Columbia University Printemps 2023 Cinéma
Festival
Leila
January - May 2023
Check out the 2023 edition of Columbia French film festival at Maison Française including screenings supported by ALBERTINE CINEMATHEQUE!
Peaceful (De Son Vivant)
Emmanuelle Bercot, 2021, 122 min
Film screening followed by a Q&A with Dr. Gabriel Sara, Dr. Lydia Dugdale and Shanny Peer
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
THURSDAY, January 26, 7:00-10:00 PM (New York)
Horace Mann Hall, Cowin Auditorium, Teacher’s College, Broadway and 120th Street
Film in French with English subtitles
What does it mean to die “peacefully”? Is it possible to find grace and joy in something so solemn that we generally turn away ? That death has the power to grant forgiveness, and empathy is the core tenet of Emmannuelle Bercot’s drama Peaceful, which explores a year in the life of a young man facing a terminal diagnosis… Read more.
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Angels (Anges)
Jasmine Bissete, 2021, 6 min.
Film screening followed by a Q&A with director Jasmine Bissete and Prof. Roxanne Varzi
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
THURSDAY, February 2, 6:00 PM-7:15 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
Anges (English title Angels) is set in Tehran, Iran and 1968. When French-Iranian student Niloufar, ten years old, learns that President Georges Pompidou will visit her school, she devises her way to make an impression. Anges is a short (6-minutes) French-language U.S.-France co-production released in 2021… Read more.
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A Tale of Love and Desire (Une Histoire d’Amour et de Désir) – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
Leyla Bouzid, 2021, 102 min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, February 9, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls head over heels in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he will try to resist it. Read more.
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Happening (L’événement) – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
Audrey Diwan, 2021, 100 min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, February 23, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s. Happening won the top prize at the 78th edition of the world’s oldest film festival, the Venice Film Festival.
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so… Read more.
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The Thief of Paris (Le Voleur)
Louis Malle, 1967, 122 min
Film screening followed by a Q&A with Prof. Philippe Met and Prof. Aubrey Gabel.
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
THURSDAY, March 30, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
When a rich uncle denies him his rightful inheritance and the hand in marriage of his beloved cousin (a wonderful Geneviève Bujold), society thief Jean-Paul Belmondo goes on a vengeful crime spree across Belle Époque Paris, London, and Brussels, unwittingly succumbing to the bourgeois greed that wronged him in the first place.… Read more.
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Josep – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
Aurel, 2020, 74min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, April 6, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 – NYC 1995), an illustrator who fights against Franco’s regime… Read more.
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WE (Nous) – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
Alice Diop, 2020, 117min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, April 12, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Documentary Film in French with English subtitles
The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, We is subtle and shrewd in a world which favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact… Read more.
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Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
Xavier Giannoli, 2021, 149min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, April 20, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th-century France. He has great expectations and wants to forge a destiny. He leaves the family printing business in his native province to try his luck in Paris, on the arm of his protector. Soon left to his own devices in the fabulous city, the young man will discover the backstage of a world dedicated to the law of profit and pretense. A human comedy where everything is bought and sold, literature as well as the press, politics as well as feelings, reputations as well as souls. He will love, he will suffer, and survive his illusions.… Read more.
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Stolen Kisses (Baisers Volés) – As part of Albertine Cinémathèque
François Truffaut, 1968, 90min
FILM SCREENING
THURSDAY, May 4, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM (New York)
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall
Film in French with English subtitles
Discharged from the army as unfit, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) seeks out his sweetheart, violinist Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). He has written to her voluminously (but, she says, not always nicely) while in the military. Their relationship is tentative and unresolved. Christine is away skiing with friends when Antoine arrives, and her parents must entertain him themselves, though glad to see him. After she learns that Antoine has returned from military service, Christine goes to greet him at his new job as a hotel night clerk. It is a promising sign that perhaps this time, the romance will turn out happily for Antoine. He is, however, quickly fired from the hotel job… Read more.
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In partnership with
FACE Foundation
FACE Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, FACE Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries. With additional corporate, foundation, and individual support, FACE Foundation administers grant programs in the performing and visual arts, cinema, translation, and secondary and higher education, while providing financial sponsorship to French-American festivals and other cultural initiatives. FACE Foundation focuses on new and recent work of living artists and the promotion of bilingualism and the French language.
