Friday, March 4, 2016 (17)

Mar 4, 2016
February 26, 2016
Friday
  • Short Films One

  • Feb 26, 2016 to Mar 20, 2016
  • Location: SVA Theatre, Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas, IFC Center
  • Description:

    For ages 5-10 — Filmmakers from over 30 countries sent us their short films. We’ve selected the best, most original, most profound, silliest, spookiest, and most beautiful. But don’t just take our word for it—fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. This compilation of short films includes three from France-- the full lineup can be viewed here 

    Don't miss this unique, cultural event that everyone can enjoy!

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
 
  • Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues

  • Feb 26, 2016 to Mar 19, 2016
  • Location: SVA Theatre
  • Description:

    NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE — The sequel to Festival 2015 Grand Prize winning feature Belle and Sebastian places us back in the sweeping panorama of the French Alps. Sebastian and his best friend, Belle, are on a mission to find Angelina, whose plane crash-landed on her return from the battlefields of WWII. Their bravery is in full force as they partner with a mysterious pilot and a gutsy new kid to take on the countless dangers, obstacles, and secrets they encounter in the expansive terrain. With a wink and a nod to classic family adventure films, Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues is true to its title — bound to satisfy returning fans and win over new ones. The film will be shown in French with English subtitles and is suitable for ages 7 to adult. This is sure to be an adventure you won't soon forget!

    View trailer here

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
February 29, 2016
Monday
  • Short Films Two

  • Feb 29, 2016 to Mar 19, 2016
  • Location: SVA Theatre, Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas, IFC Center
  • Description:

    For ages 8-14 — Filmmakers from over 30 countries sent us their short films. We’ve selected the best, most original, most profound, silliest, spookiest, and most beautiful. But don’t just take our word for it—fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. This collection of short films includes five from France-- the full lineup can be seen here. Don't wait to buy your tickets!

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
 
  • Le Bestiaire by Ionna Vautrin at the FIAF Gallery

  • Feb 29, 2016 to Apr 2, 2016
  • Location: FIAF Gallery
  • Description:

    As part of the TILT Kids Festival and Oui DesignLe bestiaire transforms FIAF Gallery into a make-believe zoo where children have the chance to imagine becoming all kinds of animals, from the most gentle to the very wild. The brainchild of artist Ionna Vautrin, this exhibit features the whimsical illustrations of 14 artists and invites kids to play and color in mini-creature costumes.

    These stunning costumes are products of the vivid imaginations of an eclectic team comprised of Studio Brichet Ziegler, Perrine Vigneron and Gilles Belley, Louise de Saint Angel, Anne Lutz, Joachim Jirou-Najou, Felipe Ribon, Les Graphiquants, Twice, Helkarava, Bonnefrite, Malika Favre, Amélie Fontaine, Leslie David and Ionna Vautrin.

    On view from January 16 through April 2, 2016, Le bestiaire was produced by the City of Design as part of the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial 2015.


    Ionna Vautrin was born in 1979 in France. She graduated in 2002 from School of Design Nantes Atlantique. Since 2002, s

  • Created by: French Culture
 
  • Short Films Three

  • Feb 29, 2016 to Mar 19, 2016
  • Location: Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas, IFC Center
  • Description:

    For ages 12 to adult — Filmmakers from over 30 countries sent us their short films. We’ve selected the best, most original, most profound, silliest, spookiest, and most beautiful. But don’t just take our word for it—fill out a ballot at every screening, and your votes will determine the Festival award winners. Complete lineup coming soon! 

    Don't miss out on this incredible collection!

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
March 1, 2016
Tuesday
  • Birds of Passage

  • Mar 1, 2016 at 11:00am to Mar 12, 2016 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas
  • Description:

    NEW YORK PREMIERE — Featuring a breakthrough performance from one adorable duck! Cathy's always known her dad was eccentric, so she's not entirely surprised when he gives her an egg for her birthday (though she got a cell phone from her mom). The duckling inside will think the first thing it sees is his mother, and even though she promises to watch it dutifully, it's Cathy's friend, Margaux, who is there when it hatches. While the friends both think Margaux will make an excellent caretaker, her parents see the wheelchair she's confined to as too great an obstacle, and send the duckling away. So the girls set out on their own to prove them wrong. Refreshingly matter-of-fact, the their ensuing search becomes not just for their web-footed friend, but also for friendship, independence, and belonging. The film is presented in French with English subtitles. Birds of Passage is bound to touch your heart and leave you feeling inspired!

