Le Programme June – July 2019 02 Contents/Highlights

Home , A Fantastic Woman, Guillaume Gallienne, Liao Fan, Memoir of War, Sandrine Bonnaire, Woman at War

Ciné Lumière 3-21

Talks 22-23

Music 24

Workshop 24 Spotlight on the Tackling Pollution: Schooner Refugee Week Comédie-Française Tara on the Thames 16 – 20 June 2 June – 21 July 11 June pp. 12-13 Kids & Families 25 p.14 p.22 We Support 26

We Recommend 27

French Courses 28

La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 30

In the Mood for Food Launch of FranceDance UK Comédie-Française: General Information 32-35 28 June – 4 July Special Screening of Yuli: The Damned pp. 19-21 The Carlos Acosta Story 19 – 25 June 10 July p.26 p.10 Barbican

front cover image: Varda by Agnès Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

In Safe Hands Serial (Bad) Wedding 2 Amazing Grace

Pupille Qu’est-ce qu’on a (encore) fait au Bon Dieu ? USA | 2018 | 87 mins | dir. Allan Elliott and Sydney Pollack, FRA/BEL | 2018 | 107 mins | dir. Jeanne Herry, with Sandrine FRA | 2018 | 98 mins | dir. Philippe de Chauveron, with with Aretha Franklin, Reverend James Cleveland | cert. U Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Elodie Bouchez | cert. 15 Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Ary Abittan, Medi Sadoun in English in French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs In 1971, Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, Abandoned at birth, baby Theo embarks on a journey Six years after the smashing hit Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait brought producer Jerry Wexler, her backup singers, and through the Child Welfare Services, which will lead him au Bon Dieu ?, the Verneuil extended family returns for the legendary Atlantic Records rhythm section to The temporarily to the care of Jean until a suitable home is another round of uproarious (and slightly politically New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles to found for him. Alice, 41, is unable to bear children and incorrect) comedy. Claude and Marie Verneuil are facing record an album of gospel music before an enthusiastic has been struggling to adopt a child for ten years. In Safe a new crisis: their four son-in-laws have decided to leave live audience. The result, Amazing Grace, went on to Hands recounts how Theo and Alice’s paths come across. France with their wives and children to try their luck become one of the biggest albums of Aretha Franklin’s Nominated for 7 César Awards in 2019. abroad. Unable to imagine their family far from them, career and the best-selling Gospel record of all times. Claude (Christian Clavier) and Marie (Chantal Lauby) will An extraordinary look at a key moment in American Sat 1 June 6.20pm Tue 4 June 6pm stop at nothing to hold them back. musical and social history, and an invaluable record of Sun 2 June 8.20pm Wed 5 June 8.30pm one of America’s greatest artists led by Oscar-winning Mon 3 June 8.20pm Thu 6 June 4pm Sat 1 June 9pm Thu 13 June 4pm filmmaker Sydney Pollack. Sun 2 June 6.15pm Mon 17 June 8.30pm Tue 4 June 8.20pm Sun 23 June 8.20pm Sat 1 June 4pm Sat 15 June 8.20pm Fri 7 June 8.45pm Thu 27 June 8.50pm Mon 3 June 6.20pm Thu 20 June 6.20pm Mon 10 June 8.40pm Wed 5 June 4pm Sat 22 June 9pm Thu 13 June 8.40pm

