Wild Side
Un film de Sébastien Lifshitz
French & Francophone Spring Film Series
Wednesday February 5, 2020
Reception: 5:15pm
Film Screening: 6:00pm
VCAM Screening Room 001
Haverford College
*With English subtitles
Free and open to the public
Stéphanie, a transgender sex worker travels from Paris to a small town to care for her sick mother. She is joined by her two flatmates, a Franco-Algerian hustler and a Russian soldier gone AWOL. Sébastien Lifshitz’s third feature is a meditative tone-poem on society’s marginalized, drawing on the director’s collection of migrants and misfits. The film stitches together the frayed threads of this trio’s lives into a non-linear tapestry that assesses their fractured and self-spun senses of temporality, family, nationality, sexuality, and gender.
Presentation by the film’s director Sébastien Lifshitz. Screening will begin at 6pm and will be followed by a masterclass with the director.
Cosponsored by the Film Studies Program and a Seed Grant from the Mellon Foundation