French Film Festival : Colombes sans gravité / Q&A with film director Christophe Gargot and Stephanie Perazzone
Date: 11 Nov 2025, 6:30pm - 8:45pm GMT UK
On the occasion of the 33rd edition of the French Film Festival UK, join us for a screening of the documentary Doves in Zero Gravity / Colombes sans gravité, followed by a Q&A session with director Christophe Gargot and Stephanie Perazzone (Lecturer at the University of Glasgow), whom we are delighted to welcome to the AFG for this special occasion!
About the documentary :
How the prolonged crisis in Mali has turned peacekeepers into powerless pawns caught between local wars and global geopolitics in a changing
World Order. The forces were there to stabilise the country, help restore state authority and keep jihadis at bay. Despite a 2015 peace
agreement between the government of Mali and secessionist armed groups, jihadi groups continued to gain ground in the Sahel. In 2020, a
military junta took over the state and hired Wagner Group mercenaries, leading to the departure of the French military operation Barkhane,
and the expulsion of the UN mission in 2023. The film examines how lessons from the past can help to shape peace operations of the future.
About our guests :
Stephanie Perazzone is a lecturer in International Development at the University of Glasgow. Her research centers on critical IR and
international political sociology, and includes conflict, African politics, state domination, political violence, as well as feminist and
decolonial theory, with a geographical specialization on DR Congo (DRC) and Ivory Coast.
Christophe Gargot is the author and director of From Arusha to Arusha, a feature film about the international justice system’s handling of
the Rwandan genocide. Doves in Zero Gravity is his second political
documentary film.
If you are eligible for free registration (Ecole Buissonnière, Club Picoti, Franco-Scottish society, University of Glasgow) please
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