Festival of Films in French 2020
Please join us for our Festival of Films in French, February 14-23 2020. Additional information found here.
Please join us for our Festival of Films in French, February 14-23 2020. Additional information found here.
Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947 Saturday 22 February 2020 Screening The little known story of a post WWII insurrection by the indigenous population of Madagascar becomes a multi-faceted walk through history in this film that is both ethnographic documentary and chronicle of …
The 24th Festival of Films in French is rolling out as a pandemic-safe event this February. It is a mini festival — to be sure — with 5 feature-length films and a short available for streaming from the currently virtual …
Please encourage students and colleagues to link in to a conversation in French about the history and routes of Malagasy enslavement crisscrossing the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, east and west, south and north along the coasts of Africa and the …
Monday March 15, 2021 - 3pm A virtual conversation with Franco-Ivorian author Véronique Tadjo about In the company of Men -- a fictional work addressing the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa -- just out in an English translation by the …
In the windows of the UWM Library by the Grind: Bruce Clark's Upright Men - a woman, a child, a man -stand tall and upright, to honour and dignify the survivors and victims of the 100 days genocide in Rwanda that started …
The UWM Union Cinema has three French language films coming up, in collaboration with the Festival of Films in French: Ghost Tropic; Directed by Bas Devos, 2019, 85 minutes Khadija (Saadia Bentaïeb) is a fifty-eight-year-old Maghrebi cleaning woman living in …
Join us for conversation in French, Thursdays, 1-2:30pm, in the Language Oasis (Curtin 187). Bring a lunch if you’d like. All levels welcome!
French at UWM is a community partner on three films in this year’s MFF: Call Me Human (Canada / 2020 / 78 min / French, Innu-aimun with English subtitles); Downstream to Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Belgium / 2020 / 90 min / …
French Department at UW-Milwaukee welcomes writer Yamen Manai to speak on his new book, L'amas Ardent. Please join us in Curtin Hall, room 321 from 5-6:30pm.