AFFFF26: The French Job

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Les règles de l’art

In the early hours of 20 May 2010, five priceless paintings vanish from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso… masterpieces worth over 100 million euros. Inspired by this real, unsolved theft, this outrageous comedy imagines what might have happened to the missing works; a question that feels even more timely after the spectacular Louvre heist that shook France this year.

At the centre of the story is Yonathan (Melville Poupaud, Jeanne du Barry, AF FFF24), a luxury watch expert whose life is as polished – and predictable – as the pieces he appraises. Everything changes the day he crosses paths with Éric (Sofiane Zermani), a charismatic con man with a gift for turning chaos into opportunity.

Drawn into Éric’s glamorous orbit, Yonathan soon finds himself far beyond his comfort zone. The stakes skyrocket when Jo (Steve Tientcheu, Neneh Superstar, AF FFF24), a brilliant but volatile thief, executes a daring heist at the Musée d’Art Moderne; setting the trio on a chaotic collision course they can no longer control.

Fast, funny, and fuelled by escalating absurdity, this offbeat caper film from Dominique Baumard plays with the codes of the heist genre, blending sharp twists and dark humour to deliver a wildly inventive riff on the most infamous art robbery of the 21st century.

THE FRENCH JOB won the Special Jury Award at the 2025 Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Film Festival, a must-see!