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Ciné Lumière 3-11 Comédie-Française 12 Semaine de la Francophonie 12 Women Shaping the World 13 Mektoub My Love: Cante Uno Capernaum Women Shaping the World 15 - 21 Feb 22 Feb - 13 Mar 5 - 8 Mar Tribute to Christian Dior 14 p.3 p.4 p.13 Music 15 Talks 16 Kids & Families 17 We Support 18

We Recommend 19 Tribute to Christian Dior Semaine de la Francophonie Kader Attia: The Museum of 14 - 17 Mar 19 - 20 Mar Emotion La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 20 p.14 p.12 13 Feb - 6 May p.18 Hayward Gallery French Courses 21

General Information 24-27 front cover image: Sorry Angel by Christophe Honoré Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

Burning On Her Shoulders Mektoub My Love: Beoning USA | 2018 | 95 mins | dir. Alexandria Bombach, with Nadia Canto Uno KOR | 2018 | 148 mins | dir. Lee Chang-dong, with Jong-seo Murad, Murad Ismael, Amal Clooney | cert. 12 | doc Jeon, Steven Yeun, Ah-In Yoo | cert. 15 | in Korean with EN subs in English & Arabic with EN subs FRA/ITA | 2018 | 181 mins | dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, with Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche | cert. 15 Based on Barn Burning, a short story by Haruki Documentary filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows in French & English with EN subs Murakami, this critically acclaimed film by Lee Chang- Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old ordinary girl who found dong won the FIPRESCI Prize at last year’s Cannes Film herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice Abdellatif Kechiche (winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Festival. It tells the story of Jong-soo, a part-time worker of her people. Having survived the 2014 genocide of the in 2013 for Blue Is the Warmest Colour) casts a nostalgic living in Seoul who bumps into Hae-mi, a girl who once Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS, glow on the wonders of youth in this coming-of-age lived in his neighbourhood in the country. She introduces she gives testimony before the U.N., visits refugee camps, saga set in 1994. Amin (Shaïn Boumedine), an aspiring to him an enigmatic young man named Ben, whom she meets with top government officials and becomes a screenwriter living in Paris, decides to reconnect with his met during a trip to Africa. A love triangle of some sort relentless beacon of hope for her people. family and his childhood friends in a fishing village in the sets in until Ben makes a most unusual revelation… South of France. In the heat of the summer, Amin gathers Fri 1 Feb 6.30pm Mon 4 Feb 6.20pm inspiration for his screenplays armed with his camera Fri 1 Feb 3.30pm, 8.30pm Fri 8 Feb 6pm Sat 2 Feb 6.30pm Wed 6 Feb 6.20pm and guided by his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, Sat 2 Feb 8.30pm Sat 9 Feb 8.50pm Sun 3 Feb 4.10pm Thu 7 Feb 4pm hungry for hedonist experience. Sun 3 Feb 8 . 3 0 p m Mon 11 Feb 6pm Mon 4 Feb 8.20pm Thu 12 Feb 8.30pm Fri 15 Feb 2.30pm, 8.20pm Wed 6 Feb 8.20pm Wed 13 Feb 6pm Sat 16 Feb 4.30pm Thu 7 Feb 6pm Thu 14 Feb 3.30pm Sun 17 Feb 7pm Mon 18 Feb 7.30pm Tue 19 Feb 8.30pm Wed 20 Feb 2.30pm, 8.10pm Tue 21 Feb 2.30pm 03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases

