Aza kivy (Morning Star)

Union Cinema

Festival of Films in French  Andaboy is a sacred beach in southwestern Madagascar. Ancestors say the beach should be left untouched, as a shamanic musician sings in trance. The local fishermen are concerned when Australian company Base Toliara proposes building... Read More

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The Super 8 Years

Union Cinema

Festival of Films in French  Shot between 1972 and 1981, by Philippe Ernaux, the super 8 silent family archive footage captures Annie Ernaux’s start as a writer, her first book, and the ending of her marriage. The text she reads overlays the images, interrogates the clichés and the social conventions they portray to associate an intimate testimonial with a social history of the decade. (Annie Ernaux / David Ernaux-Briot, France, French w/English sub,... Read More

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Fanon, the Incensed Rebel

Union Cinema

Festival of Films in French  The documentary retells the all-too short life trajectory of Fanon (1925-1961), the Martinican psychiatrist whose militant actions and radical revolutionary thinking engaged the fundamental issues of racialized oppression around the world, moving from theorizations of blackness to colonialism, anti-colonial struggle, and decolonization. (Mathieu Glissant / Audrey Maurion, France, French w/English sub, 53min, 2021, Digital) Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 

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Saint Omer

Union Cinema

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. (Alice Diop, France, French w/English sub, 122min, 2022, Digital) Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Studies & the Institute of World... Read More

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No Dogs or Italians Allowed

Union Cinema

Festival of Films in French  In Northern Italy, in the early 1900s, the Ughettos dream of leaving the region, where life has become unbearably difficult. As a fictional dialogue between grandmother Cesira and her grandson-director, the poignant animation film follows the family’s exile over three generations after they cross the Alps and settle in France. (Alain Ughetto, France and Italy, French and Italian w/English sub, 70min, 2022, Digital) Co-sponsored by the Department of Global Studies

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