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Le Programme
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March 2019
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Contents/Highlights
Ciné Lumière                     3-11
Comédie-Française                 12
Semaine de la Francophonie        12
Women Shaping the World           13    Mektoub My Love: Cante Uno   Capernaum                        Women Shaping the World
                                        15 - 21 Feb                  22 Feb - 13 Mar                  5 - 8 Mar
Tribute to Christian Dior         14    p.3                          p.4                              p.13

Music                             15
Talks                             16
Kids & Families                   17
We Support                        18
We Recommend                      19    Tribute to Christian Dior    Semaine de la Francophonie       Kader Attia: The Museum of
                                        14 - 17 Mar                  19 - 20 Mar                      Emotion
La Médiathèque / Culturethèque    20    p.14                         p.12                             13 Feb - 6 May
                                                                                                      p.18
                                                                                                      Hayward Gallery
French Courses                    21
General Information          24-27                                                        front cover image: Sorry Angel by Christophe Honoré
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Ciné Lumière New Releases

Burning                                                            On Her Shoulders                                             Mektoub My Love:
Beoning                                                            USA | 2018 | 95 mins | dir. Alexandria Bombach, with Nadia   Canto Uno
KOR | 2018 | 148 mins | dir. Lee Chang-dong, with Jong-seo         Murad, Murad Ismael, Amal Clooney | cert. 12 | doc
Jeon, Steven Yeun, Ah-In Yoo | cert. 15 | in Korean with EN subs   in English & Arabic with EN subs                             FRA/ITA | 2018 | 181 mins | dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, with Shaïn
                                                                                                                                Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche | cert. 15
Based on Barn Burning, a short story by Haruki                     Documentary filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows             in French & English with EN subs
Murakami, this critically acclaimed film by Lee Chang-             Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old ordinary girl who found
dong won the FIPRESCI Prize at last year’s Cannes Film             herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice     Abdellatif Kechiche (winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes
Festival. It tells the story of Jong-soo, a part-time worker       of her people. Having survived the 2014 genocide of the      in 2013 for Blue Is the Warmest Colour) casts a nostalgic
living in Seoul who bumps into Hae-mi, a girl who once             Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS,      glow on the wonders of youth in this coming-of-age
lived in his neighbourhood in the country. She introduces          she gives testimony before the U.N., visits refugee camps,   saga set in 1994. Amin (Shaïn Boumedine), an aspiring
to him an enigmatic young man named Ben, whom she                  meets with top government officials and becomes a            screenwriter living in Paris, decides to reconnect with his
met during a trip to Africa. A love triangle of some sort          relentless beacon of hope for her people.                    family and his childhood friends in a fishing village in the
sets in until Ben makes a most unusual revelation…                                                                              South of France. In the heat of the summer, Amin gathers
                                                                   Fri 1 Feb      6.30pm           Mon 4 Feb      6.20pm        inspiration for his screenplays armed with his camera
Fri 1 Feb       3.30pm, 8.30pm       Fri 8 Feb       6pm           Sat 2 Feb      6.30pm           Wed 6 Feb      6.20pm        and guided by his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie,
Sat 2 Feb       8.30pm               Sat 9 Feb       8.50pm        Sun 3 Feb      4.10pm           Thu 7 Feb      4pm           hungry for hedonist experience.
Sun 3 Feb       8.30pm               Mon 11 Feb      6pm
Mon 4 Feb       8.20pm               Thu 12 Feb      8.30pm                                                                     Fri 15 Feb      2.30pm, 8.20pm
Wed 6 Feb       8.20pm               Wed 13 Feb      6pm                                                                        Sat 16 Feb      4.30pm
Thu 7 Feb       6pm                  Thu 14 Feb      3.30pm                                                                     Sun 17 Feb      7pm
                                                                                                                                Mon 18 Feb      7.30pm
                                                                                                                                Tue 19 Feb      8.30pm
                                                                                                                                Wed 20 Feb      2.30pm, 8.10pm
                                                                                                                                Tue 21 Feb      2.30pm
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Ciné Lumière New Releases

Capernaum                                                      Everybody Knows                                              Sauvage
LEB/USA | 2018 | 122 mins | dir. Nadine Labaki, with Zain Al   Todos lo Saben                                               FRA | 2019 | 99 mins | dir. Camille Vidal-Naquet, with Félix
Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole         ESP/FRA/ITA | 2018 | 132 mins | dir. Asghar Farhadi, with    Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla | cert. tbc | in French
cert. tbc | in Arabic & Amharic with EN subs                   Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin | cert. 18       with EN subs
                                                               in Spanish, English, Catalan with EN subs
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 2018 and a                                                                      22-year-old Leo sells his body on the street for
strong contender at BAFTA and Oscars, Capernaum tells          Opening the competition of the Cannes Film Festival last     cash. Men come and go but he remains; stuck in the
the story of a 12 year-old boy who sues his own parents        year, Everybody Knows is a tense psychological thriller      same place and longing for love. Uncertain of what his
for giving him life. The circumstances that have brought       by Asghar Farhadi, winner of two Academy Awards for          future may bring, Leo hits the road. Sometimes reckless,
him to this point take us on a journey through his poverty-    Best Foreign Language Film with A Separation and The         sometimes savage, sometimes tender but always with a
stricken upbringing in Beirut. Labaki offers here a tribute    Salesman. When Laura (Penélope Cruz) and her children        pounding heart, Leo is ready for change. Camille Vidal-
to the forgotten, the unwanted and the lost that offers        travel from Buenos Aires to the village where she was        Naquet’s arresting debut is a remarkable introspection
hope in the most unexpected of places.                         born in Spain, unexpected events change the course of        into the fragile psyche of a blooming youth.
                                                               their lives and expose the family’s hidden past.
Fri 22 Feb 2.30pm, 6.30pm             Sun 3 Mar  4.10pm                                                                     Sat 9 Mar       4pm              Wed 13 Mar       8.50pm
           8.50pm                                8.20pm        Fri 8 Mar      4pm, 9pm             Fri 15 Mar      6.20pm   Sun 10 Mar      6.30pm           Mon 18 Mar       8.40pm
Sat 23 Feb 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm        Mon 4 Mar 6.20pm         Sat 9 Mar      8.50pm               Sat 16 Mar      8.40pm   Mon 11 Mar      6.30pm           Wed 20 Mar       4pm
Sun 24 Feb 7.30pm                                8.40pm        Sun 10 Mar     4pm, 8.30pm          Sun 17 Mar      8.40pm
Mon 25 Feb 6.30pm, 8.50pm             Tue 5 Mar  8.45pm        Mon 11 Mar     8.30pm               Tue 19 Mar      5pm
Tue 26 Feb 5.30pm                     Wed 6 Mar 4pm            Tue 12 Mar     4.30pm               Wed 20 Mar      6.20pm
Wed 27 Feb 3pm, 6.10pm                           6.30pm        Wed 13 Mar     6.20pm               Thu 21 Mar      3.45pm
Thu 28 Feb 4pm                                   8.50pm        Thu 14 Mar     3.45pm, 8.50pm
Fri 1 Mar  4pm                        Sat 9 Mar  6.15pm
Sat 2 Mar  4pm                        Wed 13 Mar 4pm           See also Jamon, Jamon with Penélope Cruz & Javier
                                                               Bardem (p.9)
As part of Women Shaping the World (see p.13)
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Ciné Lumière New Releases

