Albertine Cinémathèque at Bucknell University

A year-long series of recently released French films

From a plantation uprising in 1759 Mauritius to a queer coming-of-age in present-day Paris, these six films span three centuries of French storytelling — including a rediscovered Bresson masterpiece, François Ozon’s black-and-white reimagining of Camus, and a Cannes crowd-pleaser about two brothers and a marching band. Whether this films trace the history or afterlives of France’s colonial empire or address timeless questions of friendship and family, they all speak to us of freedom, identity, and belonging.

Click on the thumbnails below for showings, synopses, and trailers:

This film series is generously supported by a grant from the Albertine Cinémathèque initiative and with additional support from Bucknell’s College of Arts & Sciences, the Humanities Center, the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the French and Francophone Studies Program, and the Department of Philosophy.

“Albertine Cinémathèque is part of the French for All initiative by Villa Albertine – The French Institute for Culture and Education, and Albertine Foundation, and is made possible thanks to the support of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC) and Unifrance.”

All films are screened in the Campus Theatre, 413 Market St, Lewisburg, PA