The Boise French Film Festival made headlines in Boise State’s student newspaper this April. The Arbiter’s Isabella Williams covered how the festival, which grew out of Professor Brittney Gehrig’s French 400 experiential learning course, gives students hands-on experience planning, promoting, and running a real community event entirely in French, from press releases to social media to screening logistics.
The article also highlights how French Club president Elián Tovar and outreach coordinator Sadie Aldana see the festival’s role in showing that French isn’t tied to one country or culture, and how the post-screening discussions turn each film into a conversation about perspective and shared experience.