2026 Denver Film Festival

The Alliance Française de Denver is proud to be a sponsor of the 2026 Denver Film Festival! As part of this partnership, AFD Members can enjoy a 15% discount on select screenings featuring outstanding French and francophone films. Join us in celebrating global cinema right here in Denver!

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Win Your Way to the Movies!

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to every single film in our lineup!

Here’s how to enter:

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Follow the instructions (like, tag your movie buddy, and follow) for your chance to win.

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A new winner and a new film are featured every day—don't miss out on your chance to grab free seats!

French & Francophone Select Screenings

Iron Boy

By Louis Clichy

Country: France, Belgium

Set in the sweeping countryside of rural France, 11-year-old Christophe struggles under the weight of his rigid father’s expectations on the family farm until a mysterious condition causes him to collapse without warning. When a doctor equips him with an iron corset to keep him upright, Christophe is forced away from farm work and into a new world of music, friendship, and newfound rebellion. Rendered in evocative animation, Iron Boy explores the fragile balance between physical constraint and emotional freedom.

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The Diary of a Chambermaid

By Radu Jude
Country: France, Romania

Renowned Romanian satirist Radu Jude (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World) returns with a trenchant, acerbic update of Octave Mirbeau’s classic novel. Gianina, a young Romanian migrant working as a housekeeper for a wealthy Bordeaux family, cleans their home and cares for their son while her own young daughter remains thousands of miles away in Romania. In her spare time, Gianina rehearses in a local theater production of The Diary of a Chambermaid, laying bare the hypocrisy and "champagne socialism" of her liberal French employers. Blending deadpan absurdity with biting social commentary, Jude delivers a barbed, brilliantly observant critique of modern European class dynamics, labor exploitation, and moral posturing.

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Fatherland

By Paweł Pawlikowski
Country: Poland, Germany, France

In a striking historical drama, legendary writer Thomas Mann and his daughter—an accomplished actress, writer, and activist—embark on a tense road trip across a deeply divided Germany during the height of the Cold War. Set against the looming shadow of political turmoil, their journey becomes a sharp, intimate dialogue on identity, exile, and moral duty, delivering an unforgettable, deeply layered portrait of family legacy and ideological struggle.

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A Man of His Time

By Emmanuel Marre
Country: Belgium, France

September 1940. Henri Marre arrives alone in Vichy as the authoritarian regime settles in. Broke, estranged from his family, and carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut (Our Salvation), the 49-year-old is determined to secure what he believes is his rightful place in the new administration. In his writing, Henri sets out his patriotic convictions and his engineer’s methodology: efficiency above all. Claiming he wants to help save France after defeat, he does whatever is required to remain useful, serving the machinery of the new order with increasing skill. But he may be pursuing something more urgent: escape from his own ruin.

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