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PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNNE FILLE EN FEU /PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE 6 PERDRIX /THE BARE NECESSITY 7 LES HIRONDELLES DE KABOUL / THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL 8 LA VIE SCOLAIRE / SCHOOL LIFE 9 LES CREVETTES PAILLETEES /THE SHINY SHRIMPS 10 11 JUSQU’À LA GARDE / CUSTODY 12 CHAMBRE 212 /ON A MAGICAL NIGHT 13 SEULES LES BETES/ ONLY THE ANIMALS 14 LES MISERABLES /LES MISERABLES 15 LE PROCES CONTRE MANDELA / THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS 16 17 TU MERITES UN AMOUR / TU MERITES UN AMOUR 18 ATOMU /ATOMU 19 UN DIVANA TUNIS/ARAB BLUES 20 PATIENTS/PATIENTS 21 RUBBER /RUBBER 22 /ZOMBI CHILD 23-24 Alternative films selection

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1 PRESENTATION Thisyearwe areproudto featurefilmmakerssuchas CelineSciamma Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation, in with Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and singular storyteller, Quentin partner-ship with theCultural Servicesof the French Embassy in the Dupieux. We are also currently working on a addition of short films United States. It aims to bring French cinema to American colleges fromSouthAfricanemergingdirectors. and universitycampuses.

French Films on Campus is inspired by Tournées and developped in In this brochure you will find application information and guidelines, partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the distributor contacts, and descriptions of the films selected for the United States, the French Institute in and the Premiers Plans 2020/21 season. Festival. All of this information and more such as guideline for your The festival aims to bring French cinema to universities audiencesin applicationand and fororganizingand promotingyourfestivalcan South Africa, Madagascar, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, alsobe found. Namibia,Swaziland,ZambiaandZimbabwe.

The program in the United States encourage Universities to create their own French film festivals. Now in its 19th year, the Tournées festivalhas partneredwithmorethan450 universities,enablingmore than500,000 studentsto discoverFrenchfilms.

Inspired by this success and this expertise, we have decided to customizethefestivalformatto engagewithaselectionof Universities in Africa. The selected films and series of this first edition of French Films on Campus Africa cross generational and geographical boundaries, offer a wide range of genres and subjects, and present innovations in both style and storytelling. They include films by emergingdirectorsas wellas filmsby respectedand renownedfigures of Frenchcinema.

French Films on Campus Africa Festival 2020 will be online using FestivalScopeprofessionalplatform. GUIDELINES–Atailor-madefestivalto fityourneedsandexpectations: => Departments in charge of organizing the festival are highly WHATWE AREPROVIDING: encouraged to collaborate with other departments potentially => We are providing a selection of films with online and physical non concerned with the films’ messages, topic or era. Exemples : the commercial rights already negotiated with the local or international Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Departments of distributors. We are covering the rights fees and providing the material Modern Languages and Literature, World Languages and Culture, (digitalfile,blueray or DVD)andonlinefestivalplatform. FrenchStudies,and FilmStudies.

 We areprovidingmarketingmaterialsforyouto promotethefestival We look forwardto collaboratingwithyou ! onlineand on yourcampus:catalogue,trailers,posters.  If you can ensure a minimum captive audience for the festival , we can work with you to organize Q&A and masterclasses with talents (directors, scriptwriters, producers…); whether it is onliine or in person and on a case by case basis consider financing the related costs.  We cancollaboratewithyouon providingsupporton accessto datas forstudentsfortheonlineversionof thefestival.

HOWIT WORKS: Youcanchoose:  Numberof films,numberof screenin;gs,dates,durationof thefestival (fromonedayto ayearlongprograming).  The audience of the festival: whether screenings are linked with academic programmings and/or for Universities general audiences studentsand faculty.  Filmsarein FrenchwithEnglishsubtitles(unlessotherwisenoted).

WHATIS REQUIRED:  Screeningsmustbe freeof charge  Programmustbe sentin advance(30 daysbeforethefestivalstarts) - with dates, films selections, time schedule, expected audience and partnerships Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Perdrix

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma The Bare Necessity Erwan Le Duc

SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a 2019 French historical drama Céline Sciamma The Bare Necessity is a 2019 French drama film Erwan Le Duc film written and directed by Céline Sciamma. It was CAST directed by Erwan Le Duc. It was screened in the CAST selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Noémie Merlant Directors' Fortnight section at the 2019 Cannes Film Swann Arlaud Adèle Haenel Maud Wyler Film Festival. The film won the at Cannes, Luàna Bajrami Festival. Valéria Golino becoming the first film directed by a woman to win the DETAILS award. Sciamma also won the award for Best Screenplay DETAILS Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted Drama Drama French at Cannes. French though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette 102min. 119min. Webb burst into his life. A stranger who landed in his 2019 2019 It was nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, Critics' family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by DISTRIBUTOR DISTRIBUTOR Playtime Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Mk2 her presence alone will force this tight-knit Language. microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally TRAILER TRAILER begin to fully live their lives. 1770. Marianne is a painter and has to do the wedding portrait of Heloise, a young woman who has just left the convent. Heloise resists her fate as a wife by refusing to pose. Marianne will have to paint her in secret. Introduced to her as a lady companion, she looks at her. Les Hirondelles de Kaboul La vie scolaire

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR The Swallows of Kabul Zabou Breitman School Life Grand Corps Malade Elea Gobbe-Mevellec Mehdi Idir

“The Swallows Of Kabul” from French helmers Zabou SCREENPLAY School Life is a 2019 French critically acclaimed award SCREENPLAY Zabou Breitman winning teen comedy drama film written and directed Grand Corps Malade Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec provides an Sébastien Tavel Mehdi Idir involving adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s elegant Patricia Mortagne by Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir. CAST Liam Pierron literary fiction. The book, an international bestseller CAST Simon Abkarian The new vice principal of a middle school in the Moussa Monsaly about life under Taliban control in the Afghan capital. Zita Hanrot suburb of Paris, Saint Denis, Samia encounters many Swann Arlaud DETAILS problems there, including a lack of discipline and the Comedy The action unfolds in 1998 shortly after the French DETAILS social reality of the neighbourhood. However, she 111 min. fundamentalist Taliban have come to power. Animation discovers the incredible vitality and humour that , 2019 French Historian Mohsen (voiced by Swann Arlaud) and Blu-Ray 81min. reigns in the establishment. Her personal situation artist Zunaira (Zita Hanrot) are still young and in 2019 brings her closer to Yanis, a lively and intelligent DISTRIBUTOR love. They remain hopeful that they will once again Institut Français DISTRIBUTOR student with a potential spoiled by his insolence. be able to live as they choose in their beloved Institut Français TRAILER country. In contrast, the despair-filled prison warden Atiq (Simon Abkarian) and his terminally-ill wife TRAILER Mussarat (Hiam Abbass) live as if they are already dead. Les crevettes pailletées Jusqu’à la garde DIRECTOR DIRECTOR The Shiny Shrimps Cédric Le Gallo Custody Xavier Legrand Maxime Govare SCREENPLAY Custody is a 2017 French drama film. It was screened The Shiny Shrimps (French: Les Crevettes pailletées) SCREENPLAY Xavier Legrand Cédric Le Gallo in the main competition section of the 74th Venice is a 2019 French sports comedy film directed by Maxime Govare CAST International Film Festival where it won the Silver Cédric Le Gallo and Maxime Govare. Léa Drucker CAST Lion. At the 44th César Awards, Custody won the Denis Menochet The film premiered at the L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival Nicolas Gob Thomas Gioria Alban Lenoir awards for Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Original on 19 January 2019, and was released theatrically in Michaël Abiteboul Screenplay. DETAILS France on 8 May 2019. Drama DETAILS French Comedy Miriam Besson and Antoine Besson have two children: 93 min. Mathias Le Goff is vice world champion in swimming. French 2017 100 min. a daughter, Joséphine, who is about to become an After making homophobic comments during a TV 2019 adult, and an eleven-year-old son, Julien. The couple DISTRIBUTOR interview, he was sanctioned to train the "Shiny Institut Français DISTRIBUTOR is in the middle of a divorce. The mother wants to Shrimps", a gay water polo team, for three months Institut Français protect her son and keep him away from his father, TRAILER for the Gay Games in Croatia. Two worlds that seem whom she accuses of committing acts of violence to be at odds with each other are going to have to TRAILER against her children. Despite the arguments of Miriam team up as best they can. and her lawyer and a letter from Julien asking not to see his father anymore, the judge in charge of the case granted joint custody and forced the child to spend every other weekend with his father. Chambre 212 Seules les bêtes

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR On a Magical Night Christophe Honoré Only the Animals

SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY On a Magical Night is a 2019 comedy film. It was Christophe Honoré Only the Animals is a Franco-German dramatic thriller Dominik Moll Gilles Marchand screened in the section at the CAST directed by Dominik Moll and released in 2019. It is 2019 , where Mastroianni won Chiara Mastroianni an adaptation of the eponymous noir novel by the CAST Vincent Lacoste Denis Ménochet the award for Best Performance. Camille Cottin writer Colin Niel, published in 2017 by Editions du Benjamin Biolay Rouergue, and awarded numerous literary prizes. Nadia Tereszkiewicz A college lecturer Maria has been married to Richard DETAILS A woman disappears. The day after a snowstorm, her DETAILS for twenty years. After revealing her history of affairs Comedy car is found on a road... While the gendarmes have Drama with other men, she leaves the Paris apartment and French French 86 min. no leads, five people know they are linked to the 117 min. spends the night in a hotel across the street. She is 2019 2019 disappearance. Each one has his secret, but no one visited by her ex-lovers, as well as Richard's younger DISTRIBUTOR suspects that this story began far from this mountain DISTRIBUTOR The Match Factory self. Institut Français swept by winter winds, on another continent where TRAILER the sun burns and where poverty does not prevent TRAILER the desire to dictate its law. Negotiating rights Les Misérables Le procès contre Mandela et les autres

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Les Misérables Ladj Ly The State Against Mandela and Nicolas Champeaux Gilles Porte SCREENPLAY Les Misérables is a 2019 French drama film by Ladj Giordano Gederlini the Others SCREENPLAY Ladj Ly Nicolas Champeaux Ly. It had its world premiere on 15 May 2019 at the Alexis Manenti Gilles Porte Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. The State Against Mandela and the Others, is a 2018 French CAST CAST Among other honors, it was selected as the French Damien Bonnard documentary by Nicolas Champeux and Gilles Porte.It was Winnie Mandela entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Alexis Manenti selected at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in the Official Nelson Mandela Djebril Zonga Walter Sisiulu 92nd Academy Awards, eventually achieving the Selection and in the Special Screenings. It received the DETAILS nomination. Audience Award at the Durban Film Festival. DETAILS Drama Documentary French French 102min. 103 min. The film, set in the commune of Montfermeil in the 2019 The history of the struggle against apartheid holds only one France, 2018 Blu-Ray aftermath of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, is based on a man: Nelson Mandela. He would have been a hundred years DISTRIBUTOR DISTRIBUTOR real-life occurrence of police violence which took Videovision old this year. He was revealed in a landmark trial in 1963 Big World Cinema place in the city on 14 October 2008, and was and 1964. In the dock, eight of his fellow fighters also faced TRAILER TRAILER observed and filmed by Ly. The story follows several the death penalty. Faced with a zealous prosecutor, they characters within the commune, as a theft from a decided together to turn their trial into a platform against teenager spirals into the threat of a large crisis. The apartheid.The sound archives of the hearings, recently film depicts abuses against poor citizens, especially unearthed, make it possible to relive this arm wrestling as teenagers of African or Arabic ethnicities, thus closely as possible. stressing the continuity in the fate of the poor in Montfermeil. Tu mérites un amour Atomu

DIRECTOR DIRECTORS Tu mérites un amour Hafsia Herzi Atomu Shariffa Ali Yetunde Dada SCREENPLAY Tu mérites un amour is a French film written and directed Hafsia Herzi Presented in the New Frontier selection at Sundance 2020, PRODUCED BY Antoine Cayrol by Hafsia Herzi. It is her first feature film, which she self- CAST the creation VR Atomu is the work of two African directors, produced.In May 2019, Tu mérites un amour is selected Hafsia Herzi Shariffa Ali and Yetunde Dada. KEY COLLABORATORS Djanis Bouzyani Antoine Cayrol for Critics' Week during the Cannes Film Festival, where it Jérémie Laheurte Rafael Pavon is in competition for the Caméra d'or and the Queer Palm. Atomu revisits a myth of Kenya that evokes the Arnaud Colinart DETAILS Opeyemi Olukemi Drama fluidity of genres. According to this popular belief of Annick Jakobowicz French Stephen Buescher After Rémi's infidelity, Lila, who loved him more than 102min. the Kikuyu tribe, a man born into a woman's body, Andrew Orkin anything else, had a hard time breaking up. One day, he 2019 and vice versa, can, by turning 7 times around a Banna Dasta Toby Coffey tells her that he is going alone to Bolivia to face himself DISTRIBUTOR baobab tree and performing certain ritualized dance Steve Jelly and try to understand his mistakes. There, he lets her Wild Bunch movements, transform and change sex. Atomu thus Simon Windsor Akash Kushwaha know that their story is not over... Between discussions, TRAILER tells the story of Wacici, a young man who does not Derren Sinnott comforts and encouragement to love madness, Lila gets feel like a boy. After being beaten by his father for DETAILS lost... refusing to do the tasks normally done by men in his Immervise Experience village, he decides to do these 7 turns to finally feel France/Kenya/U.S.A./U nited Kingdom himself. 10 min. 2020 Un Divan à Tunis Patients

