French cinema’s mainstream realist fiction once treated Jewish-Muslim coexistence as unremarkable.

Evidence

Zachmann’s work is thus a reminder of the hidden history of quiet Jewish–Muslim co-existence in the banlieue. Although today this tends to attract far less attention than the reverse, as late as 1995 the makers of the influential film La Haine could feature a Jewish character as one of a multi-ethnic trio of protagonists in an apparently realist drama. Indeed, twenty-first-century French and francophone cinema has seen a wider resurgence of representations of Jewish–Arab relations, at least some of which offer an optimistic vision of co-existence. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1398

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which twenty-first-century French films offer this optimistic vision of Jewish-Arab coexistence, and what changed culturally between 1995 stability and today’s tension?