New French Cinema Week

One of the great joys of AFS’s programming is the annual series they put on that support the film community both locally and globally. For example, a partnership with Austin’s French sister city’s film festival Premiers Plans Festival of Angers, Unifrance’s Young French Cinema program, and the French embassy makes New French Cinema Week possible, elevating the country’s current creators for American audiences who may only be familiar with Godard. This week, films on offer include Àma Gloria, an exploration of the relationship between a 6-year-old Parisian girl and her Cape Verdean nanny; Through the Night, a modern Rashomon from the perspective of a 911 operator; Marion Cotillard co-helmed hybrid documentary Little Girl Blue; and Dahomey, which follows the return of 26 artifacts stolen by the French from the African kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin. – Lina Fisher