Paris-based cinema club Lost in Frenchlation celebrates Pride Month with 11 screenings of films with LGBTQ themes, from classics to recent releases.
Lost in Frenchlation is a Paris-based club that runs screenings of French films — both new releases and timeless classics — with English subtitles, in order to allow language learners to appreciate the offerings of French cinema.
Here’s what’s on in June 2026.
Friday, June 5th
Le Lycéen (Winter Boy)
Where? L’Entrepôt, 7 Rue Francis de Pressensé, Paris 14.
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.00 – €9.50. Order them online here.
There’s more than a hint of autobiography in writer-director Christophe Honoré’s sensitive and moving drama about a 17-year-old student (a brilliant Paul Kircher) struggling to cope with the unexpected and violent death of his father.
Sunday, June 7th
Laurence Anyways
Where? Studio des Ursulines, 10 rue des Ursulines, Paris 5.
When? Tea Bar at 7pm (bring your own mug!) and screening at 7.30pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.40 – €9.40. Order them online here.
Passionate and powerful drama starring Melvil Poupaud as the secretly trans thirtysomething novelist and literature professor of the title, who refuses to live a lie any longer and sets out on a new life as a woman.
Tuesday, June 9th
Les Crevettes Pailletées (The Shiny Shrimps)
Where? Lucernaire, 53 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 75006 Paris
When? Montmartre Movie Tour at 4.30pm, drinks from 7pm at the bar of the cinema, screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €6 – €11. Order them online here.
Montmartre Movie Tour tickets (€18) are available here.
A homophobic and ageing swimming champion is offered one last shot at redemption by coaching a stereotypically flamboyant gay water polo team at the Gay Games. From the billing alone, you know exactly what’s going to happen – and, pretty much, how it’s going to happen. A sequel – La revanche des Crevettes Pailletées (The Shiny Shrimps Strike Back) was released in 2022.
Tuesday, June 9th
La Petite Dernière (The Little Sister)
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville, 20 Rue du Temple, Paris 4
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
Nadia Melliti, in her first cinema role, is quietly outstanding as the closeted Muslim teenager caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in Paris in Hafsia Herzi’s restrained yet powerful coming-of-age drama.
Sunday, June 14th
L’Inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)
Where? Jeu de Paume, 1 Place de la Concorde, Paris 1
When? Drinks at 3pm at Rose Bakery, screening at 4pm, OR drinks at 5pm at Rose Bakery, screening at 6pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €11.50. For the earlier screening order your tickets online here. Or, for the later screening, order them here.
Christophe Paou stars as the attractive, potent and dangerous ‘stranger’ in Alain Guiraudie’s uninhibited homoerotic psychological thriller set at a cruising site for gay men on the quiet shores of a lake. An absolute classic of the suspense horror genre.
Tuesday, June 16th
Tomboy
Where? Épée de Bois, 100 Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
When? Drinks at 7pm at Tournebride Bar and Screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €9. Order them online here.
A gender non-conforming child moves to a new neighbourhood during the summer holidays and experiments with their gender presentation, adopting a new name and a new identity in Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma’s tender and affectionate drama. Speaking of which…
Friday, June 19th
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Where? Le Balzac, 1 Rue Balzac, Paris 8
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5 – €11.50. Order them online here.
There are period pieces, and there are Period Pieces. This is one of the latter. It is a wonderful, sumptuously shot tale about the burgeoning love between an 18th-century painter – commissioned to secretly produce the portrait of a young woman who is to be married off to a Milanese nobleman – and her subject. A wonderful film that will stay with you for a long, long time.
Monday, June 22nd
120BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Where? Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor-Cousin, Paris 5
When? Drinks at 7pm and Screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.40 – €9.90. Order them online here.
Members of an advocacy group demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s in this smart and visceral drama that’s as much ecstatic love story as it is fury-driven historical docudrama.
Thursday, June 25th
Love Me Tender
Where? Arlequin, 76 rue de rennes Paris, 75006
When? Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm + Q&A with director Anna Cazenave Cambet.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.30 – €12.20. Order them online here.
A divorced mother’s mid-life self-discovery threatens her relationship with her beloved son in Anna Cazanave Cambet’s compassionate debut feature based on lawyer-turned-author Constance Debré’s 2020 heart-wrenchingly honest book.
Sunday, June 28th
Alpha
Where? Luminor Hôtel de Ville 20, rue du temple Paris, 75004
When? Drinks at 6pm and screening at 7pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.50 – €12. Order them online here.
Unusual body horror tale in which a restless teenager living with her single mum, a doctor, whose fragile world begins to unravel then her uncle – stricken with a bizarre terminal virus sweeping the planet – moves in.
Monday, June 29th
Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite (Sorry Angel)
Where? Cinéma du Panthéon, 13 rue Victor-Cousin, Paris 5
When? Agnès Varda Movie Tour at 4.30pm, Drinks at 7pm and screening at 8pm.
Tickets Prices to see the film range from €5.40 – €9.90. Order them online here.
Agnès Varda Movie Tour tickets (€18) are available here.
Period atmosphere and literary references abound in Christophe Honoré’s 1990s-set tale of the romance between a bisexual student with film-world ambitions and an older playwright with a secret son.
