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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
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On a cold winter's day in 1940, Jules and his family move in with his uncle, mayor of a settler's village in northern Quebec. When his dog Spark runs into the forest, Jules follows and meets a mysterious young Indigenous girl named Asha. Together, they venture to the other side of the forest, where nature reveals itself full of life and secrets.
4) Joan of Arc
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In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful JOAN OF ARC will stay true to her mission. Bruno Dumont’s decision to work with a ten-year-old actress re-injects this heroine’s timeless cause and...
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"France in 1563. Protestants and Catholics are fighting for land and power, invoking their religion as justification. At the head of the Protestants stands Henri of Navarre, leading his men against Paris, against the Catholics, and against his mother's powerful rival: Catherine de Medici, Queen of France. Until she offers him the hand of her daughter, Margot, as a sign of reconciliation... but the wedding ends in a terrible bloodbath. Henri survives...
7) Delicious
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Résumé: France, 1789, juste avant la Révolution. Avec l'aide d'une surprenante jeune femme, un chef limogé par son maître trouve la force de se libérer de sa position de domestique et ouvre le premier restaurant.
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"In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a young courtesan, the Charpillon, which attracts him to the point of forgetting the other women"--www.imdb.com.
13) Django
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In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
16) Regular lovers
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Set in Paris in 1968 about a draft-dodging, student poet grappling with the tumult of the Parisian riots and the aftermath, and a doomed romance with Lilie, a sculptor.
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In today's Ecuador, the black population, the descendants of enslaved Africans, continue to experience strong racial and social discrimination. Yet people in the community still strive to value their specific culture and transmit the rebellious memory of their ancestors who fought for freedom. The Esmeraldas Beach sets out to expose the invisibility of Afro-Ecuadorians and rectify the narrative of the country's history with the film's central protagonist,...
18) The sower
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Winner of the prestigious New Director competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Marine Francen’s debut is a sensual, visually stunning historical romance. In 1851, France’s autocratic President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte has ordered the arrest of all the men of a remote mountain farming village following a Republican uprising. The women spend years in total isolation, forced to tend the crops themselves. Some women have lost their husbands;...
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Criterion collection volume 1034
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"On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman"--from www.imdb.com.
20) La Marseillaise
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Jean Renoir, one of the greatest French directors, tells the epic story of the French Revolution. Made towards the end of France's left wing Popular Front government when Europe was on the brink of war, this is a markedly political film about a country in flux. Filmed in a jaunty newsreel style, it follows a cross section of people, from the citizens of Marseilles to Louis XVI, who are affected by the shifting political and social forces in the early...
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