Capernaum Everybody Knows Sauvage

LEB/USA | 2018 | 122 mins | dir. Nadine Labaki, with Zain Al Todos lo Saben FRA | 2019 | 99 mins | dir. Camille Vidal-Naquet, with Félix Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole ESP/FRA/ITA | 2018 | 132 mins | dir. Asghar Farhadi, with Maritaud, Eric Bernard, Nicolas Dibla | cert. tbc | in French cert. tbc | in Arabic & Amharic with EN subs Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin | cert. 18 with EN subs in Spanish, English, Catalan with EN subs Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes in 2018 and a 22-year-old Leo sells his body on the street for strong contender at BAFTA and Oscars, Capernaum tells Opening the competition of the Cannes Film Festival last cash. Men come and go but he remains; stuck in the the story of a 12 year-old boy who sues his own parents year, Everybody Knows is a tense psychological thriller same place and longing for love. Uncertain of what his for giving him life. The circumstances that have brought by Asghar Farhadi, winner of two Academy Awards for future may bring, Leo hits the road. Sometimes reckless, him to this point take us on a journey through his poverty- Best Foreign Language Film with A Separation and The sometimes savage, sometimes tender but always with a stricken upbringing in Beirut. Labaki offers here a tribute Salesman. When Laura (Penélope Cruz) and her children pounding heart, Leo is ready for change. Camille Vidal- to the forgotten, the unwanted and the lost that offers travel from Buenos Aires to the village where she was Naquet’s arresting debut is a remarkable introspection hope in the most unexpected of places. born in Spain, unexpected events change the course of into the fragile psyche of a blooming youth. their lives and expose the family’s hidden past. Fri 22 Feb 2.30pm, 6.30pm Sun 3 Mar 4.10pm Sat 9 Mar 4pm Wed 13 Mar 8.50pm 8.50pm 8.20pm Fri 8 Mar 4pm, 9pm Fri 15 Mar 6.20pm Sun 10 Mar 6.30pm Mon 18 Mar 8.40pm Sat 23 Feb 4pm, 6.30pm, 8.50pm Mon 4 Mar 6.20pm Sat 9 Mar 8.50pm Sat 16 Mar 8.40pm Mon 11 Mar 6.30pm Wed 20 Mar 4pm Sun 24 Feb 7.30pm 8.40pm Sun 10 Mar 4pm, 8.30pm Sun 17 Mar 8.40pm Mon 25 Feb 6.30pm, 8.50pm Tue 5 Mar 8.45pm Mon 11 Mar 8.30pm Tue 19 Mar 5pm Tue 26 Feb 5.30pm Wed 6 Mar 4pm Tue 12 Mar 4.30pm Wed 20 Mar 6.20pm Wed 27 Feb 3pm, 6.10pm 6.30pm Wed 13 Mar 6.20pm Thu 21 Mar 3.45pm Thu 28 Feb 4pm 8.50pm Thu 14 Mar 3.45pm, 8.50pm Fri 1 Mar 4pm Sat 9 Mar 6.15pm Sat 2 Mar 4pm Wed 13 Mar 4pm See also Jamon, Jamon with Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem (p.9) As part of Women Shaping the World (see p.13) Ciné Lumière New Releases

Girl The White Crow Sorry Angel

BEL/NLD | 2018 | 109 mins | dir. Lukas Dhont, with Victor UK/FRA | 2018 | 122 mins | dir. Ralph Fiennes, with Oleg Plaire, aimer et courir vite Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart | cert. 15 | in French, Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adèle Exarchopoulos | cert. tbc FRA | 2018 | 132 mins | dir. Christophe Honoré, with Vincent Flemish & English with EN subs in Russian, English & French with EN subs Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès | cert. 18 in French with EN subs Presented in the Un Certain Regard competition at the Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont's debut film of ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev in the flesh of Ukrainian Presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival Girl won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Golden Camera. dancer Oleg Ivenko. Ballet’s most famous star in the last year, Sorry Angel is Christophe Honoré’s highly 15-year-old Lara (Victor Polster) is determined to 50’s, Rudolf Nureyev stunned the world at the height of anticipated latest film. 1990. Arthur is twenty and lives in become a professional ballerina. Lara was, however, the Cold War, when he defected to the West. The White Rennes. His life is turned upside down when he makes born with a male body, and has been undergoing Crow charts how Nureyev plotted his flight in a game the acquaintance of Jacques, a writer who lives in Paris hormone treatments while eagerly awaiting to transition. of cat-and-mouse with the Russian KGB aided by his with his young son. During one summer, Arthur and Supported by her family and entourage, Lara is impatient great friend, the 21 year-old Parisian Clara Saint (Adèle Jacques will be drawn to one another and fall in love. But to go through her transformation but her body does not Exarchopoulos). Jacques knows this love has to be lived to the fullest… bend so easily to the treatment and frustrations arise. Tue 12 Mar 7pm Wed 27 Mar 8.45pm Fri 22 Mar 6.20pm Tue 26 Mar 8.40pm Fri 15 Mar 4pm, 8.50pm Thu 21 Mar 9.15pm Fri 22 Mar 4pm Thu 28 Mar 4pm Sat 23 Mar 6pm Wed 27 Mar 4pm Sat 16 Mar 4.10pm, 6.20pm Sat 23 Mar 3.50pm 8.50pm Fri 29 Mar 4pm Sun 24 Mar 8.50pm Fri 29 Mar 8.40pm Sun 17 Mar 6.30pm Sun 24 Mar 4.30pm Sat 23 Mar 8.40pm 6.20pm Mon 25 Mar 6.15pm Sat 30 Mar 4.10pm Mon 18 Mar 6.30pm Wed 27 Mar 6.30pm Sun 24 Mar 6.30pm Sat 30 Mar 6.40pm Wed 20 Mar 8.50pm Sun 31 Mar 4pm Mon 25 Mar 8.50pm Sun 31 Mar 6.10pm Tue 26 Mar 6.20pm

