Westminster College presents 7th annual Tournées French Film Festival

NEW WILMINGTON, PA – Westminster College’s seventh annual Tournées French Film Festival will bring contemporary and classic French cinema to campus beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Over six consecutive weeks, six French films—five contemporary and one classic—will be presented. All screenings will take place 7 p.m. each Tuesday evening in the McKelvey Campus Center’s Mueller Theater.

Schedule:

Jan. 29: L’atelier (The Workshop)

Feb. 5: Félicité

Feb. 12: Visages, Villages (Faces, Places)

Feb. 19: Polina 

Feb. 26: Les Fantômes d’Ismaël (Ismael’s Ghosts)

March 5: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of Monsieur Lange)

Each film will be introduced by a Westminster College faculty member or student and will be followed by discussion. All films will be in French with English subtitles.

Presented by the Westminster College Department of Modern Languages and the Jake Erhardt International Film Series, the Tournées Film Festival is made possible through a grant awarded by the French-American Cultural Exchange and sponsors Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée, Franco-American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment.

For more information, contact Dr. Ann Murphy, associate professor of French and Spanish, at 724-946-3046 or dammroa@westminster.edu.

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