Browning CinemaDeBartolo Performing Art CenterUniversity of Notre Dame

Tickets available at the ticket office or online at performingarts.nd.edu.

Co-SponsorsBrowning Cinema, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Teaching Beyond the Classroom grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

September 27, 2012 6:30 p.m.Outside the Law(Algeria)

Director Rachid Bouchareb offers gripping insight into the Algerian independence struggle through the lives of three brothers. Introduction by Professor Alek Toumi, University of Wisconsin

October 25, 2012 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.Free Men and Le Grand Voyage(double feature)

(Morocco)

Director Ismail Ferroukhi will be present to discuss his 2011 film on Muslim resistance agents who protected Jews in the Paris Mosque during the Second World War and his 2004 film on a father and son’s journey from France to Saudi Arabia.

November 15, 2012 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.Secularism, inch’Allah! and Bab’Aziz-The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (double feature)

(Tunisia)

Director Nadia El Fani will discuss her 2011 film on secularism in Tunisia before and after the recent revolutions. It is followed by Bab’Aziz, a 2006 visual poem about a blind dervish and his granddaughter in the sandscapes of Tunisia and Iran.

From Street to Screen: A FeStivAl oF north AFricAn Film

a series of very recent films highlighting the Arab Spring, religion, nation, youth, and individual identity in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia

featuring discussions with directors

Ismail Ferroukhi and Nadia El Fani

French and Francophone Studies at the University of Notre Dame presents