Events

“My French Film Festival” offers ten feature films and ten shorts -- a mix of comedies, dramas and documentaries -- screening in their original version, subtitled in English. 

In the United States and Canada, in addition to its own platform, “My French Film Festival” will be available on Eurocinema, an on-demand television channel available in 30 million homes through major cable operators such as Comcast, Cablevision, Charter, Verizon and DirecTV.  On the web, the festival will also be available on Vudu, one of the leading video-streaming services in the US.  Of note, iTunes, for the first time in its history, has signed on as a worldwide partner.

Feature Films in Competition

1. Early One Morning by Jean Marc Moutout
2. The Disintegration by Philippe Faucon
3. Donoma by Djinn Carrénard
4. Louise Wimmerby Cyril Mennegun
5. Radiostars by Romain Levy
6. On Air by Pierre Pinaud
7. Of Horses and Women by Patricia Mazuy
8. Leader-Sheep by Christian Rouaud
9. A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Thierry Binisti

Shorts in Com

I would like to let you know about an exciting exhibition coming to Agora Gallery, NYC, featuring the original work of four innovative and talented French artists, Christiane Monchalin, Krzis-Lorent FrédériqueK, Jade Rougerie and Silvana Di Martino. The exhibition is scheduled to run from February 7, 2013 through February 27, 2013.

February is also Heart Month and to celebrate we’re doing something a little special. Some of the artists in this exhibition have created artwork especially for the occasion. The entire sales proceeds from the sales of these particular pieces of art will be donated to the Children’s Heart Foundation.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday night, February 7, 2013 from 6-8 pm.

The following links will take you to their full art display:

Christiane Monchalin - www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Christiane_Monchalin.aspx

Krzis-Lorent FrédériqueK - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/FrederiqueK.aspx

Silvana Di Martino - http://www.agora-gallery.com/art

Marcel Carné, 1938, 91 min.

Jean (played by Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life, travels down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

The award-winning documentary film, #ReGENERATION, narrated by Hollywood actor Ryan Ghosling, explores the galvanizing forces behind the Occupy Movement and the state of social activism in our society. The film takes an uncompromising look at the challenges facing today's youth and young adults as they attempt to engage on a myriad of social and political issues.

Thursday, February 7, 7:30 p.m.

ANKA MUHLSTEIN
Writer, biographer; author of A Passion for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine; Balzac’s Omelette

Monsieur Proust’s Library

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.

In this special evening, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein will talk about how her most recent book, Monsieur Proust’s Library (Other Press, 2012), draws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous In Search of Lost Time, but also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.

Come to a special evening of celestial music, with Gérard Grisey's at once musical, visual and theatrical masterpiece written for six percussionists surrounding an audience. Inspired by and including transmitted pulsar sounds coming from far away in the universe to our intimate concert setting. The concert is free but space is limited, so arrive early!

Premiered by Les Percussions de Strasbourg in 1991, the group's link offers more fascinating information about the piece, its' composer and the astronomer who inspired the work.

http://www.percussionsdestrasbourg.com/IMG/pdf/Presentation_-_Noir_de_l_Etoile_-_EN.pdf

Percussionists: Eric Hopkins, Jacek Mioduszewski, David Stevens, Su Yin Tan, Ellery Trafford and Clara Warnaar.