Events

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

Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of HEAL THE LIVING, rising French director Katell Quillévéré’s deeply affecting study of human interconnectedness. Written by Quillévéré and frequent André Téchiné collaborator Gilles Taurand (Thieves, Wild Reeds), HEAL THE LIVING’s César-nominated screenplay is based on Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed novel The Heart, and is scheduled to open in New York on April 14 at the Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.

Charting with unusual sensitivity and hope how disparate lives are touched by a tragedy, HEAL THE LIVING follows how a car accident settles into motion a chain of events that affects everyone from the parents of the 17 year-old brain-dead teenage boy, to the hospital staff to a mother of two (Anne Dorval) in need of a heart transplant.  Quillévéré weaves together the multi-strand narrative with consummate grace, abetted by a remarkable ensemble cast (including Emmanuelle Seigner as the boy’s mother and Tahar

TOMORROW (Demain), the award winning documentary directed by actress/director Melanie Laurent and activist is coming to New York on April 21st to coincide with Earth Day celebrations. The film will be released at the Village East Cinemas in the East Village with director Cyril Dion in attendance at the 7.15pm for intro and Q&A.

Come see this important film that offers concrete steps to change our daily habits and better the planet.

American Friends of the Louvre invites you to The Astronomer's Ball on April 25 to celebrate the Louvre Museum and its blockbuster exhibition, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting. 

Support the Musée du Louvre and the American Friends of the Louvre's Young Patrons Circle at this black tie gala which includes a 3-course dinner, gift bag, and silent auction of luxury French goods.

Tickets are $500 per person and available at aflouvre.org/astronomer

Ivan Jablonka is professor of History (Université Paris XIII-Nord), novelist, editor-in-chief of La Vie des idées/Books and ideas and editorial director of the collection “La République des idées” (Le Seuil). He is the author of A History of the Grandparents I Never Had (Seuil, 2012 and Stanford University Press, 2016), L’Histoire est une littérature contemporaine (Seuil, 2014). His most recent book, Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes (Seuil, 2016) received the 2016 Prix Médicis, the Prix Le Monde as well as the Prix des prix littéraires.

Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 janvier 2011, Laëtitia Perrais a été enlevée à 50 mètres de chez elle, avant d’être poignardée et étranglée. Il a fallu des semaines pour retrouver son corps. Elle avait 18 ans. Ce fait divers s’est transformé en affaire d’Etat. Ivan Jablonka a rencontré les proches de la jeune fille et les acteurs de l’enquête, avant d’assister au procès du meurtrier en 2015. Il a étudié le fait divers comme un objet d’histoire et la vie de Laëtit

Part of CinéSalon series Liberté, Égalité, Fantasy: French Politics on Film

When the President orders him to privatize the French rail system, Minister of Transportation Bernard Saint Jean must decide whether to follow his ideals or chase his ambitions. While this riveting account of the moral vacuum in the halls of power has the pace of a thriller, it plays like the work of an unflappable journalist coupled with a wise historian: from cabinet meetings to media manipulation, from cronyism to backstabbing, The Minister is an utterly convincing depiction of political life in a land in crisis. Insightful, chilling, and sometimes hilarious, this is essential viewing for our politically charged times. 

"The Minister stands as that rare project that sees past the cliches of politics, paying the world respect through its elegant widescreen lensing and score."—Variety

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