LA HAINE + Panel Discussion w/ Amber Wyld + guests
Nov 12, 2026 · The 418 Project
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LA HAINE + Panel Discussion w/ Amber Wyld + guests
Nov 12 2026 (Thursday)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The 418 Project
In the: Small Theater
About This Event
LA HAINE (1995, Janus Films, 97 min. Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with LA HAINE, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (the great Vincent Cassel, from IRREVERSIBLE and BLACK SWAN), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis – notes courtesy of Janus Films.
Discussion following moderated by The 418 Project board member Amber Wyld and special guests on issues raised by LA HAINE on racism and identity, financial hardship, alienation, and immigrant communities being terrorized by law enforcement.
Tickets: $10 advance / $15 at the door.
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Nov 12 · 7:30 PM
LA HAINE + Panel Discussion w/ Amber Wyld + guests