Events

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

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

Dany Laferrière in conversation with Olivier Barrot

Novelist, essayist, poet, and journalist (born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti), winner of the prestigious Prix Medicis, Dany Laferrière is the first Haitian, Canadian, and Québécois to be elected to the Académie française. Laferrière has established himself as one of the premiere chroniclers of the immigrant experience and one of the finest novelists of his generation. His first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (1985; tr. How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, 1987) was a surprise commercial success. It was followed by Éroshima (1987; tr. Eroshima, 1991), L'odeur du café (Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe, 1991; tr. An Aroma of Coffee, 1993), Le Goût des jeunes filles (1992; tr. Dining with the Dictator, 1995), Pays sans chapeau (1996, tr. Down Among the Dead Men, 1997), La chair du Maître (1997), Dans l'oeil du cyclone (1999), Le Cri des oiseaux fous (2000) and Vers le sud (2006). He also wrote a colle

When a beleaguered employee commits suicide in a corporation’s Paris headquarters, hot-shot HR executive Emilie Tesson faces a legal investigation about her secret program to force workers to resign. As her situation at the office becomes increasingly strained, Emilie forms a surprising alliance with the work inspector assigned to investigate the case.

Without a gun or a car chase in sight, Corporate functions both as a gripping psychological thriller and a chilling depiction of contemporary corporate culture. Leading lady Céline Sallette beautifully captures Emilie Tesson’s messy moral awakening, while Lambert Wilson’s turn as her ice-cold supervisor will make you shiver.