33rd Francophone Cinema Fortnight 2026
When: 28.09.2026 00:00
Where: 48.861017, 2.350551
Organizer: Admin
This selection allows a journey within La Francophonie to discover strong and sensitive works, which form part of post-colonial narratives and open up to exciting debates.
In opening, two fictions attesting to the reconciliation envisaged in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide: Kwibuka (Remember) by Jonas d'Adesky with Sonia Rolland and Jean-Hugues Anglade and Ben-Imana, the first feature film by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo, Camera d'or at the Cannes Film Festival 2026!
This year, the new Francophone gaze comes from Haiti (Marie Madeleine de Gessica Geneus) and the Central African Republic with the pompous and jubilatory Congo Boy de Rafiki Fariala (en fencing), Prize for male interpretation Un Certain Regard Cannes 2026 !
Documentaries have set their goals at the heart of Senegalese protesting youth (Independance Tey d-Abdou Lahat Fall); David-Pierre Fila continues his pan-African work by paying tribute to Michael Raeburn, a pioneer of Zimbabwean cinema; Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo and Quentin Noirfalisse accompany five Métis women born in Congo who denounce the crimes against humanity they have suffered.
Belgian cinema is distinguished by its irreducibility to a common denominator and its audacity, thanks to the help of the Centre du Cinéma and Audiovisual de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, which allows filmmakers to film sometimes far from Belgium. This is the case of Idriss Gabel and Kabwela, who filmed in Kivu children who had not suffered from the wars in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Nyota, the children of light), Rakan Mayasi, who in a Bedouin village in the Bekaa Valley, on the Lebanese-Syrian border, is developing an investigation like a thriller, between docu and fiction (A disappearance) and Comes Chahbazian, which reveals the silent resistance of the Armenian people about to flee the Nagorno-Karabagh (Here, elsewhere).
To take account of a social reality, the comedy allows it to follow the example of the film written and directed by Nabil Ben Yadir and his mother Mokhtaria Badaoui, Les Baronnes, which deconstructs the clichés and prejudices about the municipality of Molenbeek. It is also the bet of Noëlle Bastin and Baptiste Bogaert with Vitrival, where absurd and surrealism invade the daily life of a Walloon village. As for Luxembourger Carlo Vogele, he warns about the dangers of non-resistance to nationalist and hate speech in animation in Morning Brun.
This selection shares the same cinematic momentum which is committed to a change in our certainty and aims to awaken as much as to celebrate cultural diversity.
Louis Heliot
Head of cinema Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris
With the presentation of:
KWIBUKA (SE RETURN) by Jonas d'Adesky
BEN
NYOTA, LIGHT CHILDREN, by Vanessa Kabwela & Idriss Gabel
A DISPARITION by Rakan Mayasi
HERE, ELSEWHERE OF Comes Chahbazian
BRUN MATIN by Carlo Vogele
MARIE MADELEINE de Gessica Geneus
The Other Raeburn by David-Pierre Fila
The Barons of Mokhtaria Badaoui & Nabil Ben Yadir
TEY INDEPENDENCE by Abdou Lahat Fall
VITRIVAL de Noëlle Bastin & Baptiste Bogaert
METISSES. FIVE WOMEN AGAINST THE CRIME OF Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo & Quen-tin Noirfalisse
CONGO BOY de Rafiki Fariala
Tags: film festival, francophone, cinema, documentary
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/33e-quinzaine-du-cinema-francophone-2026-117562
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