Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

*The film festival has been postponed until Fall 2020.*

Hope is a dramatic film by French writer/director Boris Lojkine.  In this film, Léonard makes a clandestine journey from Cameroon to Europe through the Sahara desert.  Along the way, Léonard meets Hope, a Nigerian girl who’s following the same dream.

This screening is part of the Voyages Across Borders Film Festival, which is free and open to all.  It is sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute; Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yulee Lectures Endowment); UF International Center; Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Miami; Smathers Libraries; Center for Latin American Studies; Center for African Studies; Hippodrome Theatre.