Join Us for a French Film Festival

Hosted by the Francophone Film Collaborative and Ciné Club, Department of French & Italian at the University of Minnesota


The latest movies from France.
FREE.
English subtitles

Wednesday, November 5
Ne Le Dis A Personne
Dir. Guillaume Canet (France, 2006)
Bell Museum Auditorium : 6 PM
Eight years after the murder of his wife, Alexandre Beck still grieves. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes a suspect himself!

Friday, November 7
Plafond de Verre
Yamina Benguigui (France, 2004)
275 Nicholson Hall : 6 PM
This documentary offers revealing accounts of discrimination faced by full-fledged French citizens who are children of immigrant parents.

Tuesday, November 11
10e Chambre - Instants d'audience
Dir. Raymond Depardon (France, 2004)
UMN Law School : 6 PM
Cameras are allowed in a French courtroom for the first time … with amazing revelations. How does this system of justice differ from ours? Come see for yourself!

Friday, November 14
Inch Allah Dimanche
Yamina Benguigui (France, 2001)
Alliance Française : 7 PM
113 N. 1st St Mpls, MN 55401
A deeply moving memoir of the isolation and vulnerability that immigrant families experienced upon arrival in France at a time when racial integration was virtually non-existent. Poignant, even funny at times … with a hopeful look to the future.

Wednesday, November 19
Molière
Dir. Laurent Tirard (France, 2007)
Bell Museum Auditorium : 6 PM
French comedic playwright, Molière, mysteriously disappears for several weeks. He had been put in jail after skipping out on some debts, but once freed . . . the fun begins!

Friday, November 21
Rêves de Poussière
Dir. Laurent Salgues (FR/ CA/ B.F., 2006)
275 Nicholson Hall : 6 PM
Mocktar goes to Burkina Faso to work in a dusty gold mine, where he hopes to forget his past. He finds the gold rush has ended and the citizens exist simply from force of habit. His future?

Tuesday, November 25
L’Avocat de la Terreur
Dir. Barbet Schroeder (France, 2007)
UMN Law School : 6 PM
‘Communist’, ‘anti-colonialist’, ‘right-wing extremist’? This film takes us down history’s darkest paths to illuminate the mystery behind attorney Jacques Verges – and leads us to some shocking revelations.

The Tournées Festival, a program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), is made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, Unifrance, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, agnès b. and the Fonds culturel franco-américain (the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association, SACEM and the Writers Guild of America). For more information on FACE programs, please visit www.facecouncil.org.

(Images, from top: Flandres © International Film Circuit, Le Scaphandre et le papillion © Swank Motion Pictures, L'Homme de sa vie © Strand Releasing, Persepolis © New Yorker Films, Chacun sa nuit © Strand Releasing.)