03 04 Ciné Lumière New Releases

Gloria Bell A Season in France Sunset

USA | 2019 | 101 mins | dir. Sebastián Lelio, with Julianne Une saison en France HUN | 2019 | 142 mins | dir. László Nemes, with Susanne Moore, Sean Astin, Jeanne Tripplehorn | cert. 15 | in English FRA | 2017 | 100 mins | dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, with Wuest, Juli Jakab, Levente Molnár | cert. 15 | in Hungarian Sandrine Bonnaire, Eriq Ebouaney, Aalayna Lys | cert. tbc with EN subs Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée in French with EN subs spending her days at a straight-laced job and her nights Following on from his BAFTA and Oscar-winning on the dance floors. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s soul-searching film focuses on masterpiece Son of Saul, writer-director László Nemes on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected the plight of undocumented asylum seekers desperately returns with another exquisite piece of cinema, Sunset. new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love trying to find sanctuary in Europe. A refugee from the 1913, Írisz has boarded a train to Budapest to become a and the complications of dating. Sebastián Lelio (Oscar- Central African Republic, Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney) lives in milliner in her late parents’ hat making shop. But it soon winning A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) remakes his France with his two young children. Traumatised by the transpires that she has a different motive: investigate on 2013 film Gloria by moving the story from Chile to the USA loss of his wife during their flight, he finds solace with the disappearance of her brother. Her journey deep into and casting the great Julianne Moore in the title role. Carole (Sandrine Bonnaire). the dark underbelly of Hungary’s turbulent society begins on the eve of the First World War. Fri 7 June 4.30pm, 6.40pm Thu 13 June 6.30pm Wed 12 June 8pm Tue 18 June 4pm Sat 8 June 4pm, 6.10pm Fri 14 June 8.10pm Fri 14 June 6pm Wed 19 June 7.30pm Fri 14 June 3pm Sun 9 June 7.30pm Sat 15 June 6.15pm Sat 15 June 4pm Thu 20 June 4pm Wed 19 June 4.30pm Mon 10 June 6.30pm Sun 16 June 8.20pm Sun 16 June 6.15pm Sat 22 June 4pm Sat 29 June 7pm Tue 11 June 8pm Fri 21 June 8.30pm Mon 17 June 6.30pm Tue 25 June 8pm Wed 12 June 4pm As part of Refugee Week (pp. 12 & 13)

The preview screening on 12 June will be preceded by a masterclass with director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (see p.9) Ciné Lumière New Releases

Amin Late Night Vita & Virginia

FRA | 2018 | 91 mins | dir. Philippe Faucon, with Moustapha USA | 2019 | 102 mins | dir. Nisha Ganatra, with Emma UK | 2019 | 110 mins | dir. Chanya Button, with Gemma Mbengue, Emmanuelle Devos, Marème N’Diaye | cert. tbc Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow | cert. 15 | in English Arterton, Elizabeth Dibicki | cert. 12 | in English in French & Wolof with EN subs The timely Late Night chronicles the life of Katherine By the 1920s, Virginia Woolf has reached the apex of Premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes and Newbury (Emma Thompson), a female late-night talk modern world literature with her landmark novel, Mrs. London Film Festival in 2018, Philippe Faucon’s film show host who has reached a crossroads in her career. Dalloway, but nothing seems to soothe the darkness follows Amin (Moustapha Mbengue), a Senegalese Her ratings have begun to slip, and her producer has that plagues her. Poems and letters of admiration from immigrant who works as a hired hand for a building informed her that she’ll be replaced by a decades- Vita Sackville-West lead to a courtship that is hardly company based in a Paris suburb. He sends the little younger male shock jock. In an impulsive move, she hires concealed from their respective husbands and friends. money he earns to his wife and family he had to leave Molly (Mindy Kaling) to join her all-male writing staff in an A daring celebration of an unconventional bond, and behind. When he encounters Gabrielle (Emmanuelle effort to make her comedy more diverse. a vivid exploration of gender, sexuality, creativity and Devos), a middle-aged French divorcée, an intimacy passion, Vita & Virginia details the love story and the develops between the two and they gradually open up Fri 28 June 4pm Sat 6 July 6.20pm ensuing friendship, which inspired Woolf to write the about their lives. Sat 29 June 9pm Sun 7 July 8.40pm groundbreaking novel Orlando. Sun 30 June 7pm Tue 9 July 8.45pm Fri 21 June 6.30pm Tue 25 June 6pm Mon 1 July 8.30pm Thu 11 July 6.30pm Fri 5 July 6.15pm Tue 9 July 6.30pm Sat 22 June 8pm Wed 26 June 4pm Tue 2 July 8.30pm Mon 15 July 6.30pm Sat 6 July 2pm, 8.30pm Wed 10 July 4.30pm Sun 23 June 6.20pm Thu 27 June 4pm Wed 3 July 4pm Thu 18 July 8.45pm Sun 7 July 4pm Thu 11 July 8.40pm Mon 24 June 7pm Thu 4 July 8.30pm Sat 20 July 5pm Mon 8 July 8.20pm Mon 15 July 8.40pm Fri 5 July 4pm Wed 24 July 8.50pm As part of Refugee Week (pp. 12 & 13) The screening on 5 July will be followed by a Q&A with As part of Women Shaping the World series director Chanya Button and costume designer Lorna Mugan (tbc) 05 06 Ciné Lumière New Releases

