François.e

François.e is scheduled for release on July 1, 2026. The film is in French and carries the TMDb identifier 1483527.

The story centers on François, a screenwriter in his fifties whose career has stalled. Seeking funding for a television series, he checks a box identifying himself as transgender on a funding application — a cynical calculation he does not expect to pay off. When the project is accepted, he is required to present publicly as Françoise, an author in the process of transitioning. Unable to maintain that role alone, he enlists Sarah, an actual trans writer, to help him carry the pretense.

As Françoise, François finds the professional recognition that had eluded him, along with renewed financial stability and a repaired relationship with his teenage daughter. The film tracks how the sustained deception complicates those gains: the identity he constructed to serve his interests begins to shape him in ways he did not anticipate, simultaneously offering a form of freedom and tightening around him as a trap.