Please join us for a 90-minute roundtable discussion with the renowned filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako on April 29th 10:30 am - 1:00 pm. For our discussion, we will show excerpts from Sissako’s work and ask a few opening questions with an open format in a bi-lingual French and English discussion. In addition, Peter Bloom (Film and Media), Dominique Jullien (Comparative Literature/French and Italian), and Eric Prieto (French and Italian) will be actively involved in facilitating the discussion. If you would like to submit a question in advance to facilitate our discussion, please send them to pbloom@ucsb.edu before Friday, April 29th . A catered lunch will follow our roundtable.

Please note that Timbuktu (2014) will be screened with a Question and Answer to follow at the Pollock Theater on Thursday, April 28th , 2022 at 7:00 pm. For more information and to make a reservation see: https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/timbuktu/