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The Institute helps co-sponsor other events on campus such as the forthcoming Touress Festival.
L’ICEBERG/THE ICEBERG
(Belgium, 2005 – Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, directors)
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant and lives with her family in the suburbs. She seems happy until one day she accidentally gets locked in a walk-in industrial freezer while closing up the restaurant. Half frozen and barely alive in the morning, she realizes that her husband and two children didn’t even notice that she was missing. Little by little, Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs... One day she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home: she wants to see a real iceberg.
Pasteur Hall Small Theater – Pasteur 102
March 14, 2008
7:00 p.m.
L’IVRESSE DU POUVOIR/COMEDY OF POWER
(France, 2006 – Claude Chabrol, director)
Jeanne, a magistrate, must sort out and prepare for trial a complex case of misappropriation and embezzlement of public funds implicating the president of an important industrial firm. As her investigation progresses, she realizes that her power is great: the more she delves into secrets, the more her means of applying pressure increase. Politicians and businessmen are scheming together, and Jeanne thinks it's high time somebody stepped in to clean up this mess.
Pasteur Hall Small Theater – Pasteur 102
March 25, 2008
7:00 p.m.
CHATS PERCHES/CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT
(2004 – Chris Marker, director)
In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on art, culture and politics at the start of the new millennium. In November 2001, he became intrigued by the sudden appearance of grinning yellow cat paintings on Paris buildings and public surfaces, and began to document the mysterious materializations of this charming feline. Purportedly looking to solve the mystery of this unknown artist, dubbed M. Chat, the filmmaker uses it instead as a springboard to examine the city's changing social climate -- from the pro-American feelings generated shortly after Sept. 11, to the anti-Bush and Iraq War demonstrations that have become so prevalent.
Hilary’s – Campus Center 122
April 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.
FAUTEUIL D’ORCHESTRE/AVENUE MONTAIGNE
(France, 2006 – Daniele Thompson, director)
Jessica is a beautiful and naive girl from the south-east of France. She is extremely close to her grandmother who continuously repeats the same story: when she was young she managed to move up in the world while working as a cleaning lady in a popular luxury hotel in Paris. One day, Jessica decides to go to Paris and finds a job at a cafe frequented by the "tout Paris". Indeed, it is located on Avenue Montaigne, in the wealthy section of Paris.
Hilary’s – Campus Center 122
April 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.
The Tournées Festival was made possible with the support of Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture (CNC). The Tournées Festival is sponsored by the Institute for Media, Culture, and Ethics and supported by the Department of Communication at Bellarmine University
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Gene Policinski, executive director of the Freedom Forum’s First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, was a visiting fellow in February, when he spent a day with communication students. Policinski talked a about First Amendment issues. For more information about the Freedom Forum, please visit the 
was a visiting fellow to the Institute in November, spending time with students in classes and individual discussions about careers in the media. In addition, Andrew gave a lecture that was open to the community about his life at CBS and the future of media.
Bob Steele and Kelly McBride from the 
Poynter Institute in Florida led a two-day ethics seminar in September for about 65 participants. They included: media, students, community, faculty and administrators. More information about the Poynter Institute can be found at its web-site 
st of musicians and an “only-in-America” story line.