THE MARCHING BAND (En fanfare)
Emmanuel Courcol / 2024 / 103ꞌ / Ages 10 and up

After a renowned conductor is diagnosed with leukemia and learns he was adopted, he seeks out his estranged brother, a trombonist in a small-town band, where music bridges their social divide and heals old wounds.

Introduction by Matthieu Dalle, UofL French Film Festival director; post-screening roundtable with local music educators

COLORS OF TIME (La Venue de l’avenir)
Cédric Klapisch / 2025 / 126ꞌ / Ages 13 and up

A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, inherit Meunier’s old house and, through memories and family history, uncover their ancestor’s life in 19th-century Paris.

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Greg Clark, UofL French Film Festival intern

SMALL CHANGE (L’Argent de poche)
François Truffaut / 1976 / 105ꞌ / Ages 10 and up

Small Change follows the everyday lives of children in a small French town, capturing their joys, fears, and mischief with warmth and humor, while subtly exploring family, school, and growing up.

Introduction and post-screening discussion TBA

THE STRANGER (L’Étranger)
François Ozon / 2025 / 100ꞌ / Ages 13 and up

François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic follows Meursault, a French Algerian who shows complete indifference to life and ends up at the center of a trial that interrogates society and humanity.

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Wendy Yoder, Department of Classical & Modern Languages, UofL

THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES (La Plus Précieuse des marchandises)
In collaboration with the UofL Jewish Life & Learning Initiative

Michel Hazanavicius / 2024 / 81ꞌ / Ages 13 and up

In this animated drama set during World War II, a Jewish baby thrown from a deportation train is rescued by a Polish couple, whose compassion transforms their lives amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

Roundtable with Whitney Nowicke, UofL French Film Festival intern; Michael Portal, UofL Jewish Life & Learning Initiative director; and Olive Dreckman, UofL Office of Service Learning & Civic Engagement director

Presented with

MAURICE’S BAR

Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman / 2023 / 15ꞌ / Ages 16 and up

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen recalls a night from Paris’s early queer scene at Maurice’s Bar, where gossip and memory evoke the mythic club and its Jewish-Algerian owner.

35 SHOTS OF RUM (35 Rhums)
Claire Denis / 2008 / 105ꞌ / Ages 13 and up

Set in contemporary Paris, 35 Shots of Rum tells the story of a father and daughter whose close-knit relationship and tender domestic routine is disrupted by a handsome young suitor.

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Savannah Trent and Laura Tscherry, Department of English; and Matthieu Dalle, UofL French Film Festival director