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Festival of Films in French – 10 days – 17 films
February 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeThe annual Festival of Films in French runs from February 17th through the 26th. Click above to see the calendar entry for each individual showing or visit https://uwm.edu/french-film-festival/schedule/ to browse the full schedule.
All films are free and in French with subtitles. All films will be shown in the UWM Union Theater and are supported by our generous sponsors:
Dr. Richard Stone
Kitty Morse
The Quebec Government Office in Chicago
The Alliance Française of Milwaukee
SWAAF (Southeast Wisconsin Academic Alliance in French)
The Milwaukee French Immersion School
Feb. 19 @ 7:00 pm
Une histoire d’amour et de désir (A Tale of Love and Desire)
Leila Bouzid, MP4, 103 min
France, 2021 (French)
Critic’s Week – Closing Film, 2021 Cannes Festival
Wisconsin premiere
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At university, he meets Farah, an energetic young Tunisian girl, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of erotic Arabic literature, the shy Ahmed falls in love with Farah, as he struggles to find himself.
Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & Co-sponsored by MALLT
Talkback with Caroline Seymour-Jorn (Department of Global Studies, Director of Global & International Studies)