Festival of Films in French  Talkback with Rachel Baum (Deputy Director, Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies) Based on Michel Kichka’s autobiographical graphic novel, this animation film, in which two young Jewish brothers growing up happily in Belgium in the 1960s want to know about their father’s past, is about breaking the silences that often prevail between the survivors of the Holocaust and their children.  Co-sponsored by the Sam & Helen... Read More

Festival of Films in French  In this courtroom drama based on the 2016 trial in Saint Omer of a French-Senegalese woman accused of infanticide, the convictions of Rama, a novelist expecting a child who attends the proceedings, falter as she listens to the witnesses‘ testimonies and the mother’s own wish to understand her actions. Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Studies & the Institute of World Affairs (Alice Diop, France, French w/English sub, 122min, 2022,... Read More

Festival of Films in French  Talkback with Caroline Seymour-Jorn (Department of Global Studies, Director of Global & International Studies) 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... Read More

Festival of Films in French 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... Read More