{"id":5764079,"date":"2025-10-10T20:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=5764079"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:34:29","slug":"francophone-film-festival-of-champaign-urbana","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/francophone-film-festival-of-champaign-urbana\/","title":{"rendered":"Francophone Film Festival of Champaign-Urbana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Film Series Lineup<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before the Flames Go Out (Avant que les Flammes ne s\u2019\u00e9teignent)<\/strong><br>Friday, September 12 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Adults<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shoum\u2019s Odyssey (L\u2019Odyss\u00e9e de Choum)<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong>Akissi \u2013 A Funny Little Brother (Un Dr\u00f4le de Petit Fr\u00e8re)<\/strong> \u00b7 <strong>Vanilla (Vanille)<\/strong><br>Friday, September 26 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Children<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Six Feet on Earth (Six Pieds sur Terre)<\/strong><br>Friday, October 10 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Adults<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Calamity (Calamity)<\/strong><br>Friday, October 24 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Children<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Little Brother (Un Petit Fr\u00e8re)<\/strong><br>Friday, November 7 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Adults<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Monkey Prince (Le Ch\u00e2teau des Singes)<\/strong><br>Friday, December 5 \u00b7 6:30 PM \u2014 <em>Children<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All films are presented in French with English subtitles, and admission is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The festival is organized by <strong>Prof. Aurore Mroz<\/strong>, <strong>Nico Norris<\/strong>, and <strong>Macha Petre<\/strong> from the <strong>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/strong>, in partnership with the <strong>Spurlock Museum<\/strong>, and supported by <strong>Villa Albertine<\/strong>, the <strong>Institut Fran\u00e7ais<\/strong>, the <strong>Center of Excellence<\/strong>, and the <strong>UIUC Department of French &amp; Italian<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5774931,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[504],"class_list":["post-5764079","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-film-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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