Tournées French Film Festival

THANK YOU to all who helped make our second Tournées Festival a success. Please check this site again for information on our future public events. 

The following films were shown in fall 2008:

Oct. 7 : Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One)

Oct. 14: Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Oct. 21:  L'Origine de la tendresse et autres contes (a program of short films)

Oct. 28: Persepolis

Nov. 3:  Le Voyage du ballon rouge

The films are in French with English subtitles. Please see below for detailed descriptions of the films.

Since its inception, the Tournées Festival has partnered with hundreds of universities and has made it possible for more than 300,000 students to discover French-language films.  The French section of the Modern and Classical Languages Department was honored to be selected as a participating institution and recipient of a grant which provides critical financial support for the acquisition and screening of the films.  The films were selected from a list proposed by the Tournées Festival for the current year.

The Tournées Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, Agnès b. and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.  We would also like to thank the UST libraries/Media Resources Collection and the UST Department of Modern & Classical Languages for their support.

More information about the Tournées Festival and the films can be found at http://www.facecouncil.org/tournees/index.html
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Here is the schedule of films to be screened at UST: 

Tuesday, Oct. 7 "Ne le dis à personne" (Tell no one)
		Photo:  Music Box Films

Alex, a pediatrician, has been devastated since his wife Margot was savagely murdered eight years ago. One day he receives an anonymous email: when he clicks on the inserted link, he sees a woman's face standing in a crowd, being filmed live. Alex is in shock: it is his wife’s face. Alex's unrelenting questioning  unravels a sordid story that will incriminate unscrupulous family members and ultimately reunite him with his wife. (some violent content)

Tuesday, Oct. 14 "Le Scaphandre et le papillon" (The diving bell and the butterfly)
		Photo:  Swank Motion Pictures

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby suffered a stroke at the age of 43 that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently describes the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he only visits in his mind.

Tuesday, Oct, 21 "'L'Origine de la tendresse' et autres contes" ('L'origine de la tendresse' and other tales)
		Photo:  The World According to Shorts

A series of short films including:
-My Mother, Story of an Immigration: The story of the director's mother who left Algeria in 1956 to reunite with her husband in Paris.
-L'origine de la tendresse : Elise is a quiet, solitary woman who works as a museum attendant. Nothing really happens in her life. And in a life in which nothing happens, no moment is devoid of meaning.
The other shorts include: Pen-pusher, One Voice One Vote, The Last Day, and Kitchen

Tuesday, Oct. 28 "Persepolis"
		Photo:  New Yorker Films

This animated film tells the poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.  Clever and fearless, Marjane outsmarts local "social guardians."  As a student in Vienna she has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism she is trying to escape.  Marjane endures the typical ordeals of a teenager as she continues to speak against the hypocrisy she witnesses.  There will be a panel discussion after the film.

Monday, Nov. 3 "Le Voyage du ballon rouge" (Flight of the red balloon)
		Photo:  New Yorker Films

A mysterious red balloon affectionately follows a little boy around Paris. Inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic 1956 short The Red Balloon, the fluid, unparalleled elegance of Hou's first French-language film finds grace in the simplest details, and gently discovers a Paris previously unseen.