This six-screening French and francophone film festival opens with A peine j’ouvre les yeux ("As I Open My Eyes"). Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid’s powerful debut is not only a striking portrait of a woman on the cusp of adulthood, but an insightful, complex look at life under a repressive political regime, with its compromises, commitments and corrosive effects on relationships. (2010; 142 min.; English subtitles). A reception opens the festival at 6:30 p.m., and a Q&A follows with professor Kirk Read and teaching assistant Khouloud Gargouri, both of the French and francophone studies department. FMI Facebook or 207-786-8239.