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Thomas Sankara: Fratricide in Burkina, Africa

  Burkina Faso, West Africa. October 15, 1987. Automatic gunfire breaks the evening night’s silence and kills President Thomas Sankara. Had the assassins been sent by his brother in arms, Read More

Monsieur Ibrahim

  The story unfolds in a working-class neighborhood in the Paris of the 1960s. The protagonist, Moїse Schmidt (Momo), is a young Jewish boy growing up without a mother and Read More

Being Jewish in France

  The Jews and the land of ‘Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’ began their love affair in 1791, when France became the first modern country to proclaim Jewish emancipation. But as Read More

Games of Love and Chance

  A group of teenagers from the housing projects of the Paris suburbs practice a passage from the play Games of Love and Chance by Marivaux for their French class. Read More

The Plays of Georges Feydeau

  A collection of five plays written by Georges Feydeau performed by talented cast members at the Théâtre Marigny, the Théâtre St. Georges, and at La Maison des Arts de Read More

Someone I Loved

  One night, Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) shares a secret with his daughter-in-law, Chloé (Florence Loiret Caille). A secret that has haunted him for two decades, forcing him to confront himself, Read More

The Moon in the Gutter

  Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy amateur photographer who prowls the docks in her early ’60s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder looking for handsome men, and Bella (Victoria Read More

X2000: The Collected Shorts of François Ozon

  Three naked couples sleep, make love, and awake in an empty skyscraper littered with millennium party debris in one of four provocative shorts from France’s most acclaimed young director, Read More

Molière: The Hypochondriac

  Hypochondriac Argan’s household revolves around his obsession with his chronic imaginary illnesses. Served by a pair of unscrupulous doctors, Argan even goes so far as to try to marry Read More

Berenice

  ‘Berenice’ is the fifth of nine plays written by Jean Racine between 1664 and 1677 before his sudden and still unexplained decision to give up the theater. One of Read More