The Dryden will screen Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov, France/Germany/Netherlands 2015, 88 min., DCP, French w/subtitles).

Another century has passed on the Old Continent . . . Large armies are trampling on the heart of civilization and cannon fire is once again taking its toll. Amidst the massacre and the ruins, everything majestic, magnificent, and sacred, that took millions of minutes and hours of determined labor to build, is wiped out. Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff Metternich worked together to protect and preserve the treasure of the Louvre Museum. Aleksandr Sokurov tells their story. He explores the relationship between art and power, and asks what art tells us about ourselves, at the very heart of one of the most devastating conflicts the world has ever known.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Apr-18]