Girl                                                               The White Crow                                              Sorry Angel
BEL/NLD | 2018 | 109 mins | dir. Lukas Dhont, with Victor          UK/FRA | 2018 | 122 mins | dir. Ralph Fiennes, with Oleg    Plaire, aimer et courir vite
Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart | cert. 15 | in French,   Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adèle Exarchopoulos | cert. tbc      FRA | 2018 | 132 mins | dir. Christophe Honoré, with Vincent
Flemish & English with EN subs                                     in Russian, English & French with EN subs                   Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès | cert. 18
                                                                                                                               in French with EN subs
Presented in the Un Certain Regard competition at the              Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance
2018 Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont's debut film                of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev in the flesh of Ukrainian   Presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival
Girl won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Golden Camera.                 dancer Oleg Ivenko. Ballet’s most famous star in the        last year, Sorry Angel is Christophe Honoré’s highly
15-year-old Lara (Victor Polster) is determined to                 50’s, Rudolf Nureyev stunned the world at the height of     anticipated latest film. 1990. Arthur is twenty and lives in
become a professional ballerina. Lara was, however,                the Cold War, when he defected to the West. The White       Rennes. His life is turned upside down when he makes
born with a male body, and has been undergoing                     Crow charts how Nureyev plotted his flight in a game        the acquaintance of Jacques, a writer who lives in Paris
hormone treatments while eagerly awaiting to transition.           of cat-and-mouse with the Russian KGB aided by his          with his young son. During one summer, Arthur and
Supported by her family and entourage, Lara is impatient           great friend, the 21 year-old Parisian Clara Saint (Adèle   Jacques will be drawn to one another and fall in love. But
to go through her transformation but her body does not             Exarchopoulos).                                             Jacques knows this love has to be lived to the fullest…
bend so easily to the treatment and frustrations arise.
                                                                   Tue 12 Mar     7pm               Wed 27 Mar      8.45pm     Fri 22 Mar     6.20pm           Tue 26 Mar      8.40pm
Fri 15 Mar      4pm, 8.50pm            Thu 21 Mar       9.15pm     Fri 22 Mar     4pm               Thu 28 Mar      4pm        Sat 23 Mar     6pm              Wed 27 Mar      4pm
Sat 16 Mar      4.10pm, 6.20pm         Sat 23 Mar       3.50pm                    8.50pm            Fri 29 Mar      4pm        Sun 24 Mar     8.50pm           Fri 29 Mar      8.40pm
Sun 17 Mar      6.30pm                 Sun 24 Mar       4.30pm     Sat 23 Mar     8.40pm                            6.20pm     Mon 25 Mar     6.15pm           Sat 30 Mar      4.10pm
Mon 18 Mar      6.30pm                 Wed 27 Mar       6.30pm     Sun 24 Mar     6.30pm            Sat 30 Mar      6.40pm
Wed 20 Mar      8.50pm                 Sun 31 Mar       4pm        Mon 25 Mar     8.50pm            Sun 31 Mar      6.10pm
                                                                   Tue 26 Mar     6.20pm

                                                                   The screening on 12 March will be followed by a live
                                                                   satellite interview of Ralph Fiennes
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Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?

Sink or Swim                                     Cold War                                         The Favourite                                Dogman
Le Grand bain                                    Zimna wojna                                      IRE/UK/USA | 119 mins | 2018 | dir. Yorgos   ITA/FRA | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Matteo
FRA | 2018 | 123 mins | dir. Gilles Lellouche,   POL | 2018 | 89 mins | dir. Pawel Pawlikowski,   Lanthimos, with Olivia Colman, Emma Stone,   Garrone, with Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce,
with Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet,           with Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc        Rachel Weisz | cert.15 | in English          Nunzia Schiano | cert. 15 | in Italian with EN
Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade           cert. 15 | in Polish & French with EN subs                                                    subs
cert. tbc | in French with EN subs                                                                Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) returns
                                                 Winner of the Best Director Award at             with this 18th century period drama          Matteo Garrone, the master filmmaker
A group of 40-something guys decide              the Cannes Film Festival 2018, Pawel             garnering 12 nominations at the BAFTA        behind Gomorrah returns to the crime
to form their local pool’s first ever            Pawlikowski (Ida) melds the personal             this year. It recounts the rise to the       thriller genre with the tension filled and
synchronised swimming team – for men.            with the political in this epic romance. In      inner-circles of power of Abigail (Emma      relentlessly captivating Dogman which won
Braving skepticism and ridicule and              the ruins of post-war Poland, passionate         Stone) as she tends to the frail Queen       his lead actor Marcello Fonte the Best
trained by a fallen champion trying to pull      lovers Wiktor and Zula are performing            Anne (Olivia Colman) at the request of       Actor Award at last year’s Cannes Film
herself together, the group set out on an        musicians forced to play into the Soviet         Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), too occupied      Festival. Marcello is a small and gentle
unlikely adventure. French director Gilles       propaganda machine, who dream of                 in governing in her stead the politics of    dog groomer who finds himself involved
Lellouche made a splash at last year’s           escaping to the West. Sumptuously shot in        war between England and France. Their        in a dangerous relationship of subjugation
Cannes festival with a hugely entertaining       luminous B&W, Cold War spans decades             burgeoning friendship gives her a chance     with Simone, a violent former boxer who
and moving comedy about dreams that              and nations to tell a heartbreaking story of     to fulfil her ambitions to return to her     terrorises the entire neighbourhood.
can come true even if we don’t dare              ill-fated love.                                  aristocratic roots and become the Queen’s
believe in them.                                                                                  companion.                                   Sat 9 Feb      4.30pm
                                                 Fri 8 Feb      4pm                                                                            Sun 10 Feb     4.30pm
Sat 2 Feb       4pm                              Thu 14 Feb     9.10pm                            Fri 8 Feb     8.50pm                         Tue 12 Feb     6.10pm
Sun 3 Feb       6.05pm                                                                            Sat 9 Feb     6.30pm
Wed 6 Feb       4pm                                                                               Sun 10 Feb    7.30pm
Thu 7 Feb       8.50pm                                                                            Mon 11 Feb    8.50pm
                                                                                                  Wed 13 Feb    3.30pm, 8.50pm
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Did You Miss It?                                                                                The Craft of Film

