Central College will present six French films Feb. 4-21 through a $2,200 grant from Tournées Festival fund. All films are free and open to the public at 7 p.m. in Van Emmerik Theater (Maytag Student Center). Films will be shown with English subtitles.
Feb. 4, “The Connection” (“La French”) – A police magistrate pursues a drug kingpin.
Feb. 7, “Girlhood” (“Bande de Filles”) – A French-African girl comes of age in impoverished Parisian suburbs.
Feb. 11, “Diplomacy” (“Diplomatie”) – A Swedish official negotiates with a Nazi commander to save Paris.
Feb. 14, “Le Jour se Leve” – After a man is driven to murder, he barricades himself in his garret and remembers.
Feb. 18, “Timbuktu” – The people of Timbuktu resist jihadists’ absurd laws.
Feb. 21, “Because I was a Painter” (“Parce que j’etais peintre”) – Surviving artists tell about creating art in WWII concentration camps.
Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation and Cultural Services of the French Embassy to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses.