Events

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!

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!

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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!

As part of the TILT Kids Festival and Oui Design, Le 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

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! 

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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!

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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 + Drink, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, The 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

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

NEW YORK PREMIERE - When his headstrong older brother defiantly leaves their West African village and vanishes into the unknown, 12-year-old Adama impulsively decides to chase after him. Adama's bold spirit guides him on a journey that takes him across oceans and boarders, eventually finding himself in the midst of World War I's infamous Battle of Verdun. Innovative animation makes use of sand, clay and sculpture to match the mystical elements of the story's magical realism. Seamlessly combining the action with a rarely-seen, fascinating moment in history, Adama injects the classic journey story with high stakes, giving our hero more to overcome and even more to discover. This film is shown in French with English subtitles. Don't miss this unique tale of courage that your children (and yourself) won't soon forget!

Note: This film portrays the emotional and physical hardships of war from the point of view of a young boy. While not gory, guns, bombs, and explosions are shown. 

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US PREMIERE — From the Academy Award® nominated directors of Festival 2011 favorite A Cat in Paris comes a new crime thriller set in — well, above — the streets of New York City. Leo has a secret. While most believe his serious illness has confined him to the hospital, he has the power to leave his body and goon urban escapades as a ghostly apparition. Recuperating on the floor below is Alex, a police officer injured while apprehending the Man With the Broken Face, a nefarious bandit who has taken control of the city's power. Together, they must combine detective skills and supernatural powers to stop destruction. A mix of film noir and superhero fantasy, Phantom Boy is both heart-warming and heart-thumping, taking the action to new heights, making Leo a welcome addition to our iconic skyline.

This film will be shown in French with English subtitles and it is recommended for ages 8 to adult.

As part of the Tilt Kids Festival, co-produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), celebrated French circus performer and director Camille Boitel, will present the U.S. premiere of ingenious contemporary circus performance, L'Immédiat, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

In sixty minutes of beautifully orchestrated circus-theatre chaos, seven young acrobat-adventurers defy a tsunami of unstable forces with optimism, dark humor and breathtaking physical skills. L'Immédiat is a tumultuous visual commentary on the uncertainty and mayhem of modern times. Created by the award-winning Camille Boitel, a founding figure from James Thierrée’s Junebug Symphony Company, L'Immédiat was awarded the Prix Mimos in 2010.

Camille Boitel develops projects at the intersection of circus, magic, and contortion, creating a theater of objects and movement. After winning the inaugural Jeunes Talents Cirque (Young Circus Performer) Award

In sixty minutes of beautifully orchestrated circus-theatre chaos, seven young acrobat-adventurers defy a tsunami of unstable forces with optimism, dark humor and breathtaking physical skills. L'Immédiat is a tumultuous visual commentary on the uncertainty and mayhem of modern times. Created by the award-winning Camille Boitel, a founding figure from James Thierrée’s Junebug Symphony Company, L'Immédiat was awarded the Prix Mimos in 2010.

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Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of MARGUERITE, writer-director Xavier Giannoli’s satirical tragicomedy set in France in the 1920s, starring Catherine Frot (The Dinner Game, Family Resemblances) as Marguerite Dumont, an eccentric and exceedingly wealthy would-be Opera diva.  Nominated for 11 César Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress, the film was selected for the Venice and Telluride Fim Festivald, and is scheduled to open in New York at The Paris Theater and the Angelika Film Center on Friday, March 11 with a national roll-out to follow.

Not far outside Paris, at the beginning of the Roaring 20s, Marguerite lives in a sumptuous mansion, spending much of her time singing famous opera arias dressed in elaborate theatrical costumes. Marguerite sings whole-heartedly, bearing her soul, but is also terribly, and comically, out of tune. When a young, provocative journalist writes a rave review of her latest private recital, Marguerite’s delusion that s

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The French title of Danielle Arbid’s fourth feature, a luminous study of a young Lebanese woman restlessly accommodating herself to her new home in Paris during the mid-’90s, translates to “fear of nothing.” Lina might sometimes be afraid, but—as played by the great young actress Manal Issa—she’s also intrepid, adventurous, confident, independent, and breathtakingly self-possessed. Parisienne follows her as she flees the abusive uncle in whose care she’s been placed, flits from bed to bed, passes in and out of university classes, makes friends on both extreme sides of the political spectrum, and, in the movie’s climax, fights a legal battle to stay in the city that’s become hers.