Knife + Heart Diego Maradona Varda by Agnès

Un Couteau dans le coeur UK | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Asif Kapadia, with Diego Maradona FRA | 2019 | 115 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Agnès Varda FRA/CHE | 2018 | 102 mins | dir. Yann Gonzalez, with Vanessa doc | cert. tbc | in English doc | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran | cert. 18 | in French with EN subs Selected at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Asif Kapadia’s In her last film, multi-awarded director Agnès Varda documentary tells the wild and unforgettable story of takes a seat on a theatre stage and offers insights into Paris, Summer 1979. Anne (Vanessa Paradis) produces talent, glory, despair, betrayal, corruption and redemption her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to travel third-rate gay pornographic films. After her editor of Diego Maradona leading the team of Naples to through her artistic visions and ideas. Whether in front and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by footbalistic glory in the 80’s and thus becoming bigger of the camera or behind it, Agnès Varda is a visual shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, than God himself. After the BAFTA and Oscar-winning storyteller who eschews conventions and prescribed flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is films Senna and Amy, Asif Kapadia comes full circle on approaches to drama. Together with some of her fellow brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange his trilogy on icons, using over 500 hours of never-before- travellers, she takes the audience on a journey through investigation into a serial killer that turns her life upside- seen footage from Maradona’s personal archives. her world of unorthodox images. down. A magical, erotic, disco-tinged horror-queer- thriller, Knife + Heart is an exhilarating homage to Italian Fri 12 July 7pm Tue 16 July 8.30pm Fri 19 July 4pm, 6.30pm Tue 23 July 8.30pm giallo, with heavy influences from Peeping Tom and Todd Sat 13 July 8.40pm Wed 17 July 4.30pm Sat 20 July 7.30pm Wed 24 July 4pm, 6.30pm Haynes' 1991 feature debut, Poison. Sun 14 July 4.15pm Sun 21 July 7.30pm Thu 25 July 4pm Mon 22 July 6.15pm Fri 26 July 6.45pm Fri 5 July 8.45pm Wed 10 July 8.45pm Sun 7 July 6.30pm Sun 14 July 6.30pm As part of our tribute to Agnès Varda (see p.11) Mon 8 July 6.45pm Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?

The White Crow Ash Is Purest Diamantino Woman at War UK/FRA | 2018 | 122 mins | dir. Ralph White FRA/PRT/BRA | 2018 | 92 mins | dir. Gabriel Kona fer í stríð Fiennes, with Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, with Carloto ICE/FRA/UKR | 2018 | 100 mins | dir. Benedikt Adèle Exarchopoulos | cert. 12 | in Russian, CHI | 2018 | 135 mins | dir. Jia Zhang-Ke, with Cotta, Cleo Tavares | cert. 15 | in with EN Erlingsson, with Halldóra Geirharõsdóttir, English & French with EN subs ZHAO Tao, LIAO Fan, XU Zheng | cert. 15 subs Davíõ Þór Jónsson, Ómar Guõjónsson in Mandarin & local dialects with EN subs cert. 12 | in Icelandic with EN subs Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality Set in present-day Portugal, Diamantino and brilliance of ballet dancer Rudolf Jia Zhang-Ke dissects the dissonances of follows the journey of a hilariously naïve Environmental activist Halla embarks on a Nureyev in the flesh of Ukrainian dancer 21st-century China with a winding tale of football star, from blissful prowess to one-woman war with the local aluminum Oleg Ivenko. Ballet’s most famous star in love, disillusionment and survival. Qiao is career-busting disillusionment. Searching plant to protect her homeland’s pristine the 50’s, Rudolf Nureyev stunned the world in love with Bin, a local mobster. During for a new purpose, the international Highlands. Before embracing her new life at the height of the Cold War, when he a fight between rival gangs, she takes the icon, loosely based on one of today’s as a mother, she plans a final radical act defected to the West. The White Crow charts blame to save Bin. Qiao gets five years most famous football players, sets on of sabotage. Benedikt Erlingsson’s follow how Nureyev plotted his flight in a game of in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her a delirious odyssey where he confronts up to Of Horses Of Men is a delightful and cat-and-mouse with the Russian KGB aided release, she goes looking for Bin to pick neo-fascism, the refugee crisis, genetic witty take on a topical issue: how to bring by his great friend, the 21 year-old Parisian up where they left off, only to realise that modification, and the hunt for the source new life into a broken world? Clara Saint (Adèle Exarchopoulos). life has gone on without her. of genius. Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino won the Grand Prize Sat 6 July 4.15pm Fri 7 June 2pm Sat 8 June 8.20pm at Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week Mon 8 July 6.15pm Fri 21 June 4pm Sun 7 July 4.30pm last year. Wed 10 July 4.30pm Tue 9 July 4pm Thu 11 July 6.45pm Sat 13 July 6.30pm Sat 6 July 4.30pm See also the special screening of Yuli: Sun 7 July 7.30pm As part of Women Shaping the World and The Carlos Acosta Story, as part of Wed 10 July 6.45pm The Earth Here and Now series FranceDance UK launch evening (p.10) 07 08 Ciné Lumière Did You Miss It?

