And yet her latest work, the refugee satire Meet the Barbarians (Les Barbares), is probably her most bluntly French film to date, and certainly her most political one. But it may also be her least ...

The French satire takes aim at the differences between Ukrainian and Syrian refugees in Western eyes ... are differentiated from the rest of the movie by news chyrons, as well as by a smaller ...

Non-professional actor Abou Sangare stars in Boris Lojkine’s drama as a refugee in Paris awaiting ... winning best acting honors at the European Film Awards and France’s Césars.

Renault (Claude Rains), the city’s suave French police chief ... And if the plot of Casablanca argues the case for helping refugees, the film’s very existence is a pretty strong argument ...

In English, French and Kurdish ... And Lioret gets some surprising moments from the film’s cast of refugees — unsurprisingly surprising, perhaps, because all of them are nonprofessionals ...

The group staged some small plays at Kavumu, but soon turned their attention to movies ... refugee camps around the world, and has earned high-profile accolades, including a laureate from French ...

As the refugees in the bar belt out their anthem, the film cuts to a closeup of the young French actress Madeleine Lebeau, tears streaming down her face. Lebeau had fled Paris with her husband ...

The French actress Madeleine Lebeau, in the small role of Rick’s jilted mistress, cries real tears during the film’s stirring performance of “La Marseillaise”; she too was a refugee ...

During the dramatic journey, the film shows her telling a fellow refugee, “Swimming is home ... with real-life French-Lebanese sisters Nathalie and Manal Issa playing them on screen.

While the French ... a refugee who’s also an experienced doctor, brings a sudden burst of true emotion. Despite Delpy’s attempts at broad satire, she ultimately delivers a message movie ...

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story, a French drama about a ... best acting honors at the European Film Awards and France’s Césars.