    View trailer here

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
 
  • April and the Extraordinary World

  • Mar 1, 2016 at 12:15pm to Mar 5, 2016 at 9:00am
  • Location: SVA Theatre
  • Description:

    NY PREMIERE - The New York International Children's Film Festival is proud to present April and the Extraordinary World for its New York premiere. The setting is Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of uncovering a powerful longevity serum when they are suddenly abducted by a mysterious force, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later and without any trained scientists, Paris is stuck in the Steam Age. April lives alone with her best friend, a talking cat named Darwin, carrying on her parents' research in secret. Soon she is mixed up in a far-reaching conspiracy and on the run from government agents. Whip-smart and determined, she continues her quest to find her parents and discover the truth behind their disappearance. Extraordinary, indeed, April's world is a steampunk paradise filled with cleverly outlandish inventions and gadgetry, designed by Jacques Tardi in the same simple but stunning style of his iconic graphic novels. From the producers of Pers

  • Created by: Abigail Parsons
March 3, 2016
Thursday
  • TILT Kids Festival

  • Mar 3, 2016 to Apr 3, 2016
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Description:

    The Tilt Kids Festival is a new festival of the arts that talks up—not down—to children, sparking their imaginations and encouraging their dreams. The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) have joined forces to present gems from France and around the world, together with commissioned work from New York artists for the savviest of audiences, our kids.

    Both institutions are thrilled to embark on this new adventure with a network of leading cultural institutions: The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)Museum of Food + DrinkNYU Skirball Center for the Performing ArtsThe New Victory Theater, and The Invisible Dog Art Center.

    Philosophy and music, circus and magic, design, dance and gastronomy come together in a series of ambitious and playful events specially curated for the audiences of today and tomorrow.

    Join us for this month-long adventure, and let’s re-imagine the world!


    The Tilt Kids Festival is presented by the French Institute Alli

  • Created by: French Culture
March 4, 2016
Friday
  • Anima: A Collaborative Project

  • Mar 4, 2016 to Apr 14, 2016
  • Location: The Invisible Dog Art Center
  • Description:

    As part of the Tilt Kids Festival, co-produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), The Invisible Dog Art Center will present Anima, an installation open from March 5 to April 14. 

    A luscious forest and archaeological dig open up a world of myth and magic in Anima. Kids are invited into the immersive and interactive installation to explore the connection between man, animals, and soul, inspired by Mayan culture.

    Anima is a collaboration between visual artist Prune Nourry(Terracotta Daughters, 2014) and anthropologist Valentine Losseau with artists Etienne Saglio and Takao Shiraishi, scenographer Benjamin Gabrié, and Cie 14:20.


    Prune Nourry is a New York-based French multidisciplinary artist who is currently in residence at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn. Trained as a sculptor, Nourry now also explores mediums such as photography, film, performance, and design. She draws her inspiration from themes surrounding bioethic

  • Created by: French Culture
 
  • Rethinking the Text

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 5:00am to 7:00am
  • Location: Columbia University Maison Française
  • Description:

    French Graduate Student Association Annual Symposium

    A conversation between literary scholars who engage with nonliterary texts or objects. Participants will discuss a pre-circulated text (Barthes, Camera Lucida - excerpt), which will be made available to the audience in advance.

    Event Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)

    RSVP at www.maisonfrançaise.org.

    Participants: Brent Edwards (English and Comparative Literature, ICLS), Marianne Hirsh (English and Comparative Literature, IRWG), Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator)

    Moderator: Laure Astourian (French and Romance Philology)

  • Created by: Joella Jones
 
  • Fatima

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 9:00am to 10:30am
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    Middle-aged single mother Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. Inspired by a true story and the poetry of the North African writer Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language, Faucon’s eighth feature—winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize for Best French Film—is a patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she’s wary. Despite the display of everyday racism, both veiled and overt; internal domestic disputes; and external gestures of inhospitality, Fatima offers an uplifting experience and one of recent French cinema’s most trenchant and moving portraits of immigrant experience. A Kino Lorber release.

    Philippe Faucon, France, 2015, DCP, 79m
    French and Arabic with English subtitles

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  • The Apaches

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 11:00am to 12:30pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    U.S. Premiere

    Les Inrocks accounted for the six years it took Nassim Amaouche to release his second feature by calling him “a director with a temperament as patient, roving and reflective as his films.” He stars as Samir, a young French-Algerian man lured by a dubious “family” lawyer (André Dussollier) into making an occult business deal within a similarly marginalized setting: one of Paris’s largest and most diverse Kabyle communities. Having been drawn into the family bar business by his estranged father, Samir still agonizes over the memory of his late mother, while falling in love with a beautiful and mysterious single mom (Laetitia Casta). The Apaches is a delicate movie that doubles as a tense negotiation drama and a quiet, reflective memory play.