Memoir of War The World is Yours Happy As Lazzaro 3 Faces

La Douleur Le Monde est à toi Lazzaro felice IRN | 2018 | 100 mins | dir. Jafar Panahi, with FR/BE/CH | 2018 | 127 mins | dir. Emmanuel FRA | 2018 | 105 mins | dir. Romain Gavras, ITA/CHE/FRA/GER | 2018 | 130 mins | dir. Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei Finkiel, with Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, with Karim Leklou, Vincent Cassel, Isabelle Alice Rohrwacher, with Alba Rohrwacher, cert. 15 | in Persian & Azerbaijani with EN Benjamin Biolay | cert. 18 | in French with Adjani, Oulaya Amamra | cert. 15 | in French David Bennent, Sergi López | cert. 15 subs EN subs with EN subs in Italian with EN subs Well-known Iranian actor Behnaz Jafari Memoir of War is an ambitious adaptation François is a small-time drug dealer who Revealed at the Director’s Fortnight in is distraught after receiving a video plea of Marguerite Duras’s challenging wants to call it quits. His dream to become 2011 and awarded with the Grand Prix from a provincial girl begging for help to Holocaust semi-autobiography, War: a the official distributor of the Mr Freeze at Canne’s Film Festival in 2014, Alice escape her conservative family. She turns Memoir. When she finds two old notebooks popsicle brand in North-Africa vanishes Rohrwacher is critically acclaimed to her friend, the filmmaker Jafar Panahi in a forgotten box, Marguerite Duras when he learns that his mother Danny worldwide. Her third film, Happy As (played by Panahi himself), to help solve (Mélanie Thierry) remembers her past in has spent all his life’s savings. His only Lazzaro, which tells the improbable the mystery of the young girl’s troubles. the French Resistance and the unbearable chance to recover the money comes with alliance between Lazzaro, a candid young Together, they hit the road to the girl’s pain of waiting for the return of her a deal in Spain. But it soon appears that peasant, and Tancredi, a young nobleman, village in Iran’s rural northwest where deported husband Robert Antelme. with friends and family like his, François who set to orchestrate Tancredi’s own local traditions rule. Iranian director doesn’t need enemies and nothing ever kidnapping, comes, with no surprise, with Jafar Panahi (This Is Not a Film) delivers Fri 12 July 4pm happens as planned… a shower of well-deserved prizes and a poetic road movie, winner of the Best Thu 25 July 7pm nominations including Best Screenplay Screenplay Award in Cannes last year. Thu 11 July 4pm Award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. As part of Women Shaping the World Sun 14 July 7pm Tue 16 July 6.10pm series Tue 23 July 6.15pm Sat 13 July 4pm Thu 18 July 4pm Fri 26 July 2pm Wed 17 July 7.30pm Ciné Lumière Special Events

USA | 1998 | 169 mins | dir. Steven Spielberg, Masterclass Stand-Up Comedy Broadcast USA/UK | 1988 | 119 mins | dir. Stephen Frears, with Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle cert. 15 | in English | newly remastered in 4K One of the most distinguished African First woman ever to have won a Molière Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman | cert. 15 | in English filmmakers, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s award for Best Humour, up and coming Following a squad of US soldiers taking international recognition came with his French comedian Blanche Gardin The Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de part in the historic D-Day landings in third feature Daratt (Dry Season), which fascinates audiences in France with her Valmont scheme to corrupt the innocent Normandy on 6 June 1944, Saving Private won the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 very own self-deprecating, stream-of- Cécile de Volanges. Stephen Frears’ period Ryan remains one of Steven Spielberg’s Venice Film Festival, while A Screaming consciousness style, with which she drama written by Christopher Hampton most acclaimed films, with its hugely Man won the Jury Prize in Cannes 2010. seems to be confessing dark thoughts to and adapted from the 18th-century French powerful half hour opening sequence On the occasion of the release of his latest a close friend. Prepare to be blown-away novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre of soldiers landing on Omaha Beach, film A Season in France (see p. 4), by her latest stand-up show on gender Choderlos de Laclos, won 3 Academy which won Spielberg 5 Academy Awards Mahamat-Saleh Haroun will run a relations, Bonne Nuit Blanche! Awards. including Best Director and Best masterclass, led by Simon Field (former Cinematography. director of the Rotterdam Film Festival). Tue 25 June 7pm Thu 27 June 6pm

