{"id":58965,"date":"2022-04-08T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/dc-international-film-festival-selection-french-movies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:40:25","slug":"dc-international-film-festival-selection-french-movies","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dc-international-film-festival-selection-french-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Washington, DC International Film Festival&#8217;s Selection of French &#038; co-produced Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;FILMFEST DC IS BACK! Welcome to the Washington, DC International Film Festival. While everyone likes to go to the movies, recently it hasn\u2019t been easy. That\u2019s why after so many obstacles kept us at a distance, we are excited to finally open our doors to welcome you back to Washington\u2019s largest and longest running film festival. This year\u2019s festival will be hybrid with screenings in movie theaters and streaming online. We are joining our city, especially downtown, as it recovers from the pandemic and moves forward into better times. Filmfest DC hopes to help revive Washington\u2019s cultural vitality by bringing the best in new world cinema to residents and visitors. Premieres, comedies, thrillers, dramas, social justice documentaries, and new films by Washington filmmakers will transport you. We invite you to take your seats for eleven days of delight, enlightenment, and fun. Filmfest DC is back!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Tony Gittens, Founder and Director<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/index.cfm\"><strong>Visit the FilmFest DC website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Discover below the French Selection of the FilmFest DC 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Arthur20Rembo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Arthur20Rembo.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Arthur20Rembo-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Monday, April 25 &#8211; Thursday, April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=5\">Arthur Rambo<\/a><br \/>\nLaurent Cantet\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 86 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Karim D., a confident French author with a new book, is a rare Arab rising star in Paris\u2019s intellectual hothouse. When his teenage online identity as \u201cArthur Rambo,\u201d writer of scandalous tweets, is revealed, Karim learns that the Internet is forever. Inspired by a true story, this layered moral drama weighs the precarity of being both French and Arab, outsider and establishment, angry and acceptable in France today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Beirut1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Beirut1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Beirut1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Monday, April 25 &#8211; Thursday, April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=7\">Beirut: Eye of the Storm<\/a><br \/>\nMai Masri\u00a0&#8211; Lebanon, France &#8211; 75 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>What if they gave a revolution and Covid came? Shortly after the October 2019 demonstrations in Beirut aimed at toppling Lebanon&#8217;s corrupt government, the streets that had exploded with chanting and hope (followed by tear gas and gunfire) were eerily quiet. The pandemic put optimism in lockdown, and the country&#8217;s economy was in freefall. Four female journalist-artists reflect on that whiplash effect in this captivating documentary. They are Hanine, a winningly self-analytical reporter; Iraqi camerawoman Lujain, liberated from an oppressive upbringing only to be locked in again; and wildly creative sisters Michelle and Noel, YouTube stars of the resistance. While revolution may be fun for a day or three, in intimate conversations these women address the humiliation of living under corruption. They are among the lucky ones who can record, process, and make art from it, by way of changing it: &#8220;Whoever has a voice should make it heard.&#8221;<em>\u2014Judy Bloch<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Arabic with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Casablanca1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Casablanca1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Casablanca1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Monday, April 25 &#8211; Thursday, April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=11\">Casablanca Beats<\/a><br \/>\nNabil Ayouch\u00a0&#8211; Morocco, France &#8211; 101 mins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>When first-time teacher Anas arrives at a Sidi Moumen district cultural center, his lecture on hip-hop&#8217;s roots\u2014from Tunisia to the United States to Morocco\u2014falls on eager ears. Sidi Moumen is basically Casablanca&#8217;s Bronx, and Anas&#8217;s teenage students\u2014scrappy or shy, opinionated or open\u2014have all written their earnest raps before class even starts. But, as Anas claims, rap is born of humiliation, and his students and their lyrics will go through some changes before this high-spirited, street-music-infused film is over.