From Street to Screen: A Festival of North African Film

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Location: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Browning Cinema

A film double feature: * 6: 30 p.m.: _Free Man_ (2011), directed by Ismail Ferroukhi (not rated, 99 minutes, French with English subtitles) * 9:30 p.m.: _Le Grand Voyage_ (2004), directed by Ismail Ferroukhi (not rated, 108 minutes, French with English subtitles)

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. Cosponsored by Browning Cinema, College of Arts and Letters’ Teaching Beyond the Classroom Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts’ Henkels Lecture Fund, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Nanovic Institute for European Studies