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

Festival of Films in French Talkback with Tami Williams (Film Studies program, Department of English) A young researcher is passionate about her work as assistant to a tuberculosis specialist. Her dedication arouses the jealousy of her husband who asks her... Read More

Festival of Films in French Adapted from Balzac's eponymous novel Illusions perdues (1837-43), and resonating with our times, the period drama is set in 1821 in Paris, where Lucien Rubempré, the idealistic young poet from Angoulême, succeeds as a gifted... Read More

Festival of Films in French In this political satire about image and power, Arlette Saint-Amour, a fashion magazine editor, is invited by the Premier of Quebec to join his cabinet as minister of culture. Ambitious and inexperienced, Arlette incurs the wrath of the finance minister with her unconventional politics and use of the media to reinvigorate the arts. (Mariloup Wolfe, Québec, French w/English sub, 118min, 2022, Digital) Co-sponsored by the... Read More