University of Louisville French Film Festival

Between March 19 and April 16, six critically acclaimed French films of various genres, along with one animated short film, will be presented. All films are in French with English subtitles.

Five films will be presented on Thursdays at 5 pm in the Floyd Theater, located on the third floor of the Swain Activities Center on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus. The sixth film will be shown at the Speed Art Museum on Sunday, March 29th, at 12:30 pm.

Floyd theater screenings are FREE and open to the public. The Speed cinema screening will be FREE with a UofL ID, $12 for the general public.

PLANNING YOUR VISIT
Convenient parking is available at the Speed Art Museum, in campus lots and garages, and along nearby streets.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 19 – 5 pm / FLOYD THEATER (UofL Campus)
THE MARCHING BAND (En fanfare)
Emmanuel Courcol / 2024 / 103ꞌ / Ages 10 and up
“After a renowned conductor is diagnosed with leukemia and learns he was adopted, he seeks out his estranged brother, a trombonist in a small-town band, where music bridges their social divide and heals old wounds.”

Introduction by Matthieu Dalle, UofL French Film Festival director; post-screening roundtable with local music educators
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhfCXPYIKs8

Thursday, March 26 – 5 pm / FLOYD THEATER (UofL Campus)
COLORS OF TIME (La Venue de l’avenir)
Cédric Klapisch / 2025 / 126ꞌ / Ages 13 and up
“A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, inherit Meunier’s old house and, through memories and family history, uncover their ancestor’s life in 19th-century Paris.”

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Greg Clark, UofL French Film Festival intern
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sTdOm2BID8

Sunday, March 29 – 12:30 pm / SPEED CINEMA (Speed Museum)
In collaboration with the Speed Museum
SMALL CHANGE (L’Argent de poche)
“Small Change follows the everyday lives of children in a small French town, capturing their joys, fears, and mischief with warmth and humor, while subtly exploring family, school, and growing up.”

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhgosX1eCrc

Thursday, April 2 – 5 pm / FLOYD THEATER (UofL Campus)
In collaboration with Alliance Française de Louisville
THE STRANGER (L’Étranger)
François Ozon / 2025 / 100ꞌ / Ages 13 and up
“François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic follows Meursault, a French Algerian who shows complete indifference to life and ends up at the center of a trial that interrogates society and humanity.”

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Wendy Yoder, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, UofL
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV3F2fkevCM

Thursday, April 9 – 5 pm / FLOYD THEATER (UofL Campus)
In collaboration with the UofL Jewish Life & Learning Initiative
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES (La Plus Précieuse des marchandises)
Michel Hazanavicius / 2024 / 81ꞌ / Ages 13 and up
“In this animated drama set during World War II, a Jewish baby thrown from a deportation train is rescued by a Polish couple, whose compassion transforms their lives amid the horrors of the Holocaust.”

Roundtable with Whitney Nowicke, UofL French Film Festival intern; Michael Portal, UofL Jewish Life & Learning Initiative director; and Olive Dreckman, UofL Office of Service Learning & Civic Engagement director.
Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gW-rrODeLs

Presented with
MAURICE’S BAR
Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman / 2023 / 15ꞌ / Ages 16 and up
“In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen recalls a night from Paris’s early queer scene at Maurice’s Bar, where gossip and memory evoke the mythic club and its Jewish-Algerian owner.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQ3wY1IaiA

Thursday, April 16 – 5 pm / FLOYD THEATER (UofL Campus)
In collaboration with the English department and the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities & Society
35 SHOTS OF RUM (35 Rhums)
Claire Denis / 2008 / 105ꞌ / Ages 13 and up
“Set in contemporary Paris, 35 Shots of Rum tells the story of a father and daughter whose close-knit relationship and tender domestic routine is disrupted by a handsome young suitor.”

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Savannah Trent and Laura Tscherry, Department of English; and Matthieu Dalle, UofL French Film Festival director.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDvNGruo2Y