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Film: Funan, dir. Denis Do, 2018

Cambodian genocide as experienced by the members of one family in an animation based on the director's mother's memories of the Khmer Rouge—with voice acting from Louis Garrell and Bérénice Bejo

October 18th, 2019|Country: Belgium, Cambodia, France, Luxembourg|

Film: At War, dir. Stephane Brizé, 2018

The award-winning duo of Stephane Brizé and Vincent Lindon returns with a high stakes drama about workers fighting against the closure of their manufacturing plant in small town France

September 26th, 2019|Country: France|

Art: Philippe Quesne, The Moles, 2019

Seven giant moles make New York city their stomping ground in a series of immersive performances channeled by the underground dwellers through the brilliant mind of French artist/director

September 13th, 2019|Country: France|

Film: Traffic, dir. Jacques Tati, 1971

Mr. Hulot navigates the brave new world of transportation: the Tati classic finds new meaning 50 years later, as we anxiously await self-driving cars and battle the public systems for efficiency

August 26th, 2019|Country: France, Italy, Netherlands|

Art: Franck Lundangi, The Bird, 2013

Fantastic beasts, third eyes and unity with the cosmos in the works of a mystic painter who used to be a soccer player: the kind of spiritual imagery we need in the anthropocene

July 29th, 2019|Country: Angola, France|

Film: No Box for Me, dir. Floriane Devigne, 2018

Two intersex humans in France and Switzerland build an affecting friendship as they learn to accept their bodies and battle the marginalization of intersex existence in the Western culture

July 22nd, 2019|Country: France, Switzerland|

Film: Mama Bobo, dir. Ibrahima Seydi and Robin Andelfinger, 2017

A short but powerful film about an elderly widow in Dakar whose everyday routine of looking back at her life from a decrepit bus stop is interrupted by the city's rapid gentrification

July 21st, 2019|Country: Belgium, France, Senegal|

Book: Gaston Dorren, Babel, 2018

A book of wildly entertaining and illuminating essays on the world’s top 20 languages that celebrates the planet’s differences and similarities in a new way and makes you want to learn a new language

July 11th, 2019|Country: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tamil Eelam, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam|

Book: Pierre-Henry Gomont, Malaterre Part 1, Part 2, 2018

A man tries to reclaim his family's former holdings in one of France's colonies by manipulating his own teenage children in a fantastic double feature written and illustrated by the author

June 28th, 2019|Country: France|

Film: The Mercy of the Jungle, dir. Joël Karekezi, 2018

Two Rwandan soldiers try to survive the jungle after being separated from their platoon during the Second Congo War in the first all-black anti-war film from a young and promising Rwandan talent

June 24th, 2019|Country: Belgium, DR Congo, France, Rwanda|

Film: Return to Bollène, dir. Saïd Hamich, 2017

Upon his return to his hometown in the South of France, a young proffesional Muslim man has revelatory encounters with the ultra-right politics, his family and himself

May 28th, 2019|Country: France|

Art: Laeïla Adjovi and Loïc Hoquet, Malaïka Dotou Sankofa, 2017

A series of photographs on freedom and African identity that won the Dak’art Biennale Grand Prix

May 17th, 2019|Country: Benin, France|

Music: Deben Bhattacharya, Zingari, 2011

Following the routes of Roma migration across Europe via music

April 25th, 2019|Country: Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Roma, Romania, Spain|

Film: Wild Boys, dir. Bertrand Mandico, 2017

Avant-garde queering of "Lord of the flies" by Bertrand Mandico

April 18th, 2019|Country: France|

Art: Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, 1163

A fire in the medieval icon causes a necessary discussion about appreciating and possessing

April 16th, 2019|Country: France|