{"id":8711171,"date":"2026-03-30T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=8711171"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:56:25","slug":"french-movies-international-film-series-by-belmont-world-film","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/french-movies-international-film-series-by-belmont-world-film\/","title":{"rendered":"French Movies @International Film Series by Belmont World Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Belmont World Film&#8217;s 24th International Film Series will be held in Newton, MA from March 30, 2026, until June 15, 2026. The festival includes a month dedicated to refuge awareness entitled <em>Pride and World Refuge Awareness Month Observance<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover the seven French films featured in the lineup below. Most screenings will be followed by a discussion on the film and its central themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Screenings <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, March 30, 7:00 PM &#8211; <em><strong>COLORS OF TIME <\/strong><\/em><br>C\u00e9dric Klapisch | 2025 | 126\ua78c | French<br>A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Ad\u00e8le Meunier, inherit Meunier\u2019s old house and, through memories and family history, uncover their ancestor\u2019s life in 19th-century Paris.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, April 6, 7:00 PM <strong>&#8211; CASE 137 <\/strong><br>Dominik Moll | 2025 | 115\ua78c | French <br>A criminal case takes a personal turn, when a police officer in the internal affairs unit in Paris is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris.<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, April 20, 7:00 PM <em><strong>&#8211; IN THE LAND OF ARTO<\/strong><\/em><br>Tamara Stepanyan | 2025 | 104\ua78c | Armenian, French, English<br>Camille Cottin (<em>Call My Agent<\/em>,\u00a0<em>House of Gucci<\/em>) stars as a wife who travels to Armenia to legalize her husband&#8217;s death, only to learn that he lied about his military service, that he fought in the war, usurped his identity, and that his former friends consider him a deserter.<br><br><strong>Speaker: Diana Hayrapetyan<\/strong>, Professor of Armenian at Harvard University and a PhD candidate at the Strassler Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University.<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday, April 27, 7:00PM <em><strong>&#8211; THE INCREDIBLE SNOW WOMAN <\/strong><\/em><br>S\u00e9bastien Betbeder | 2025 | 101\ua78c | French, Greenlandic<br>A 46-year-old Arctic explorer known as &#8220;The Incredible Snow Woman,&#8221; unexpectedly returns to her childhood home in the Jura mountains to reunite with her brothers. Unable to face her own mortality,\u00a0she returns to Greenland one last time in this impassioned comedy-drama.<br><br><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>WBUR film critic Erin Trahan<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, May 11, 7:00PM <em><strong>&#8211; SIX DAYS IN SPRING<\/strong><\/em><br>Joachim Lafosse \/ 2025 \/ 94\ua78c \/ French<br>On a whim, a single mother&#8211;who is determined to give her twin boys a spring vacation after her original plans collapse\u2014trespasses her former in-laws\u2019 luxury villa on the Riviera, a place she once called home. Joined by the twins\u2019 soccer coach, secretly her boyfriend, they cautiously savor six sun-drenched days.<br><br><strong>Speaker: Haleigh Burgon, <\/strong>a PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies at Boston University. Her dissertation investigates how French and Francophone women writers and creators use representations of motherhood and memory to exercise resilience and articulate creative agency.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, June 1, 7:00 PM <em>&#8211; <strong>ENZO<\/strong><\/em><br>Robin Campillo | 2025 | 102\ua78c | French, Ukrainian<br>In this riveting drama set along the breathtaking South of France, a 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family\u2019s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship. There he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world. Premiered at the Director&#8217;s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and written and partially directed by Laurent Cantet (<em>The Workshop<\/em>, BWF 2018), who died before being able to finish it.<br><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Monday, June 15, 7:00 PM <em><strong>&#8211; PROMISED SKY<\/strong><\/em><br>Erige Sehiri | 2026 | 92\ua78c | Arabic, French<br>Three women from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, living together in Tunisia without legal status, take in a young girl who washes ashore after a shipwreck. As this fragile, makeshift family begins to take shape, mounting pressures force each woman to confront where she belongs\u2014and what she\u2019s willing to risk.<br><br><strong>Speaker: Haleigh Burgon, <\/strong>a PhD candidate in French and Francophone Studies at Boston University. 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