L’Année

Abstract

L’Année is a short comedy film created by James Stephens, a physics student at Durham University. It tells the story of the author’s 2024-2025 year abroad in Paris, within the framework of Erasmus+, an exchange programme allowing European students to study in universities elsewhere in Europe. With a focus on what made the time unique, like lan-guage learning and the cool people, it conveys the difficulty and the fun of stepping out of your comfort zone. There was no handbook, and the author knew nobody who had gone through it before. Unknowingly stepping towards a path of complex administration, language errors and the odd house party, he embarked on a journey different from most.