The Most Precious of Cargoes- French Film Festival

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In this animated drama set during World War II, a Jewish baby thrown from a deportation train is rescued by a Polish couple, whose compassion transforms their lives amid the horrors of the Holocaust.

Roundtable with Whitney Nowicke, UofL French Film Festival intern; Michael Portal, UofL Jewish Life & Learning Initiative director; and Olive Dreckman, UofL Office of Service Learning & Civic 

Presented with a short film: MAURICE’S BAR

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen recalls a night from Paris’s early queer scene at Maurice’s Bar, where gossip and memory evoke the mythic club and its Jewish-Algerian owner.

Each film is in French with English subtitles – no French skills required. Every screening wraps up with a post-film discussion led by local experts on French cinema and culture – your chance to join the conversation, no matter what language you speak.