This year, eight free and open-to-the-public Master Classes will be held on the VCU campus at the new Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) at VCU. Simultaneous interpretation headsets will allow everyone to participate in the discussions regardless of English or French proficiency levels. The ICA Auditorium has 204 seats.

Human rights, social justice, mental health and aging, environmental activism, immigration, reconciliation, artistic freedom and expression are some of the themes weaved throughout the selection of films in this year’s Festival. These two days of Master Classes permit a better understanding into how directors, screenwriters, actors, and artist-technicians create ingenious ways through the visual and aural power of cinema to communicate important issues facing our world today while captivating and entertaining the viewer.  Discussions in the Master Classes also reveal from whom artists have drawn inspirations and with whom they elaborated, or pushed even further, certain styles and cinema genres.

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Sponsor(s)
Humanities & Sciences
President`s Office
University of Richmond
Speaker(s)
Thierry Lhermitte, Pierre-William Glenn, Gérard Krawczyk, Jérôme Enrico, Gilles Porte, Nicolas Champeaux, François Troukens, Julie Voisin, Mathieu Simonet, Alexandre Tacchino
Audience
All ( Open to the public )
Website
Free Master Classes
French Film Festival