The screening on 12 March will be followed by a live satellite interview of Ralph Fiennes 05 06 Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?

Sink or Swim Cold War The Favourite Dogman

Le Grand bain Zimna wojna IRE/UK/USA | 119 mins | 2018 | dir. Yorgos ITA/FRA | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Matteo FRA | 2018 | 123 mins | dir. Gilles Lellouche, POL | 2018 | 89 mins | dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, Lanthimos, with Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Garrone, with Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, with Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, with Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc Rachel Weisz | cert.15 | in English Nunzia Schiano | cert. 15 | in Italian with EN Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade cert. 15 | in Polish & French with EN subs subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) returns Winner of the Best Director Award at with this 18th century period drama Matteo Garrone, the master filmmaker A group of 40-something guys decide the Cannes Film Festival 2018, Pawel garnering 12 nominations at the BAFTA behind Gomorrah returns to the crime to form their local pool’s first ever Pawlikowski (Ida) melds the personal this year. It recounts the rise to the thriller genre with the tension filled and synchronised swimming team – for men. with the political in this epic romance. In inner-circles of power of Abigail (Emma relentlessly captivating Dogman which won Braving skepticism and ridicule and the ruins of post-war Poland, passionate Stone) as she tends to the frail Queen his lead actor Marcello Fonte the Best trained by a fallen champion trying to pull lovers Wiktor and Zula are performing Anne (Olivia Colman) at the request of Actor Award at last year’s Cannes Film herself together, the group set out on an musicians forced to play into the Soviet Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), too occupied Festival. Marcello is a small and gentle unlikely adventure. French director Gilles propaganda machine, who dream of in governing in her stead the politics of dog groomer who finds himself involved Lellouche made a splash at last year’s escaping to the West. Sumptuously shot in war between England and France. Their in a dangerous relationship of subjugation Cannes festival with a hugely entertaining luminous B&W, Cold War spans decades burgeoning friendship gives her a chance with Simone, a violent former boxer who and moving comedy about dreams that and nations to tell a heartbreaking story of to fulfil her ambitions to return to her terrorises the entire neighbourhood. can come true even if we don’t dare ill-fated love. aristocratic roots and become the Queen’s believe in them. companion. Sat 9 Feb 4.30pm Fri 8 Feb 4pm Sun 10 Feb 4.30pm Sat 2 Feb 4pm Thu 14 Feb 9.10pm Fri 8 Feb 8.50pm Tue 12 Feb 6.10pm Sun 3 Feb 6.05pm Sat 9 Feb 6.30pm Wed 6 Feb 4pm Sun 10 Feb 7.30pm Thu 7 Feb 8.50pm Mon 11 Feb 8.50pm Wed 13 Feb 3.30pm, 8.50pm Did You Miss It? The Craft of Film

