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The Tournées Festival at SUNY College at Brockport |
First launched by the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in 1995, The Tournées Festival was conceived to help isolated universities have access to new French films that are normally only distributed in big cities. SUNY College at Brockport has been chosen as a recipient of this grant to bring French films to its campus. The Tournées Festival is presented on our campus by the departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English, Business Administration and Economics and Political Science. We hope you will join us in the discovery of French culture through the viewing of these films.
Refreshments will be provided.
| February 1, 2008 - Avenue Montaigne - Directed by Danièle Thompson | |
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One day, Jessica, a naïve girl from the south-east of France,
decides to go to Paris and finds a job at a café frequented
by the "tout Paris".
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| February 8, 2008 - The Case of the Grinning Cat - Directed by Chris Marker | |
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In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects
on art, culture and politics at the start of the new millennium.
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| February 15, 2008 - Comedy of Power - Directed by Claude Chabrol | |
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Jeanne, a magistrate, must sort out and prepare
for trial a complex case of misappropriation and embezzlement
of public funds implicating the president of an important
industrial firm.
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| February 22, 2008 - La Moustache - Directed by Emmanuel Carrère | |
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Marc impulsively shaves off the moustache he's worn his
entire adult life. However, no one notices the difference
and everyone insists Marc hasn't worn a moustache for years,
if ever, plunging Marc into tormented perplexity.
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| February 29, 2008 - Bamako - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako | |
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A trial pitting African civil society against such
international financial institutions as the World Bank
and the IMF has set a stage in the courtyard of a home
in Bamako, Mali.
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The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Culture (CNC), the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation, highbrow entertainment, agnès b. and the Franco-American Cultural Fund.
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