A fantastic reason to cross our favorite bridge: the 49th Mill Valley Film Festival. 94 feature-length films, 80 shorts, workshops, and 11 days of American and international movies in the middle of the towering redwoods.
Both Léa Seydoux and Virginie Efira will be visiting Mill Valley to receive their awards. Léa Seydoux will receive the MVFF Award for Acting, and director Marie Kreutzer the Mind the Gap Award for Director for their work on Gentle Monster. Virginie Efira will be receiving the MVFF Award for Screen Artistry for her work in All Of A Sudden.
Credits: Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners.
And if you want to discover more works with a connection to France, we’ve got you covered:
- Gentle Monster, featuring Léa Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve, tells the story of Lucy (Seydoux), a concert pianist whose life is upended when her husband is accused of a shocking crime, forcing her to confront how little she truly knew him, with Deneuve as her formidable mother.
- La Gradiva: a French film, directed by Marine Atlan, about French teenagers on a class trip to Naples, which won the Cannes Critics Week Best Picture award.
- The Doctor and the Floating Bridge, directed by Jasmine Bisette, about a Korean expatriate doctor.
- Silly Little Plastic Cat, a true US-French collaboration, directed by Zack Grant, set on the coast of Brittany, France.
- All of a Sudden, directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, with Virginie Efira as Marie-Lou, a nurse trying to introduce a more humane philosophy at an elder-care facility outside Paris.
- Burgundy, a documentary about – what else? – France’s Burgundy wine region. The movie is directed by Americans Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw.
Other handpicked favorites? A Panel: AI Landscape, and how AI is reshaping the filmmaking industry, Josephine the movie everyone talks about, featuring Gemma Chan and Channing Tatum, La Bola Negra with Penelope Cruz, and Tenzing, a documentary about the Sherpa who summited Everest in 1953.
See you there!
Mill Valley Film Festival, tickets start at $12. October 1–11, 2026, 5 locations across Mill Valley, San Rafael, Larkspur and Berkeley.
