The 22 Annual Festival of French and Francophone cinema is back, exploring how movies tell us stories from epic to profoundly personal, bittersweet comedy to Greek tragedy. This year we have an exciting line-up of nine films, ranging from a 1928 silent movie accompanied by pianist Patrick Miller to the newly released film Antigone on Saturday Closing Night. Please join us then for a reception and a chance to meet the lead actor, Nahéma Ricci, who will lead a Q&A after the film!
—Karen Humphreys, Festival Director

Un film dramatique (A Dramatic Film)
Eric Baudelaire | France | 2019 | 114 min.
Un film dramatique is a lively documentary that tells the stories of the first class to attend the newly constructed Dora Maar middle school in a notorious banlieue outside Paris. Filmed over four years, 21 diverse middle schoolers are given cameras to record their daily lives at school and home. With a refreshingly uninhibited approach, Éric Baudelaire offers a new perspective on Islamophobia, assimilation, and economic inequality that manages to be insightful and playful. As the students debate elections and the immigration crisis, they also seek to find an answer to the central question: who are we, and how do we come together to create the future? “It’s seeing the world through the eyes of these children that makes this movie so deeply joyful.” —Teo Bugbee, New York Times