In cinemas on March 1: Creed 3, La Syndicalist, The Son…

Credit to Michael B. Jordan III

Starring Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors…

What is it about? A boxing idol and surrounded by family, Adonis Creed has nothing more to prove. Until the day his childhood friend, Damian, also a boxing prodigy, reappears. Hardly out of prison, Damian is ready to do everything to get into the ring and get his rights back.

did you know After Tony Bell (Ricky Conlan) in the first film and Florian Munteanu (Victor Drago) in the second, it’s Lovecraft Country star Jonathan Majors who plays the antagonist of Creed III. Note that this isn’t the first time he’s been the antagonist of the franchise’s hero, as he played the supervillain Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Jean-Paul Salome syndicalist

With Isabelle Hooper, Christoph Paus, Ivan Atal…

What is it about? One morning Maureen Kearney was brutally attacked at Eli’s house. He was working on a sensitive case in the French nuclear sector and was under intense political pressure. Investigators find no trace of the attackers… Is he a victim or guilty of false denunciation? A fascinating thriller about a state scandal.

did you know For authenticity, Jean-Paul Salomé filmed in the settings where the case actually took place: Bercy, the Rambouillet Hospital, the Court of Versailles (in which ex-Areve workers who were present at the actual trial came in union clothes to do extra business).

Son of Florian Zeller

Starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby…

What is it about? At the age of seventeen, Nicholas seems to be spinning, he is no longer the bright child who was always smiling. what is happening to him Overwhelmed by the situation, her mother admits that she will be moving in with her father, Peter. A recently remarried father of a new baby struggles to overcome misunderstanding, anger and helplessness in hopes of finding his son.

did you know After his first feature film “Father”, the director Florian Zeller again adapts one of his plays “Shvi” for cinema. Created in 2018, it starred Ivan Attali, Anne Consin, Elodie Navarre and Rod Parado. This is the final part of a trilogy that also includes Mom and Dad.

Clement Cogitore’s Golden Gut

With Karim Lecluse, Malik Zid, Ilin Yang…

What is it about? Ramses, 35, runs a fortune-telling practice at the Golden Gate in Paris. A clever manipulator and a bit of a poet on the edges, he built a solid comfort business. The arrival of children from the streets of Tangier upsets the balance of his business.

Dam of Ali Cherry

With Maher El Khair, Mudathir Moussa, Santino Ager Ding…

What is it about? Sudan, near Merowe Dam. Maher goes undercover into the desert every night to build a mysterious structure made of mud. As the Sudanese rise up to demand their freedom, his creation seems to come alive…

Tove by Zaida Bergrot

With Alma Paisti, Krista Kosonen, Shanti Ron…

What is it about? Free woman, artist, writer… Who is Tove Jansson, the famous creator of Moomin? From bohemian Helsinki to post-war Paris, TOVE takes us through the whirlwind of his life as an artist and his consuming love for Vivica Bandler, and invites us into his imagination: the Valley of the Moomins.

did you know In Tove, Zaida Bergrot focuses on Tove Jansson’s life from her thirties to her fifties. The film begins during World War II and ends with Tuulik meeting the love of his life. The filmmaker explains:

“The heart of the film is Tove’s quest to find himself as an artist. Between fine art and the creation of Moomins, as well as his passionate love affairs with Atos Virtanen and Vivika Bandler.”

Small Victories by Melanie Offret

With Michel Blanc, Julia Piaton, Lionel Abelansky…

What is it about? Between her duties as mayor and her role as a teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice’s days are already busy. The arrival of an explosive sex-general in his class, who has finally decided to learn to read and write, will make his daily life unmanageable.

Empire of Light by Sam Mendes

Starring: Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Tom Brook…

What is it about? Hilary runs a movie theater in an English seaside town and struggles to maintain her fragile sanity. Steven is a new employee who wants to leave this small provincial town. Together, they learn to heal through music, film, and a sense of belonging to a group…

El Agua by Elena Lopez Riera

With Luna Pemi, Barbara Laney, Nive de Medina…

What is it about? It’s summer in a small village in southeastern Spain. The storm threatens to re-surge the river that runs through it. An old popular belief holds that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood because they have “water”.

did you know El Agua’s actors are non-professionals, except for the mother and grandmother performers. Barbara Leni, who plays the mother, starred in La skin que habito (2011) by Pedro Almodovar, Everybody Knows (2018) by Asghar Farhad and Petra (id.) by Jaime Rosales. The grandmother, Nive de Medina, was, among other things, in the cast of Fernando León de Araño’s Monday Sun (2002).

If you are a man Simon Panay

What is it about? Perkoa Gold Mine, Burkina Faso. Opio is 13 years old and works on the surface, earning only one bag of stones a month as salary. His father wants him to go to vocational training, but he can’t afford it. Opio therefore has to collect this money and asks his boss for permission to enter the underground galleries…

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did you know In his short film Nobody Dies Here (2015), shot in a gold mine in Benin, Simon Panay places the camera in the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso. He shot all of his films in West Africa, where he trained alongside documentary filmmakers such as Suleiman Drabo. “I spent most of my adult life in Burkina, which I consider my second country.”