Shoplifters Beautiful Boy Midnight in Paris Jefferson in Paris

Manbiki Kazoku USA | 2018 | 120 mins | dir. Felix van USA/ESP | 2011 | 94 mins | dir. Woody Allen, USA/FRA | 1995 | 139 mins | dir. James Ivory, JPN | 2018 | 121 mins | dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Groeningen, with Steve Carell, Timothée with Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel with Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth with Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan McAdams | cert. U | in English Paltrow | cert. 12 | in English & French with cert. 15 | in Japanese with EN subs cert. 15 | in English EN subs Woody Allen’s charming reverie features Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Felix van Groeningen (Belgica) adapts Owen Wilson as Gil, a screenwriter who Jefferson in Paris chronicles the five year 2018, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (Nobody Knows) with screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion) two strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in period, from 1784 to 1789, when following latest film Shoplifters is a profoundly memoirs by David Sheff (Beautiful Boy) and the clouds and walks right into his own the death of his wife, Thomas Jefferson (Nick moving drama about a poverty-stricken his son Nic (Tweak) on the heartbreaking best fantasy. A midnight encounter draws Nolte) served as America's Ambassador to family petty thieving to make ends meet, and inspiring experience of survival and him into the jazzy world of Scott and Zelda the court of Louis XVI. James Ivory’s portrait when they come across a shivering little recovery in a family coping with addiction. Fitzgerald, Picasso and Dali, and an intense of one of the founding fathers of America, girl foraging for scraps in the cold winter David Sheff (Carell)’s seemingly perfect Ernest Hemingway. Gil wakes up every tells the friendships and flirtations of the night. Taking her in for a few days, the life takes a sudden dramatic turn when he morning back in the real world, but returning man with the French, his slaves and the free- family unit is shaken, and they seem to realises that his beautiful teenage son Nic to his enchanted Paris proves fairly easy… spirited painter, Maria Cosway (Greta Scacchi) live happily together until an unforeseen (Chalamet) got hooked on crystal meth. at the dawn of the French Revolution. incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the Thu 14 Feb 6.30pm bonds that unite them… Sat 16 Feb 8pm Thu 21 Mar 6.20pm Sun 17 Feb 4.15pm Valentine’s Day special screening Fri 15 Feb 6pm Wed 20 Feb 6pm followed by a Q&A with Academy Awards® Followed by a Q&A with Academy Tue 19 Feb 6.10pm Thu 21 Feb 6.20pm nominated Art Director Anne Seibel Award®-winning costume designers Thu 21 Feb 8.40pm Jenny Beavan & John Bright

As part of The Craft of Film, a new year-long residency of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Ciné Lumière 07 08 Ciné Lumière Cinema Made in Italy

Ciné Lumière teams up again with Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Italian Cultural Institute in London to present the 9th edition of Cinema Made in Italy. Tragic, moving and inspiring, this selection of cinematic delights explores Italian culture at its finest. Discover the most anticipated films by Paolo Sorrentino, Valeria Golino, Paolo Virzì, Duccio Chiarini and more from Italy, with love! > screenings are listed pp. 26-27 > for further details see: www.institutfrancais.org.uk 28 February – 3 March by Paolo Sorrentino Sorrentino by Paolo image: Loro Ciné Lumière French Classics

Au revoir les Delicatessen Tchao Pantin Smoking/ enfants FRA | 1991 | 99 mins | dir.s Marc Caro & So Long, Stooge! No Smoking Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with Pascal Benezech, FRA | 1983 | 100 mins | dir. Claude Berri, with Goodbye Children Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Coluche, Richard Anconina, Agnès Soral FRA | 1993 | 298 mins | dir. Alain Resnais, FRA | 1987 | 104 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky cert. tbc | in French with EN subs with Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Holgado | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs cert. PG | in French with EN subs Racette | cert. 12 | in French with EN subs Winning 5 César Awards in 1984, including Revealing the cinematic duo of Jean- Best Actor for then France’s favourite In a picturesque Yorkshire village, Garnering no less than 7 César Awards Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro to the world comedian, Coluche, Claude Berri’s film 9 characters, all played by Sabine Azéma including Best Film and Best Directors, and Best First Feature Film at the 1992 tells the story of Lambert a former cop and Pierre Arditi, present us with several Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical César Awards, this groundbreaking debut turned drunk gas station attendant after versions of their daily life in 2 films. film is one of the greatest accounts is a grimly funny fairytale with stunning a tragedy leading to the loss of his son. Alain Resnais’ film, based on a series of 8 on the Second World War and the design and unique special effects set When he meets Bensoussan (Richard plays by Alan Ayckbourn, is not only about German Occupation. This richly detailed, in the near-future, in a tenement block Anconina), an unlikely friendship forms destiny and the role luck plays in our immaculately acted film traces the that harbours a gallery of larger-than life until history repeats itself. But this time, lives, but also the uselessness of regrets. friendship between two 12 years-old, one grotesque characters. Lambert is determined to fix things up. Winner of 5 César Awards in 1994. from a wealthy Catholic family through whose eyes the events are seen, the other Sun 10 Feb 2pm Sun 17 Feb 2pm Sun 24 Feb 2pm a Jewish boy hidden by the priests, his identity concealed.

