Which new releases are worth seeing? Three voices from the cinema on July 1, 2026

Paris - 04.07.2026: The Wednesday releases on July 1 bring three very different works to French screens. What they share is a desire to tell personal stories through distinctive forms: Waves as poetic animation, Notre histoire – Chroniques du Caire as a historically grounded family chronicle, and André Is an Idiot as an intimate, self-reflexive documentary.In Waves by Phuong Mai Nguyen a graphic novel about love, loss and the echo of memories is adapted. The film relies on a delicate, textured animation that works with light, grain and color transitions ...