Studying abroad changes students in unexpected and remarkable ways. This article shows how students in the University of Georgia Cannes Film Festival Study Abroad Program navigate paths toward more cosmopolitan worldviews, thanks in part to improvised educational practices. I write from an autoethnographic perspective, informed by Bhabha, Said, and Appiah, as I explore how my students’ study abroad experiences with the European Other awaken memories of my first encounters, as a wide-eyed Midwestern boy, with European cosmopolitanism decades ago.