Shoplifters                                       Beautiful Boy                                 Midnight in Paris                               Jefferson in Paris
Manbiki Kazoku                                    USA | 2018 | 120 mins | dir. Felix van        USA/ESP | 2011 | 94 mins | dir. Woody Allen,    USA/FRA | 1995 | 139 mins | dir. James Ivory,
JPN | 2018 | 121 mins | dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda,   Groeningen, with Steve Carell, Timothée       with Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel      with Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth
with Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu     Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan             McAdams | cert. U | in English                  Paltrow | cert. 12 | in English & French with
cert. 15 | in Japanese with EN subs               cert. 15 | in English                                                                         EN subs
                                                                                                Woody Allen’s charming reverie features
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes                Felix van Groeningen (Belgica) adapts         Owen Wilson as Gil, a screenwriter who          Jefferson in Paris chronicles the five year
2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (Nobody Knows)          with screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion) two      strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in     period, from 1784 to 1789, when following
latest film Shoplifters is a profoundly           memoirs by David Sheff (Beautiful Boy) and    the clouds and walks right into his own         the death of his wife, Thomas Jefferson (Nick
moving drama about a poverty-stricken             his son Nic (Tweak) on the heartbreaking      best fantasy. A midnight encounter draws        Nolte) served as America's Ambassador to
family petty thieving to make ends meet,          and inspiring experience of survival and      him into the jazzy world of Scott and Zelda     the court of Louis XVI. James Ivory’s portrait
when they come across a shivering little          recovery in a family coping with addiction.   Fitzgerald, Picasso and Dali, and an intense    of one of the founding fathers of America,
girl foraging for scraps in the cold winter       David Sheff (Carell)’s seemingly perfect      Ernest Hemingway. Gil wakes up every            tells the friendships and flirtations of the
night. Taking her in for a few days, the          life takes a sudden dramatic turn when he     morning back in the real world, but returning   man with the French, his slaves and the free-
family unit is shaken, and they seem to           realises that his beautiful teenage son Nic   to his enchanted Paris proves fairly easy…      spirited painter, Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi)
live happily together until an unforeseen         (Chalamet) got hooked on crystal meth.                                                        at the dawn of the French Revolution.
incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the                                                    Thu 14 Feb     6.30pm
bonds that unite them…                            Sat 16 Feb     8pm                                                                            Thu 21 Mar     6.20pm
                                                  Sun 17 Feb     4.15pm                         Valentine’s Day special screening
Fri 15 Feb      6pm                               Wed 20 Feb     6pm                            followed by a Q&A with Academy Awards®          Followed by a Q&A with Academy
Tue 19 Feb      6.10pm                            Thu 21 Feb     6.20pm                         nominated Art Director Anne Seibel              Award®-winning costume designers
Thu 21 Feb      8.40pm                                                                                                                          Jenny Beavan & John Bright

                                                                                                As part of The Craft of Film, a new year-long residency of the Academy
                                                                                                of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Ciné Lumière
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Ciné Lumière Cinema Made in Italy
                                  Ciné Lumière teams up again with
                                  Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Italian
                                  Cultural Institute in London to present
                                  the 9th edition of Cinema Made in Italy.
                                  Tragic, moving and inspiring, this
                                  selection of cinematic delights explores
                                  Italian culture at its finest.
                                  Discover the most anticipated films by
                                  Paolo Sorrentino, Valeria Golino, Paolo
                                  Virzì, Duccio Chiarini and more from Italy,
                                  with love!
                                  > screenings are listed pp. 26-27
                                  > for further details see:
                                    www.institutfrancais.org.uk
                                  28 February – 3 March
image: Loro by Paolo Sorrentino
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Ciné Lumière French Classics

Au revoir les                                    Delicatessen                                  Tchao Pantin                                      Smoking/
enfants                                          FRA | 1991 | 99 mins | dir.s Marc Caro &
                                                 Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Pascal Benezech,
                                                                                               So Long, Stooge!                                  No Smoking
                                                                                               FRA | 1983 | 100 mins | dir. Claude Berri, with
Goodbye Children                                 Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac,         Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral            FRA | 1993 | 298 mins | dir. Alain Resnais,
FRA | 1987 | 104 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with   Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky       cert. tbc | in French with EN subs                with Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine         Holgado | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs                                                     cert. PG | in French with EN subs
Racette | cert. 12 | in French with EN subs                                                    Winning 5 César Awards in 1984, including
                                                 Revealing the cinematic duo of Jean-          Best Actor for then France’s favourite            In a picturesque Yorkshire village,
Garnering no less than 7 César Awards            Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro to the world      comedian, Coluche, Claude Berri’s film            9 characters, all played by Sabine Azéma
including Best Film and Best Directors,          and Best First Feature Film at the 1992       tells the story of Lambert a former cop           and Pierre Arditi, present us with several
Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical              César Awards, this groundbreaking debut       turned drunk gas station attendant after          versions of their daily life in 2 films.
film is one of the greatest accounts             is a grimly funny fairytale with stunning     a tragedy leading to the loss of his son.         Alain Resnais’ film, based on a series of 8
on the Second World War and the                  design and unique special effects set         When he meets Bensoussan (Richard                 plays by Alan Ayckbourn, is not only about
German Occupation. This richly detailed,         in the near-future, in a tenement block       Anconina), an unlikely friendship forms           destiny and the role luck plays in our
immaculately acted film traces the               that harbours a gallery of larger-than life   until history repeats itself. But this time,      lives, but also the uselessness of regrets.
friendship between two 12 years-old, one         grotesque characters.                         Lambert is determined to fix things up.           Winner of 5 César Awards in 1994.
from a wealthy Catholic family through
whose eyes the events are seen, the other        Sun 10 Feb     2pm                            Sun 17 Feb      2pm                               Sun 24 Feb      2pm
a Jewish boy hidden by the priests, his
identity concealed.

