La Société Française de St. Louis invites you to a conference in French:
‘When the Personal Becomes Political - Two French Filmmakers in Missouri’
A Meeting with Lalita Clozel & Ariane Mohseni-Sadjadi
WHEN: Sunday, September 13, 2026 at 3:00 pm
WHERE: Alliance Française de St. Louis
930 N. McKnight Road
St. Louis, MO 63132
To attend, please send an e-mail to societefrancaisestl@gmail.com
THE PROGRAM:
With our current project, Désindustries (Discontinued), we aim to capture the dizzying scale of deindustrialization in medium-sized towns in France and the United States, sharing the experience of recent or ongoing factory closures and the nostalgia for a bygone golden age. By following the daily lives of workers rooted in their cities, we will also explore the role of communal spaces—a crucial factor for the survival of a territory: taverns, bars with tobacco and betting services, and the like—even as these spaces empty with the seasons and successive factory closures.
WHO:
Lalita Clozel comes from print journalism. French-American, she has been published in the New York Times and The Washington Post, and worked as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she attended the editing workshop at Atelier Varan in 2021.
Ariane Mohseni-Sadjadi, a graduate of HEC Paris, left her career as a trader in London to devote herself to directing Homelessly in Love. She holds a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from INA–ENS Cachan–École Nationale des Chartes and now works on socially engaged projects through an immersive and creative approach. She has also taught sociology at the University of Rouen.
Together, they co-directed Homelessly in Love, a feature-length documentary awarded the Audience Prize at the Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle and Best Feature Documentary in Dallas, selected as a Market Exclusive at Dok Leipzig and in the international competition at MyFirstDoc in Tunis.
Here is a link to the trailer of their documentary ‘Homelessly in Love’