The Department of French and Francophone Studies is organizing a Tourn\u00e9es French Film Festival which will take place on campus in February 2020. This event is sponsored by the FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. We will be screening five contemporary French and Francophone films and one classic film with an introduction and a post-screening discussion led by a faculty colleague. This year, the theme of “Identities” emerged from the film selection. These films ask big questions about identity under the scope of community; ethnic, sexual and linguistic diversity; intergenerational dialogue and solidarity; and the struggle to reconcile difficult histories with a positive future that is both pluralistic and global. Our selection of movies is an attempt to chart the multiple layers of identity and the tension between the visible and the invisible, the temporal and the spatial. It will also help us understand some of the political challenges that stem from hybrid and complex identities.<\/p>\n
Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n