“I’m always looking for a film with something less perfect,” Justine Triet, the French film director, recently told The New Yorker. “Maybe that’s what’s changed the most from my last film. I want that imperfection.” Triet’s most recent movie, Anatomy of a Fall, tells the story of a man who dies from a fall from a window, whose wife may have pushed him out, and whose blind son is the only witness to the event. Winning innumerable awards, such as the Palme d’Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Anatomy of a Fall brought Triet international attention. But it was by no means her first rodeo. The 45-year-old director has created several successful documentaries and features, including On the Spot (2007), Solférino (2009), and Two Ships (2012). She ventured into the world of fiction and strong female protagonists with 2013’s Age of Panic—“I couldn’t be in this profession, and be as I am, without being a feminist,” Triet has said—and delved into psychology and human behavior with In Bed with Victoria (2016) and Sibyl (2019). In April, all of these films will be screened at the French Institute Alliance Française. —Jeanne Malle