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Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi’s multi-layered and stirring drama THE PAST, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award for its star, Bérénice Béjo, and is Iran's official selection for the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is scheduled to open in NY (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Film Forum) and LA on December 20, 2013 followed by a national release.

Following a four year separation, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) returns to Paris from Tehran, upon his estranged French wife Marie (Bérénice Bejo)'s request, in order to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet).  Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past, and the highly charged revelations affecting every character in Mr. Farhadi's complex screenplay unfold with his trademark nua

Have fun with acting

“Jeux D’roles” means roleplay and funny games. Our approach is based on words and pronunciation, sense memory, repetition, improvisation and immersion, invented scenes or scenes from existing plays.

Learn a language
Our workshops are bilingual but mostly taught in French. Our objective is to teach children how to learn to communicate and have fun in another language. Speaking a language is not only about saying words. It is also about finding your “persona” in another language. This includes thoughts, sensations, emotions and experiences in another language that can be discovered and explored through acting. Our classes offer a trusted and safe environment that enables children to develop imagination and focus, and to build self-confidence.

A class for

Wednesdays, from 3-4pm 
Jan 15, Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, Mar 12, Mar 19, and Mar 26

Course Code: WKAPPCOOK 
For ages 2–4 years, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child
Teacher: Sylvie Berger 
Price: $50 per workshop
Series: $440* for all 11 workshops—a savings of $110!

Take your child on a wonderful sensory adventure with FIAF's hands-on cooking workshops: Les petits chefs

In each workshop, children will discover new flavors of the season by creating different sweet or savory treats with seasonal fruits or vegetables. Children will stimulate their five senses and develop motor skills as they smell mint, taste rhubarb, shape brioche, and play with shapes and colors. Children will increase their French vocabulary, learn about utensils and ingredients, and of course, enjoy the treats they have created.

Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week à petits pas class with all 11 les p

Winter 2014 
Thursdays, from 1:30pm-3pm 
Jan 16, Jan 23, Jan 30, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 20, Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 13, Mar 20, and Mar 27

Course Code: WKAPPSTORY 
For ages 2–4, one parent/caregiver must attend with the child 
Teacher: Françoise Casey 
Price: $45 per workshop 
Series: $396 for 11 workshops—a savings of $99!

An innovative series of workshops for children designed to further inspire, excite, and encourage love of French and French culture. Each workshop will start with a story to explore different themes and different worlds followed by arts and crafts, and games. Children will increase their French vocabulary and learn new French expressions and songs.

Save with a Class-Workshop Combo Package!
Speed up and enrich your toddler's French language learning by combining an 11-week à petits pas class with all 11 Story workshops. Save 5%* on the class and $99 on the workshops!

Registration 
Online at fiaf.org 
646 388 6612 
In person at FIAF

Alain Guiraudie's lethally precise, eerie thriller STRANGER BY THE LAKE, winner of the Best Director Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard Section, and a selection of the New York and Sundance Film Festivals. is scheduled to open in New York (Angelika Film Center and The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center) on Friday, January 24.

Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France.  One day, he meets Michel (Christophe Paou), an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.  When a death occurs, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects but they choose to ignore the dangers and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship.  STRANGER BY THE LAKE is an erotic thriller that tests the lengths and limits of sexual desire.

Alain Guiraudie, one of French cinema’s most singular vo

Le Petit Prince was born in New York.

Published in 1943, The Little Prince is one of the world's most beloved books. Author Antoine Saint-Exupery wrote and illustrated the book in New York, between Long Island and Manhattan.

"The Little Prince" tells the adventures of a boy who hails from a tiny asteroid no larger than a house. On his way to Earth, he visits other planets and meets a king, a conceited man, a drunkard, a lamplighter and a geographer. On Earth, he encounters a fox who teaches him: "What is essential is invisible to the eye." The phrase is the book's central theme and one Saint-Exupery revised 15 times, including the version "What matters cannot be seen."

“The Little Prince: A New York Story” now through April 27 at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street; 212-685-0008; themorgan.org

Hours
Tuesday through Thursday: 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday: 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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venez decouvrir le travail de Michael TORLEN qui expose ses oeuvres sur les murs de ARTLAB78 dans un cadre intime.

Rencontres avec l'artiste les samedi 1 et 15 fevrier 2014 de 15 a 18 heures

Venez assister a un entretien* entre Michael Torlen et Julian Kreimer le samedi 8 fevrier a 16 heures.

*in English- Julian Kreimer is an artist and critic. He is an assistant professor of painting and theory at SUNY Purchase College, and a frequent contributor to Art in America. His most recent show was at Weeknights Gallery in Brooklyn, in February of 2013.

With Shoah, 87 year-old Claude Lanzmann re-oriented our understanding of the defining event of the 20th century. Three decades after that cinematic milestone, he does so once again with the masterful THE LAST OF THE UNJUST from an entirely new personal, historical and aesthetic perspective. At the new film’s center is Benjamin Murmelstein, the last Jewish elder of Theresienstadt (the so-called "model" concentration camp) who worked under the direct supervision of Adolf Eichmann, and a figure who was once despised by many of the surviving inhabitants of that dreadful "city". In a lengthy interview shot in Rome that was originally intended for Shoah (intercut with Lanzmann himself revisiting specific sites in Vienna and the Czech Republic, as well as footage, photos and artworks), the brilliant Murmelstein—sometimes excitedly but more often calmly – explains his actions and precisely defines his paradoxical role in history.

"Historically revelatory and cinematically complex" -- Richard Br

The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution, the exhibition on view at the New York Historical Society until February 23, revisits the famous 1913 New York Armory Show on its 100th anniversary.

In 1913, the International Exhibition of Modern Art came to New York. Organized by a small group of American artists and presented at the Lexington Avenue Armory (and thus nicknamed the Armory Show), it introduced the American public to European avant-garde painting and sculpture. The exhibition is an exploration of how the Armory Show inspired seismic shifts in American culture, politics, and society.

Participants

Marilyn S. Kushner
Curator and Head of the Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections at the New York Historical Society, Marilyn Kushner is the co-curator of The Armory Show at 100. She is the co-editor of the interdisciplinary volume of the same name, published in conjunction with the exhibition, which re-examines the exhibition and its historical and

Movies are followed by a moderated discussion in French. Attendance is free for members and CUID holders, $7 for non-members. Films are in French with English subtitles.

Riad Sattouf, 2009, 90 min

A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters. Debut feature film of the well-established French writer of comic books, Riad Sattouf.