French Film Festival
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Enjoy the best of French Cinema at Calvin University each fall. The French Film Festival will feature four plays by Molière, filmed at the French National Theater in Paris (La Comédie Française), in honor of the 400th anniversary of his birth.
The films will be shown at 7:00 pm in the Recital Hall located at the Covenant Fine Arts Center. (Different location from past years). Visitor parking is available in lots 9 & 10 (map). All films are subtitled in English. Films are free and open to the public.
For more information call (616) 526-6361. Sponsored by the Calvin French section of the World Languages of Calvin University, the Alliance française of Grand Rapids, the Calvin Honors Program and the English Department of Calvin University.
French Film Festival Fall 2022
- Animation
- Biography
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Comedy
- Carnages (Carnage)
- Quand la mer monte... (When the Sea Rises)
- Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)
- Potiche
- Starbuck
- Intouchables (The Intouchables)
- Quai d'Orsay (The French Minister)
- La cage dorée (The Gilded Cage)
- Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre (My Internship in Canada)
- Paul à Québec
- Good Luck Algeria
- Rosalie Blum
Dark Comedy
- Documentary
-
Drama (Family, historical, romantic, war)
- Le grand voyage (The Great Journey)
- Hop
- Raja
- Inch'Allah dimanche
- Abouna
- Depuis qu'Otar est parti... (Since Otar Left)
- Comme une image (Look at Me)
- Bord de mer (Seaside)
- Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
- Lili et le baobab
- Entre les murs (The Class)
- Le fils de l'épicier (The Grocer's Son)
- La graine et le mulet (The Secret of the Grain)
- Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (I've Loved You So Long)
- 35 rhums (35 Shots of Rum)
- Le silence de Lorna (The Silence of Lorna)
- Monsieur Lazhar
- Le vendeur (The Salesman)
- Inch'Allah
- Amour
- Le gamin au vélo (The Kid with a Bike)
- Bande de filles (Girlhood)
- La petite reine (The Little Queen)
- Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night)
- Timbuktu
- La passion d'Augustine
- Les êtres chers (Our Loved Ones)
- Fatima
- Hope
- Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
- Les héritiers (Once in a Lifetime)
- Les gardiennes (The Guardians)
Family Drama
Historical Drama
Romantic Drama
War Drama
- Mystery
- Thriller
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