Titled “In/Tolerance: Conflict and Violence in New French Film,” this year’s festival examines the sometimes tumultuous and even violent conflicts between soldiers and diplomats, lovers and families, brothers and sisters in recent French-speaking film. From Nazi occupiers in Second World War France, to queer outsiders in rural Québec, to interracial lovers in contemporary Paris, these films dramatize the potential risks and grave dangers of war and resistance, family and friendship, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity. Amid recent debates this year in both France and North America on military violence, urban racism, homophobia, and misogyny, these films serve as both cautionary tales and exemplary models for tolerance and intolerance. We hope that this festival on conflict and violence in new French film will encourage discussion and debate on in/tolerance in twenty-first century France and the French-speaking world.
All films are in French, with English subtitles. | Mondays at 7pm * Free to attend
Williams College French faculty members Brian Martin and Sophie Saint-Just will introduce each film.
Sponsored by Williams Department of Romance Languages, the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the Dively Committee on Human Sexuality and Diversity.
Volker Schlöndorff’s Diplomacy (Diplomatie) (2014)
February 16 @7PM
Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) (2013)
February 23 @7PM
Rachid Djaïdani’s Hold Back (Rengaine) (2012)
March 2 @7PM
Megamenu Social