French Film Series

B.B. Comer 257

Trop noire pour être française?/ Too Black to be French? (2015) Director and Protagonist Isabelle Boni explores the cracks in  the French universalist ideal.

French Film Series

B.B. Comer 257

Sembene! (2015) Documentary film focusing on the life of writer and director Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), considered to be the Father of African Cinema

French Film Series

B.B. Comer 257

La bataille d’Alger/The Battle of Algiers (1967) The acclaimed re-creation of the brutal urban guerilla fighting that helped bring about Algerian independence, filmed in the real locations with actors who had lived through the events.