CFS Film Screening Double Feature : Le Franc + The Little G

Join Canterbury Film Society, Institut Français, and the Embassy of France for our screening of two featurettes from Senegal:

Le Franc (Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1994 • 46 mins • Senegal • PG)

The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1999 • 45 mins • Senegal • PG)

In Le Franc, a penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time

The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun tells the story of a crippled girl who sells copies of Soleil, the government paper.

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

Let us take you further into film!