Fullerton College French Film Festival Returns March 29
It’s time to experience the finest of French and German culture at Fullerton College. After two years, the beloved French Film Festival is returning to the Campus Theatre on Mar. 29. The Foreign Languages Department and Humanities Division are excited to invite members of the campus community to enjoy four nights of culture, food, art, and music on March 29 – 30 and April 5 – 6.
The French Film Festival is a four-night festival that begins each night with a cultural event at 6:30 p.m. in the Campus Theatre Patio Area featuring food, music and art and is followed by a featured film showing at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Theatre. The event also brings together students from the French and German Clubs to provide music and dance performances.
This year’s featured films include:
- Pupille/In Safe Hands on March 29
The delicate and emotionally precarious path of a newborn put up for adoption is the subject of writer-director Jeanne Herry’s second feature, In Safe Hands/Pupille, which follows several adults and one bright-eyed baby boy from his birth to the moment he finally lands home. - Ballon/Balloon on March 30
Thüringen, Summer 1979. The Strelzyk and Wetzel families have been working on an audacious plan for more than two years: they want to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But the balloon crash-lands just before the West German border. The Stasi finds traces of the attempted escape and launches immediately an investigation, while the two families are forced, under extreme time pressure, to build a new escape balloon. The Stasi get closer and closer each day – a nerve-racking battle against the clock begins. - Un Triomphe/A Big Hit on April 5
Etienne, an often out-of-work but endearing actor, runs a theatre workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot. When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive. Each date is a new success and a unique relationship grows between this ad hoc group of actors and their director. But soon comes the final performance in Paris. Will their last night together be the biggest hit of them all? - Au Bout Des Doigts/ In Your Hands on April 6
Music is Mathieu Malinski’s secret, a subject he doesn’t dare talk about in his suburbs where he hangs out with his friends. While one of the small burglaries he makes with them leads him to the gates of the prison, Pierre Geitner, director of the National Conservatory of Music saves him in exchange for hours of general interest labor. But Pierre also has another plan in mind.
Ticket sales are available at the Fullerton College Box Office. The general admission price is $10 per film or $7 per film with Fullerton College student ID. For more information, visit the French Film Festival website.
Guests, 18 and older, are required to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result from the last 72 hours. Masks are required indoors regardless of vaccination status.
