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Black History Month Kickoff
Celebrate Black History Month with an energetic kickoff filled with vibrant vendors, engaging crafts, and delicious treats—including cheesecake from Baked Dreams Creations! Enjoy dynamic performances, strolling from Greek Life, and a joyful community atmosphere that sets the tone for a powerful month of celebration.
Winter Involvement Fair
Learn how you can get involved at UWM! The Winter Involvement Fair showcases a number of our 300+ student organizations here at UWM in the Union Concourse! Stop by anytime between 11am-2pm and chat with some student organizations that interest …
The 29th Annual Festival of Films in French
Film Festival // Free For Everyone! The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and documentary films that attend to their very form and explore notions of care, restoration and …
La venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time)
Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle had left her hometown for Paris and discovered a city in the midst of an …
Aux bords de la guerre, Ariane Mnouchkine et le Théâtre du Soleil à Kyiv (Kyiv Theater, an Island of Hope)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brought back dark memories of 1930s Europe for Ariane Mnouchkine, the 84-year-old theater director and founder of the prestigious Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. Against this backdrop and in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, …
La princesse Mandane (Princess Mandane)
Étienne is engaged to Annette, a secretary in the factory where he works. Fantasizing about daring adventures, he decides to leave everything behind to go to a foreign land, Mingrelia. The country is governed by Princess Mandane who has been …
Les fantômes (Ghost Trail)
Justice knows no borders for Hamid, who has taken refuge in France after being detained and tortured by the Assad regime in Syria. Exiled and undercover, the mild-mannered literature professor now works as part of a secret group pursuing Assad’s …
Des “terroristes” à la retraite (“Terrorists” in Retirement)
Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, the film follows seven surviving comrades of the executed members, found guilty of “terrorism”, from the immigrant section of the French Resistance during World War II. The documentary provoked …
Valentine’s Day Artist Fair
Please join us in the Student Union Concourse for our Valentine’s Day Artist Fair. Individual students, Student Orgs, and local artists will be showing their wares like pottery, jewelry, prints, greeting cards, and so much more Please contact us at …
Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)
After the tragic death of his father, 18 year-old Totone finds himself with daunting new responsibilities, looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura region of France. He takes on yet another challenge when he …
Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems idyllic, but behind the Potemkin village presented to the journalists, the Khmer Rouge …
Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)
Numbi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies at the heart of our modern world. Here, workers mine the coltan that will find its way, legally or not, into much of our technology. For decades this grey …