Palouse French Film Festival

About the event

WSU Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures and UI Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will be showing the first film of the 2016 Palouse French Film Festival at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow:

Loin des hommes / Far From Men, drama directed by David Oelhoffen.

Synopsis: Algeria, 1954. Two very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil are forced to flee across the Atlas Mountains. Daru, the reclusive French teacher, has to escort Mohamed, a villager accused of murder. Freely adapted from Albert Camus’s short story The Guest (from the collection Exile and the Kingdom), Far from Men has the classic sheen of the films of Hollywood’s Golden Age: big moral questions projected onto vast landscapes, with remarkable performances from its two stars. The film is also an essential viewing for its insight into a conflict whose effects continue to be felt.

A reception with wine and cheese will open the festival.

The film will be introduced by Insook Webber from WSU Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures.

Cost is $5 per film or $15 for the festival; free to students with ID.