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Festival of Films in French – 10 days – 17 films
February 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 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. 20 @ 7:00 pm
Fighting for Respect: African American Soldiers in WWI
Joanne Burke, MP4, 54 min
United States/France, 2021 (English)
The documentary captures the plight of the African American soldiers who fought for democracy abroad in segregated US Army troops through archival film footage, letters written from the Front, and the experiences of soldiers who received the French Croix de guerre for their distinguished service and faced discrimination and white supremacist violence when they returned to the US in 1919.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History