Festival of Films in French Talkback with Leah Wilson (Department of Women’s and Gender Studies) When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors... Read More
Festival of Films in French On the stage of Paris's legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes, offering a dynamic take on the landmark opera. Presented as part of the... Read More
Festival of Films in French This epic and intimate portrait of Simone Veil follows her exceptional life from Holocaust survivor to French magistrate and President of the European Parliament, paying tribute to her resilience, strength and courage, as she sought justice for all and championed gender parity, and women’s access to contraception and legal abortion. Co-sponsored by the Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies In memory of Nicole Darmon Chandler (Olivier Dahan,... Read More
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