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Black Studies Film Series

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000

Black Studies Film Series Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/10/2025 - 16:25 Axinn Center 232 Luksch, Victoria (802) 443-3112 vluksch@middlebury.edu Black Studies

Black Studies Film Series

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000

Black Studies Film Series Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/10/2025 - 16:25 Axinn Center 232 Luksch, Victoria (802) 443-3112 vluksch@middlebury.edu Black Studies

Black Studies Film Series

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000

Black Studies Film Series Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/10/2025 - 16:25 Axinn Center 232 Luksch, Victoria (802) 443-3112 vluksch@middlebury.edu Black Studies

Black Studies Film Series

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000

Black Studies Film Series Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/10/2025 - 16:25 Axinn Center 232 Luksch, Victoria (802) 443-3112 vluksch@middlebury.edu Black Studies

Albertine Film Festival - Wages of Fear

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:40:05 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - Wages of Fear Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:40 McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216 Open to the Public

Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953

Click here for trailer in English.

In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.

/college/academics/french/news-upcoming-events/albert… Newton, Jolene (802) 443 - 5527 jynewton@middlebury.edu Film & Media Culture; French and Francophone Studies; History of Arts and Architecture; Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies; Black Studies

Albertine Film Festival - The Animal Kingdom

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:40:05 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - The Animal Kingdom Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:40 McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216 Open to the Public

Le Règne Animal (The Animal Kingdom), dir. Thomas Cailley, 2023

Click here for trailer (in French with English subtitles).

Awarded for 5 Cesar : Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography.

In a world hit by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he embarks with Émile, their 16-year-old son, on a quest that will change their lives forever.

Albertine Film Festival - Orlando, My Political Biography

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:35:05 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - Orlando, My Political Biography Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:35 Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center) Open to the Public

Orlando : ma biographie politique (Orlando, My Political Biography), dir. Paul. B. Preciado, 2023

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“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.” Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of identity and transition. Not content to simply update a seminal work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the continuing struggle against anti-trans ideologies and in the fight for global trans rights.

Albertine Film Festival - Banel and Adama

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:35:05 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - Banel and Adama Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:35 Twilight Auditorium 101 Open to the Public

Banel & Adama, dir. Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023

Click here to watch the film trailer (Pulaar with English subtitles).

Set against the terrestrial majesty of the Sahel, Banel & Adama is a tragic romance following two young lovers as they strive for independence and self-possession in the face of imperious tradition. Neither Senegal nor the rest of the world has known a love like Banel (Khady Mane) and Adama’s (Mamadou Diallo), each eager to begin their adult lives away from the stifling demands of their families and community. The young couple were married by an ostensible combination of chance and duty when Adama’s older brother Yero died, leaving a still-young Banel, his second wife, a too-young widow. Now, the same duty dictates that Adama accept the role of village chief. However, the fated lovers have plans that do not include the expectations of others. That is, until something in the air changes. The rains do not come, the cattle begin to die, the men leave and Banel, once lovelorn and lost in responsibility, surrenders to the call for a life lived beyond prescription. Premiering in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival — the sole debut granted the honor — Banel & Adama is a lyrical odyssey that takes a hypnotic descent into mythic fabulism with the profundity of a timeless fable. Sy delivers a lesson in craft, building lush, inspired, and strong – willed characters who command perspective, seeking to carve out a future for themselves in a narrative atmosphere hauntingly alive from sand to sky.

Albertine Film Festival - No Chains, No Masters

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:20:05 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - No Chains, No Masters Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:20 Twilight Auditorium 101 Open to the Public

Ni Chaînes, Ni Maitres (No Chains, No Masters), dir. Simon Moutairou, 2024

Click here for trailer in French with English subtitles.

In 1759, the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is under French colonial rule. The enslaved population working in the sugar cane plantation live in constant fear. Among them, 16-year-old Mati refuses to accept her fate. Unlike her father Massamba, who has grown disillusioned by years of oppression, Mati dreams of freedom and a life beyond the plantation. One night, desperate to flee the violence of her captors, Mati finds refuge in a remote part of the island rumored to be home to a community of runaway slaves. Her escape triggers a ruthless pursuit. The plantation owner hires the merciless slave owner Madame La Victoire and her sons to track her down. Massamba realizes the brutal consequences awaiting her daughter if she gets captured. He has no choice but to break free from his chains and embark on a perilous journey through the island’s dense jungle to find her. The father and daughter’s journey becomes a desperate fight for survival and a final, irreversible break from the colonial system that has defined their lives.

Albertine Film Festival - Dahomey

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:15:07 +0000

Albertine Film Festival - Dahomey Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/15/2025 - 15:15 Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center) Open to the Public

Dahomey, dir. Mati Diop, 2024

*This film will be ticketed to ensure capacity. Get your tickets here.*

Click here to watch the trailer.

Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, DAHOMEY is an immersive and astounding work of art from Mati Diop – director of the award-winning Atlantics. Delving into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution, this acclaimed documentary is a poetic look at a seldom-discussed history.

Taking place in November 2021, the film takes as its subject 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey, which, along with thousands of others, were plundered by French colonial troops in 1892. As these artifacts are due to leave Paris to return to their country of origin: the present-day Republic of Benin, Diop questions how they should be received in a country that has reinvented itself in their absence, using ethereal voiceover and footage of debating students at the University of Abomey-Calavi to offer multiple perspectives.

By turns invigorating and thought-provoking, Diop’s latest uses compelling non-traditional storytelling techniques to powerfully bring the past into the present, offering an affecting, though altogether singular conversation piece that is as spellbinding as it is essential.

Questions? Please email Prof. Therese Banks (thereseb@middlebury.edu)

/college/academics/french/news-upcoming-events/albert… http://www.eventbrite.com/e/albertine-film-festival-dahomey-tickets-18144927195… Newton, Jolene (802) 443 - 5527 jynewton@middlebury.edu Film & Media Culture; French and Francophone Studies; History of Arts and Architecture; Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies; Black Studies