TOURNéES FILM FESTIVAL
At
University of St. Thomas Houston
Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American college and university campuses. Our objective in providing nearly $200,000 in Tournées Film Festival grants every year is to fund festival endeavors that can eventually become permanent and self-sustaining.
Founded in 1995, Tournées Film Festival is celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2015! Since its inception, the program has partnered with over 450 universities, reaching an audience of over 500,000 students and community members all across the United States.
For the 20th edition 2015-2016 of Tournées Film Festival, we are proud to offer a wide variety of films that represent the best of French cinema distributed in the U.S., from the popular to the experimental. Showcasing established and emerging talents, Tournées Film Festival reflects the diversity and the richness of French cinema through various genres — fiction, documentary, animation and repertory films — giving participants the opportunity to expand their programming and for audiences to experience French cinema through a wider lens.
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About
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
"Le Cercle Français" is the French Club at the University of St. Thomas. We were reestablished in 2009 at UST by a French professor at the univiersity. Our mission is to share our love of French culture with the St. Thomas community and the community at large. We hope with these movies, we can share our love for France and the French culture in a large scale. If you're interested in French language and culture, come join us!