Five selections from The Tournées Festival, a grant program that brings the best of contemporary French cinema to university campuses, will be a part of the Free Spring 2012 Film Festival at Missouri University of Science and Technology this season. The festival features a total of 14 acclaimed films.

“I am very excited about receiving this grant,'” says Dr. Audra Merfeld-Langston, assistant professor of French in the arts, languages and philosophy department at Missouri S&T. “The Tournées Festival is a wonderful opportunity for Missouri S&T and for the entire Rolla community to get a taste of French culture and to see films that they might not otherwise have discovered. The five French films that make up the festival present a range of genres, themes and perspectives. I hope audiences will enjoy the selection.”

The films are free and open to the public. The movies will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in Leach Theatre of S&T’s Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla, Mo., with the exception of Notorious on April 10, which will be screened in the Black Box Theatre, Room 143 Castleman Hall.

The Missouri S&T Free Spring 2012 Film Festival includes the following motion pictures:

The Red Shoes – Jan. 10
The Graduate – Jan. 24
Midnight in Paris – Jan. 31
Persepolis – Feb. 7 (The Tournées Festival selection)
I’ve Loved You So Long – Feb. 14 (The Tournées Festival selection)
Paris – Feb. 21 (The Tournées Festival selection)
A Town Called Panic – Feb. 28 (The Tournées Festival selection)
Certified Copy – March 6 (The Tournées Festival selection)
Blood Simple – March 13
Rango — March 20
Cave of Forgotten Dreams – April 3
Notorious – April 10
Transformations & Memories, videos by Lampo Leong – April 17
Super 8 – April 24

The Tournées Festival is made possible through the generous support of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Centre National de la Cinématographie, Grand Marnier Foundation, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment.

The Missouri S&T Free Spring 2012 Film Festival is supported by the university’s Campus Performing Arts Series; Curtis Laws Wilson Library; Student Union Board; office of the chancellor; civil, architectural and environmental engineering department; and arts, languages and philosophy department.

For more information about the Missouri S&T Free Spring 2012 Film Festival, call 573-341-4185.