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Arabic with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Costa1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Costa1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Costa1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sunday, April 24 &#8211; Friday, April 29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=12\">Costa Brava, Lebanon<\/a><br \/>\nMounia Akl\u00a0&#8211; Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar &#8211; 107 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>In the forested hills above Beirut, the Badri family escape the city&#8217;s physical and mental toxins by living\u2014quite well, it must be said\u2014off the grid. Walid (Saleh Bakri) and Soraya (Nadine Labaki), a writer and singer respectively, traded their dreams of changing the world for this personal resistance. (Their youngest child, little Rim, still talks a good political line, though.) In this spirited film,\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>\u00a0notes &#8220;Akl&#8217;s perceptive writing of this family as a collection of singular individuals who just happen to be related to one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Arabic with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Fantasies1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Fantasies1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Fantasies1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sunday, May 1 &#8211; 3:00 pm &amp; 7:30 pm at La Maison Fran\u00e7aise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>CLOSING NIGHT<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=14\">Fantasies<\/a><br \/>\nDavid Foenkinos,\u00a0St\u00e9phane Foenkinos\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 102 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Crafted as an episodic, light-hearted look at people&#8217;s often hidden desires,\u00a0<em>Fantasies<\/em>\u00a0plays out in six amusing chapters. The film offers revealing and clever takes, finding both the humor and humanity that goes on usually, but not always, behind closed doors. In the first episode, Louise (Suzanne Cl\u00e9ment) tries to spice up her marriage by getting her husband, Vincent (Denis Podalyd\u00e8s, seen also in\u00a0<em>The World of Yesterday<\/em>), into some frisky role-playing scenarios. Unfortunately, Vincent takes his parts as seriously as a method actor and, once in costume as a doctor or policeman, sticks a bit too closely to the petty details of the job. The glamorous Monica Bellucci and Carole Bouquet play a couple who can only find satisfaction in the oddest places. That their demand for ecstasy causes them to give death a helping hand is maybe not as extreme as it seems.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>1st screening at 3:00 PM, followed by a reception<br \/>\n2nd screening at 7:30 PM, preceded by a reception at 6:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Happening1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Happening1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Happening1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sunday, April 24 &#8211; Saturday, April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=18\">Happening<\/a><br \/>\nAudrey Diwan\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 100 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>France, 1963: Abortion is illegal. The taboo is so complete that college girls live in fear of their punishable desires. Anne, a promising literature major, is somehow as fearless as she is smart, but when she finds herself pregnant, she is utterly alone against a conspiracy of silence. Anne&#8217;s journey through a hostile medical establishment to the frightening alternatives is conveyed with depth\u2014and always from her point of view\u2014by director Audrey Diwan. Anamaria Vartolomei&#8217;s Anne has a fierceness that may be private but isn&#8217;t internalized: Her performance has intelligence to match her character&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Haute2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Haute2.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Haute2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 22 &#8211; Saturday, April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=43\">Haute Couture<\/a><br \/>\nSylvie Ohayon\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 100 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Nearly 50 years after her film debut in Truffaut&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Day for Night<\/em>, French icon Nathalie Baye plays Esther, head of the dressmaking studio at Christian Dior. After her purse is stolen, it&#8217;s reluctantly returned by streetwise Jade (Lyna Khoudri) and an unlikely mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 relationship is born. This winning and winsome pairing is no formulaic Cinderella story: Esther and Jade have complicated lives of their own and matching bullheadedness and biases to overcome, and the high-end fashion milieu, in style capital Paris itself, is not an easy mistress to serve. But with its fascinatingly meticulous attention to stunningly detailed couture creation, writer-director Sylvie Ohayon&#8217;s beguiling film turns us\u2014and the initially resistant Jade\u2014into converts.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zohra1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zohra1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Zohra1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saturday, April 23 &#8211; Saturday April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=22\">Kung Fu Zohra<\/a><br \/>\nMabrouk el Mechri\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 100 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>A romantic chance meeting in a North African village grows into something quite different for Zohra (Sabrina Ouazani) and Omar (Ramzy Bedia) after a few years of marriage in the Paris suburbs. Now Zohra wears sunglasses to hide her bruises. But there is a child to consider, and Omar is the quintessential loving father\/abusive husband. Taking a job at a gym, Zohra meets a Chinese kung fu master (Tien Shue) who has one word for her: &#8220;Kitchen.