Sun 3 Feb       2pm

This season of French classics is a selection of films awarded by the Académie des César
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Ciné Lumière European Classics

The Conformist                                                 Jamon Jamon                                                   The Seventh Seal
Il conformista                                                 Jamón Jamón                                                   Det Sjunde Inseglet
ITA/ FRA/ GER | 1970 | 113 mins | dir. Bernardo Bertolucci,    ESP | 1992 | 95 mins | dir. Bigas Luna, with Javier Bardem,   SWE | 1958 | 96 mins | dir. Ingmar Bergman, with Max von
with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone       Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà | cert. 18 | in Spanish with EN    Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot | cert. PG
Moschin | cert. 15 | in Italian with EN subs                   subs                                                          in Swedish & Latin with EN subs

Based on Alberto Moravia’s eponymous novel, Bernardo           Shot in the aridity of Zaragoza’s desert, Jamón, Jamón        Ingmar Bergman’s allegorical masterpiece centres on a
Bertolucci’s film traces the life of Marcello Clerici (Jean-   – which juxtaposes erotic desire and food – explores the      knight (Max von Sydow) who returns from the Crusades
Louis Trintignant) in a series of flashbacks giving light      complex relationship between Silvia (Penélope Cruz), the      only to find back home a world tormented by the Black
on his troubled psyche and integration into the Fascist        daughter of a roadside prostitute, her boyfriend José Luis    Death and superstition. In the face of a silent God and
system. Joining Mussolini’s secret police, he is assigned      (Jordi Mollà), son of the richest man in town, and Raúl       questioning his own faith and purpose, he encounters
to murder a former college professor and anti-Fascist          (Javier Bardem), a would-be bullfighter. It also lays bare    Death who is ready to take him under its dark wing. But to
intellectual now living in exile in France.                    the aspirations and frustrations of their parents. The film   defy fate, he challenges it to a game of chess.
                                                               was a big breakthrough for the three lead actors, the then
Sun 3 Mar        2pm                                           extremely young Jordi Mollà, Penélope Cruz and Javier         Sun 17 Mar     2pm
                                                               Bardem.
As part of Cinema Made in Italy (p.8)
                                                               Sun 10 Mar     2pm

                                                               See also Everybody Knows with Penélope Cruz and Javier
                                                               Bardem (p.4)
Ciné Lumière European Classics

Wings of Desire                                               The Double Life of                                            Ciné Lumière, Screen 2
Der Himmel über Berlin                                        Veronique                                                     Building on the success of the 230-seat Ciné Lumière,
                                                                                                                            the Institut is opening a new boutique cinema for a more
GER/ FRA | 1987 | 128 mins | dir. Wim Wenders, with Bruno
Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander | cert. 12 | German,     La Double vie de Véronique                                    flexible and enriched programming. A cosy 35-seat
English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish & Japanese with     FRA/ POL/ NOR | 1991 | 98 mins | dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski,   cinema, due to open in Spring 2019, Ciné Lumière,
EN subs                                                       with Irène Jacob, Philippe Volter, Guillaume de Tonquédec     Screen 2 will be the perfect setting for a wider range
                                                              cert. 15 | in French, Polish & Italian with EN subs           of films and events, from educational screenings to
Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes                                                                        documentaries, from short films to debates. This new
Film Festival, Wim Wenders offers with Wings of               Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique, which    space will also be available for private hire.
Desire one of his most celebrated films to date. Damiel       won its lead Irène Jacob a Best Actress Award in Cannes,
(Bruno Ganz), a guardian angel wishes nothing more            is a metaphysical voyage carried away by Zbigniew             Part of the Projet Lumière(s) under the patronage of
than to leave the monochrome world of the afterlife to        Preisner's music. Irène Jacob plays both Weronika, a          Lambert Wilson, this creation is made possible thanks to
experiment life in full colours and more specifically, love   Polish choir soprano, and Véronique, a French music           the support of the Friends of the French Institute trust,
with Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the entrancing mortal        teacher. Both women don’t know each other and have            the Friends’ Circle and all our generous donors, whom we
he vividly desires.                                           never met, and yet… their lives are profoundly connected.     would like to thank wholeheartedly.
                                                              When Weronika collapses on stage, Véronique, miles
Sun 24 Mar     2pm                                            away, is deeply affected.                                     There is still time to get involved in the Projet
                                                                                                                            Lumière(s): each donation matters!
                                                              Sun 31 mar     2pm
                                                                                                                            www.institut-francais.org.uk/projet-lumieres

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Comédie-Française                                                                                 Semaine de la Francophonie

Le Misanthrope                                     Cyrano de Bergerac Music Rendezvous Joutes Oratoires
La Comédie-Française Theatre Broadcast             La Comédie-Française Theatre Broadcast with Laure Briard Lycéennes
Molière | Stage director: Clément Hervieu-         Edmond Rostand | Stage director: Denis
Léger | Stage design: Eric Ruf | with the troupe   Podalydès | Costume designer: Christian        After a Brazilian excursion on her previous   On the occasion of the International
and actors of the Académie de la Comédie-          Lacroix | with the troupe and actors of the    EP, wistful singer-songwriter Laure Briard    Francophonie Week, the Institut français
Française | 180 mins | in French with EN subs      Académie de la Comédie-Française | 190 mins    returns with a new full-length album          is hosting the final of the inter-regional
                                                   in French with EN subs                         Un peu plus d’amour s’il vous plait sung      French debating competition involving
In this take on Molière’s greatest classic,                                                       primarily in French. Inspired by 60s pop,     hundreds of sixth-form students from
the characters are placed outside a                Cyrano is cursed with a prominent nose         folk and psychedelia, her music is delicate   across the UK. Come and see the
mansion that is being renovated instead            but gifted with words. He uses his talent      but not without its moments of darkness.      rhetorical feat of these young Francophiles
of the cosy setting of a salon. The set is         to help handsome Christian win Roxane’s                                                      celebrating their love of the French
a moving space, a metaphor for what,               heart, whom he also secretly loves…            Her set will be followed by a Q&A session.    language in cheerful joutes oratoires.
according to the director, the repertoire          Edmond Rostand’s most popular work is
should be “evolving, completely of its             revived by a brilliant production, winner of   Tue 19 Mar    7.30pm                          Pupils and students between 7 and 18 can
century but nourished by previous centuries        six Molière awards.                                                                          also take part in our nationwide French
and already turning to the coming century.”                                                       in French & English | £7, members £5          Pop Video Competition by 5 April.
                                                   Tue 19 Mar     7.30pm                                                                        www.institut-francais.org.uk/francophonie
Tue 5 Feb       7.30pm
                                                   Preceded by an introduction by actor                                                         Wed 20 Mar 3.30pm
Preceded by an introduction by stage               Michel Vuillermoz                                                                            Free but booking essential:
director and actor Clément Hervieu-Léger                                                                                                        alix.le-fessant@diplomatie.gouv.fr

As part of the Spotlight on the Comédie-Française                                                                                               Organised in collaboration with
season, celebrating the return of the Comédie-Française
to the UK with The Damned at the Barbican in June.
Women Shaping the World

