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Moi, un noir (I, a Negro) | Tournées Film Festival

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

FREE and open to the general public! Presented with English subtitles. Doors open at 6:30, film starts at 7:00. Director Jean Rouch depicts an ordinary week in the lives of Nigerien men and women who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte … Read more

Louise en hiver (Louise by the Shore) | Tournées Film Festival

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

FREE and open to the general public! Presented with English subtitles. Doors open at 6:30, film starts at 7:00. Filled with pastel colors and realistically rendered backgrounds, Louise en hiver is a beautifully animated rumination on memory. The elderly Louise … Read more

Visages, villages (Faces, Places) | Tournées Film Festival

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

FREE and open to the general public! Presented with English subtitles. Doors open at 6:30, film starts at 7:00. A leading figure of the French New Wave, director Agnès Varda joins photographer and muralist JR in this documentary as they … Read more

Polina, danser sa vie (Polina) | Tournées Film Festival

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

FREE and open to the general public! Presented with English subtitles. Doors open at 6:30, film starts at 7:00. Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina is a promising classical ballet dancer. Just before joining the … Read more

Fatima | Tournées Film Festival

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

FREE and open to the general public! Presented with English subtitles. Doors open at 6:30, film starts at 7:00. After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes letters to her two daughters in Arabic to express what she has … Read more

World Literature in French vs. the Parisian Publishing Empire

Toy Lounge, Dey Hall

Join the UNC Department of for a lecture by Dr. Holly Collins (Baylor University).   Coffee Reception at 4:30 in Dey 216 Presentation at 5:00 in Toy Lounge   Dr. Collins's presentation focuses on the politics of publishing as it … Read more

Film Screening: An Unforgettable Summer (Un été inoubliable)

FedEx Global Center #1005 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Join us for a screening of the Romanian-language film, An Unforgettable Summer (Un été inoubliable) directed by the renown auteur Lucian Pintilie soon after the fall of communism, when his return to Romania became possible. The screening is hosted by … Read more

K-12 French Teachers Workshop

FedEx Global Center #1005 301 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Using Authentic News Sources in French as a Foreign Language Classes: Media and News Carriers from the French-speaking World The workshop will consist of a roundtable, theoretical contributions and practical application in smaller and larger groups, an inter-state dialogue, and … Read more