Ciné Club - Rouge

Join us for a Francophone movie night as we watch Une fois que tu sais, directed by Emmanuel Cappellin

In this film set in a small French town, tensions arise within a family when it is discovered that pollution from a chemical plant is causing workers to fall ill.

Nour has just been hired as a nurse in the chemical plant where her father, a union delegate and long-time company leader, works. While the plant is undergoing a health inspection, a young journalist is investigating the waste management. The two young women gradually discover that this factory, a pillar of the local economy, is hiding many secrets. Between lies about polluting discharges, doctored medical records and hidden accidents, Nour will have to choose between keeping silent or betraying her father and getting the truth out.

Film will be shown in French with English subtitles

Farid Bentoumi is an Algerian-French actor and director whose work has been shown at film festivals across the world including Cannes. His notable 2011 film Burners  focuses on the story of amateur filmmaker Amine from Algiers, who treks with his friends through Europe. Bentoumi won the Muhr Arab Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Dubai International Film Festival for Burners.  His films often speak to themes such as mixed-ethnicity relationships, longing, corruption, and patriotism.