All films are subtitled in English. Free and open to the public.
Each screening is followed by a discussion.
All films are in Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Monday, October 26, 6:30 PM, Cummings, Oliva Lobby. All Warmly Welcome.
Monday, October 26
Film screening: 7:00 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by François Ozon, 2025.
Intro. by Ramla Bedoui, Ph.D., Senior Lector, Department of French, Yale.
In French Algeria, Meursault drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab man, indifference is his only alibi in François Ozon’s fresh take on Albert Camus’s classic novel. French with English subtitles. 120 min.
Tuesday, October 27
Film screening: 4:30 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by Hafsia Herzi, 2025.
Intro. by Jennifer Carr, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of French.
Teenaged Fatima, the youngest of three daughters in a French-Algerian family living in the Paris suburbs, pursues university studies, explores her sexuality, and grapples with being a young, queer, Muslim woman in today’s France. French with English subtitles. 106 min.
Tuesday, October 27
Film screening: 7 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by Erige Sehiri, 2025.
Intro. by Sana Abdi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies.
For ten years, Marie, Ivorian pastor in Tunisia, has sheltered Naney, a mother, and Jolie, a student, and now Kenza, orphan and survivor of a shipwreck carrying refugees, in this film exploring the marginalization of Black migrants. French, Arabic with English subtitles. 92 min.
Wednesday, October 28
Film screening: 7 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by Annemarie Jacir, 2024.
Intro. by James Austin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of French.
In 1936, during the British Empire’s mandate in Palestine, Arabs begin an anti-colonial revolt, Jewish refugees flee persecution from Europe, and all sides converge in a decisive moment for the entire region. Arabic, English with English subtitles. 118 minutes.
Thursday, October 29
Film screening: 7 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960.
Intro. by Fadi Elsaid, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of French.
Godard’s groundbreaking work of the French New Wave follows Michel, a criminal fascinated by American gangster films, and Patricia, an American student in Paris, in a story of love, freedom, and betrayal. This landmark film playfully disregards established cinematic conventions with jump cuts, handheld camerawork, and on-location shooting. French with English subtitles. 90 min.
Friday, October 30
Film screening: 7 p.m. Cummings Arts Center, Oliva Hall.
Directed by Richard Linklater, 2025.
Intro. by Aurora Schifferli, French Major, Class of 2027.
This is the story of Godard making Breathless, told in the style and spirit of Godard’s Breathless. French with English subtitles. 106 min.
Abertine Cinémathèque is part of the French for All initiative by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation and is made possible by the support of the Centre National du Cinema et de l’Image Animée (CNC). The festival is also supported by the French and Francophone Dept, CISLA, Global Islamic Studies, Global Learning Lab / Walter Commons, Africana Studies, GSIS, the Government Dept, the Film Studies Dept, and Library and Information Technology. Contact: jfaus@conncoll.edu
French Department
Mailing Address
51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ
French Department
Box 5631
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320
Campus Location
Blaustein Humanities Building