Events

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

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

This spring marks the 70th anniversary of Camus’s one and only trip to the United States. From March to May 1946, he delivered lectures at universities, spoke of the French resistance to Nazi occupation, and acted as a critical observer of American society. Outside of intellectual and literary circles, the young author was scarcely known when he arrived. But he would be. During the course of his visit, his novel The Stranger was published in English for the first time. The New Yorker interviewed him, and the New York Herald Tribune proclaimed him the “boldest writer in France today.”

Fifty-six years after his tragic death in a car crash, Albert Camus remains a major intellectual figure in the world. His reflections on absurdism and revolt, his constant battle for life, freedom and justice against nihilism, terror and ideologies, continue to stimulate discussion and provoke debate. His writings not only inspire artists in music, theater, and cinema; they also help their readers to live.

JE VEUX VOUS REVOIR s’inspire d’une histoire vraie et poignante sur la première guerre mondiale.

Ce spectacle est né des lettres envoyées par Eugène Wernert, professeur agrégé d’histoire géographie, à sa femme Thérèse, au début du conflit. Il retrace son parcours, lui, auquel l’avenir souriait, qui va laisser sa femme et ses enfants, pour aller au devant de l’horreur et qui ne souhaitera qu’une seule chose au cours de ces longs mois : Revoir les siens.

Le spectateur sera le témoin de cette vie de simple soldat, de la période de sa mobilisation à l’arrivée au front en première ligne et de celle de sa femme restée seule à Lyon, avec l’envie immense de le voir sortir indemne de cette guerre affreuse…

Ces lettres inédites et magnifiquement écrites sont interprétés par Mathilde Guillemot et Guillaume Le Guernec, deux jeunes comédiens talentueux.

Mis en scène par Séverine Lafforgue, ce spectacle a remporté un vif succès auprès de nombreux spectateurs et notamment de plus de 500 collégiens et lyc

 Focus on French Cinema 12 edition - April 1-5

10 U.S. Premieres - 20 films in 5 days

Nathalie Baye is "marainne" and Matthiew Rhys at Opening Night U.S. Premiere of  Come What May ( En mai, fais ce qu'il te plait) with Director Christian Carion.

Other stars - Melanie Laurent,Dominique Besnehard, Lionel Baier, Alix Delaporte and more

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of STANDING TALL, writer-director Emmanuelle Bercot’s urgent and sympathetic drama about a teenage delinquent and the tireless efforts of the juvenile judge (Catherine Deneuve,) and counselor (Benoit Magimel) assigned to his case, to save him. The Opening Night selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, STANDING TALL won 2 César Awards for Best Newcomer (Rod Paradot) and Best Supporting Actor (Benoit Magimel) and will open in New York on Friday, April 1 at Lincoln Plaza Cinema with a national roll out to follow.

Sixteen-year-old Malony (Rod Paradot) is surrounded by adults both callous and supportive. On the latter side is a warm-hearted court judge Florence Blaque (Catherine Deneuve) and a devoted social worker Yann (Benoît Magimel, The Piano Teacher); on the other side stand most other authority figures. Clearly a victim of circumstances and poor parenting from his basket case of a mother (Sara Forestier, The Names of Love), he’s als

Twitter Art Exhibit: NYC is an international exhibition of original postcard art benefiting Foster Pride’s “Handmade” Program, in which young women in foster care learn to create and market a unique line of goods. The entire exhibition is carried out by an unpaid, volunteer corps of organizers and artists.

As part of Tilt Kids Festival, co-produced by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), the Australian circus company Circa will perform Carnival of the Animals at BAM Fisher on April 2 and 3. 

A menagerie of Australia’s most talented acrobats transforms into elephants, kangaroos, swans, and other creatures. Circa, the premier circus-theater ensemble from down under, performs a fantastical afternoon set to the infamous strains of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.

Since 2004, Circa has been at the frontier of new circus – creating powerful works of circus art that challenge, thrill and delight. Featuring an ensemble of multi-skilled circus artists under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s award-winning works have been seen in 33 countries across six continents. At the centre of Circa is the art. Shows that push the boundary of the circus artform, blur the lines between movement, dance, theatre and circus and yet are a uni

NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Contemporary digital artist from Nice Edmonde Bizelli in Forms and Formalities.

Edmonde Bizelli makes digital art that combines the sharpness and clarity of computer imagery with a softness and range of textures more commonly seen in traditional painting. Having worked as a graphic designer, Bizelli has developed an instinctive feel for the flexibility of digital technology and employs it to striking effect. “I don’t know any artist yet that works with my techniques,” she notes, and that sense of adventurousness is fully communicated in her work. Creating her images mainly on an iPad, she transfers them onto such materials as plexiglass and canvas, giving each work a strong physical presence.

Image: Edmonde Bizelli, Waiting for Someone, Mixed Media on Plexiglass, 40 x 40