Country:France, Dominican Republic

Director:Elia Suleiman

Summary:

Suleiman's latest acerbic comedy starts in 1948 in Palestine with the invasion by the Israeli armed force and narrates how life has continued since then.

Country:France

Director:Jacques Tati

Summary:

Tati’s recurring character Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his family and lands a job, but he can’t quite fit into the surroundings.

Country:France

Director:Jean Renoir

Summary:

This early Renoir masterpiece features Parisian bookseller Lestingois who rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the river and takes him into his household.

Country:France

Director:Otar Iosseliani

Summary:

The downward fall of a high-ranking French minister who’s forced to resign, losing his supporting staff, official mansion, stretch limo and leggy mistress to happily return to his roots as a gardener.

Country:France, Liberia

Director:Jean-Stephane Sauvaire

Summary:

We are trapped in the world of Africa’s infant warriors in 2003, near the end of the civil war in Liberia. Charles Taylor’s government is on the verge of collapsing and the rebels are advancing...

Country:France

Director:Claire Denis

Summary:

Living within the French African community Lionel raised his daughter alone. But a moody young man will change the close relation between father and daughter.

Country:France

Director:Mia Hanson

Summary:

This well observed film is based on the case of legendary French film producer Humbert Balsan, who put his career at the center of his identity, and took his life in 2005.

Country:France

Director:Eric Rohmer

Summary:

A counter-view of a true story on the 'wrong' side: Does a former general in the Tsar's army betray his White Russian employers and work for the Communists and/or the Nazis?

Country:France

Director:Francois Truffaut

Summary:

One of the best loved films of the French cinema tells of two friends, Jules and Jim who fall in love with the same fascinating woman, Catherine

Country:France

Director:Frank Garbely

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

Two films about political assassination in Africa: concerning Thomas Sankara, trailblazer of Burkina Faso, and Felix Moumite, the legendary independence fighter from Cameroon.