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Fullerton College celebrates its ninth annual French Film Festival by screening four films and a cultural fair on April 10-13, 2018. The festival provides the movie-loving public access to the art of critically acclaimed French cinema.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 – LA FAMILLE BÉLIER/The Family Bélier – 106 minutes
The Béliers are ordinary people: Rodolphe and Gigi are married, have two children and run their farm for a living. Ordinary people? Well, almost... since three of them, Dad, Mum and their son Quentin, are deaf. Which is not the case of the boy's big sister, Paula. And not only can she speak but her music teacher scouts her beautiful voice as well. He offers her to sit for the entrance exam of the Maîtrise de Radio France, a vocal elite choir in Paris. Her parents, who rely on her as their ears and mouth in the outside world, take the news badly. Paula, who hates the idea of betraying her parents and her brother, goes through a painful dilemma...

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 – DER GANZ GROSSE TRAUM/ Lessons of a Dream – 113 minutes - Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. The reform-minded headmaster has hired him as one of the very first English teachers at a German secondary school in order to breathe some fresh air into this musty institution. Koch sees how badly this is needed in his very first class. Everything that the boys know about England comes from prejudices handed down from one generation to the next. In order to stir up some enthusiasm for the foreign language, Konrad Koch resorts to unusual means. He introduces the boys to a sport which he encountered while studying at Oxford: it is called football. Unfortunately, Koch’s unconventional ways soon make him many enemies: influential parents, local dignitaries and, above all, his colleagues, who only believe in Prussian drills and discipline. They all want to get rid of Koch - but then his students decide to take the initiative ...

Thursday, April 12, 2018 – LA VANCE/One Man and his Cow – 91 minutes
Fatah, a modest, cheerful and optimistic Algerian peasant who has never left his country, dreams of taking his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agricultural Show. One day, to everyone's surprise, he receives an invitation to participate in the Paris show.

Friday, April 13, 2018 – CHOCOLAT/ALL OUT- 119 mins
The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionized the stagnant circus acts and conquered the “Paris of the Belle” era with his exuberance and originality.