Throughout June, 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
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le petit blond de la Casbah<\/strong>\u2014 June 5 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Alexandre Arcady (France, Tunisia, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n La Reine soleil<\/strong>\u2014 June 10 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Philippe Leclerc (France, Belgium, Hungary, 2005) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Interdit aux chiens et aux Italiens<\/strong>\u2014 June 12 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Alain Ughetto (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, 2021) <\/p>\n\n\n\n La Sir\u00e8ne<\/strong>\u2014 June 15 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Sepideh Farsi (France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Un soir au music-hall (Folies-Berg\u00e8re)<\/strong>\u2014 June 19 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT Bob, a GI on leave in Paris, falls in love with Claudie, dancer at the famous cabaret the Folies Berg\u00e8re. 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…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director:<\/strong> Henri Decoin (France, 1956) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Trois nuits par semaine<\/strong>\u2014 June 29 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Florent Gou\u00eblou (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilder<\/strong>\u2014Tuesdays starting June 17 at 11:30pm ET\/8:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 K\u00e4gi head the investigation…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Pierre Monnard (Switzerland, 2017) <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n R\u00e9sistances<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> Tuesdays beginning June 3 at 3:00pm ET\/12:00pm PT (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ep 1: Summer 1940, France is defeated. Many refuse the capitulation, but the vast majority of French fall into line behind Marshal P\u00e9tain, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 Barb\u00e8s metro station in Paris. The retaliation is immediate and terrible: hostages such as Guy M\u00f4quet are shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Patrick Rotman (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>C\u00e9lestine Durif, Victor Pinault (France, 2023) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Abers Road<\/strong>\u2014 Sundays, beginning June 8 at 4:00pm ET\/1:00pm PT Ga\u00ebtan 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ep 1: Direction Nantes, to meet Dominique A. The artist, who spent his teenage years in the city, welcomes Ga\u00ebtan 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>G\u00e9rard Pont, Guillaume Klein (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n L’Oc\u00e9an vu du c\u0153ur<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> June 8 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Marie-Dominique Michaud (Canada, 2023) <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00c0 la Vie, \u00c0 la Terre \u2013 Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie : L\u2019inconnue du Pacifique<\/strong>\u2014 <\/em>June 11 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Host: <\/strong>Chlo\u00e9 Nab\u00e9dian (France, 2024) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vue sur un p\u00e9riple<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> June 28 at 9:30pm ET\/6:30pm PT 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Anne-Marie Rocher (Canada, 2023) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lola Pater<\/strong>\u2014 Now streaming: https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/cinema\/drame\/lola-pater<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Nadir Mokn\u00e8che (France, 2016) <\/p>\n\n\n\n L\u2019attente<\/strong>\u2014 Now streaming: https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/cinema\/drame\/lola-pater<\/a> Jeanne and C\u00e9line 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, C\u00e9line meets two men who, like her… are waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Alice Douard (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ya Benti<\/strong>\u2014 Now streaming: https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/cinema\/court-metrage\/ya-benti 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Anissa Allali (France, 2022) <\/p>\n\n\n\n La Th\u00e9orie du Y<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> Now streaming: https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/series-et-films-tv\/comedie\/la-theorie-du-y<\/a> Created by Caroline Taillet and Martin Landmeters, a series that questions our taboos on the subject of sexuality by exploring bisexuality and the clich\u00e9s that surround it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Director: <\/strong>Caroline Taillet (Belgium, 2016) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Burning man, enflammer le d\u00e9sert<\/strong>\u2014 Now streaming: https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/memoire-et-societe\/enquetes-et-reportages\/burning-man-enflammer-le-desert<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(English ST)
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Patrick Mille, L\u00e9o Campion, Marie Gillain, Christian Berkel
Genre: <\/strong>Drama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre: <\/strong>Animation <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: <\/em>https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/cinema\/animation\/interdit-aux-chiens-et-aux-italiens<\/em><\/a>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre: <\/strong>Animation
Awards:<\/strong> 1 nomination (C\u00e9sar 2024), Best Animated Film (European Film Awards), Jury Prize, Gan Foundation Award for Distribution (Annecy 2022), Jury Award for a Feature Film (Annecy 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois St\u00e9venin, Jacques Spiesser, Salom\u00e9 St\u00e9venin
Genre: <\/strong>Animation
Awards:<\/strong> 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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of World Music Day (F\u00eate de la musique)<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Eddie Constantine, Zizi Jeanmaire, Nadia Gray
Genre: <\/strong>Comedy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of Pride Month<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast: <\/strong>Pablo Pauly, Romain Eck, Hafsia Herzi, Harald Marlot
Genre: <\/strong>Dramedy
Awards:<\/strong> 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)<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeries<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Season 1<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: <\/em>https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/series-et-films-tv\/policier-et-suspense\/wilder<\/em><\/a> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast: <\/strong>Sarah Spale, Marcus Signer, Andreas Matti, Ruth Schwegler, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 I. Kish, Emanuela von Frankenberg
Genre:<\/strong> Thriller
<\/p>\n\n\n\nDocumentaries<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary series, History<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Archipels<\/strong>\u2014<\/em> June 4 at 8:30pm ET\/5:30pm PT
In celebration of World Oceans Day<\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary, environment
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Season 2 premiere<\/em>
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: <\/em>https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/culture-et-art-de-vivre\/vie-culturelle-et-artistique\/abers-road<\/em><\/a>
In celebration of World Music Day (F\u00eate de la musique)<\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary series, travel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of World Oceans Day<\/em> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary, environment
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
US premiere; TV5MONDE Original<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary series, Environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also streaming on TV5MONDEplus: <\/em>https:\/\/www.tv5mondeplus.com\/en\/memoire-et-societe\/enquetes-et-reportages\/vue-sur-un-periple<\/em><\/a> (English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Genre:<\/strong> Documentary<\/p>\n\n\n\nTV5 Monde Plus<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Films<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of Pride Month<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Nadia Kaci, Bruno Sanches, Lubna Azabal
Genre: <\/strong>Drama<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of Pride Month<\/em>(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Clotilde Hesme, Laetitia Dosch, \u00c9milie Brisavoine
Genre: <\/strong>Dramedy, short film
Awards:<\/strong> Best short fiction at the C\u00e9sar 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)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of Pride Month<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> Fo\u00ebd Amara, Sonia Bendhaou, Nolan Masraf
Genre: <\/strong>Drama, short film
Awards:<\/strong> 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)<\/p>\n\n\n\nSeries<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In celebration of Pride Month<\/em>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cast:<\/strong> L\u00e9one Fran\u00e7ois, Colin Javaux, Salim Talbi, Oph\u00e9lie Honor\u00e9
Genre:<\/strong> Dramedy<\/p>\n\n\n\nDocumentaries<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read Director\u2019s Q&A here: https:\/\/usa.tv5monde.com\/en\/blog\/burning-man-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-american-utopia-1383765<\/a>
(English ST)<\/p>\n\n\n\n