&#8221; A stern if enigmatic teacher, he senses the stakes for Zohra. With her supple physical prowess and deep-throated laugh, Ouazani is as convincing a kung fu student as we could want to root for as she trains for what we know (from every kung fu film ever) is coming.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Calcutta1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Calcutta1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Calcutta1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Monday, April 25 &#8211; Thursday, April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=27\">Once Upon a Time in Calcutta<\/a><br \/>\nAditya Vikram Sengupta\u00a0&#8211; India, France, Norway &#8211; 133 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Aditya Vikram Sengupta presents the irresolvable contradictions of modern life with clarity and invention, depicting a society in constant flux. The memory of Bengali poet, social reformer, and presiding artistic spirit Rabindranath Tagore looms over Sengupta&#8217;s sprawling yet intimate drama of contemporary urban life, an intricately constructed mosaic of people dealing with loss, economic disparity, industrial growth, and questions of basic human morality.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Bengali and English with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sync1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sync1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sync1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 22 &#8211; Sunday, April 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=29\">Out of Sync<\/a><br \/>\nJuanjo Gim\u00e9nez\u00a0&#8211; Spain, Lithuania, France &#8211; 104 mins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>As in the Oscar\u00ae-winning film\u00a0<em>Sound of Metal<\/em>, Juanjo Gim\u00e9nez Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s hypnotic\u00a0<em>Out of Sync<\/em>\u00a0gives viewers a disorienting sensation of what the screen characters are experiencing. And C. (Marta Nieto) is going through a lot. C. is a sound engineer who adds audio effects to films: shoes crunching on leaves, slaps to the head, etc. Her work includes making sure the sound is perfectly synced with the action, but her ears are deceiving her more and more in her daily life. Clapping her hands in front of her face yields a smack seconds later, and the disturbing effect is growing. Defiantly, C. shuns treatment and ignores the texts on her phone, which leads to problems at work. When C must return to her mother&#8217;s house, difficulties ensue.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Spanish with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Rabiye1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Rabiye1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Rabiye1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, April 23 &#8211; Sunday, April 24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=31\">Rabiye Kurnaz vs George W. Bush<\/a><br \/>\nAndreas Dresen\u00a0&#8211; Germany, France &#8211; 119 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Middle-class Turkish-German housewife Rabiye (Meltem Kaptan) stresses when her son, Murat, is late for lunch. So imagine her fears when, from her Bremen kitchen, she learns that this young man waffling between identities has wandered to Pakistan and is caught up in the U.S.&#8217;s Al-Qaeda dragnet. Through cajoling and cooking, Rabiye engages a pro bono lawyer (Alexander Scheer) as dedicated to justice as she is to her luckless son. Andreas Dresen&#8217;s film takes a quixotic approach to a dire true-life story, thanks to its batty but wily protagonist, Rabiye, played only sometimes against type by popular German comedian Kaptan.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In German, Turkish, and English with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/robust1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/robust1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/robust1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 22 &#8211; Friday, April 29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=34\">Robust<\/a><br \/>\nConstance Meyer\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 95 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>In this comedy of opposites, G\u00e9rard Depardieu plays Georges, a once-famous actor long beyond his prime but still living a privileged lifestyle. Georges demands a security guard to run his life, which consists mostly of feeding his exotic fish, watching TV, and fighting on the phone with managers trying to get him work. When his regular guard goes on vacation, the replacement is a bright-eyed young woman, A\u00efssa (D\u00e9borah Lukumuena, the first black woman to ever win a French C\u00e9sar Award), a semi-pro wrestler moonlighting for the security firm. A\u00efssa is just finding success in her field and cannot understand Georges&#8217; lackluster behavior. After he is finally cast in a period movie, Georges avoids fencing classes, meetings with the director, and even reading his script\u2014although A\u00efssa manages to learn all his lines.