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Godard, seul le cinéma (Godard Cinema)
Cyril Leuthy, MP4, 100 min
France, 2023 (French)

Official Selection, 2022 Venice International Film Festival
Wisconsin premiere

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and a symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. One of the founders of the French New Wave, a political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, and film theorist and critic with a career spanning 62 years and 140 films, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time. This documentary offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the themes that obsessed him.

Presented as part of the Albertine CinémathÚque program & co-sponsored by the Alliance française de Milwaukee

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Dounia, le grand pays blanc (Dounia, the Great White North)
Marya Zarif / André Kadi, MP4, 51 min
Québec, 2025 (French)

2024 New York International Children Film Festival
Midwest premiere

Now settled in Canada after fleeing Syria in Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (FFF2024), Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know the new home that has welcomed them: its intense seasons, its special foods, its languages. Dounia’s grandparents keep their Syrian traditions alive at home, while her new friends share traditions of their own, like Rosalie’s French-Canadian lifestyle or Miguizou’s vast indigenous folklore, which help her connect in unique ways with her father who remained in Aleppo.

Co-sponsored by the Lynden Sculpture Garden, the Alliance française de Milwaukee & the Québec Government Office in Chicago

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Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)
Jean-Gabriel Leynaud, H264, 90 min
France / Congo (DRC), 2025 (French, Swahili, English)

Best International Documentary, 2025 Durban International Film Festival
Midwest premiere

Numbi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies at the heart of our modern world. Here, workers mine the coltan that will find its way, legally or not, into much of our technology. For decades this grey gold has been the cause of bitter conflicts and exploitation. Every inhabitant lives with the illusory hope of enjoying for themselves the riches of the Congo. Shocking and deeply moving, the film reveals the hardships and trials of a story from which we must not look away.

Co-sponsored by 51ÁÔÆæ Student Involvement, the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Office of Sustainability

Talkback with Lindsay Frost (Office of Sustainability)

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Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)
Rithy Panh, Blu-ray, 112 min
France / Cambodia, 2024 (French, Cambodian)

Official Selection, Cannes Premiere, 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Wisconsin premiere

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems idyllic, but behind the Potemkin village presented to the journalists, the Khmer Rouge regime is in decline and the war with Vietnam looms at the border. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large-scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare.

Presented as part of the Albertine CinémathÚque program & co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science & the Department of History

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Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)
Louise Courvoisier, MP4, 90 min
France, 2024 (French)

Winner of the Youth Award, Un Certain Regard, 2024 Cannes Film Festival

After the tragic death of his father, 18 year-old Totone finds himself with daunting new responsibilities, looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura region of France. He takes on yet another challenge when he enters a competition for the best ComtĂ© cheese made in this western part of the French Alps. A “veritĂ©â€ look at the hardscrabble life of French agriculture, it is simultaneously a moving love story and above all an ode to the love of cheese.

Presented as part of the Albertine CinĂ©mathĂšque program & co-sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

PG This film contains explicit material.

Talkback with Leah Wilson (Women’s and Gender Studies)

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Des “terroristes” à la retraite (“Terrorists” in Retirement)
Mosco Levi Boucault, DCP, 71 min
France, 1983 (French)

1983 Cannes Film Festival & 2020 Cinéma du Réel

Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released, the film follows seven surviving comrades of the executed members, found guilty of “terrorism”, from the immigrant section of the French Resistance during World War II. The documentary provoked unsettling debates about how the group was captured, and about why the French establishment (and history books) never fully embraced the immigrant and Jewish fighters who were the backbone of armed resistance in Paris. The film provides a powerful corrective to myths concerning the French Resistance.

Presented as part of the Albertine CinémathÚque program & co-sponsored by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies & the Department of History

Talkback with Carolyn Eichner (Department of History)

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