Sun 3 Feb 2pm

This season of French classics is a selection of films awarded by the Académie des César 09 10 Ciné Lumière European Classics

Based on Alberto Moravia’s eponymous novel, Bernardo Shot in the aridity of Zaragoza’s desert, Jamón, Jamón Ingmar Bergman’s allegorical masterpiece centres on a Bertolucci’s film traces the life of Marcello Clerici (Jean- – which juxtaposes erotic desire and food – explores the knight (Max von Sydow) who returns from the Crusades Louis Trintignant) in a series of flashbacks giving light complex relationship between Silvia (Penélope Cruz), the only to find back home a world tormented by the Black on his troubled psyche and integration into the Fascist daughter of a roadside prostitute, her boyfriend José Luis Death and superstition. In the face of a silent God and system. Joining Mussolini’s secret police, he is assigned (Jordi Mollà), son of the richest man in town, and Raúl questioning his own faith and purpose, he encounters to murder a former college professor and anti-Fascist (Javier Bardem), a would-be bullfighter. It also lays bare Death who is ready to take him under its dark wing. But to intellectual now living in exile in France. the aspirations and frustrations of their parents. The film defy fate, he challenges it to a game of chess. was a big breakthrough for the three lead actors, the then Sun 3 Mar 2pm extremely young Jordi Mollà, Penélope Cruz and Javier Sun 17 Mar 2pm Bardem. As part of Cinema Made in Italy (p.8) Sun 10 Mar 2pm

See also Everybody Knows with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem (p.4) Ciné Lumière European Classics

Wings of Desire The Double Life of Ciné Lumière, Screen 2 Der Himmel über Berlin Veronique Building on the success of the 230-seat Ciné Lumière, GER/ FRA | 1987 | 128 mins | dir. Wim Wenders, with Bruno the Institut is opening a new boutique cinema for a more Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander | cert. 12 | German, La Double vie de Véronique flexible and enriched programming. A cosy 35-seat English, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish & Japanese with FRA/ POL/ NOR | 1991 | 98 mins | dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, cinema, due to open in Spring 2019, Ciné Lumière, EN subs with Irène Jacob, Philippe Volter, Guillaume de Tonquédec Screen 2 will be the perfect setting for a wider range cert. 15 | in French, Polish & Italian with EN subs of films and events, from educational screenings to Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes documentaries, from short films to debates. This new Film Festival, Wim Wenders offers with Wings of Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Véronique, which space will also be available for private hire. Desire one of his most celebrated films to date. Damiel won its lead Irène Jacob a Best Actress Award in Cannes, (Bruno Ganz), a guardian angel wishes nothing more is a metaphysical voyage carried away by Zbigniew Part of the Projet Lumière(s) under the patronage of than to leave the monochrome world of the afterlife to Preisner's music. Irène Jacob plays both Weronika, a Lambert Wilson, this creation is made possible thanks to experiment life in full colours and more specifically, love Polish choir soprano, and Véronique, a French music the support of the Friends of the French Institute trust, with Marion (Solveig Dommartin), the entrancing mortal teacher. Both women don’t know each other and have the Friends’ Circle and all our generous donors, whom we he vividly desires. never met, and yet… their lives are profoundly connected. would like to thank wholeheartedly. When Weronika collapses on stage, Véronique, miles Sun 24 Mar 2pm away, is deeply affected. There is still time to get involved in the Projet Lumière(s): each donation matters! Sun 31 mar 2pm www.institut-francais.org.uk/projet-lumieres

11 12 Comédie-Française Semaine de la Francophonie

Le Misanthrope Cyrano de Bergerac Music Rendezvous Joutes Oratoires La Comédie-Française Theatre Broadcast La Comédie-Française Theatre Broadcast with Laure Briard Lycéennes Molière | Stage director: Clément Hervieu- Edmond Rostand | Stage director: Denis Léger | Stage design: Eric Ruf | with the troupe Podalydès | Costume designer: Christian After a Brazilian excursion on her previous On the occasion of the International and actors of the Académie de la Comédie- Lacroix | with the troupe and actors of the EP, wistful singer-songwriter Laure Briard Francophonie Week, the Institut français Française | 180 mins | in French with EN subs Académie de la Comédie-Française | 190 mins returns with a new full-length album is hosting the final of the inter-regional in French with EN subs Un peu plus d’amour s’il vous plait sung French debating competition involving In this take on Molière’s greatest classic, primarily in French. Inspired by 60s pop, hundreds of sixth-form students from the characters are placed outside a Cyrano is cursed with a prominent nose folk and psychedelia, her music is delicate across the UK. Come and see the mansion that is being renovated instead but gifted with words. He uses his talent but not without its moments of darkness. rhetorical feat of these young Francophiles of the cosy setting of a salon. The set is to help handsome Christian win Roxane’s celebrating their love of the French a moving space, a metaphor for what, heart, whom he also secretly loves… Her set will be followed by a Q&A session. language in cheerful joutes oratoires. according to the director, the repertoire Edmond Rostand’s most popular work is should be “evolving, completely of its revived by a brilliant production, winner of Tue 19 Mar 7.30pm Pupils and students between 7 and 18 can century but nourished by previous centuries six Molière awards. also take part in our nationwide French and already turning to the coming century.” in French & English | £7, members £5 Pop Video Competition by 5 April. Tue 19 Mar 7.30pm www.institut-francais.org.uk/francophonie Tue 5 Feb 7.30pm Preceded by an introduction by actor Wed 20 Mar 3.30pm Preceded by an introduction by stage Michel Vuillermoz Free but booking essential: director and actor Clément Hervieu-Léger [email protected]