    Nassim Amaouche, France, 2015, DCP, 97m
    French with English subtitles

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  • A Centennial Celebration of Marie Vieux Chauvet

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 11:30am to 2:00pm
  • Location: Fourth floor lounge (French), CUNY Graduate Center
  • Description:

    On the occasion of the centennial year of the birth of the seminal Haitian writer Marie Vieux Chauvet (1916-1973) and the January 2016 publication of the special issue of Yale French Studies devoted to the author,

    The Ph.D. Program in French and the Henri Peyre French Institute present

    A Centennial Celebration of Marie Vieux Chauvet

    Specialists and scholars will speak of the importance and legacy of the works by Marie Vieux Chauvet:

    • Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Center for Worker Education at CCNY, CUNY

    • Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia University

    • Régine Joseph, Queens College, CUNY
    • Jasmine Narcisse, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, and board member of the Henri Peyre French Institute

    • Emmelie Prophète-Milcé, writer, and director of the Bibliothèque Nationale d’Haïti

    • Lucienne Serrano, emerita, York College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

    • Thomas C. Spear, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY


    The program will include readings of texts by Chauvet performed by the New Y

  • Created by: Thomas C. Spear
 
  • Free Talks: Isabelle Huppert

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    Sponsored by HBO®

    Isabelle Huppert, who co-stars alongside Gérard Depardieu in this year’s Opening Night filmValley of Love, will sit down to discuss her multitudinous career.

    Valley of Love
    Guillaume Nicloux, France/Belgium, 2015, DCP, 92m
    English and French with English subtitles
    Guillaume Nicloux’s sui generis, elegiac road movie puts a meta twist on a familiar setup: titans Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert star as famous French actors Gérard and Isabelle, a long-divorced couple whose son Michael has committed suicide six months prior to their Californian rendezvous in Death Valley, occasioned by an enigmatic letter from Michael that seems to have been written some time after his death. The letter asks them to visit a series of sites in the area; at the end of this tour, Michael claims he will appear before them. What follows is an utterly singular trip of a film, by turns melancholic and funny, self-reflexive and surreal. In their first film together since Maurice Pialat’s Loulo

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  • The Great Game

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Nicolas Pariser & Melvil Poupaud

    Pierre (Melvil Poupaud), a onetime darling novelist disgusted with the publishing world, lets a duplicitous government insider (André Dussollier) tempt him into ghostwriting a manifesto designed to transform the landscape of French public opinion—a shift with risky consequences for the activist (Clémence Poésy) with whom he soon becomes involved. Nicolas Pariser’s debut feature is an elegant political thriller that makes much use of its stellar cast, particularly with the brittle, uneasy rapport between Poupaud—the soulful young man at the center of Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale and Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways—and Dussollier, a resourceful and protean actor who commits to his character’s malevolence with relish.

    Nicolas Pariser, France, 2015, DCP, 100m
    French with English subtitles

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  • Cabaret de Magie Nouvelle

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
  • Description:

    U.S. Premiere
    Fri, Mar 4 at 7pm
    Sat, Mar 5 at 2pm

    Every moment is a surprise in this cabaret of magic that finally makes its US debut!

    Merging shadow puppetry, circus and magic tricks, this cabaret of magie nouvelle defies theatrical conventions and audience expectations. Watch as the laws of gravity are lifted, jugglers perform unbelievable feats, and fingers intertwine into intricate shadow puppets. Created from the endless imaginations of Cie 14:20, Paris’ masterminds of new magic.

    No French necessary! This performance is mostly non-verbal with some English.

    Cabaret de Magie Nouvelle is presented as part of the Tilt Kids Festival. The new cultural festival for families will feature multidisciplinary international work paired with commissions from New York artists, including five premieres. Tilt Kids Festival runs from March 4 through April 3.

    Ages 6 and up

    Tickets
    $20 General
    $15 FIAF Member

    Use $10 discount code TILT10 at check out.

  • Created by: FIAF
 
  • Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

  • Mar 4, 2016 from 4:15pm to 6:15pm
  • Location: Film Society of Lincoln Center
  • Description:

    U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Eva Husson

    Eva Husson’s debut feature, shot and set in the wealthy coastal suburbs of Biarritz, is an unapologetically blissed-out, frankly explicit anthology of the sexual experiments a cluster of teenagers undertake over the course of one summer. Determined to keep the attentions of her favorite boy Alex (Finnegan Oldfield), George (Marilyn Lima) encourages her group of horny friends and acquaintances to start hosting elaborate, sunlight-drenched, EDM-filled swingers parties. Husson doesn’t ignore the students who abstain, but she’s utterly entranced by the excesses, risks, and temptations of George’s universe—a pulsating, slow-motion bacchanal pitched somewhere between the world of Spring Breakers and that of Larry Clark. A Samuel Goldwyn Films release.

    Eva Husson, France, 2016, DCP, 98m
    French with English subtitles

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  • Created by: Film Society of Lincoln Center