French Cultural Center

At 19 years old, French director Nathan Ambrosioni already has heads turning. His feature-length film, Paper Flags (Les drapeaux de papier), paints an emotional picture of a man released from prison who reconnects with his sister after a 12-year absence.

This documentary follows the stories of several historical war reenactors as they prepare for the biggest war reenactment in the world's history, the 2015 Battle for Waterloo in Belgium.

Join us for our October Ciné-Club de l'Alliance as we screen Philippe Claudel's Tous les Soleils. The film follows a hapless music teacher as he struggles to reclaim his life after stumbling into a romance he never saw coming.

Join us in June for a special edition of Ciné-Club de l'Alliance. Pamela B. Green’s "Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché," narrated by Jodie Foster, is a feature documentary that rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, screenwriter, producer, and studio owner Alice Guy-Blaché.

Join us for our May Ciné-Club de l'Alliance as we screen Patrice Leconte's L'Homme du train. In this film, a bank robber arrives to do a job in a small French town and strikes up a friendship with a retired poetry teacher.

Join us for our April Ciné-Club de l'Alliance as we screen François Dupeyron's Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran. In the film, a boy from a broken home finds a friend in an insular, spiritual shopkeeper in this period drama.