TV5MONDE celebrates the 2016 Cannes Film Festival!

Awards: François Chalais Prize (Cannes 2014), Best French film, Best Director (César awards 2015) Nomination: (Oscars 2015, BAFTA Awards 2016)

In Timbuktu, religious extremists have taken power and set up a genuine regime of terror. Music is banned, women's every move is closely watched, and improvised courts come to session everywhere. At one time spared from this chaos, Kidane sees his future come unravelled when he accidentally kills Amadou...

How is French cinema perceived around the world? Is it internationally influential as the French like to believe? Are French films still a benchmark? What do they represent from the world cinema perspective? We get answers from foreign actors and directors who express their enthusiasm, even passion, for French film.

Awards: Best Male Actor (Cannes 2015), Best Actor (César 2016)

51-year-old Thierry is unemployed. Between pointless re-training and repeated humiliations, times are more than difficult. Together with his wife, he tries to keep what's most important: their apartment and the education of their disabled son. He finally manages to get a job as a security guard in a supermarket.

Following the footsteps of actor Jean-Claude Brialy (1933-2007). Filmed entirely in Brialy's castle at Monthyon (near Paris) and in his theatre, Les Bouffes Parisiens, this documentary features Bruno Finck, Nana Mouskouri, Pierre Arditi, Claudia Cardinale, Dominique Besnehard, and others, who talk about the man they knew well.

Awards: Golden Rail (Cannes 2014)

A journey through the career of the charismatic, gravel-voiced actor Jean-Pierre Marielle.

Awards: Best Film, Best Actor (César 2014), Art Cinema Award (Cannes 2013)

Young Guillaume is convinced that he shares the most precious of secrets with his mother: contrary to appearances he is in fact not a boy... but a girl!

Several nominations: (César 2014, Cannes 2013)

Louise is 43, childless, unmarried, an actress with a precarious career, and the daughter of a grand industrial bourgeois Italian family that she adores. Particularly her mother, very loving but rather invasive...

Awards: Directors' Fortnight (Cannes 2009), Best Film Prize (Jutra Awards 2010)

Hubert, aged 16, fights with his mother. She drives him mad over the smallest things, and he can't stand her manipulating and guilt-making ways any more. Troubled by this love-hate relationship, Hubert lives his teenage years whilst remaining nostalgic about his happy childhood.

Awards: Caméra d'Or (Cannes 1991)

When younger, Thomas was convinced that he had been swapped at birth with his neighbour Alfred. In adulthood, he still felt that Alfred enjoyed the happiness that should have been his. Now old, Thomas wonders if he has missed out on his life. He has some big decisions to take...

Several nominations: (Cannes 1986, César 1987)

Thomas, 14, lives in a rural south-western village. He makes up stories to pass the time. One beautiful morning, he stumbles across Martin, a fugitive, who threatens him and forces him to give over 100 francs. However, Luc, another fugitive, fears the child will report them and strangles him...

Awards: Unanimous winner of the Special Jury Prize and the Fipresci Prize at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival

The biologist Henri Laborit analyses the behaviour of three characters whose paths cross. Jean, from a bourgeois background, leaves his wife for Janine, an actress with modest origins. They split up. Then she meets René, the son of farmers, who has built a career in the textile industry.