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- Global Minute: Spring Break Editionhttps://sway.cloud.microsoft/1IBqZx9NUaMEgpc5?ref=Link
- Godard, seul le cinéma (Godard Cinema)Saturday, February 14 • 4:30pm Godard, seul le cinéma (Godard Cinema)Cyril Leuthy, MP4, 100 minFrance, 2023 (French) Official Selection, 2022 Venice International Film FestivalWisconsin premiere Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and a symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. One …
- Dounia, le grand pays blanc (Dounia, the Great White North)Sunday, February 22 • 1pm Dounia, le grand pays blanc (Dounia, the Great White North)Marya Zarif / André Kadi, MP4, 51 minQuébec, 2025 (French) 2024 New York International Children Film FestivalMidwest premiere Now settled in Canada after fleeing Syria in Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (FFF2024), Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know the new …
- Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)Saturday, February 21 • 4:30pm Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)Jean-Gabriel Leynaud, H264, 90 minFrance / Congo (DRC), 2025 (French, Swahili, English) Best International Documentary, 2025 Durban International Film FestivalMidwest premiere Numbi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies at the heart of our modern world. Here, workers mine …
- Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)Saturday, February 21 • 2pm Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)Rithy Panh, Blu-ray, 112 minFrance / Cambodia, 2024 (French, Cambodian) Official Selection, Cannes Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film FestivalWisconsin premiere Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. …
- Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)Friday, February 20 • 6pm Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)Louise Courvoisier, MP4, 90 minFrance, 2024 (French) Winner of the Youth Award, Un Certain Regard, 2024 Cannes Film Festival 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 …
- Des “terroristes” à la retraite (“Terrorists” in Retirement)Sunday, February 15 • 3:30pm Des “terroristes” à la retraite (“Terrorists” in Retirement)Mosco Levi Boucault, DCP, 71 minFrance, 1983 (French) 1983 Cannes Film Festival & 2020 Cinéma du Réel 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 …
- Les fantômes (Ghost Trail)Sunday, February 15 • 1pm Les fantômes (Ghost Trail)Jonathan Millet, DCP, 108 minFrance, 2024 (Arabic, French, English, Turkish) Official Selection: Critics’ Week at the 2024 Cannes Film FestivalWisconsin premiere 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, …
- La princesse Mandane (Princess Mandane)Sunday, February 22 • 2:30pm La princesse Mandane (Princess Mandane)Germaine Dulac, DCP, 74 minFrance, 1928 (Silent) 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 …
- Aux bords de la guerre, Ariane Mnouchkine et le Théâtre du Soleil à Kyiv (Kyiv Theater, an Island of Hope)Saturday, February 14 • 2pm Aux bords de la guerre, Ariane Mnouchkine et le Théâtre du Soleil à Kyiv (Kyiv Theater, an Island of Hope)Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini / Thomas Briat, DCP, 59 minFrance / Ukraine, 2024 (French, English, Ukrainian) Wisconsin premiere Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brought back dark memories of 1930s Europe for Ariane …
- La venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time)Friday, February 13 • 6pm La venue de l’avenir (Colors of Time)Cédric Klapisch, DCP, 126 minFrance, 2025 (French) Official Selection, 2025 Cannes FestivalMidwest premiere 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 …
- Global Minute — Involvement Editionhttps://sway.cloud.microsoft/G9uqUUsy3wutZ9i7?ref=Link