Film: Le Retour (Homecoming)(Francophone Film Festival)
- Event Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
- Time: 6:30 pm–8:30 pm (CDT)
- Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
Quick Stats
- French film by Catherine Corsini
- 2023
- 1h46
- Fiction, Drama
Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing along her own two teenage daughters Jessica and Farah, it is an opportunity for them to go back to the island they left 15 years earlier, in tragic circumstances. While their mother grapples with her memories, the two girls indulge in all the summer temptations: unexpected encounters, mischief and first love experiences. Meanwhile, questions are surfacing about their distant past on the island, leading them to dig deeper into their mother’s version of the family story.
Themes
- Family,
- Youth,
- Vacation,
- Grief,
- France,
- Sexuality,
- Mediterranean,
- Travel,
- Conflict
Read more about the Francophone Film Festival (external link).
All films will have English subtitles.
Contact
For further information on this event, contact Aurore Mroz at apmroz@illinois.edu (email link).
All are welcome. To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact Brian Cudiamat at cudiamat@illinois.edu (email link) or (217) 244-5586.