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CINÉFRANCO

PARIS‐TORONTO

Here comes April with, as usual, many films from featured in the numerous film festivals in Toronto. Be it at Cinéfranco, TIFF Kids, Sommaire the Toronto Jewish Film Festival or Hot Docs, you will not be short of PAGE 3 ‐ Cinema opportunities to discover a variety of recent French works, from the comedy Camille rewinds presented at last year’s Cannes Festival to PAGE 5 ‐ Digital the feature animation film Ernest and Célestine and from When pigs PAGE 6 ‐ Visual Arts have wings, best first film at the César awards in 2012, to Raoul Peck’s latest documentary. And do not forget the master class of PAGE 7 ‐ Lectures Serge Bromberg on Chaplin at the TIFF Bell Lightbox! PAGE 7 ‐ Music PAGE 8 ‐ Dance If you are more of a visual arts person, then the unprecedented series “Paris‐Toronto” will fulfil your wishes until December: you can PAGE 8 ‐ Television continue the adventure by embarking in Louidgi Beltrame’s work PAGE 9 ‐ Professionals Brasilia/ Chandigarh, presented at Vtape as part of Images Festival.

And for those who cannot know enough about the digital revolution and its artistic effects, Morgan Bouchet will be at the Hastac conference to talk about transmedia practices in France – a good way to answer all your questions!

Claire Le Masne, Cultural Attachée APRIL 2013 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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Editor : Claire Le Masne Book : Julian Compan Audiovisual and layout : Sarah Arcache Cinema

CINEFRANCO APRIL 5 ‐ 14

For his 16th edition, the Francophone Film Festival Cinefranco will offer a large selection of French movies. This year's programmation includes Pierre Jolivet's thriller Armed Hands, Noemie Lvovsky's comedy Camille Rewinds and the winner of the Cesar award for best documentary Les Invisibles by Sebastien Lifshitz (with special attendance of Monique Isselé, one of the witnesses of the film).

Will also attend the following French guests to talk about their works: Thierry Aflalou (Cassos, producer), Philippe Carrese (Cassos, director), Franck Guerin (One o One, director), Cassandre Manet (One o One, actress), Yann Peira (One o One, actor), Sean Delecroix (Sunday Fucking Sunday, director)

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TIFF KIDS APRIL 9 ‐ 21

Tiff Kids will fill children's imagination from April 9 to 21. This year's festival includes a stellar French component including the feature film Ernest & Celestine, A Trip to the Moon by George Melies, Poppety in the Fall by Pierre‐ Luc Granjon and Antoine Lanciaux and Sea Suburb by Eleonore Goldberg.

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TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11 ‐ 21

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival will present films from all around the world including the French film When Pig has wings by Sylvain Estibal, winner of the Cesar award for best first feature. The director will attend a Q&A after the screenings on April 18 and 21 with co‐star Myriam Tekaïa.

The Festival will also screen the French movies Aliyah by Elie Wajeman, The Dandelions by Carine Tardieu, In case I don't win the Godlen Palm by Renaud Cohen, My best hollidays by Phillippe Lellouche, The other son by Lorraine Levy, The Rabbi's cat by Joann Sfar & Antoine Delesvaux, et Gainsbourg by Gainsbourg: An intimate self portrait, a documentary by Pierre‐Henry Salfati.

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MASTERCLASS SERGE BROMBERG APRIL18‐19

Serge Bromberg, former artistic director of the Annecy Animation Festival, offers a Master Class on the early films of Charlie Chaplin at the Tiff Bell Lightbox, tracing the development of Chaplin's beloved "Tramp" character in the films he made for Essanay Studios beginning in 1915.

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Hot Docs will celebrate its 20th edition from April 25 to May 5.

The festival has selected two French documentaries this year: Fatal Assistance by Raoul Peck, presented in the Berlinale Special this year, revealing international support after the 2010 hearthquake to be a resounding failure; The Shebabs of Yarmouk by Axel Salvatori‐Sinz follows a group of young Palestinians refugees from the third generation in Syria. Both directors will be in attendance for Q&A.

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Digital

MORGAN BOUCHET APRIL 26

For its tenth edition, the annual conference Hastac (Humanites, Arts, Sciences and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) will take place for the first time in Canada from April 25 to 28, organized by York University.

The French specialist Morgan Bouchet will bring his personal perspectives on the evolution of "Medias" to "Transmedia" in France and more specifically, his vision of the convergence between Sorytelling Transmedia and Technology. He'll also give a focus on few French transmedia productions.

M.Bouchet is a professor at Sciences Po in France (Insitute for French Political Sciences) and at the MBA ESG Paris, where he teaches "Marketing for Multiscreens strategies". He is also in charge of the Transmedia Lab Orange in France. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE 5 Visual arts

ROGER VIVIER UNTIL APRIL 9 Last days to discover the exhibition "Roger Vivier: Process to Perfection" at The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, dedicated to Roger Vivier's creative process, the historic creator of shoes for Christian Dior.

