Events

Wildly imaginative illustrator Hervé Tullet—best known for the beloved children’s book Press Here—opens the 2017 Tilt Kids Festival with the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier, who was trained by Tullet.

Free and open to the public

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Tilt Kids Festival goes old school with a tribute to the photobooth, precursor to the selfie, in the FIAF Gallery. Capturing the spontaneity of photography before the advent of the delete button, a hands-on workshop will teach kids how to compose a narrative in four frames.

A special jury will select workshop images to be displayed in large scale during the exhibition from March 18-April 26.

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Music Box Films is proud to announce the US release of FRANTZ, acclaimed French writer/director Francois Ozon’s elegiac and haunting tale of love and remembrance, starring Pierre Niney (Yves Saint Laurent) and rising star Paula Beer.  Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2017 César Awards, and a selection of the 2016 Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, FRANTZ is scheduled to open in New York on Wednesday, March 15 at Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema, followed by a national roll out.

Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), FRANTZ recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war’s “lost generation”: Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, p

International theater actress and singer, Gay Marshall, reprises her original show, Gay's Paree, at downtown's alternative supper club, Pangea, for four shows this spring: Wednesdays, March 15th through April 5th at 7:30pm. Marshall, who originated the role of Grizabella in the French production of CATS, and starred on Broadway in A Chorus Line, celebrates her real-life experiences of singing all over Paris, to varying degrees of adventure, delight and misery, through stories and songs by Charles Aznavour, Boris Vian, Francis Lemarque, Dave Frishberg Jacques Brel, and Edith Piaf.

“As dynamic as Paris itself, and also riotously funny." - New York Music Daily

“An enchanting performer who could be said to represent, well, France. To hear her sing with heart-stirring transparency is to experience Brel's art in its purest and most persuasive form." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

The show, in both French and English, features Marshall’s own English adaptations. From the streets, to div

Focus on French Cinema 2017 , presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich will feature over 20 U.S. and World Premiere films the week of March 27- April 2.

Claude Lelouch will be the honoree in addition to a Tribute to the Cinema of Québec. FFC%20Proof%20for%203.30.2017%20GO.pdf

 Focus on French Cinema, presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich announces the week long festival of Francophone film March 27- April 2.

Claude Lelouch is the honoree with an additional special Tribute to the cinema of Québec

Kiddy Frenchy is proud to introduce PUSS IN BOOTS to young American students. Performed in French by Paris-based Theatre Company, la Cie Picrokole, the famous show will involve traditional and shadow theatre, puppet show and songs. Long before the animated films that brought a new light on it, Puss in Boots was originally a very famous work by French author Charles Perrault.

Performances coming:

Lycée Français de New York (NY)
Lycée International de Boston (MA)
French American Academy, campus de Jersey City (NJ)
French American Academy, campus de New Milford (NJ)

There is still time for New York schools to host the show based on ticketing.
contact@kiddyfrenchy.org

Une "condition noire" au féminin
(lecture in French)
by Lydie Moudileno
of the University of Pennsylvania

sponsored by
The Department of Languages and Literatures
The Department of African and African-American Studies
& The Women's Studies Program
of Lehman College, CUNY

on the occasion of Women's History Month and Le Mois de la Francophonie March 2017

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 2:00 p.m.
Carman Multimedia Room B75

For details, see FrenchatLehman on Facebook, or call the Dept. of Languages & Literatures.

Lydie Moudileno évoquera ce que l'historien Pap Ndiaye a appelé dans son essai de 2009 "la condition noire" de certaines minorités françaises. Il s'agira en particulier de considérer le cas des femmes issues de l'immigration, telles qu'elles sont représentées dans la fiction contemporaine.

Auteure de nombreux travaux sur les productions culturelles et écrivains de la diaspora africaine, Lydie Moudileno est professeure dans les départements de French and Francophone Studies, Africana et

French author and journalist Ariane Bois will present her fourth novel, Le Gardien de nos frères (Belfond, 2016), and discuss its historical context with Department of History graduate student Alexandra Steinlight.


The novel illuminates a little-known episode, the experience of les dépisteurs, the trackers sent to find Jewish children hidden during World War II whose parents had not survived. At the end of the war, Simon, a resistance fighter from a well-to-do Parisian Jewish family, and Lena, the daughter of Polish shopkeepers from the ghetto of Warsaw, sign up as trackers. These two young heroes will meet countless difficulties. The story of a quest as well as a love story, the book has received several prizes, including the Prix Wizo.

ARIANE BOIS
Journalist, novelist; author of Le Gardien de nos frères; Sans oublier; Le Monde d’Hannah

Respondent:
ALEXANDRA STEINLIGHT
Department of History, NYU

In French and English.

Books available for sale.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher, activist, and filmmaker, takes you to the front lines of one of the most brutal wars of our time in his newest documentary, The Battle of Mosul.

A screening of the film will be followed by a Q&A with Bernard-Henri Lévy

The film opens on October 17, 2016, the first day of the battle to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State. It ends in mid-January 2017 with the complete liberation of the eastern half of the city, including the site on the Tigris where the Prophet Jonah is buried, a place of significance for the three Abrahamic religions. 

Whether in the company of the Kurds or of the Iraqi Golden Division special forces, Bernard-Henri Lévy and his crew were present at every crucial step in the battle. Throughout the film, a question hangs in the air: Will the imminent fall of the capital of the Islamic State spell its definitive defeat?

Directed by Bernard-Henri Lévy, 2017. 53 min. 
In Kurdish, Arabic, English, and French 
with English subtitles