Woman Up                                                         Women in Games                                             The Goddesses of Food
Numéro une                                                       Are video games a boys club? While half of the gaming      A la recherche des femmes chefs
FRA/BEL | 2017 | 110 mins | dir. Tonie Marshall, with            community are women, there is a noticeable lack            FRA | 2016 | 106 mins | dir. Vérane Frédiani | doc | cert. tbc
Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clément, Richard Berry                 of female video game creators (coders, developers,         in English, French & Spanish with EN subs
cert. tbc | in French, English, Chinese with EN subs | Preview   producers, etc.) and e-sport players, making up only 15%
                                                                 of the workforce in the industry in France.                Chefs, sous chefs, sommeliers, activists… In haute
Emmanuelle Devos plays an ambitious corporate                                                                               gastronomy and street food, meet innovative women in
manager who aspires to be the first woman CEO of a               Join Chella Ramanan (game designer), Jodie Azhar           the food world changing the game at all levels in Vérane
major French company. However, when she finally gets a           (CEO, game director at Teazelcat Games), Jade Thiriat      Frédiani’s documentary. The women we follow come from
shot at her position, she is quickly threatened by personal      (gameplay programmer at Ubisoft) and Morgane Lainard       all over the world and yet, they all consider gastronomy
and political factors. In this intelligent drama about           (game designer, CCCP Games, tbc), led by Marie-Claire      as a way to change the status quo. The women we follow
corporate sexism, director Tonie Marshall captures not           Isaaman (CEO, Women in Games UK), discussing how to        come from all over the world and yet, they all consider
only a topical but also a potent portrait of the sacrifices      break gender stereotypes.                                  gastronomy as a way to change perceptions on the role of
unique to a woman’s ambition in male dominated                                                                              women in society.
environments.                                                    Wed 6 Mar     7.30pm
                                                                                                                            Fri 8 Mar       6.30pm
Tue 5 Mar      6.30pm                                            1h30 | in English | £5, members £3
                                                                                                                            Followed by a Q&A with director Vérane Frédiani and
                                                                 Discover apps, games and videos at La Médiathèque          French and British Chefs
                                                                 which challenge norms and gender misconceptions

Special programme on the occasion of the
International Women’s Day.
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Tribute to Christian Dior

Exhibiting Christian Dior The Drawings of                                                                                Stage Fright
Talk                      Christian Dior                                                                                 UK/USA | 1950 | 110 mins | dir. Alfred Hitchcock, with Marlene
                                                                                                                         Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd | cert. PG | in English
One of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers,      Screening
Christian Dior is the subject of the exhibition Christian                                                                Aspiring actress Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) offers to help
Dior, Designer of Dreams at the V&A, exploring the          Les Dessins de Christian Dior                                her friend Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) when he is
enduring influence of the fashion house from 1947 to the    FRA | 2018 | 55 mins | dir. Loïc Prigent | doc | cert. tbc   suspected by the police to have murdered the husband of
present day, and Dior’s relationship with Britain. V&A      in German, French & English with EN subs                     his flamboyant lover, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich).
Fashion and textiles curator Oriole Cullen and French set                                                                Eve sets out to investigate for herself, and in a typical
designer Nathalie Crinière will present their research      Leading fashion expert and director of Signed Chanel         plot twist for the master of suspense that Hitchcock
and Dior’s historical approach to fashion for the making    and British Style, Loïc Prigent portrays one of the          is, it becomes unclear how to identify friend from foe.
of the exhibition.                                          greatest couturiers, Christian Dior, through a creative      Renowned for the attention he paid to the shaping of
                                                            biography including animated drawings commented by           the style of his heroines, the filmmaker had to give in to
Thu 14 Mar     6.30pm                                       contemporary audio archives and interviews of fashion        Marlene Dietrich, who imposed a full Dior wardrobe.
                                                            historians, dressmakers, friends and icons such as
£9, members & conc. £7                                      Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson or Jennifer Lawrence       Sun 17 Mar     4pm
                                                            who followed in the steps of legends Marilyn Monroe, Rita
                                                            Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich – who only wore Dior!          Screening as part of

                                                            Thu 14 Mar      7.30pm

                                                            £11, members & conc. £9

Double bill: talk + screening: £15, conc. £13
Music

Music Rendezvous with                                       Berlioz 150                                                   Benedict Kloeckner &
P.r2b – Collectif La                                        This event is organised by Berlioz 150, whose aim is to       Danae Dörken
Souterraine
                                                            celebrate Hector Berlioz's life and work during this year’s
                                                            150th anniversary of his death.                               Cellist Benedict Kloeckner and pianist Danae Dörken
                                                                                                                          are among the most acclaimed German artists of their
The Music Rendezvous series returns in our listed library   The event will include talks by leading Berlioz experts,      generation. Having performed extensively throughout
with French singer Pauline Rambeau de Baralon a.k.a         including David Cairns, the leading authority on the life     Europe (Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra,
P.r2b. It's a special showcase in collaboration with La     of Berlioz, as well as performances of Berlioz songs by       Wigmore Hall…) and in the United States (Carnegie Hall,
Souterraine, an entirely independent platform promoting     mezzo-soprano Jess Dandy, accompanied on the piano            Las Vegas Philharmonic), they present a programme
a new wave of French-language pop. Praised for her live     by Dylan Perez, and readings from Berlioz’s letters and       combining music from their last recording dedicated to
performances, P.r2B's striking songs blend 80s cold wave    articles by stage and television actor Malcolm Sinclair.      Schumann with pieces by Schostakovich and Martinu.
and cloud rap-style production.                             Come to a fantastique evening!
                                                                                                                          Thu 21 Mar    7.30pm
Followed by an informal chat with the public.               Thu 7 Mar        7.30pm | £10
                                                                                                                          £15, members £13, students £5
Wed 6 Feb     7.30pm                                        berlioz150.org
                                                                                                                          As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music
in French & English | £7, members £5                                                                                      concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet

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Talks

                                       © Emanuele Scorcelletti

A Night with Crime                                               Pop-Up! Creative                                               Reading Group
Novelist Bernard Minier                                          Workshop with Paul                                             We focus on the latest translated works of acclaimed

                                                                 Rouillac
                                                                                                                                French authors. Join our unique bilingual literary
Meet Bernard Minier, one of the most applauded                                                                                  discussion with a little French twist!
contemporary French crime novelists and discover
his best-selling novel, Night, just launched in the UK           If you're interested in beautiful illustrations, whether you   Thu 21 Feb | Hhhh, by Laurent Binet - tr. by S. Taylor
by Mulholland Book Trade Paperpack. Night follows                are already an illustrator or just eager to discover new       Thu 14 Mar | Maigret et les témoins récalcitrants, by
detective Kirsten Nigaard and commandant Martin                  tips, come and meet Paul Rouillac a master in pop-up           Georges Simenon - tr. by R. Schwartz
Servaz on a terrifying chase. Winner of the prestigious          books. He will introduce you to his craft and guide you
Prix Polar at the Cognac Crime Festival and translated           through the techniques to make your own pop-up card to         7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French
into twenty languages, Bernard Minier became a                   take home.                                                     £5, members £3, including a glass of wine
sensation in France when his first novel Glacé (The

                                                                                                                                Café Philo
Frozen Dead, 2013) was published. It was made into a very        Sat 9 Mar      5pm
successful television series now available on NETFLIX.
                                                                 1h30 | in English & French | £5, members & conc. £3
Thu 7 Feb     7pm                                                                                                               Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical
                                                                 Followed by book signings                                      issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo
1h30 | in English | £5, members £3                                                                                              meets every Saturday.