As part of the Spotlight on the Comédie-Française Organised in collaboration with season, celebrating the return of the Comédie-Française to the UK with The Damned at the Barbican in June. Women Shaping the World

Woman Up Women in Games The Goddesses of Food Numéro une Are video games a boys club? While half of the gaming A la recherche des femmes chefs FRA/BEL | 2017 | 110 mins | dir. Tonie Marshall, with community are women, there is a noticeable lack FRA | 2016 | 106 mins | dir. Vérane Frédiani | doc | cert. tbc Emmanuelle Devos, Suzanne Clément, Richard Berry of female video game creators (coders, developers, in English, French & Spanish with EN subs cert. tbc | in French, English, Chinese with EN subs | Preview producers, etc.) and e-sport players, making up only 15% of the workforce in the industry in France. Chefs, sous chefs, sommeliers, activists… In haute Emmanuelle Devos plays an ambitious corporate gastronomy and street food, meet innovative women in manager who aspires to be the first woman CEO of a Join Chella Ramanan (game designer), Jodie Azhar the food world changing the game at all levels in Vérane major French company. However, when she finally gets a (CEO, game director at Teazelcat Games), Jade Thiriat Frédiani’s documentary. The women we follow come from shot at her position, she is quickly threatened by personal (gameplay programmer at Ubisoft) and Morgane Lainard all over the world and yet, they all consider gastronomy and political factors. In this intelligent drama about (game designer, CCCP Games, tbc), led by Marie-Claire as a way to change the status quo. The women we follow corporate sexism, director Tonie Marshall captures not Isaaman (CEO, Women in Games UK), discussing how to come from all over the world and yet, they all consider only a topical but also a potent portrait of the sacrifices break gender stereotypes. gastronomy as a way to change perceptions on the role of unique to a woman’s ambition in male dominated women in society. environments. Wed 6 Mar 7.30pm Fri 8 Mar 6.30pm Tue 5 Mar 6.30pm 1h30 | in English | £5, members £3 Followed by a Q&A with director Vérane Frédiani and Discover apps, games and videos at La Médiathèque French and British Chefs which challenge norms and gender misconceptions

Special programme on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. 13 14 Tribute to Christian Dior

Exhibiting Christian Dior The Drawings of Stage Fright Talk Christian Dior UK/USA | 1950 | 110 mins | dir. Alfred Hitchcock, with Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd | cert. PG | in English One of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers, Screening Christian Dior is the subject of the exhibition Christian Aspiring actress Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) offers to help Dior, Designer of Dreams at the V&A, exploring the Les Dessins de Christian Dior her friend Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) when he is enduring influence of the fashion house from 1947 to the FRA | 2018 | 55 mins | dir. Loïc Prigent | doc | cert. tbc suspected by the police to have murdered the husband of present day, and Dior’s relationship with Britain. V&A in German, French & English with EN subs his flamboyant lover, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Fashion and textiles curator Oriole Cullen and French set Eve sets out to investigate for herself, and in a typical designer Nathalie Crinière will present their research Leading fashion expert and director of Signed Chanel plot twist for the master of suspense that Hitchcock and Dior’s historical approach to fashion for the making and British Style, Loïc Prigent portrays one of the is, it becomes unclear how to identify friend from foe. of the exhibition. greatest couturiers, Christian Dior, through a creative Renowned for the attention he paid to the shaping of biography including animated drawings commented by the style of his heroines, the filmmaker had to give in to Thu 14 Mar 6.30pm contemporary audio archives and interviews of fashion Marlene Dietrich, who imposed a full Dior wardrobe. historians, dressmakers, friends and icons such as £9, members & conc. £7 Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson or Jennifer Lawrence Sun 17 Mar 4pm who followed in the steps of legends Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich – who only wore Dior! Screening as part of

