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SUMMARY:France's Children (75 minutes): Screening and Q&A
LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 235 Carroll St NW\, Washington\, DC 20012\, US
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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 20\, 2026\, 6 PMBusboys and Poets\, Brookland
 : 625 Monroe St NE\, Washington\, DC 20017 Join us for a screening of Fran
 ce's Children\, presented in partnership with Drop Site and followed by a 
 Q&A with director Aida Alami\, moderated by Ryan Grim. March 2017: five ye
 ars after her brother Amine was killed by a police officer\, activist Amal
  Bentounsi finally comes face to face with the man who shot him. As the tr
 ial unfolds\, Amal and fellow organizers transform a courtroom proceeding 
 into a national challenge to police violence\, racism\, and exclusion in c
 ontemporary France. But the courtroom is only part of the story. Outside\,
  a much larger battle is unfolding over who gets to define the country's v
 alues\, whose suffering is acknowledged\, and whose version of events beco
 mes history. Following Amal\, Nadia\, Yasser\, Nassim\, and other human ri
 ghts defenders over five pivotal days\, the film captures a generation of 
 French citizens\, many of them children of immigrants from North and West 
 Africa\, who refuse to remain on the margins of the national narrative. Dr
 awing inspiration from Black American liberation movements while confronti
 ng France's own unresolved colonial legacy\, they challenge a country that
  promises equality yet often struggles to…
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