Festival of Films in French

02/13/2026

⚠️ Festival of Films in French Schedule Change Announcement ⚠️

“Godard Cinema” - Now playing, Saturday 2/14, 4:30pm
“Princess Mandane” - Now playing, Sunday 2/22, 2:30pm

02/02/2026

The Festival of Films in French is back for 6 days of francophone documentary and fiction from all over the world, Feb 13-15 & Feb 20-22!

We'll start this 29th edition with Cédric Klapisch's "Colors of Time" on FEB 13 at 6pm. Come in from the cold to laugh and be moved by this time-traveling family mystery story that will take you from Bretagne to a 1895 Paris, bustling with avant-garde creativity and innovation!

03/05/2025

Here's a post well overdue to share how incredible the 28th edition of the UWM Festival of Films in French was: 16 films, 13 different countries and 10 languages were represented! 🇫🇷🇧🇯🇬🇳🇲🇾🇧🇾🇳🇬🇲🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🇭🇹🇨🇩🇮🇶🇹🇳
Our Opening Event in partnership with the UWM Libraries, the American Geographical Society Library & the Mathis Art Gallery shed a valuable light on questions of museum ethis and the repatriation of African Art, and offered fascinating reflections to accompany the screenings of "Statues Also Die" and "Dahomey" on opening night.
Throughout the festival, 9 wonderful and enlightening talkbacks were conducted by our diverse UWM and community co-sponsors.
A huge thank you to all of them for making this great Francophone February rendez-vous in Milwaukee possible once again!

02/11/2025

02/01/2025

Don't miss our Opening Event on Sat. Feb 15th in the Student Union, Room 280 (opposite Union Cinema), in partnership with the Museum Studies program.
-4-5PM Come view works from , Special Collections & and discuss questions of colonial appropriations, collections & restitutions
-5:15PM Introductory Remarks in the Union Cinema followed by a Double Bill, the documentaries "Statues Die Too" & "Dahomey" + Talkback

01/24/2025

Feb. 15-23, 2025! 🎬
Join us for 9 days of thought-provoking films, and travel far and across time as eyewitnesses to acts of engagement, restitution, resistance, repair and care.

11/23/2024

SAVE THE DATE 🎬
The 28th Annual Festival of Films in French will be back February 15-23, 2025 with the best of francophone fiction, documentary and animation films addressing questions of reparations, France's colonial past and the art of cinema!

02/22/2024

For our Classic Thursday this year we are presenting Jean Renoir's drama TONI, set in the Marseille region in the 1930's where a tragic story of cupidity and unrequited love take place among a community of Italian and Spanish migrants. Come discover this masterpiece at 7PM tonight!

02/21/2024

For our Environmental Wednesday, the Festival travels back to Madagascar this year with alum filmmaker Nantenaina Lova and his new project SITABAOMBA, WHERE ZEBUS SPEAK FRENCH produced by Endemika Films, playing at 7PM, about farmers fighting to save their land through the intergenerational art of storytelling.

02/20/2024

It's Silent Tuesday at the FFF2024! Come discover Jean Epstein's silent masterpiece THE LION OF THE MOGOLS at 7PM for its 100th anniversary, with live piano accompaniment by Renato Umali 🎬 + 🎼