Our Favorite French Movies on TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand in June 2022
This June, TV5MONDE Cinema On Demand celebrates the great tradition of French documentaries, especially around nature and wildlife.
The best of French cinema on TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand
La vallée des loups — available beginning June 10
Jean-Michel Bertrand goes on a three-year hike in the French Alps to encounter wolves in their natural environment.
Director: Jean-Michel Bertrand (2017)
Genre: Documentary, in French with English subtitles
Watch it if you like: The French Alps, Bear Grylls, Survivor, majestic mountain landscapes
Microcosmos — available beginning June 10
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. Featuring music by Bruno Coulais. Multiple prize winner at the 1996 César Awards.
Directors: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou (1996)
Genre: Documentary, in French with English subtitles
Watch it if you like: Wildlife, award-winning documentaries, A Bug's Life
Ce n'est qu'un début — available beginning June 24
Follow a nursery school, where three to fours year olds study…philosophy. In a fresh, funny and sometimes merciless manner, these children openly discuss love, power, difference, growing up, and death.
Director: Jean-Pierre Pozzi, Pierre Barougier (2010)
Genre: Documentary, in French with English subtitles
Watch it if you like: the multi-award winning French documentary 'To Be And To Have' (Être et avoir), seeing the world through the eyes of children
Le grand jour — available beginning June 17
Separated by the distance between the countries where they live, four young people are united by their desire to overcome obstacles and turn passions and dreams into reality in search of a better life.
Director : Pascal Plisson (2015)
Genre: Documentary in French with English subtitles
Watch if you like: Aspirational stories, documentaries to watch with your kids to open their eyes to different ways of living
Tabarly — available beginning June 17
The adventurous life and career of French naval officer and sailboat racer, Eric Tabarly.
Director: Pierre Marcel(2008)
Genre : Documentary in French with English subtitles
Watch it if you like: The Big Blue (Le grand bleu), Cast Away, Jacques Cousteau