The Future of Belonging: Contemporary French and Francophone Film Festival

The Department of Romance Languages is delighted to announce the return of the annual Contemporary French and Francophone Film Festival. This year, all three films center Black and Indigenous female perspectives on community, love and belonging. The first film is: 

February 28:  Nous directed by Alice Diop (2020)

Nous: “The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. Multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker Alice Diop takes us through these suburban spaces and confronts us with some of the faces and stories of which they are composed. […] Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together?” (source)

All films have English subtitles. Admission is free. Images Cinema requires proof of vaccination and masking, and the audience size is limited  to 50% of full capacity – please come early to be sure to have a seat!

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Romance Languages, Africana Studies, History, German & Russian, Psychology, the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Davis Center, the Global Studies Program, the Asian Studies Program, Pathways for Inclusive Excellence, the Office for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Fund for Democratic Studies, Lecture Committee, Oakley Center.

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