Skip to main content

All of our events are open to the public! No matter who you are, you are welcome and we’d love to see you there.

To get updates from the Center, sign up for our biweekly newsletter “The Eurofile.”

Screening of L’Heure d’Été

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Tournées Festival is a program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring contemporary French cinema to American college and university campuses. After the globe-spanning settings of … Read more

Intersecting Perspectives in Transgender Film, Art, and Performance (Film Screening)

Dey Hall

Rhys Ernst and Zackary Drucker are a Los Angeles-based couple whose individual and collaborative work addresses, respectively, trans-feminine and trans-masculine experience. Drucker and Ernst will present recent films and projects, including their new experimental film collaboration, She Gone Rogue, which premiered at the Hammer … Read more

Tournées Film Festival: Couleur de Peau

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Semi-autobiographical story of a Korean baby adopted by a Belgian family. An enchanting hybrid of animation and live-action.

Tournées Film Festival: Amour

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

A depiction of one couple's struggle to maintain dignity through the unremitting cruelties of aging and life's final chapter.

Tournées Film Festival: Le Bonheur d’Elza

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The story of university graduate Elza as she adventures away from her mother and their Paris apartment to her long-lost father and her birthplace, Guadeloupe.

Tournées Film Festival: La Pirouge

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Moussa Touré’s chronicle of a sea trek from Sénégal to Europe, the pirogue’s passengers each hope to start anew in the West and escape the grim economic realities at home.

Tournées Film Festival: Le Tableau

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

One of the most inventive animated films in recent years, The Painting examines bigotry through the social classification of subjects residing in a canvas.

The Tournees Film Festival – Now Showing: Earnest et Celestine

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presented by The Dept. of Romance Languages and sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Studies and yours truly, The Tournees Film Festival are showing new French films on campus that are free and open to the public! Films are presented … Read more

The Tournees Film Festival – Now Showing: La Baie Des Anges (Bay of Angels)

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presented by The Dept. of Romance Languages and sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Studies and yours truly, The Tournees Film Festival are showing new French films on campus that are free and open to the public! Films are presented … Read more

The Tournees Film Festival – Now Showing: Gricris

Nelson Mandela Auditorium, Fedex Global Center 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presented by The Dept. of Romance Languages and sponsored by the Dept. of Asian Studies and yours truly, The Tournees Film Festival are showing new French films on campus that are free and open to the public! Films are presented … Read more