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FILM: Cinefranco opens with Stephane Gehami’s En Plaine Coeur, the first of thirty-three French-language features (including Paris, shown above) and numerous short films the festival will be screening. This year's festival includes films from Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Morocco, Lebanon, and Iran. The youth program is sold out, but next weekend there is a Master Class scheduled with Quebec Cinéma Vérité veteran Michel Brault and a roundtable discussion about Moroccan art. As the city's most adorable festival organizer puts it, "How else can you get to Paris for ten dollars?" Check the festival's website for schedule details (on until April 5). Royal Cinema (608 College Street), 7 p.m., $10 per screening.

As we may have mentioned before, here at Torontoist we’re terrified of zombies—terrified! But yet we still love zombie films enough to not run out of the theatre screaming (usually). However, we’re not sure we could deal with the the Rolling Stones in IMAX, as seen in Martin Scorsese's concert film Shine a Light, released this week. A giant Mick Jagger looming over us, ready to eat our brains for sustenance! Horrifying! (We’ve been in trouble once before for saying someone looks like a zombie, but come on, you can’t argue with us here. The Rolling Stones look more like the walking dead than the Misfits have ever managed to.)

Well, there have been a lot of films made about the ongoing conflict in Iraq and its effect on soldiers, and here’s another one! Stop-Loss is probably the glossiest, most-Hollywood looking attempt so far (no mean feat, considering Paul Haggis has had a shot already) and it remains to be seen if anyone in America really wants to be reminded that its sending its army off to fight a war that the majority of them didn’t want, especially when in many cases the soldiers don’t want to go. Haggis’s attempt at examining the psychological fallout of the Iraq war In The Valley of Elah absolutely sucked a big one at the box office, and honestly we don’t see this having much of a bigger impact, even though Ryan Philippe is generally considered nicer to look at than Tommy Lee Jones.