Followed by book signings                                                                                                       Sat 2 & 9 Feb, 2, 16 & 23 Mar | in English
                                                                                                                                Sat 16 Feb, 9 & 30 Mar | in French

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Kids & Families

                                                                                                                                   image: Mary Poppins Returns
 Get your umbrella ready, and show your kids the way to games, tales and fun activities!
 The Institut français is filled with creative and fun workshops for children and families.

 Kids Activities
 Don’t miss out on our workshops and tales, and
 meet the author and artist Paul Rouillac who
 will share his tips and tricks on pop-up books!
                                                                                              CinéKids Screenings
 (see p.16)                                                                                   You can expect a bit of magic with
                                                                                              Mary Poppins Returns and
                                                                                              The Illusionist, an incredible
                                                                                              adventure with Bécassine! and a
 > all Kids & Families activities are listed pp.26-27                                         moving story with Dumbo (1941),
 > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website:                                        among other treats!
   www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families                                                 Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am
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We Support
Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion           Bêka & Lemoine: Moriyama-San              The Community Live in Nottingham             Language World 2019

                                             Join an evening of screening and          Inviting members of the public and           The Association for Language Learning’s
                                             conversation with French filmmakers       students from Nottingham Trent               annual conference and CPD event offers
                                             Bêka & Lemoine with Home Futures          University to explore weekly themes via a    a packed programme with speakers from
                                             curator Eszter Steierhoffer. Their work   range of activities with members of The      across the languages sector. Come visit
                                             experiments with new narrative and        Community, each group will create new        the Institut français stand and discover
                                             cinematographic forms in relation to      works within the space.                      the wide offer for teachers of French in
                                             contemporary architecture.                Supported by Fluxus Art Projects.            the UK.

                                             www.designmuseum.org                      www.boningtongallery.co.uk                   www.all-languages.org.uk

Kader Attia’s first UK survey exhibition     14 Feb        The Design Museum           4 – 30 March Bonington Gallery               22–23 Mar       Imago, Leicestershire
questions our ideas of wholeness and
injury, authenticity and repair, belonging   Lovemusic: Everything Starts Elsewhere    LSO Futures: Manoury’s Ring                  Going Through by Estelle Savasta
and otherness in regard to the legacy of
western colonialism.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

13 Feb – 6 May          Hayward Gallery

Francofest 2019

Francofest is a French language event,
unique in Northern Ireland, which
aims to highlight the benefits language      Musicians’ collective Lovemusic           For the first time in the UK, the London     Don't miss the UK Premiere of French
learning can bring to pupils and school      programme presents a newly                Symphony Orchestra performs Philippe         author Estelle Savasta's poetic and
communities.                                 commissioned work composed by Jerome      Manoury’s piece, Ring. This LSO Futures      touching play telling the story of a girl’s
                                             Combier alongside pieces by French and    season focuses on the concept of space       journey through adolescence, across
www.qub.ac.uk                                British composers such as John Craft,     and on the relation with the orchestra and   borders and through a well-guarded
                                             Gilbert Army, Pascal Dusapin, Martin      the audience. Supported by Diaphonique.      secret…
8 Feb          Queen’s University, Belfast   Iddon and Betsy Jolas.                                                                 Supported by En Scène! and Cross
                                             Supported by Diaphonique.                 www.barbican.org.uk                          Channel Theatre.

                                             www.city.ac.uk                            24 March      Barbican Hall                  www.bushtheatre.co.uk

                                             19 Feb        City University London                                                   28 March – 27 Apr        Bush Theatre
We Recommend
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory                    Yann Tiersen                                  Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life                         The Blaze

                                                                                                                                                              The biggest London date yet for emotive
                                                                                                                                                              electronic duo The Blaze - cousins
                                                                                                                                                              Guillaume and Jonathan Alric - who have
                                                                                                                                                              been causing a stir with their moving,
                                                                                                                                                              cinematic visuals and the powerful but
                                                                                                                                                              danceable tracks that make up debut
                                                                                                                                                              album Dancehall.

                                                                                                                                                              www.roundhouse.org.uk

This is the first major exhibition of Pierre            Incorporating field recordings from his       Explore revolutionary Paris through                     12 Mar              Roundhouse
Bonnard’s work in the UK since the                      Brittany home, the redwood forests            Boilly’s daring and playful paintings.
much-loved show at Tate 20 years ago.                   of California and Tempelhof airport in        Working in a politically turbulent Paris,               Leyla Mccalla
It will allow new generations to discover               Berlin, Amélie composer and multi-            Louis-Leopold Boilly witnessed the French
Bonnard’s unconventional use of colour,                 instrumentalist Yann Tiersen performs         Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon,              Haitian-American singer and multi-
while surprising those who think they                   from his new album, All, in the UK for the    and the Restoration of the French                       instrumentalist McCalla is a vital voice
already know him.                                       first time.                                   Monarchy.                                               whose new album The Capitalist Blues
                                                                                                                                                              looks at the pressure cooker her country
www.tate.org.uk                                         www.southbankcentre.co.uk                     www.nationalgallery.org.uk                              has become while drawing on jazz and folk
                                                                                                                                                              as well as traditional Creole, Cajun and
Until 6 May             Tate Modern                     19–20 Feb         Southbank Centre            28 Feb – 19 May The National Gallery                    Haitian music

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams                      Florian Zeller                                Yara Lapidus                                            www.kingsplace.co.uk

