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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

The Motorcycle Diaries

  The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life’s calling.

Vagabond

  In winter in the south of France, a young woman is found frozen in a ditch. She’s unkempt, a vagabond. Through flashbacks and brief interviews, we trace her final Read More

Under the Sand

  Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in Read More

The Unfaithful Wife

  Charles Desvallées has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover Read More

Venus Beauty Institute

  Madam Nadine manages with pride the “Vénus beauté” Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary Read More

13 Tzameti

  13 Tzameti follows 22-year-old Sébastien, a Georgian immigrant living in France and working construction jobs to support his poor family. Sébastien works on the home of Godon, a feeble Read More