Join us for a retrospective film screening, a part of a day long event reflecting on Riots, Rebellions, and Anti-colonial Formations.
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM, FILM BEGINS AT 7PM.
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine (1995), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts.
Passing their days in the concrete environs of their suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui) give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
Schedule
3-5PM: Battle of Algiers (1966) PLEASE REGISTER SEPERATELY HERE
5-6:30PM Panel discussion with Esmat Elhalaby and Mathieu Rigouste PLEASE REGISTER SEPERATELY HERE
7-9PM: La Haine (1995)
Accessibility: Innis College is accessible on the main floor, including Town Hall. There are four dedicated spaces for assistive mobility devices at the rear of Town Hall, and the theatre has power-assisted doors for full access. Assistive-listening devices are also available. An accessible gender-neutral washroom is located on the third floor of the east wing. Please direct any accessibility inquiries to rentals.innis@utoronto.ca.
Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts annually presents new works by a diverse range of artists, who are both workers and activists. We prioritize the participation of artists and audiences from communities facing systemic discrimination. Our programming offers bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are actively engaged in a social dialogue that challenges the logics of capitalism, and seeks to reimagine and represent a just future. Explore the 2024 Mayworks Festival calendar.
