Version Restauree/Restored Version - Classified People

Classified People

Happy Hour 6PM-7PM

Q&A with director Yolande Zauberman after the screening

Dir. Yolande Zauberman, 1988, France, 53min, DCP
In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles

Filmed clandestinely in 1987, Zauberman’s extraordinary documentary exposes South Africa’s insidious apartheid policy of “race classification” by the Population Registration Act, dividing the country into four groups and subgroups, subjugating the lives of all non-white people. Focusing on the love affair of Robert, classified Coloured, and Doris, classified Black, and Robert’s sons, who sought to be classified as White, ensuring an unresolvable, moral fissure. Using exquisite 16mm imagery to depict a grotesque reality, the film is a critical reminder of a recent and shameful history.

Version restauree/Restored Version

Whenever Version restaurée appears in a festival program guide, trailer (bande-annonce), or before the start of a film, it indicates a new and exciting chance to revisit a beloved classic, or make a significant discovery. In recent years, extraordinary ‘restored versions’, particularly from the French speaking world, have been made available by archives, cinémathèques, rights holders and studios. Most of these restorations have never screened in the U.S., and in some cases, haven’t been shown since their original release, if ever released in the U.S. at all.

For the Fall 2024 season, L’Alliance New York presents an expansive series consisting exclusively of New York, U.S. and world premieres of Version restaurée films. Running from September 10 to December 17, the series will comprise over twenty features and short films from France, Senegal, Tunisia, Switzerland, Burkina Faso, and the Louisiana Bayou, including a 1929 muet (Gaston Modot’s Conte Cruel) to a masterpiece of the new century (Godard’s Éloge de l’amour), and films by Frederick Wiseman, Marguerite Duras, Fernando Arrabal, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Christian-Jacque, Jacques Deray, Yolande Zauberman, Samba Félix Ndiaye and Jean Cocteau.

Event Pricing:
Member Price: Free
Non Member Price: $16
Under 28 Price: $8
Buy Series Pass $50 for 2 months

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