French Cultures Festival website - March 2010

Swiss Cinema

In French with English Subtitles

Sunday, March 7, 4PM and 6.30PM

Alliance Française de Houston - 427 Lovett Boulevard Houston, TX 77006-4018

Mon frere se marie

4 PM

International title: My Brother is Getting Married (2006)
Fiction directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron

The Depierraz family was shattered fourteen years ago. Nowadays, everyone leads their life on their own and they talk little, or not at all. Even Vinh, their adoptive son, has distanced himself and despite the announcement of his wedding, nothing is set to change. But his Vietnamese mother will change everything as she has decided to come to Switzerland. She will finally meet the family who welcomed and raised her child, this family immortalised by a photograph sent twenty years earlier, in times of happiness. But between this happy and prosperous image and the current relational disaster lies a gap of which Mrs Nguyen is not aware.

Retour a Gorée

6.30PM

International title: Return to Goree (2007)

Documentary directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud

During 300 years of slave trade, millions of Africans have been shipped to America. Following the track of this humiliating business, singer Youssou N'Dour and his friend, pianist Moncef Genoud, went searching for the influence of African music throughout the entire world. On their quest, they convinced musicians to perform Youssou’s songs during a concert on the island of Goree, off the coast of Senegal.

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