To Die a Frenchman

80 min | Tamil with English Subtitles | 2026 | India Monsieur Mounissamy is a seventy-year-old man living in the crumbling neighbourhood of Ville Noir in Pondicherry, where French street names fade into dust and memories of empire linger. Each July 14th, French National Day, he unfurls a flag mirroring the French tricolour and sings, in trembling, imperfect French, an anthem to a “Mother France” he believes could still reclaim him. He spends his life fighting for French citizenship and a tiny plot of Indian land, anchoring himself in histories that abandoned him. What do we call those who neve