Film
Shorts Program
- 9:30PM
Dir. Claire Denis
2011, 45min
Mixing documentary and essay film techniques, Denis finds stirring resonance between the past and the present to tell the story of the Alukus, a storied ethnic group descended from escaped African slaves who established their own society in 17th-century French Guiana.
Dir. Claire Denis
2014, 30min
Scripted by Christine Angot, Denis’ co-writer on Let the Sunshine In, this wounding exploration of intimacy stars Alex Descas and Norah Krief as a Parisian couple laying bare the racial and class tensions that underpin their relationship.
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Denis’ stunning debut feature explores the tension between colonizer and colonized.
A richly impressionistic portrait of the exhilaration and confusion of adolescence.
A radiant Juliette Binoche lights up Denis’ sly deconstruction of the French sex comedy.