Events

Strand Releasing is proud to announce the US release of STAYING VERTICAL, French writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s new provocative and genre-defying character study about a filmmaker struggling with creativity, responsibility, fatherhood, and sexuality. A selection of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival competition and the New York Film Festival, STAYING VERTICAL is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, January 20 at The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the IFC Center, followed by a national roll out.

Léo (Damien Bonnard), a blocked filmmaker seeking inspiration in the French countryside for an overdue script, begins an affair with a shepherdess (India Hair), with whom he almost immediately has a child. Combining the formal control of his 2013 breakthrough Stranger by the Lake with the shape-shifting fabulism of his earlier work, Alain Guiraudie’s new film, which often veers towards surreal black comedy, is a sidelong look at the human cycle of birth, procreation, and death, as well as

Amazon Studios and Cohen Media Group are proud to announce the release of award-winning writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s (A SEPARATION, THE PAST, ABOUT ELLY, FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY) masterful, intimate, and suspenseful new drama THE SALESMAN, nominated for an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of the Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) and Best Screenplay (Farhadi) awards at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and has won numerous other international awards. THE SALESMAN (a French co-production) will open in New York (Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Angelika Film Center) and Los Angeles on Friday, January 27, with a national roll out to follow.

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment.  Eventually, a sudden eruption of violence linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life, and creates a simmering tension between husband and wife. A

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NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of two innovative and talented French artists Claude Morlot and Michael Alberon in Mélange of Milieu. The opening reception will be on Thursday, February 16 from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.

Image: Michael Alberon,Life,Sound and Fury,Acrylic _ Oil on Canvas,36.5''x29.5''

Social Media for Our Children and Ourselves

Wednesday, February 22,  2017 at 6:30pm

Online violence and promiscuity on social media have become a major issue for parents and educators alike. This new “expository society” as defined by Bernard Harcourt is putting at risk the freedom of our children and our privacy as well. The experts on this panel will help us apprehend the dangers of this new situation and give us some tips to better regulate our consumption of social media.

With Catherine Blaya was a Lecturer at the IUFM of Aquitaine, as well as IREDU (University of Burgundy) before becoming a Professor of Education Sciences at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Her research focuses on comparative studies regarding school violence problems, juvenile delinquency, school dropout and cyberbullying. She is President of the International Observatory on Violence in School, she served on the Committee of Sponsoring the Coordination for education for non-violence and peace.
Bernard Harcour