Film Festivals - University of Southern Indiana

Spring 2023

Thanks to the support of Villa Albertine, the USI Multicultural Center and the College of Liberal Arts, The World Languages and Cultures department is happy to present the Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival at USI!

Films will be shown in Forum I in the Wright Administration Building. A brief introduction will precede each film, and a discussion will follow. All films include English subtitles.

7 p.m. January 19: L'innocent (PG-13)

Part crime thriller, part family farce, Louis Garrel’s The Innocent shows with panache and pathos the dangerous lengths two men go, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love.

7 p.m. January 26: Saint Omer (PG-13)

Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgement.

7 p.m. February 2: Josep (PG-13)

Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends.

7 p.m. February 9: Casablanca Beats (Not rated)

Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood.

7 p.m. February 23: La Gravité (Rated 16+)

An unprecedented alignment of planets impacting gravity will upset the balance of a ghetto and the destiny of two duos of brothers eager to do anything for their freedom in an unceasing fight between old and new generations.

6 p.m. Thursday, March 14: Monsieur Klein (PG) - RESCHEDULED

Monsieur Klein is a 1976 mystery drama film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by and starring Alain Delon in the title role. Set in Vichy France, the Kafkaesque narrative follows an apparently Gentile Parisian art dealer who is seemingly mistaken for a Jewish man of the same name and targeted in the Holocaust, unable to prove his identity.

Getting here

All showings for the World Languages and Cultures Film Festival take place in Forum I which can be accessed from the first floor of the Forum Wing in the Wright Administration Building. Parking is located across University Boulevard in Lot B.

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