Film series: French Film Festival 2026: A Family Affair

Three people stand in a hallway with white walls and a green door, engaged in a tense conversation. The central figure in red gestures while the others listen.

Our annual French Film Festival is supported by Albertine Cinémathèque and presented in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies.

This year's festival theme is “A Family Affair.” The selected films — which will screen at Cornell Cinema between March 1–21 — explore a dynamic range of family structures as well as the challenges, complexities, and joys that infuse family relationships.

The festival kicks off on Sunday, March 1 with Holy Cow (Vingt Deux) (2024), a heartwarming debut feature from Louise Courvoisier. The festival features an eclectic selection of contemporary and classic films from across the Francophone world. Other highlights include Jean Luc Godard's New Wave classic A Woman is a Woman (1961), the Ithaca premiere of the Academy Award-nominated animated film Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025), and a special presentation of Julia Ducournau's Titane (2018) with the LGBT Resource Center and the Gender Equity Resource Center.

Albertine Cinémathèque is part of the French For All initiative by Villa Albertine – The French Institute for Culture and Education, and Albertine Foundation, and is made possible with the support from the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC).

Other film series this semester

3-D: Another Dimension
Campus Collaborations
Colombian Tropical Gothic
Doc Spots
Experimental Lens
Exploring Ethnographic Filmmaking
Fit for Duty
Four by Francis Ford Coppola
French Film Festival 2026: A Family Affair
Human Resources: Alienation, the Body, and Science Fiction
Midcentury Melodrama
New Visions, New Voices
Olympic Visions
Recovery in Community
Restorations & Rediscoveries
Scale on Screen
Science on Screen
Seeing and Looking Across Cultures: The Films of Kimi Takesue
Stories in Motion
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