Columbia University Maison Française - Mauvais Genres Film Festival

October 13, 2021
Mauvais Genres Film Festival

Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender
Produced and presented by Columbia Maison Française. Curated by Nora Philippe
 
MAISON FRANÇAISE FILM FESTIVAL
October 7 - November 11

“Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes on Gender” presents nine fiction films and documentaries that were produced or co-produced in France and have never or rarely been shown in New York. Seven of these are recent films, while the two films that open and close the series are classics. These films take questions of gender identity and sexual orientation head on, through emancipatory explorations and revolutionary projects, often intimately and politically combative, presenting collective portraits and personal biographies as well as character-driven stories... Read more

Free and open to Columbia University Community only, RSVP required. Screenings introduced or followed by panel discussions with film directors and invited scholars. All films subtitled in English.


 

Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda (1962)

Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda (1962)
The screening will be introduced with messages from Agnès Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda, and Nora Philippe.
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Thursday, October 7, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) in Teachers College

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the 1960s with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits, from 5 pm to 7 pm, the results of a worrying medical test. A spirited chronicle of these minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 mixes vivid vérité and melodrama to tell a story of maturation and emancipation. ... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community only. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Out by Denis Parrot (2018)

Out by Denis Parrot (2018)
The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Denis Parrot and Nora Philippe.
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Tuesday, October 12, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Through a montage of compelling videos posted on the Internet by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth  from different parts of the world, Out makes us experience from within the groundbreaking moment of their coming out – after which their intimate and social lives shall be forever changed ... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community only. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Delphine and Carole by Callisto McNulty (2018)

Delphine and Carole by Callisto McNulty (2018)
The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Callisto Mc Nulty and Professor Christia Mercer, moderated by Nora Philippe
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Thursday, October 14, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Callisto McNulty, granddaughter of feminist director and activist Carole Roussopoulos, retraces the encounter of actress Delphine Seyrig and Roussopoulos in 1974. Both members of MLF, the Women’s Liberation Movement, and the FHAR, The Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action, Seyrig and Roussopoulos used the small video cameras that had appeared on the market to make disruptive, radical feminist films and document their actions with incisive humour ... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community only. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Bambi by Sébastien Lifshitz (2021) 

Bambi by Sébastien Lifshitz (2021) 
NYC Preview
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Thursday, October 21, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

From her earliest childhood in Algiers, Marie-Pierre only wants to wear dresses and stubbornly refuses to use the first name given to her at birth, Jean-Pierre. Marie-Pierre’s life takes a radical turn at age seventeen upon discovering a review about a transvestite cabaret on tour, "le Carrousel de Paris." In a few years, Marie-Pierre moves to Paris and becomes Bambi, a mythical figure of Parisian cabarets of the 1950s and 1960s; she performs by night, while teaching French in middle school by day... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community only. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz (2020) 

Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz (2020) 
The screening will be followed by an in-person discussion with director Sébastien Lifshitz and Nora Philippe
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Monday, October 25, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

7-year-old Sasha has always known she was a girl, even though she was assigned male at birth. As society fails to treat her like the other children her age – during her daily life at school, dance lessons, or birthday parties – her supportive family leads a constant battle to make her difference understood and accepted ... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

The Lives of Thérèse by Sébastien Lifshitz (2016) 

The Lives of Thérèse by Sébastien Lifshitz (2016) 
The screening will be followed by an in-person discussion with director Sébastien Lifshitz and Nora Philippe
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Tuesday, October 26, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Thérèse Clerc was a famous French feminist activist who, after divorcing her husband, abandoned traditional domestic life and Catholicism. She provided clandestine abortions in the 1960s, opened a center against gender-based violence and, at the end of her life, founded an alternative women-only retirement home... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Adam by Maryam Touzani (2019) 

Adam by Maryam Touzani (2019) 
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Madeleine Dobie.
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Thursday, November 4, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Abla, a widow and mother of eight-year-old Warda, runs a popular bakery in the narrow streets of Casablanca's old town. When her routine is interrupted by a knock on the door, she is unaware that her life is about to change forever. On the doorstep stands Samia, a pregnant young woman asking for a place to stay, and, in fact, to deliver her baby... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Ladies of the Wood by Claus Drexel (2021)

Ladies of the Wood by Claus Drexel (2021)
NYC Preview 

The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Claus Drexel, curator Nora Philippe and Professor Tey Meadow.
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Tuesday, November 9, 7:00-9:00 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Bois de Boulogne, Paris. In this green park bordering the city, between dusk and dawn, wandering among  joggers, horse riders and policemen, transgender sex workers share their life stories and their visions of the world on camera with both wisdom and flamboyance. These are the “Ladies of the Wood.”... Read more

Open to Columbia University Community. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.

Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty (1992)

Hyenas by Djibril Diop Mambéty (1992)
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Professor Mamadou Diouf.
 
MAUVAIS GENRES: Columbia Maison Française Film Festival
Thursday, November 11, 7:00-9:30 PM
Cowin Auditorium, Teachers College

Linguère Ramatou fled her native land in Sahel and acquired a legendary fortune; now she is returning by train to her former village, and she announces that she will make a fabulous donation, subject to certain conditions. Dramaan, Linguère's former lover, who denied paternity of their child and caused young Linguere’s initial departure, could well be the target of her revenge… Read more

Open to Columbia University Community. RSVP with CUID required. To watch the trailer, please click here.