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Women on Trial: release and distribution

This dossier follows the distribution of Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller’s film about the Bobigny trial. It distinguishes the historical drama, its release and critical reception.

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Rows of blue cinema seats.
Archive illustration, January 2008; not a screening of the film. Laura Billings / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0; unchanged. — Laura Billings / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ; 17 janvier 2008 ; sans modification.

Where things stand

L’Affaire Marie-Claire (Women on Trial) opens in French cinemas on 4 November 2026. The film depicts Marie-Claire Chevalier’s trial and Gisèle Halimi’s challenge to the criminalisation of abortion.

Confirmed

Women on Trial opens in France, dramatising the Bobigny abortion trial

L’Affaire Marie-Claire (Women on Trial), directed by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, opens in French cinemas on 4 November 2026. The historical drama revisits the 1972 Bobigny trial and Gisèle Halimi’s defence of Marie-Claire Chevalier.

Rows of blue cinema seats.
Archive illustration, January 2008; not a screening of the film. Laura Billings / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0; unchanged. — Laura Billings / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ; 17 janvier 2008 ; sans modification.

The story follows a 16-year-old prosecuted for having an illegal abortion, alongside the women who helped her. According to distributor Gaumont’s synopsis, the lawyer turns the defence into a challenge to the law itself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Cécile de France feature in the cast. Listed with a running time of 1 hour 42 minutes, the film joins the new releases recorded by L’Officiel des spectacles. It was selected for a special screening at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

The opening marks a new stage in the film’s distribution. The consulted sources do not yet provide an admissions tally measuring its cinema audience.

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