Thu 14 Mar 7.30pm

£11, members & conc. £9

Double bill: talk + screening: £15, conc. £13 Music

Music Rendezvous with Berlioz 150 Benedict Kloeckner & P.r2b – Collectif La This event is organised by Berlioz 150, whose aim is to Danae Dörken celebrate Hector Berlioz's life and work during this year’s Souterraine 150th anniversary of his death. Cellist Benedict Kloeckner and pianist Danae Dörken are among the most acclaimed German artists of their The Music Rendezvous series returns in our listed library The event will include talks by leading Berlioz experts, generation. Having performed extensively throughout with French singer Pauline Rambeau de Baralon a.k.a including David Cairns, the leading authority on the life Europe (Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, P.r2b. It's a special showcase in collaboration with La of Berlioz, as well as performances of Berlioz songs by Wigmore Hall…) and in the United States (Carnegie Hall, Souterraine, an entirely independent platform promoting mezzo-soprano Jess Dandy, accompanied on the piano Las Vegas Philharmonic), they present a programme a new wave of French-language pop. Praised for her live by Dylan Perez, and readings from Berlioz’s letters and combining music from their last recording dedicated to performances, P.r2B's striking songs blend 80s cold wave articles by stage and television actor Malcolm Sinclair. Schumann with pieces by Schostakovich and Martinu. and cloud rap-style production. Come to a fantastique evening! Thu 21 Mar 7.30pm Followed by an informal chat with the public. Thu 7 Mar 7.30pm | £10 £15, members £13, students £5 Wed 6 Feb 7.30pm berlioz150.org As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music in French & English | £7, members £5 concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet

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© Emanuele Scorcelletti A Night with Crime Pop-Up! Creative Reading Group Novelist Bernard Minier Workshop with Paul We focus on the latest translated works of acclaimed French authors. Join our unique bilingual literary Meet Bernard Minier, one of the most applauded Rouillac discussion with a little French twist! contemporary French crime novelists and discover his best-selling novel, Night, just launched in the UK If you're interested in beautiful illustrations, whether you Thu 21 Feb | Hhhh, by Laurent Binet - tr. by S. Taylor by Mulholland Book Trade Paperpack. Night follows are already an illustrator or just eager to discover new Thu 14 Mar | Maigret et les témoins récalcitrants, by detective Kirsten Nigaard and commandant Martin tips, come and meet Paul Rouillac a master in pop-up Georges Simenon - tr. by R. Schwartz Servaz on a terrifying chase. Winner of the prestigious books. He will introduce you to his craft and guide you Prix Polar at the Cognac Crime Festival and translated through the techniques to make your own pop-up card to 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French into twenty languages, Bernard Minier became a take home. £5, members £3, including a glass of wine sensation in France when his first novel Glacé (The Frozen Dead, 2013) was published. It was made into a very Sat 9 Mar 5pm successful television series now available on NETFLIX. Café Philo 1h30 | in English & French | £5, members & conc. £3 Thu 7 Feb 7pm Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical Followed by book signings issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo 1h30 | in English | £5, members £3 meets every Saturday.

Followed by book signings Sat 2 & 9 Feb, 2, 16 & 23 Mar | in English Sat 16 Feb, 9 & 30 Mar | in French

10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 contact: [email protected] Kids & Families

Get your umbrella ready, and show your kids the way to games, tales and fun activities! The Institut français is filled with creative and fun workshops for children and families. Mary Returns Poppins image:

Kids Activities Don’t miss out on our workshops and tales, and meet the author and artist Paul Rouillac who will share his tips and tricks on pop-up books! CinéKids Screenings (see p.16) You can expect a bit of magic with Mary Poppins Returns and The Illusionist, an incredible adventure with Bécassine! and a > all Kids & Families activities are listed pp.26-27 moving story with Dumbo (1941), > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: among other treats! www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am 18 We Support

Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion Bêka & Lemoine: Moriyama-San The Community Live in Nottingham Language World 2019

Join an evening of screening and Inviting members of the public and The Association for Language Learning’s conversation with French filmmakers students from Nottingham Trent annual conference and CPD event offers Bêka & Lemoine with Home Futures University to explore weekly themes via a a packed programme with speakers from curator Eszter Steierhoffer. Their work range of activities with members of The across the languages sector. Come visit experiments with new narrative and Community, each group will create new the Institut français stand and discover cinematographic forms in relation to works within the space. the wide offer for teachers of French in contemporary architecture. Supported by Fluxus Art Projects. the UK.

