by MerciSF | 24-04-2025 | Agenda, Movie, See All CinémaGoing OutSmith Rafael Film Center
At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile (Lily McInerny) is languishing by the French seaside with her handsome father, Raymond (Claes Bang) and his lover Elsa (Naïlia Harzoune) when the arrival of her late mother’s friend Anne (Chloë Sevigny) changes everything.... 
by MerciSF | 28-10-2023 | Agenda, Movie, See All Academy AwardCannes Film FestivalFrench cinemaGoing OutPalme d'Or 2023Smith Rafael Film Center
Anatomy of a Fall, that premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival, is now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this film is unanimously acclaimed and a must-see. It is truly gripping. Sandra (Sandra... 
by MerciSF | 1-06-2022 | Agenda, Movie, See All French movies with subtitlesLandmark OperaRomain DurisSmith Rafael Film CenterTour Eiffel
The movie revolves around Gustave Eiffel (Romain Duris) as he finishes his collaboration on the Statue of Liberty and is pressured by the French government to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair. Eiffel simply wants to design the subway, but... 
by MerciSF | 27-04-2022 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All Audrey DiwanFrench movies with subtitlesSFFilm Festival 2022Smith Rafael Film CenterWomen Rights
Presented at SFFILM Festival 2022, we had the opportunity to see “Happening”, by Audrey Diwan. “Happening” is a powerful film from which we do not emerge unscathed. Tight framing, oppressive images, hard-hitting dialogues: here the cinematography is at the... 
by MerciSF | 3-01-2022 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All French movies with subtitlesLea SeydouxSmith Rafael Film Center
France is a 2021 drama film, written and directed by Bruno Dumont. The film features the life of a star television journalist caught in a spiral of events that will lead to her downfall. The film is intended to be a satire of the treatment of information by television... 
by MerciSF | 27-06-2021 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All French Embassy Cultural ServicesSmith Rafael Film Center
New French Shorts 2021 is the showcase of some of the most exciting new cinematic voices from France. It includes the Oscar-nominated animated short Genius Loci and César Award winners And Then the Bear and So What if the Goats Die? Boasting festival favorites from... 
by MerciSF | 25-04-2021 | Agenda, Movie, News, See All DocLands Documentary FestivalDocumentaryFrench movies with subtitlesSmith Rafael Film Center
9 days in Raqqa, directed by Xavier de Lauzanne, is a very compelling documentary that highlights a Kurdish Syrian young woman’s unexpected story. At just 30 years old, Leila Mustapha, a Kurdish Syrian civil engineer by trade, has become the mayor of Raqqa,... 
by MerciSF | 24-09-2020 | Agenda, Movie, See All DocumentarySmith Rafael Film Center
Myth of a colorblind France – For more than a century, Black artists, authors, musicians, and others have traveled to Paris to liberate themselves from the racism of the United States. What made these artistic innovators choose France? Why were the French...
