French Documentary Showcase

Overview

In alignment with Documentary Film Month in France, Auckland's Alliance Française is showing French documentaries (with English subtitles, don't worry) at the Auckland Central Library for free.

Screening on Friday, November 24 at 4pm is Il était une forêt (Once upon a time in a forest). Il était une forêt is a nature documentary written and directed by legendary French filmmaker Luc Jacquet, known for his work on the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins and The Fox and the Child. The documentary follows the story of tropical forest trees and is half-Attenboroughesque documentary, half-love letter.

On Friday, December 1 at 4pm, the 2015 documentary Des Femmes et Des Hommes (Women and Men) takes a deep plunge into the issue of global gender inequality and how it affects development, filmmaker Frédérique Bedos speaking to experts across the world – including Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of UNWomen and Pramila Patten, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict.