{"id":58632,"date":"2014-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-screen-two-french-films\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-screen-two-french-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/uri-to-screen-two-french-films\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to screen two French films"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Feb. 4, 2014 \u2013 Two French films that focus on African immigrants will be shown at the 溏心vlog免费B站 this month. <\/p>\n


\nThe award-winning \u201cLe Havre\u201d will be screened Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Agnes Doody Auditorium at Swan Hall.<\/p>\n


\nThe movie is a heartwarming tale about an African boy who arrives by cargo ship in the French port city of Le Havre and befriends an aging shoe shiner who welcomes him into his home. Drama unfolds as the man\u2019s wife is hospitalized and he struggles to cope with her decline.<\/p>\n


\n The second film, \u201cBedwin Hacker,\u201d directed by Nadia El Fani, will be shown Feb. 27 at 5 p.m. in Hardge Forum at the Multi-Cultural Center. <\/p>\n


\nIn this film, a woman from a Tunisian village hacks into airwaves in North Africa and France to publicize political messages, prompting action from French intelligence officers. The film strives to challenge stereotypes about Arab women and show the modernity and beauty of Tunisia.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe screening of “Bedwin Hacker” will kick off 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day events,\u201d said Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, professor of French. \u201cIt is an excellent opportunity to celebrate the work of innovative women filmmakers like Nadia El Fani.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nBoth films are free and open to the public and are subtitled in English. Refreshments and discussion will follow.<\/p>\n


\nSponsors are: the Film\/Media Program at the Harrington School of Communication & Media; the College of Arts and Sciences Dean\u2019s Office; the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures; and Gender and Women\u2019s Studies.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information, please contact Kealhofer-Kemp, professor of French, at lkealhofer@uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nThis news release was written by Sylvia Bogusz, who is studying Communication Studies and Italian at 溏心vlog免费B站 and interning in the University\u2019s Department of Marketing and Communications.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Feb. 4, 2014 \u2013 Two French films that focus on African immigrants will be shown at the 溏心vlog免费B站 this month. The award-winning \u201cLe Havre\u201d will be screened Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Agnes Doody Auditorium at Swan Hall. The movie is a heartwarming tale about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}