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The Tournées Festival at The 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 for the second year in a row to bring French films to its campus. The Tournées Festival is presented on our campus by the departments of Foreign Languages and Literatures, English, Art, Political Science and Women and Gender Studies. We hope you will join us in the discovery of French culture through the viewing of these films.
in Edwards Hall, Room 103. (#13 on the campus map)
Each movie will be introduced by a faculty member and all attending are
invited to stay for a brief discussion of the movie after the showing.
Admission is FREE.
Refreshments will be provided.
| February 6, 2009 - Mooladé - Directed by Ousmane Sembene | |
 Photo: New Yorker Films. |
Set in a small African village, four young girls face a ritual purification
involving genital mutilation. They flee to the house of a strong-willed
woman who invokes the custom of “mooladé” (sanctuary) to protect the fugitives. Reviews |
| February 13, 2009 - Rêves de Poussière - Directed by Laurent Salgues | |
 Photo: Film Movement. |
After Mocktar loses his entire family in a terrible accident, he tries to rebuild
his life. Looking for work in Essakane, he finds a community held together by the
hope of finding gold, even though the gold rush ended twenty years before. Reviews |
| February 20, 2009 - Persepolis - Directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud |
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 Photo: New Yorker Films. |
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl coming of age in Iran during
the Islamic Revolution. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians”
and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while fundamentalists take power. Reviews |
| February 25, 2009 - Caché - Directed by Michael Haneke | |
 Photo: New Yorker Films. |
Georges and his wife Anne are living a perfect life of modern comfort and security.
However, their world is disrupted when they receive videotapes of their intimate
lives, leading to the discovery of secrets from Georges’ past. Reviews |
| February 27, 2009 - 10eme Chambre - Instants d'Audience - Directed by Raymond Depardon | |
 Photo: Koch Lorber Films. |
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial is a unique documentary on
the ins and outs of the French judicial system. Depardon selects the
stories of twelve men and women and films their encounters with the law. Reviews - Compte-Rendu |
The Tournées Festival is made possible with the generous support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Grand Marnier Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Franco-American Cultural Fund (with SACEM, the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the Motion Picture Association), Highbrow Entertainment and Agnès B.
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