Director and star Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche tells powerful stories of oppression, resistance, and rebellion. Some of his films include Wesh wesh, Qu'est-ce qui se passe?, Back Home, and Dernier maquis.The Franco-Algerian filmmaker’s trans-national perspective enriches his cinema profoundly. A truly independent filmmaker, Ameur-Zaïmeche writes, directs, produces, and stars in all his films. In Saint Louis, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche will be speaking about his work after the screening of his latest film The Story of Judas,  with film studies students at Webster and Linderwood Universities and a conference on diversity and cinema at the Centre Francophone at Webster University.  

Nov 6: Q&A after the screening of The Story of Judas

Nov 7: A conversation on diversity and cinema

From director Philippe Faucon, and winner of last year’s César Award as best film, Fatima is one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and moving portraits of the immigrant experience, offering a patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and neighbors to assimilate into a culture of which she's understandably wary.

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Robert d'Eglantine, a specialist in quantum physics, invites five of his friends to spend a weekend in his castle, lost in the woods, and to share in an experiment. From director Jonathan Helpert. 

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While on a mission in Afghanistan, French Army Capt. Antarès Bonassieu's men start vanishing one by one without explanation. Directed by Clément Cogitore. 

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Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in the feckless Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them, and the accidental daddy finds himself alone with a baby to care for. From director Alain Guiraudie. 

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In this new restoration of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s Delicatessen, a romance blooms between a butcher’s daughter and next month’s meat in this quirkily fresh black comedy from 1991. 

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Serena embarks on a journey with her mother, Alice, and a film crew to retrace grandmother Maryla’s life, from her native town of Bedzin, Poland; to the horrors of Auschwitz, where she served as Dr. Mengele’s translator; to Brussels, where she emigrated after the war. With director Serena Dykman and subject Alice Michalowski.

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A bold retelling of the saga of the most infamous of the 12 disciples, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s movie portrays Judas not as the betrayer of Jesus but as his most devoted and loving friend. Q&A by director and star Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche after the screening

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In this sequel by director Christian Duguay, Sebastian and his best friend, the giant dog Belle, are on a mission to find Angelina, whose plane crash-lands on her return from the battlefields of World War II. 

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The handsome manager of a mammoth sporting-goods store, Patrick lives with beautiful wife Isabelle and his children in a home that features all the newest luxuries, but the accoutrements of his plush life require plenty of money, and finding the necessary cash is becoming a challenge. Canadian director Ricardo Trogi.

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In Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, a powerful and deeply troubling vision of the realities of our new economic order, Vincent Lindon gives his finest performance to date as unemployed everyman Thierry, who must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals in his search for work.

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Following five women over two years as they pitch venture capitalists, build teams, bring products to market, fail, and start again, “She Started It” takes viewers on a global roller-coaster ride from San Francisco to Mississippi, from France to Vietnam. Directors Nora Poggi & Insiyah Saeed. 

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A suicide on the streets of a downtown Montréal borough unites the stories of a diverse cast of characters in Guy Édoin’s Ville-Marie.

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The final film of the late Polish master Andrzej Zulawski, Cosmos is a twisty, darkly comic, and entertainingly deranged whodunit.

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When father Jérôme fails to realize his professional dreams, he begins to focus more intensely on his 11-year-old son Ugo’s extraordinary tennis talents, burdening his only child with his own frustrated ambitions. An acute examination of pride, ego, and competition from Stéphane Demoustier.

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12-year-old Adama lives in a remote African village, but his older teenage brother Samba gets lured outside of their community to join the ranks of the Tirailleurs, French West African soldiers recruited by the French during World War I. Directed by Simon Rouby. DCP courtesy of Institut français.

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In this double bill, Gregory Monro’s brisk, informative documentary reveals the man behind the clown, and The Nutty Professor provides the proof of Jerry Lewis’ comic genius.

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Curated by Marcel Jean, Artistic Director of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, this progra, made possible by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy,  is composed of eight of the best French animated short films from the 2015 festival.
 

A mysterious illness has transformed Leo into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. Directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol.

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An intriguing collaboration between independent Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit and the famed Studio Ghibli — the dialogue-less The Red Turtle chronicles the major life stages of a castaway, a man stranded on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs, and birds but devoid of humans.

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From director Olivier Ringer: Cathy, a child of divorce, receives a typically quirky gift from her largely absent father: a duck egg to hatch. 

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Esteemed director Paul Verhoeven, is back and at his provocative best in Elle. Michèle seems indestructible, yet after she’s attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she reacts with her typically steely resolve by tracking down the man responsible.

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Viewing great historical events from a highly personal perspective, The Yatzkans traces the journey of the film’s eponymous family across war-torn 20th-century Europe.

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