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Arab Blues Manele Labidi Step by Step Grand Corps Malade Mehdi Idir SCREENPLAY Arab Blues is a 2019 French-Tunisian comedy film. It was Manele Labidi Patients is a French comedy-drama released in 2017. SCREENPLAY Grand Corps Malade screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the CAST It is an adaptation of the eponymous autobiographical Fadette Drouard 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Golshifteh Farahani novel by Grand Corps Malade. Majd Mastoura CAST Hichem Yacoubi Pablo Pauly After spending part of her life in France, Selma, a young Following a serious sports accident in a swimming Soufiane Guerrab DETAILS Moussa Mansaly psychoanalyst, returns to her country of origin, , and Comedy pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in Alban Ivanov French Yannick Renier opens her practice in the suburbs of Tunis in Ezzahra. In the 88 min. a rehabilitation center. He meets other handicapped Franck Falise aftermath of the revolution, Tunisians are wondering about 2019 people (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized DETAILS DISTRIBUTOR the political and economic future of their country, which is crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a Comedy Institut Français in the midst of reconstruction after a long period of handicapped since his early childhood. Between French 110 min. dictatorship. As Selma begins to find her feet, she comes up TRAILER impotence, despair and resignation, in the daily 2017 against the country's wobbly administration when she struggle to learn to move a finger or to hold a fork, DISTRIBUTOR learns that she lacks the necessary authorization to practise some slowly find a little mobility while others receive Institut Français her profession. the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite TRAILER everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties. Rubber Zombi Child

DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Rubber Quentin Dupieux Zombi Child

SCREENPLAY SCREENPLAY Rubber is a French film directed by Quentin Dupieux, aka Quentin Dupieux Zombi Child is a French fantasy film released in 2019. Bertrand Bonello

Mr Oizo, released on November 10, 2010. He received the CAST CAST Grand Prix at the Fantastic Film Week in Nice. Simon Abkarian The film is based on the life of Clairvius Narcisse, a Wislanda Louimat Zita Hanrot Louise Labeque Swann Arlaud Haitian drug addict who is said to have wandered Patrick Boucheron Hiam Abbass A tire, with psychokinetic powers, begins a around as a zombie and slave after being declared Sayyid El Alami DETAILS murderous frenzy in the middle of the Californian dead in 1962. This case was already dealt with in Wes DETAILS Comedy Fantasy English desert. The show is played by actors, and observed Craven's film,The Serpent and the Rainbow. French 82min. 103 min. directly by spectators who are in the middle of the 2010 2019 desert. A double intrigue is thus constituted, both the In Haiti in 1962, a man, who had come back to life, DISTRIBUTOR DISTRIBUTOR one around the tire, and the one around the Elle Driver was forcibly sent to the hell of the sugar cane Indie Sales spectators of the tire. The actors seek to eliminate plantations. Fifty-five years later, Melissa, a Haitian TRAILER TRAILER their spectators in order to put an end to their work teenager from the prestigious boarding school of the as actors. Legion of Honour in Paris, tells her classmates about Negotiating rights her family's secret. Melissa doesn't know that this will cause one of the students, Fanny, to have unpredictable feelings. Alternative Film Selection

Swagger (2016)

Swagger is a French film directed by Olivier Babinet, released in 2016,

Swagger takes us into the minds of eleven children and teenagers with surprising personalities, who grow up in the heart of the most disadvantaged cities in France. The film shows us the world through their singular and unexpected glances, their funny and punchy reflections. By deploying a mosaic of encounters and mixing genres, right down to musicals and science fiction...

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Au bord du monde (2014)

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Au bord du monde describes the daily life of a dozen homeless people living in Paris, through a series of interviews and free conversations. With the stories of Christine, Jeni, Wenceslas, Pascal or Henri, the film highlights the loneliness and misery in the crowds of a big city.

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Africa Mia (2020)

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It's a story that began in the middle of the Cold War, in 1964, when ten Malian musicians arrived in Castro's Havana to study music. By mixing the sounds they became the first Afro-Cuban group in history: the Maravillas of Mali. Fifty years later, between Bamako and Havana, we set off in search of Maestro Boncana Maïga, his conductor, with the crazy project of re- forming this legendary group!

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Deux (2020)

Deux is a Franco-Belgo-Luxembourgish comedy-drama directed by Filippo Meneghetti, released in 2020.

Two septuagenarians, Madeleine and Nina, are next door neighbours. But they have also been in love for a long time and are secretly living their relationship, considering selling their homes to move to Rome, which Madeleine is unable to teach her family. Victim of a stroke, Madeleine loses part of her faculties. Her caring daughter, Anne, takes care of her with a home care worker. How can Nina assert her place now?

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