou, Ahmed Benaissa, Elsa Wolliaston, and Malik Zidi
Genre<\/strong>: Dramedy
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Critics\u2019 Week Official Selection (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival
Tribute to Alain Tanner<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a>
Two friends, Pierre and Paul, join forces to write a screenplay based on real events: the story of a young worker Rosemonde, accused of attempting to murder her uncle, before finally being acquitted for lack of evidence. Paul, somewhat of a dreamer, imagines the character. Pierre, anchored in reality, investigates.
Director<\/strong>: Alain Tanner (Switzerland, 1971)
Cast<\/strong>: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, and Marblum Jequier
Genre<\/strong>: Dark comedy
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight Official Selection (France, 1971)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival
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Tribute to Souleymane Ciss\u00e9, who passed away on February 19, 2025
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Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus beginning May 1
A gifted young man with magical powers embarks on a journey to seek his uncle’s aid in confronting his powerful sorcerer father.
Director<\/strong>: Souleymane Ciss\u00e9 (Mali, 1987)
Cast<\/strong>: Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, and Niamanto Sanogo
Genre<\/strong>: Drama, fantasy
Awards<\/strong>: Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury \u2013 Special Mention Winners, and Palm d\u2019Or Nominee (France, 1987)<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeries<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Michi has made up his mind: he’s going to take over the family farm, Neumatt. With his brother Lorenz and girlfriend Jessie expecting their first baby, he begins his new life as a farmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast<\/strong>: Julian Koechlin, Rachel Braunschweig, Sophie Hutter, and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Humm
Genre<\/strong>: Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Season 1 premiere<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a>
The trials and tribulations of four students at a drama school in Guadeloupe. Despite their very different backgrounds and personal challenges, all are fighting to make their dreams come true.
Ep.1: Jacob, Emily, Nathalie, and Lionel are drama students and have been selected by their teacher Marianne to represent Guadeloupe for the West Indies-French Guiana drama competition. As Jacob and Emily begin to feel a mutual attraction, the spark between Lionel and Nathalie is rekindled.
Ep. 2: Jacob is taken aback by the revelation made by Iris, with whom he had a one-night stand. Following her mother’s death, Nathalie is in search of the father she never knew. Lionel begins dealing in drugs again.
Director<\/strong>: Luccio Di Rosa (France, 2024)
Cast<\/strong>: Mathew Bazile, Angelyna Danabe Mignot, Axelle Laurent, and Youri Lauriette
Genre<\/strong>: Dramedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Season 3 premiere
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Marie-Labrecque School supports approximately 60 pregnant adolescents and young mothers, ages 12 to 17, by offering education and parenting guidance to help them care for their babies after birth.
Ep.1: Carolle visits Christophe in hospital where he’s recovering from being attacked. She can’t stop herself from giving him the latest news about Derek. They are determined to do all they can to help him.
Ep. 2: As they accompany Daphn\u00e9, who has to appear before the judge, Anne and Christophe have an unexpected encounter. Julie asks for advice from her lawyer before deciding whether to bring charges concerning what happened to her when she was a teenager.
Director<\/strong>: Jean-Philippe Duval (Canada, 2021)
Cast<\/strong>: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bourgeois Leclerc, Roy Dupuis, Marie-Chantal Perron, Madeleine P\u00e9loquin, and Marguerite Bouchard
Genre<\/strong>: Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\nDocumentaries<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a>
From the start of their career to their most recent films, portraits of some of the most iconic French film directors.
Ep. Baya Kasmi: Director, screenwriter, and actress Baya Kasmi looks back at a film career that sets out to describe contemporary society with humor and derision. She directed Le Nom des Gens<\/em>, Je Suis \u00e0 vous Tout de Suite<\/em>, Yousef Salem a du Succ\u00e8s<\/em>\u2026
Ep. Coline Serreau: She is the name behind one of the most successful French films ever: Trois Hommes et un Couffin<\/em>. A look back at the career of the actress, screenwriter, and director Coline Serreau, who shares her vision of cinema and the world.
Ep. \u00c9tienne Chatiliez: After working in the world of advertising, \u00c9tienne Chatiliez began his cinema career with the now famous La Vie est un Long Fleuve Tranquille<\/em>. A first film was followed by other memorable works: Tatie Danielle<\/em>, Le Bonheur est dans le Pr\u00e9<\/em>, Tanguy<\/em>\u2026
Ep. Pascal Thomas: An out-of-the-ordinary filmmaker, who left his mark on an entire generation in the 1970s. Pascal Thomas began his career with Les Zozos,<\/em> followed by Pleure pas la Bouche Pleine<\/em> and Le Chaud Lapin<\/em>. In 1999, he directed La Dilettante<\/em>.
Director<\/strong>: Rapha\u00eblle Catteau and S\u00e9bastien Labadie (France, 2022, 2023)
Genre<\/strong>: Documentary series<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Cannes Film Festival<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a>
Evoking Romy Schneider (1938-1982) leaves no one indifferent. The beauty of the actress is admired by men and women alike, her talent recognized, often described as immense, her fragility on edge. A look back at the journey of a perfectionist, passionate about her roles, a great lover, eternally hurt by life.
Director<\/strong>: Sophie Agacinski (France, 2023)
Genre<\/strong>: Documentary<\/p>\n\n\n\n