School of Babel (La cour de Babel)
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityFilm screening followed by discussion with director Julie Bertuccelli and Professor Emmanuelle Saada. They are Irish, Senegalese, Brazilian, Moroccan, Chinese… They are between 11 and 15 years old and have just arrived in France. For a year they will be all together in the same adaptation class in a Parisian secondary school. 24 students, 24 nationalities… In this multicultural arena,…