Le Ciné-Club
📌 #1 FEBRUARY 11
Trois Amies (2024)
🎭 Synopsis
February 11 | 7:30 PM | Duration: 1h57
| Themes : Love, Family, Relationship
Joan is no longer in love with Victor and suffers from feeling dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: she herself feels no passion for Eric, and yet their relationship is going wonderfully! She doesn't know that he's having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend… When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their personal stories are turned upside down.
📌#2 FEBRUARY 18
Zinder (2021)
🎭 Synopsis
January 21 | 7:30 PM | Duration 1h21
| Themes : Conflict, Hope, and Violence.
Kara-Kara, a marginalized neighborhood in Zinder, Niger, historically home to lepers, is rife with gang violence. Some young people try to escape this cycle, sometimes starting families and building a future other than prison. Filmmaker Aicha Macky, a native of Zinder, intimately captures their daily lives, torn between their gangs, their families, their resourcefulness, and their desire to break free from the cycle of violence in which they have been trapped.
📌 #3 FEBRUARY 25
Les initiés (2017)
🎭 Synopsis
February 25 | 7:30 PM | Duration: 1h28 | Themes : Queer, Adolescence, and Drama
South Africa, Eastern Cape mountains. Like every year, Xolani, a solitary laborer, participates with other men from his community in the ritual initiation ceremonies of about ten teenagers. One of them, from Johannesburg, discovers a closely guarded secret… Xolani’s entire existence is then threatened with collapse..
