Events

Saturday, October 28, 2017 (4)

Oct 28, 2017
October 5, 2017
Thursday

  • FACES PLACES

  • Oct 5, 2017 to Dec 29, 2017
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and The Quad
  • Description:

    Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the release of the enchanting documentary/road movie FACES PLACES (VISAGES VILLAGES,) co-directed by 89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR. A sensation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and a selection of the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals, it is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 6 at Lincoln Plaza and the Quad Cinemas, followed by a national roll out.

    Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed and shared.  Together they travel around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them.  Their photos are prominently displayed on houses, barns, storefronts and trains revealing the humanity in their subjects, and themselves. FACES PLACES documents these heart-warming encounters as well as t

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 26, 2017
Thursday

  • FÉLICITÉ

  • Oct 26, 2017 to Nov 24, 2017
  • Location: Quad CInema
  • Description:

    Strand Releasing is proud to announce the release of FÉLICITÉ, the new film by award-winning French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Senegalese descent Alain Gomis, and the winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival. Set in Kinshasa, FÉLICITÉ - a selection of the 2017 New York Film Festival - follows a fiercely independent club singer whose life is thrown into turmoil when her teenage son is seriously injured. FÉLICITÉ is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 27th at The Quad Cinema followed by a national roll out.

    Living her life in the chaotically vibrant Congolese capital of Kinshasa with a proud defiance, Félicité doesn't need marriage, a man, or even love to get by. But when her son is injured in a traffic accident, she must find a way to pay for his operation, and embarks on a double journey: through the punishing outer world of the city and the inner world of the soul. FÉLICITÉ is tough, tender, lyrical, mysterious, funny, and terrifying, b

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 27, 2017
Friday

  • Day Conference: La Culture Oui, But Why?

  • Oct 27, 2017 to Oct 28, 2017
  • Location: Lycée Français de New York
  • Description:

    La Culture Oui, But Why ?

    After the day conference "Le Francais Oui, But Why" on French language in 2016, the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York continues to explore the world of French Culture. We organize two conferences on Saturday, October 28, 2017 from 10.30am to 4pm. The first roundtable will focus on culture in the Digital Age. Then we will look at the importance of culture for students in higher education.

    On this special day, writers, activists, educators and intellectuals will contribute their thoughts and ideas and try to answer the question : La Culture Oui, But Why?

    French education requires the acquisition of "culture générale", imperfectly translated by the notion of "general knowledge". What does this notion overlaps, and is there an equivalent in the Anglo-Saxon curriculum? Faced with the evolution of acquiring knowledge through digital means, is this idea of "culture générale" altogether undermined?

    This conference is free and open to all those interested i

  • Created by: Pascale Richard
October 28, 2017
Saturday

  • Midnight Moment: Voir la mer + Meet the Artist: Sophie Calle

  • Oct 28, 2017 from 7:30pm to 8:00pm
  • Location: Duffy Square
  • Description:

    View Midnight Moment with Sophie Calle and enjoy a glass of hot cider.

    In Istanbul, a city surrounded by the sea, Sophie Calle met people who had never seen it. For Voir la mer, as Calle describes it, “I took them to the shore of the Black Sea. They came to the water’s edge, separately, eyes lowered, closed, or masked. I was behind them. I asked them to look out to the sea and then to turn back towards me to show me these eyes that had just seen it for the first time.” Magnified on Times Square’s electronic billboards, five of these intimate video portraits silently reveal their emotional response to this evocative experience. 

    Free and open to the public 

    Times Square
    Screened on electronic billboards from 42nd-49th St, 
    Between Broadway and 7th Ave, NYC

  • Created by: FIAF