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PARIS‐TORONTO : LOUIDGI BELTRAME MARCH 23 ‐ APRIL 27 BRASILIA/ CHANDIGARH

The Paris‐Toronto series, which has begun with Julia Varga’s residency as part of Burbs to Banlieues, continues with Brasilia/Chandigarh by Louidgi Beltrame, at the video art centre Vtape from March 23 to April 27.

Presented by Vtape as a projected installation during Images Festival, this major video work develops a sense of visual dialogue between the two monuments to modernism that are Brasilia, the administrative capital of Brazil built by Oscar Niemeyer in the late 1950s, and Chandigarh, built more or less simultaneously by Le Corbusier in India. The artist will be in Toronto from April 11 to 20 during Images Festival, and will give an artist talk on April 13.

Louidgi Beltrame was born in 1971 in Marseille. From 1999‐2001, he was in residence at Le Fresnoy, studio National des Arts Contemporains Tourcoing, and then at Le Pavillon, Laboratoire de recherche du Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2003/4. He recently presented his work at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume, LOOP (Madrid), the Palais de Tokyo, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, the Ricard Foundation (Paris), André Malraux Museum in Le Havre, the Locarno Film Festival and the International Documentary Film Festival in Marseille. He is represented by Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris.

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FESTIVAL IMAGES APRIL 11 ‐ 20

Images Festival will celebrate once again independent and experimental film and video from April 11 to April 20, including some French artists works. In addition to Louigi Beltrame, Jean‐Marie Teno, one of the Festival jury members, will present his last movie Leaf in the wing and will participate to a Q&A on April 13.

You will also discover Maître‐vent by Simon Quéheillard, or even Les Coquelicots by Rose Lowder. The TPW Gallery will be presenting Laure Provost' multifaceted film and installation project based on Kafka's Metamorfosis : "The Wanderer".

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CHRISTOPHE LITWIN APRIL 5

« EXIL ET COSMOPOLITISME, LIMITES DE LA CITOYENNETÉ MODERNE CHEZ ROUSSEAU. »

Christophe Litwin studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD in Philosophy, he will participate to the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association at the University of Toronto from April 4 to April 7.

This edition will be dedicated to Global Positioning Systems.At once domesticated and uncanny, world‐mapping and world‐changing, ubiquitous and invisible, GPS technology resonates broadly both as an exemplary metonymy of contemporary technology and as a metaphor. Conference presenters are invited to extend the metaphor widely in space and time and to non‐technological realms, in particular in the capacities of language and literature for world‐making and global positioning.

Christophe Litwin will make a presentation on April 5 from 2:20 to 4:10 on the following subject: "Exile and Cosmopolitanism, Rousseau on the Limits of Modern Citizenship"

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Music

C2C APRIL 8 C2C will give a concert in Toronto on April 8, at the Mod Club.

Consisting of DJ Greem and MC (from ‐rap collective ) and DJs Atom and Pfel (from electro hip‐hop duo Beat Torrent), C2C are widely regarded as one of the most accomplished turntablist crews in the world.

Formed as Coups2Cross in in 1998, the quartet made their name on the competition circuit, winning the Disco Mix Club World Team DJ Championships for a four consecutive years (2003‐2006) and the 2005 ITF Team Championships. In 2012, after touring the world, the four DJs released their debut album TETRA and received four awards at the , inculding Best Album electro for TETRA.

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7 Dance ASSEMBLÉE INTERNATIONALE APRIL 29 ‐ MAY 4

The Assemblée Internationale 2013, organized by the Canada's National Ballet School will bring together representatives from 18 the best ballet schools in the world from April 28 to May 4.

Students from the Paris Opera Ballet School will participate to this intense event (classes, conference, performances, meetings with professionals) and will present Péchés de Jeunesse, from Jean‐Guillaume Bart, during the May 1st performance.

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Television

TFO, a film festival at home, from Monday to Saturday at 9PM.

In April, invite your friends to discover the movies of the monthly French film series with English subtitles : Les enfants du paradis on Thursday 4 and 11 at 9PM. TFO also offers you a documentary serie A movie and its time every Saturday at 8PM. Finally, don't miss the comedy The Mid‐August Lunch on April 24.

The schedule is available on TFO.ORG/CINE or in the Passeport cinéma (free registration).

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Alliance Française de Toronto

A registered charitable organization, the Alliance Française is dedicated to promoting the use of French and the appreciation of cultures that share the French language in their common heritage. Established in 1902 with approximately 6,000 students and members, it operates as a cultural centre and language school with three centres in the Greater Toronto Area.

Accredited by the Federal Government, it is the largest private French language school in Canada, with centres in Spadina, Mississauga, Markham and North York.

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UPCOMING

The 2013 edition of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, on May 11 and 12, will feature several French authors such as Blutch, David B and Boulet.

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