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Kader Attia’s first UK survey exhibition 14 Feb The Design Museum 4 – 30 March Bonington Gallery 22–23 Mar Imago, Leicestershire questions our ideas of wholeness and injury, authenticity and repair, belonging Lovemusic: Everything Starts Elsewhere LSO Futures: Manoury’s Ring Going Through by Estelle Savasta and otherness in regard to the legacy of western colonialism. www.southbankcentre.co.uk

13 Feb – 6 May Hayward Gallery

Francofest 2019

Francofest is a French language event, unique in Northern Ireland, which aims to highlight the benefits language Musicians’ collective Lovemusic For the first time in the UK, the London Don't miss the UK Premiere of French learning can bring to pupils and school programme presents a newly Symphony Orchestra performs Philippe author Estelle Savasta's poetic and communities. commissioned work composed by Jerome Manoury’s piece, Ring. This LSO Futures touching play telling the story of a girl’s Combier alongside pieces by French and season focuses on the concept of space journey through adolescence, across www.qub.ac.uk British composers such as John Craft, and on the relation with the orchestra and borders and through a well-guarded Gilbert Army, Pascal Dusapin, Martin the audience. Supported by Diaphonique. secret… 8 Feb Queen’s University, Belfast Iddon and Betsy Jolas. Supported by En Scène! and Cross Supported by Diaphonique. www.barbican.org.uk Channel Theatre.

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19 Feb City University London 28 March – 27 Apr Bush Theatre We Recommend

Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory Yann Tiersen Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life The Blaze The biggest London date yet for emotive electronic duo The Blaze - cousins Guillaume and Jonathan Alric - who have been causing a stir with their moving, cinematic visuals and the powerful but danceable tracks that make up debut album Dancehall.

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This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Incorporating field recordings from his Explore revolutionary Paris through 12 Mar Roundhouse Bonnard’s work in the UK since the Brittany home, the redwood forests Boilly’s daring and playful paintings. much-loved show at Tate 20 years ago. of California and Tempelhof airport in Working in a politically turbulent Paris, Leyla Mccalla It will allow new generations to discover Berlin, Amélie composer and multi- Louis-Leopold Boilly witnessed the French Bonnard’s unconventional use of colour, instrumentalist Yann Tiersen performs Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, Haitian-American singer and multi- while surprising those who think they from his new album, All, in the UK for the and the Restoration of the French instrumentalist McCalla is a vital voice already know him. first time. Monarchy. whose new album The Capitalist Blues looks at the pressure cooker her country www.tate.org.uk www.southbankcentre.co.uk www.nationalgallery.org.uk has become while drawing on jazz and folk as well as traditional Creole, Cajun and Until 6 May Tate Modern 19–20 Feb Southbank Centre 28 Feb – 19 May The National Gallery Haitian music

Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams Florian Zeller Yara Lapidus www.kingsplace.co.uk

Spanning 1947 to the present day, this The highly anticipated UK premiere of The hypnotic French-Lebanese singer- 28 Mar Kings Place exhibition traces the history and impact of The Son follows the sold out Olivier award- songwriter released French-language one of the 20th century’s most influential winning The Father and the critically- album Indéfiniment last year, which couturiers, exploring the enduring acclaimed The Mother by Molière award- saw her collaborate with veteran influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s winning playwright Florian Zeller in a composer and producer Gabriel Yared. relationship with Britain. production directed by Michael Longhurst. Her forthcoming international record, meanwhile, features a duet with Iggy Pop. www.vam.ac.uk www.kilntheatre.com www.brasseriezedel.com 2 Feb – 14 July V&A 20 Feb – 6 Apr Kiln Theatre Cultural events in the 'We Support' 4 Mar Brasserie Zédel and 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects, Picture: Pierre Bonnard, Le Jardin, 1936, Musée d'Art Picture: Louis-Léopold Boilly, 'Carnival Scene', 1832 Diaphonique, En Scène! and the moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France). © The Ramsbury Manor Foundation French Music Export Office. 19 20 La Médiathèque Culturethèque

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