Samba Traoré screening with
Outcasts of Cinema

A grand experiment: two films, about one relationship, told from the points of view of each partner, and viewable in either order, shot stunning widescreen in black and white. Jean-Marc and Françoise meet, fall in love, marry and separate. Director André Cayatte sought to create a film that presented each story so definitively, that it would be hard for the audience to imagine the other side.

A truly unsettling French splatterfest just in time for Halloween! Discover director Alain Robak’s utterly outlandish horror film; the perfect introduction for the underseen filmmaker.

Fernando Arrabal’s first film, Viva la Muerte is an avant-garde creation shot in Tunisia and gained fame in the US as a pioneering midnight movie. The film portrays a little boy’s experience growing up during the Spanish Civil War, blending reality and nightmarish images.

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a hitman on assignment and soon on the run, bouncing around town from Beverly Hills to Venice to the strip, cops and mobsters on his tail. With a prime cast of Americans – Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret and Angie Dickinson – a score by Michel Legrand, and a screenplay unlikely credited to Ian McLellan Hunter and Jean-Claude Carrière.

Two extraordinary discoveries of regional American independent cinema by filmmaker Glen Pitre, who at age 25 was already referred to as ‘The father of Cajun cinema’ by American Film magazine. Made in Cajun French with mostly non-professional actors, both films dramatize major events in the Bayou.

On the docks of a sleazy port, the captain of the broken down ‘La Rose de le mer’ puts together a crew of the dregs of the waterfront to make a run to Casablanca, plotting to sink the boat at sea for insurance.

In 1986, Mosco Boucault interviews members of resistance cells, who assassinated Nazis, but are now living subdued lives, primarily as tailors. Underneath this history, is the long-buried source of the deaths and betrayal of their comrades who wanted to suppress the identity of the heroes of the resistance, primarily Jews and immigrants, from Poland, Romania, Spain, Italy and Hungary.

In this documentary, the first French-language film by American documentarian Frederick Wiseman, he is given unprecedented access to the company, shadowing three female actors, and the production of four classic French plays.

The first French language film, Mouramani, directed by Mamadóu Touré in Guinea in 1953, is a landmark film. However, is the film still in existence? Thierno Souleymane Diallo is determined to find out, looking for anyone who has seen it, or knows where a print of it may be.

Laurent Achard’s debut film, Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, portrays a troubling family reunion and the impact of ambient violence on children. This rare screening introduces American audiences to an underrated figure in French cinema.

Carolers and tinsel; the perfect setting for Christmas Eve in a snowy mountain village. But when a body is discovered, dressed as Santa, the hysteria soon spreads and accusations fly.