SUMMARY

French Women Filmmakers and Global Perspectives : This webinar presented three movies from the 2021 Young French Cinema program and a roundtable discussion with the filmmakers. All three films are by women writer-directors and feature characters outside France. À coeur battant (The End of Love, Keren Ben Rafael) is set in France and Israel, Sous le ciel d’Alice (The Skies of Lebanon, Chloe Mazlo) takes place in Beirut, and Si le vent tombe (Should the Wind Drop, Nora Martirosyan) followed a French inspector in Nagorno Karabakh. The virtual roundtable discussion gathered the three filmmakers, Keren Ben Rafael, Chlo Mazlo and Nora Martirosyan and addressed storytelling, gender and French culture beyond its borders.