Les Misérables (2019)

This César-winning drama, by first-time feature director Ladj Ly, explores life on a poor Paris estate as tensions with the police reach boiling point in the summer of 2018. Set in Montfermeil - the Paris district which was the setting for Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables - Ly’s film evokes Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and David Simon’s seminal TV series The Wire.

Les Misérables was selected for the festival by Dr Benedicte Brahic, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Benedicte will introduce the film and the post-screening Q&A will involve Frederic Blesser, Trustee for Alliance Francaise de Manchester (Registered Charity n° 1068084) and Ian MacDonald, a former senior police officer, whose family was from Liverpool’s Toxteth area and who policed the 1981 riots there.

The Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival 2024

This is the first event in this year’s festival sponsored by the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University and curated by staff from the university’s

Since 2019 we’ve had a consistent mission – screening great films which provoke debate and provide an alternative take on crime, justice and punishment in the 21st century.

for details of the other film screenings and events in our programme.

Where are we hosting this event?

We are hosting this event in GF:11 at East Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG (opposite the Footage). A five minutes’ walk from Oxford Rd Station.

See you at the movies!

Your festival team:

Kevin Wong, Gavin Bailey, Anton Roberts, Katie Hunter and Phil Edwards

Host or Publisher Arts & Humanities Research & Innovation