Three things I learnt in France

Alex, a young engineer from Moscow, decides to radically change his life and heads to France for a year on an exchange program. His camera captures not only the picturesque landscapes of Provence and Parisian streets but also daily collisions with a different culture—from awkward attempts to communicate in broken French to discovering simple joys like a long lunch with new acquaintances. This 2026 documentary transforms a personal diary into a universal coming-of-age story, where every failure becomes a lesson and every new friend a guide to an unexplored world. The viewer sees France not as a tourist postcard but through the honest, sometimes comical, sometimes touching gaze of someone learning to be a stranger to ultimately find a piece of themselves.