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Barocco

  The plot follows a young woman who convinces her boxer boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, Read More

Boy Meets Girl

  A depressed, aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a suicidal young woman. Both have been recently dumped by their lovers and neither is coping very well. They meet via Read More

The Baker’s Wife

  A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the Read More

Bye-Bye

  Ismaél (Sami Bouajila) and Moulod (Ouassini Embarek) live in Paris with their younger brother. When he dies in a tragic fire, Ismaél and Moulod head to Marseilles to stay Read More

Children of Paradise

  Strolling indolently around the 1830s vibrant Parisian avenue called the Boulevard du Crime, the graceful and elusive courtesan, Garance, finds herself wrongfully accused of pickpocketing. But, amid a sea Read More

De Gaulle and France

  De Gaulle and France is a vivid portrait of Charles de Gaulle as a person and as one of the giants of 20th-century political leadership.  The three-hour program combines Read More

Restless Flights: The Literature of JMG Le Clezio

  In its citation for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, Read More

Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang

  BLACK WOMEN ON: THE LIGHT, DARK THANG explores the politics of color within the African-American community. Women representing a variety of hues–from honey-vanilla to brown-sugar chocolate–speak candidly about the Read More

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

  Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon’s theories of Read More

Immigrant Memories

  Yamina Benguigui, a woman filmmaker of Algerian descent, described this documentary film project as ‘the narrative of my journey at the heart of the Maghrebi immigration in France. The Read More