Danielle Arbid, France, 2015, DCP, 120m
French with English subtitles

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600 HIGHWAYMEN will present a new commission, The Total People, as part of Tilt Kids Festival, co-produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). The Total People will be performed on March 12 at the FIAF Skyroom. 

600 HIGHWAYMEN “want to re-wire your theatergoing DNA” (The New Yorker), and we want them to start young! A new commission by the extraordinary creators of Employee of the Year, 600 HIGHWAYMEN present the first incarnation of a new commission. A performance made of people and the songs inside of them, The Total People is a fleeting moment in our lives to see and be seen, to hear and be heard.

600 HIGHWAYMEN is the moniker for theater artists Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone. Six original works since 2009, with presentations at Centre Pompidou and Parc de la Villette (France), Festival Theaterformen (Germany), Noorderzon Festival (The Netherlands), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland); and in the US, in Under The

Desplechin risks everything to achieve the sublime in this wild, consistently surprising seriocomedy, which begins as a dual character study of two people in extreme emotional duress: Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), a single mother unraveling as she copes with a dying father, and Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), her unstable ex-husband whose propensity for dressing in outlandish costumes and passing forged checks lands him in a mental institution run by Catherine Deneuve’s steely psychiatrist. As their lives once again converge, fantasy and reality collapse and Desplechin steers the film into ever more unexpected, surreal, and ultimately moving territory. Bonus: Amalric break-dancing for an audience of psych-ward patients. An NYFF42 selection.

U.S. Premiere

Acclaimed director Catherine Corsini has made melodramas that range in tone from the bleak and violent to the tender and emotionally warm. At first glance, her new film, a prizewinner at Locarno, is one of her brightest and most bucolic. Soon after Delphine (Izïa Higelin) moves from her conservative parents’ farm near Limoges to Paris in 1971, she meets the older Carole (Cécile de France), a feminist organizer with whom she embarks on a passionate, mutually invigorating love affair. When a family sickness pulls Delphine back to the farm, Carole has to decide whether to follow her into hostile territory—and Summertimebecomes something more complicated and fraught than its seductive, luminous visual palette initially suggests. A Strand Releasing release.

Catherine Corsini, France/Belgium, 2015, DCP, 105m
French with English subtitles

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One of the most beguiling, profound films ever made about the elusive art of acting, Desplechin’s first English-language work stars Summer Phoenix in a fascinating, almost feral performance as the enigmatic title character, who goes from rebellious, odd-duck child of the Jewish slums to celebrated stage actress in late-19th-century London. With its starkly unromanticized depiction of the theater and outré central performance, Esther Kahn divided critics upon its release, but has since rightfully emerged as an auteurist cause célèbre for the way that it pinpoints the mysterious, alchemical combination of personality, ambition, and often painful lived experience that goes into crafting a performance.

U.S. Premiere

The Larrieu brothers make oddball, tonally mixed comedies unlike anything else in French cinema today. In their latest, a slightly prim woman Caroline (Isabelle Carré) arrives in a small village in the Pyrénées to bury her estranged mother. There, she befriends Pattie (Karin Viard), who offers tales of her sexual adventures with the local men, including a priapic half-man, half-beast creature (Denis Lavant). Caroline’s ongoing debate between pride and pleasure is just one link in a chain of increasingly wild events: the mysterious disappearance of her mother’s body, the ensuing surreal police investigation, and some shocking revelations about her mother’s former lover, who may or not be the writer J.M.G. Le Clézio—played to perfection by André Dussollier.

Jean-Marie & Arnaud Larrieu, France, 2015, DCP, 115m
French with English subtitles

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As the wildly dysfunctional Vuillard family gathers for the holidays, they’re rocked by the news that matriarch Junon (an imperious Catherine Deneuve) is ill and in need of a bone marrow transplant. When it turns out that the only blood matches are her black-sheep son (Mathieu Amalric) and troubled grandson (Emile Berling), an emotional tug-of-war over who will be the donor plays out against the hilarious, heartbreaking, chaotic backdrop of a family reunion. Filled to the brim with playful stylistic touches—iris shots, shadow puppets, an extended homage to Vertigo—and acted to perfection by the top-notch ensemble cast, this bittersweet holiday fable is uncommonly wise, affecting, and attuned to the mysterious inner workings of a family. An NYFF46 selection.