Spanning 1947 to the present day, this                  The highly anticipated UK premiere of         The hypnotic French-Lebanese singer-                    28 Mar              Kings Place
exhibition traces the history and impact of             The Son follows the sold out Olivier award-   songwriter released French-language
one of the 20th century’s most influential              winning The Father and the critically-        album Indéfiniment last year, which
couturiers, exploring the enduring                      acclaimed The Mother by Molière award-        saw her collaborate with veteran
influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s              winning playwright Florian Zeller in a        composer and producer Gabriel Yared.
relationship with Britain.                              production directed by Michael Longhurst.     Her forthcoming international record,
                                                                                                      meanwhile, features a duet with Iggy Pop.
www.vam.ac.uk                                           www.kilntheatre.com
                                                                                                      www.brasseriezedel.com
2 Feb – 14 July         V&A                             20 Feb – 6 Apr    Kiln Theatre                                                                                        Cultural events in the 'We Support'
                                                                                                      4 Mar                    Brasserie Zédel                                and 'We Recommend' sections are
                                                                                                                                                                              supported or recommended by the
                                                                                                                                                                              Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects,
Picture: Pierre Bonnard, Le Jardin, 1936, Musée d'Art                                                 Picture: Louis-Léopold Boilly, 'Carnival Scene', 1832                   Diaphonique, En Scène! and the
moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France).                                                         © The Ramsbury Manor Foundation                                         French Music Export Office.
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February
   Part of Cinema Made in     Wed 6 Feb                     Sun 10 Feb                    Sat 16 Feb                    Fri 22 Feb
   Italy (p.8)                Sink or Swim                  The Lego Movie                Café Philo                    Capernaum
                              4pm | film | p.6              11am | film/kids | p.17       10.30am | talk | p.16         2.30pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm | film
Fri 1 Feb                     On Her Shoulders              Delicatessen                  Mary Poppins Returns          p.4
Burning                       6.20pm | film | p.3           2pm | film | p.9              2pm | film/kids | p.17
3.30pm, 8.30pm | film | p.3                                                                                             Sat 23 Feb
                              P.r2b - La Souterraine        Dogman                        Game Lab
On Her Shoulders                                                                                                        Kids Tales
                              7.30pm | music | p.15         4.30pm | film | p.6           2.30pm | kids | p.17
6.30pm | film | p.3                                                                                                     11am | kids | p.17
                              Burning                       The Favourite                 Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
                                                                                                                        L’Illusionniste
Sat 2 Feb                     8.20pm | film | p.3           7.30pm | film | p.6           4.30pm | film | p.3
                                                                                                                        2pm| film/kids | p.17
Café Philo                                                                                Beautiful Boy
                              Thu 7 Feb                     Mon 11 Feb                                                  Capernaum
10.30am | talk | p.16                                                                     8pm | film | p.7
                              Art Club                      Burning                                                     4pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4
Kids French Lab               4pm | kids | p.17             6pm | film | p.3              Sun 17 Feb
11am | kids | p.17                                                                                                      Sun 24 Feb
                              On Her Shoulders              The Favourite                 L’Illusionniste
The Lego Movie                                                                                                          Mary Poppins Returns
                              4pm | film | p.3              8.50pm | film | p.6           11am | film/kids | p.17
2pm | film/kids | p.17                                                                                                  11am | film/kids | p.17
                              Burning                                                     Tchao Pantin
Sink or Swim                                                Tue 12 Feb                                                  Smoking/No Smoking
                              6pm | film | p.3                                            2pm | film | p.9
4pm | film | p.6                                            Dogman                                                      2pm | film | p.9
                              A Night with Bernard Minier                                 Beautiful Boy
On Her Shoulders                                            6.10pm | film | p.6                                         Capernaum
                              7pm | talk | p.16                                           4.15pm | film | p.7
6.30pm | film | p.3                                         Burning                                                     7.30pm | film | p.4
                              Sink or Swim                                                Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
Burning                                                     8.30pm | film | p.3
                              8.50pm | film | p.6                                         7pm | film | p.3              Mon 25 Feb
8.30pm | film | p.3                                         Wed 13 Feb                                                  Capernaum
                              Fri 8 Feb                                                   Mon 18 Feb
Sun 3 Feb                                                   The Favourite                                               6.30pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4
                              Cold War                                                    Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
Mary Poppins Returns                                        3.30pm, 8.50pm | film | p.6
                              4pm | film | p.6                                            7.30pm | film | p.3           Tue 26 Feb
11am | film/kids | p.17                                     Burning
                              Burning                                                                                   e-Workshop
Au revoir les enfants                                       6pm | film | p.3              Tue 19 Feb
                              6pm | film | p.3                                                                          4pm | kids | p.17
2pm | film | p.9                                                                          Shoplifters
                              The Favourite                 Thu 14 Feb                                                  Capernaum
On Her Shoulders                                                                          6.10pm | film | p.7
                              8.50pm | film | p.6           Burning                                                     5.30pm | film | p.4
4.10pm | film | p.3                                                                       Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
                                                            3.30pm | film | p.3                                         Loro + Q&A
Sink or Swim                  Sat 9 Feb                                                   8.30pm | film | p.3
                                                            Midnight in Paris + Q&A                                     8pm | film | p.8
6.05pm | film | p.6           Café Philo
                                                            6.30pm | film | p.7           Wed 20 Feb
Burning                       10.30am | talk | p.16                                                                     Wed 27 Feb
                                                            Cold War                      Baby Comptines
8.30pm | film | p.3           Baby Tales                                                                                Capernaum
                                                            9.10pm | film | p.6           11am | kids | p.17
                              11am | kids | p.17                                                                        3pm, 6.10pm | film | p.4
Mon 4 Feb                                                                                 Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
                              Book Swap                     Fri 15 Feb                                                  Euphoria + Q&A
On Her Shoulders                                                                          2.30pm, 8.10pm | film | p.3
                              12pm | kids | p.17            Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno                                  8.40pm | film | p.8
6.20pm | film | p.3                                                                       Beautiful Boy
                              Mary Poppins Returns          2.30pm, 8.20pm | film | p.3
Burning                                                                                   6pm | film | p.3              Thu 28 Feb
                              2pm | film/kids | p.17        Shoplifters
8.20pm | film | p.3           T(h)inker Club                                                                            Art Club
                                                            6pm | film | p.7              Thu 21 Feb
                              2.30pm | kids | p.17                                                                      4pm | kids | p.17
Tue 5 Feb                                                                                 Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
                              Dogman                                                                                    Capernaum
Let’s Play!                                                                               2.30pm | film | p.3
                              4.30pm | film | p.6                                                                       4pm | film | p.4
4pm | kids | p.17                                                                         Beautiful Boy
                              The Favourite                                                                             Ricordi + Q&A
Le Misanthrope + intro                                                                    6.20pm | film | p.3
                              6.30pm | film | p.6                                                                       6.30pm | film | p.8
7.30pm | theatre broadcast                                                                Reading Group
                              Burning                                                                                   Lucia's Grace + Q&A
p.12                                                                                      7pm | talk | p.16
                              8.50pm | film | p.3                                                                       8.50pm | film | p.8
                                                                                          Shoplifters
                                                                                          8.40pm | film | p.7
March                          Wed 6 Mar                          Tue 12 Mar                       Sun 17 Mar                   Girl                         Wed 27 Mar