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Secret1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Secret1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Secret1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Saturday, April 23 &#8211; Friday, April 29\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=35\">Secret Name<\/a><br \/>\nAurelia Georges\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 112 mins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>At the dawn of World War I, a young servant woman is literally tossed onto the street, punishment for resisting the predatory man of the house. N\u00e9lie (Lyna Khoudri) finds her way into the Red Cross, tending to soldiers on the front lines. As the medical unit&#8217;s wagons travel through the woods, they come upon a lone woman, Rose (Maud Wyler). Rose&#8217;s father has just died, but she has a letter of introduction to the wealthy widow of her late father&#8217;s friend. When German shells leave Rose lifeless, N\u00e9lie steals her papers and fancy overcoat and makes her way to the French countryside and the regal estate of Lady El\u00e9onore (Sabine Az\u00e9ma).<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Floors1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Floors1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Floors1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Sunday, April 24 &#8211; Saturday April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=36\">Three Floors<\/a><br \/>\nNanni Moretti\u00a0&#8211; Italy, France &#8211; 117 mins<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>A multi-tiered morality tale that poses complex questions, this latest work from Palme d&#8217;Or-winning director, writer, and actor Nanni Moretti is a network narrative in which every transgression holds the potential for transcendence. The ne&#8217;er-do-well son of two esteemed judges (Moretti and Margherita Buy), Andr\u00e9a (Alessandro Sperduti) kills a pedestrian while swerving to avoid hitting Monica (Alba Rohrwacher), who is going into labor and is desperate for a ride to the hospital. Andr\u00e9a winds up crashing his car into the living room of Lucio (Riccardo Scamarcio), who will soon face his own legal ordeal when his young daughter goes missing while being cared for by an elderly neighbor. Each of these characters inhabits the same Rome apartment complex.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In Italian with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Co-presented with The Italian Cultural Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/World1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/World1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/World1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 22 &#8211; Saturday, April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=38\">The World of Yesterday<\/a><br \/>\nDiast\u00e8me\u00a0&#8211; France &#8211; 89 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Part morality tale, part keen political thriller, and a vivid portrait of our current moment,\u00a0<em>The World of Yesterday<\/em>\u00a0is set in modern France yet the issues also reflect America&#8217;s fractured politics. L\u00e9a Drucker plays the French president, who has decided to step down and has thrown her support to a successor, but a potential scandal could toss the upcoming election to a right-wing demagogue (Thierry Godard). &#8220;If France falls, so does Europe,&#8221; warns the president&#8217;s canny adviser, the Secretary-General (Denis Podalyd\u00e8s, in an impressive departure from his comic take in\u00a0<em>Fantasies<\/em>). With only 3 days to act, the apparent only course of action is unthinkable. Or is it? And the president has another secret weighing her down.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Resemble1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Resemble1.jpg 530w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Resemble1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Monday, April 25 &#8211; Thursday, April 28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmfestdc.org\/filmView.cfm?passID=39\">You Resemble Me<\/a><br \/>\nDina Amer\u00a0&#8211; France, Egypt, USA &#8211; 91 mins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Moroccan-French sisters Hasna and Mariam are sent to different foster homes. When Hasna (Lorenza Grimaudo) runs away, she becomes a child of the streets and then later a street-smart young woman (Mouna Soualem). Ever in search of a family, Hasna is fatally pulled in by a jihadist cousin&#8217;s promises. Hasna A\u00eft Boulahcen was believed to be Europe&#8217;s first female suicide bomber in the Paris attacks of November 2015. Journalist-turned-director Dina Amer, convinced that Hasna had to be more than a footnote to the Paris attacks, corrects the record with this compelling narrative executive produced by Spike Lee and Spike Jonze.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>In French and Arabic with English subtitles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":58963,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[237],"class_list":["post-58965","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-festival"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2022 Washington, DC International Film Festival&#039;s Selection of French &amp; co-produced Movies - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dc-international-film-festival-selection-french-movies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2022 Washington, DC International Film Festival&#039;s Selection of French &amp; co-produced Movies - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;FILMFEST DC IS BACK! 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