LEWISTON — The Tournées Film Festival runs from Nov. 2 to 16 at Bates College and The Dolard & Priscilla Gendron Franco Center.

The festival features Francophone films from animated children’s movies to contemplative adaptations of Camus, to classic Godard to some of the best foreign language films of 2015.

Screenings are Mondays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Room 104 of Bates College’s Olin Arts Center. They are free to the public. Matinees are at 2 p.m. Sundays at the Franco Center. The cost is a suggested donation of $5.

Most films are followed by a Q&A with Bates College faculty. All films are in French with English subtitles.

Films include:

“Timbuktu,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Bates College. Opening reception is at 6:30 p.m. First screening of the festival. The film concerns the jihadist siege of the Malian city of the title in 2012. In his magnificent fourth feature film, Abderrahmane Sissako demonstrates his remarkable ability to thoroughly condemn religious fanaticism and intolerance with subtlety and restraint.

“Far from Men,” 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at the Franco Center. In 1954 Algeria, the War of Independence is rumbling into being. Adapted from Albert Camus’s short story “The Guest,” “Far from Men” has the classic sheen of the films of Hollywood’s Golden Age: big moral questions projected onto vast landscapes, steely performances from its two stars, and, most importantly, a universality grounded in the specific.

“La belle saison,” 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, at Bates College. Catherine Corsini’s film presents a gripping portrait of an age of political and social ferment, pungently bringing to life the political and social movements familiar to contemporary viewers through the work of the great French thinkers of the last half century.

“May Allah Bless France!” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at Bates College. The flim is the invigorating first feature by acclaimed French rapper and novelist Abd Al Malik, a coming-of-age story and redemption tale based on the writer-director’s own youth in the beleaguered projects of Strasbourg. Fluidly adapting his talents as a storyteller to the screen, Abd Al Malik revisits the “banlieue film.”

“Ernest & Celestine,” 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Franco Center. An activity for children with Jacynthe Jacques will follow. This utterly charming animated film about interspecies friendship, directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Pater and Benjamin Renner, is based on a series of children’s books by the Belgian author-illustrator Gabrielle Vincent (1929–2000).

“Pierrot le Fou,” 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, at Bates College. The film is arguably the masterpiece of Jean-Luc Godard’s glorious first New Wave period, that extraordinary burst of creativity that extends from his landmark debut, “Breathless,” to the political films of the late 1960s.

“Girlhood,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Bates College. Closing reception at 6:30 p.m. The final film of the festival. Céline Sciamma’s third feature continues to probe what has been this perceptive writer-director’s abiding interest: female pubescence and adolescence, the stage when bodies and identities are still in flux.