                               Baby Comptines                     e-Workshop                       Le Grand méchant renard et   9.15pm | film | p.5          Sorry Angel
                               11am | kids | p.17                 4pm | kids | p.17                autres contes                                             4pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                                                Fri 22 Mar
                               Women in Games                     Everybody Knows                  11am | film/kids | p.17                                   Girl
Fri 1 Mar                                                                                                                       The White Crow
                               7.30pm | talk | p.13               4.30pm | film | p.4              The Seventh Seal                                          6.30pm | film | p.5
Capernaum                                                                                                                       4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.5
                               Capernaum                          The White Crow                   2pm | film | p.10                                         The White Crow
4pm | film | p.4                                                                                                                Sorry Angel
                               4pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4   7pm | film | p.5                 Stage Fright                                              8.45pm | film | p.5
The Guest + Q&A                                                                                                                 6.20pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                   4pm | film| p.14
6.30pm | film | p.8            Thu 7 Mar                          Wed 13 Mar                                                                                 Thu 28 Mar
                                                                                                   Girl                         Sat 23 Mar
The Man Who Bought the Moon    Art Club                           Capernaum                                                                                  Art Club
                                                                                                   6.30pm | film | p.5          Café Philo
+ Q&A                          4pm | kids | p.17                  4.10pm | film | p.4                                                                        4pm | kids | p.17
                                                                                                   Everybody Knows              10.30am | talk | p.16
8.50pm | film | p.8            Berlioz 150                        Everybody Knows                                                                            The White Crow
                                                                                                   8.40pm | film | p.4          Kids Tales
                               7.30pm | music | p.15              6.20pm | film | p.4                                                                        4pm | film | p.5
Sat 2 Mar                                                                                                                       11am | kids | p.17
                                                                  Sauvage                          Mon 18 Mar
Café Philo                     Fri 8 Mar                                                                                        Le Grand méchant renard et   Fri 29 Mar
                                                                  8.50pm | film | p.4              Girl
10.30am | talk | p.16          Everybody Knows                                                                                  autres contes                The White Crow
                                                                                                   6.30pm | film | p.5
The Great Adventure of No-No   4pm, 9pm | film | p.4              Thu 14 Mar                                                    2pm | film/kids | p.17       4pm, 6.20pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                   Sauvage
2pm | film/kids | p.17         The Goddesses of Food + Q&A        Everybody Knows                                               T(h)inker Club               Sorry Angel
                                                                                                   8.40pm | film | p.4
Capernaum                      6.30pm | film | p.13               3.45pm, 8.50pm | film | p.4                                   2.30pm | kids | p.17         8.40pm | film | p.5
4pm | film | p.4                                                  Art Club                         Tue 19 Mar                   Girl
                               Sat 9 Mar                                                                                                                     Sat 30 Mar
Wherever You Are + Q&A                                            4pm | kids | p.17                Let’s Play!                  3.50pm | film | p.5
                               Café Philo                                                                                                                    Café Philo
6.30pm | film | p.8                                               Exhibiting Christian Dior        4pm | kids | p.17            Sorry Angel
                               10.30am | talk | p.16                                                                                                         10.30am | talk | p.16
Magical Nights + Q&A                                              6.30pm | talk | p.14             Everybody Knows              6pm | film | p.5
                               Meet the Author & Artist:                                                                                                     Kids French Lab
8.50pm | film | p.8                                               The Drawings of Christian Dior   5pm | film | p.4             The White Crow
                               Paul Rouillac                                                                                                                 11am | kids | p.17
                                                                  7.30pm | film| p.14              Cyrano de Bergerac + intro   8.40pm | film | p.5
Sun 3 Mar                      2pm | kids | p.17                                                                                                             L'École Buissonnière
                                                                  Reading Group                    7.30pm | theatre broadcast
Bécassine!                     Bécassine!                                                                                       Sun 24 Mar                   2pm | film/kids | p.17
                                                                  7pm | talk | p.16                p.12
11am | film/kids | p.17        2pm | film/kids | p.17                                                                           Dumbo (1941)                 Sorry Angel
                                                                                                   Laure Briard
The Conformist                 Sauvage                            Fri 15 Mar                                                    11am | film/kids | p.17      4.10pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                   7.30pm | music | p.12
2pm | film | p.10              4pm | film | p.4                   Girl                                                          Wings of Desire              The White Crow
Capernaum                      Creative Workshop with Paul        4pm, 8.50pm | film | p.5         Wed 20 Mar                   2pm | film | p.11            6.40pm | film | p.5
4.10pm, 8.20pm | film | p.4    Rouillac                           Everybody Knows                  Baby Comptines               Girl                         3 Faces
We'll Be Young and Beautiful   5pm | talk | p.16                  6.20pm | film | p.4              11am | kids | p.17           4.30pm | film | p.5          9pm | film
+ Q&A                          Capernaum                                                           Joutes Oratoires Lycéennes   The White Crow
                                                                  Sat 16 Mar                                                                                 Sun 31 Mar
6.30pm | film | p.8            6.15pm | film | p.4                                                 3.30pm | p.12                6.30pm | film | p.5
                                                                  Café Philo                                                                                 L'École Buissonnière
                               Everybody Knows                                                     Sauvage                      Sorry Angel
Mon 4 Mar                                                         10.30am | talk | p.16                                                                      11am | film/kids | p.17
                               8.50pm | film | p.4                                                 4pm | film | p.4             8.50pm | film | p.5
Capernaum                                                         Baby Tales                                                                                 La Double Vie de Véronique
                                                                                                   Everybody Knows
6.20pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4    Sun 10 Mar                         11am | kids | p.17                                            Mon 25 Mar                   2pm | film | p.11
                                                                                                   6.20pm | film | p.4
                               The Great Adventure of No-No       Dumbo (1941)                                                  Sorry Angel                  Girl
Tue 5 Mar                                                                                          Girl
                               11am | film/kids | p.17            2pm | film/kids | p.17                                        6.15pm | film | p.5          4pm | film | p.5
Let’s Play!                                                                                        8.50pm | film | p.5
                               Jamon Jamon                        Game Lab                                                      The White Crow               The White Crow
4pm | kids | p.17              2pm | film | p.10                  2.30pm | kids | p.17             Thu 21 Mar                   8.50pm | film | p.5          6.10pm | film | p.5
Woman Up                       Everybody Knows                    Girl                             Art Club                                                  3 Faces
6.30pm | film | p.13                                                                                                            Tue 26 Mar
                               4pm, 8.30pm | film | p.4           4.10pm, 6.20pm | film | p.5      4pm | kids | p.17                                         8.30pm | film
Capernaum                                                                                                                       e-Workshop
                               Sauvage                            Everybody Knows                  Everybody Knows
8.45pm | film | p.4                                                                                                             4pm | kids | p.17
                               6.30pm | film | p.4                8.40pm | film | p.4              3.45pm | film | p.4
                                                                                                                                The White Crow
                                                                                                   Jefferson in Paris + Q&A
                               Mon 11 Mar                                                                                       6.20pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                   6.20pm | film | p.7
                               Sauvage                                                                                          Sorry Angel
                                                                                                   Benedict Kloeckner & Danae
                               6.30pm | film | p.4                                                                              8.40pm | film | p.5
                                                                                                   Dörken
                               Everybody Knows                                                     7.30pm | music | p.15
                               8.30pm | film | p.4
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