The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

Cinema Classics

Festival of Films in Fr ench

Restored 35mm Print

(Jean Cocteau\ , France, French w/ English subtitles, 96 min, 35mm, 1946)

One of the most magical of all films, Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beau ty and the Beast will leave you speechless. When a merchant is told that he must die for picking a rose from the Beast's garden, his courageous daughte r offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. A near-perfect cinem atic integration of beguiling fantasy, hard-won technical achievement, and sophisticated self-reflection, Cocteau's masterpiece looks and sounds bett er than ever.< /p>

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

Les Femmes du 6 ème étage (The Women on the 6th Floor)

Philippe Le Guay, 35mm, 106 min, France, 2011 (F rench/Spanish)

A lighthearted comedic pie with a socially consci ous crust, this French take on “The Help” is set in Paris in the early 1960 s and “involves a seemingly hopeless, staid bourgeois businessman (Luchini) whose entire existence — family, career, sense of purpose and patrimony — is overturned after he discovers another, happier world with a group of Sp anish maids living in his family’s building.” (NY Times)

2011 Cé sar for best supporting actress, best production design, and best costumes .

Presented with the support of the Women’s Studies Program.

FFF website

Le Hérisson (The Hedgehog)

Mona Achache, 35mm, 100 min, France, 2011 (French)

Josiane Balasko delivers another memorable performance as a gruff concierge in this engaging, yet sophisticated film based on Muriel Barbery’s New York Times bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog . Through the lens of her fat her’s camcorder, young Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) captures the adult wo rld she is hesitant to join.

Presented with the support of the Wo men’s Studies Program.

FFF website

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

Les Femmes du 6 ème étage (The Women on the 6th Flo or)

Philippe Le Guay, 35mm, 106 min, France, 2011 ( French/Spanish)

A lighthearted comedic pie with a social ly conscious crust, this French take on “The Help” is set in Paris in the e arly 1960s and “involves a seemingly hopeless, staid bourgeois businessman (Luchini) whose entire existence — family, career, sense of purpose and pa trimony — is overturned after he discovers another, happier world with a gr oup of Spanish maids living in his family’s building.” (NY Times)

2011 César for best supporting actress, best production design, and best costumes.

Presented with the support of the Women’s Studies Progr am.

FFF website

Le Hérisson (The Hedgehog)

Mon a Achache, 35mm, 100 min, France, 2011 (French)

Jos iane Balasko delivers another memorable performance as a gruff concierge in this engaging, yet sophisticated film based on Muriel Barbery’s New York Ti mes bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog . Through the lens of her father ’s camcorder, young Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) captures the adult world she is hesitant to join.

Presented with the support of the Women ’s Studies Program.

FFF website

Mesnak (The Tortoise)

Yves Sio ui Durand, DVD Blu-ray, 96 min, Québec, 2011 (French/Inuit/English)

Dave, a young struggling actor in Montreal, returns to the desolate Inuit reserve village of Kinogamish in search of his birth mother. He is soon caught up in a modern day Shakespearean tragedy in this intense and visually mesmerizing debut film.

Co-sponsored by the Departme nt of Anthropology and supported by the Québec Government Office in Chicago.

FFF website

Le Vendeur (The Salesman)

Séba stien Pilote, DVD Blu-ray, 107 min, Québec, 2011 (French)

Winter in Québec: snow, arctic sunshine, snowmobiles, car windshiel ds in need of scraping, potlucks, polka, ice fishing, and of course, ho ckey. The oppressive monotony of small-town life is seen through the eyes of car salesman Marcel. Sébastien Pilote, in his first feature film, succeed s in making us palpably aware of the vagaries of human existence and our rea sons for living.

Presented with the generous support of the Québe c Government Office in Chicago.

FFF website

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

Contes de la nuit (Tales of the Night)

Michel Ocelot, DVD, 84 min, France, 2011 (French)

Co-sponsored by the Alliance Française de Milwauk ee and SWAAF (Southeast Wisconsin Academic Alliance in French).

FFF website

Le Vendeur (The Salesman)

Séba stien Pilote, DVD Blu-ray, 107 min, Québec, 2011 (French)

Winter in Québec: snow, arctic sunshine, snowmobiles, car windshiel ds in need of scraping, potlucks, polka, ice fishing, and of course, ho ckey. The oppressive monotony of small-town life is seen through the eyes of car salesman Marcel. Sébastien Pilote, in his first feature film, succeed s in making us palpably aware of the vagaries of human existence and our rea sons for living.

Presented with the generous support of the Québe c Government Office in Chicago.

FFF website

Mesnak (The Tortoise)

Yves Sio ui Durand, DVD Blu-ray, 96 min, Québec, 2011 (French/Inuit/English)

Dave, a young struggling actor in Montreal, returns to the desolate Inuit reserve village of Kinogamish in search of his birth mother. He is soon caught up in a modern day Shakespearean tragedy in this intense and visually mesmerizing debut film.

Co-sponsored by the Departme nt of Anthropology and supported by the Québec Government Office in Chicago.

FFF website

Donoma (The Day Has Come [Sioux])

Djinn Carrénard, DVD, 101 min, France, 2011 (French)

Under difficult odds, the very independent Haitian filmmaker Djinn Ca rrénard manages to pull off this irreverent, sensual, and garrulous ‘gueri lla’ film. Filmed on location in and around Paris, with a handheld camera a nd a150 euro budget, Donoma showcases strong performances in a series of st riking, trance-like vignettes. The stories of Analia, a teacher at a techn ical lycée on the verge of a breakdown, Chris, a sexually inexperienced ph otographer who decides to proposition the first man she encounters in the me tro, and Salma, an agnostic who encounters the supernatural, all intersec t in this edgy yet strangely romantic film. The director Abdellatif Kechiche ( La Faute à Voltaire , L’Esquive , La Graine et le mulet ) has dubbed it a magnificently sensitive and intelligent film with a carefully orchestrate d plot.

Official selection Acid, Cannes Festival 2012

Co-sponsored by the Department of Africology and the Center for Latin Ameri can and Caribbean Studies.

FFF website

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

The UWM 16th Annual Festival of Films in French celebrates th e wide range of French-language cinema, with a spotlight on four films from multicultural Québec. The Festival’s fourteen films, many of them Milwauke e premieres, take audiences from Montreal to the northern provinces of Cana da, from Cameroon (La Banane) to Paris (intra and extramuros), from New Yo rk (Dancing Forever) to the Middle East, and beyond. All films are in Frenc h or other languages with English subtitles. For more information, visit ww w4.uwm.edu/cie/frenchfilm.

New 35mm Print

African American Fil m Series

(Michael Roemer, USA, 95min, 35mm, 1964)