Thu 6 June 6.30pm Wed 12 June 6.20pm £11, conc. £9 | in French | age 17 + Followed by a Q&A with director Stephen Frears, screenwriter Christopher This screening marks the 75th £7, conc. £5 Hampton and writer Christopher Frayler anniversary of D-Day, on 6 June 1944 Double bill: Masterclass + Screening of As part of the Craft of Film: A Season in France (Preview at 8pm): £15, Academy of Motion Picture conc. £13 at Ciné Lumière 09 FranceDance UK

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DEU/ESP/UK | 2018 | 104 mins | dir. Iciar Bollain, with Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso cert. 15 | in Spanish and English, with EN subs

Following the world acclaimed Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, nicknamed ‘Yuli’ by his father, from the streets of his native Havana, through his time at the Cuban National Dance School, to performing at London’s prestigious Royal Ballet, Iciar Bollain’s film tells the amazing true story of one of ballet’s most athletic and lauded prodigies.

Wed 10 July 7.30pm

Special screening as part of FranceDance UK launch evening, attended by choreographer Emanuel Gat

FranceDance UK – Festival of Contemporary Dance The best of French contemporary dance from renowned choreographers and companies, including Angelin Preljocaj, Gisèle Vienne, Emanuel Gat, Dorothée Munyaneza and Serge Aimé Coulibaly, will be performed throughout the UK from August until November 2019. Selected screenings in June & July Daily screenings from September www.institut-francais.org.uk/francedanceuk Ciné Lumière Tribute to Agnès Varda

Cléo de 5 à 7 Les Plages d’Agnès Les Glaneurs et la Cleo from 5 to 7 The Beaches of Agnès glaneuse FRA/ITA | 1961 | 90 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Corinne FRA | 2008 | 110 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Agnès Varda, Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray | cert. PG André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier | doc | cert. 18 | in French The Gleaners & I in French with EN subs with EN subs FRA | 2000 | 82 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski, François Wertheimer | doc | cert. U Cleo, a young pop singer, wanders the streets of Returning to the beaches that have been part of her life, in French with EN subs Paris while awaiting the results of a medical test that Agnès Varda invents a kind of self-portrait-documentary. may indicate cancer. A lively mix of melodrama and Agnès stages herself among excerpts of her films, Why do food producers throw so much away when people cinéma vérité, the film features beautiful bleached-out images and reportages; weaving public and private go hungry? Agnès Varda, gleaner of images, follows other photography, an excellent score by Michel Legrand and struggles, loves and friendships, films and people, and gleaners, people who collect what other people throw an unforgettable performance by Corinne Marchand as a the history of French cinema. Idiosyncratic, engaging and away, food and junk. This thought-provoking social and narcissistic pop star gradually unveiling another self, no deeply moving, The Beaches of Agnès is the autobiography poetic documentary has been praised at many festivals longer a woman as object but as subject. of a magnificent artist and a woman of vital curiosity. and was voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film Critics. Sun 2 June 4.20pm Sun 21 July 4.50pm Sat 20 July 2pm Fri 26 July 4.15pm Sun 30 June 5pm Mon 22 July 8.40pm See also Varda by Agnès (p.6) The screening on 30 June is part of In the Mood for Food Season and of La Fête du Cinéma (see pp. 19-21)

11 12 Refugee Week

On the occasion of World Refugee Day (20 June), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) works to commemorate Grigris The Rest the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees and raise awareness on their issues. Behind FRA/TCD | 2013 | 101 mins | dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun DEU | 2018 | 78 mins | dir. Ai Weiwei | doc | cert. tbc | in this humanitarian crisis, and beyond the statistics, there cert. tbc | in French with EN subs English, Italian, Turkish, French, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, are individual lives and stories to be told. Persian with EN subs Despite a paralysed leg that could have barred most It is what the Institut français aims to underline with its avenues, Grigris, 25 years old, dreams of being a Ai Weiwei’s follow-up to Human Flow is a sharp and series of debates and screenings presented as part of professional dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are moving account of today’s refugee situation. The Rest Refugee Week. This programme, organised with leading dashed when his stepfather falls critically ill. In order focuses on Europe, the world’s defender of human rights, British and French organisations, NGOs and associations, to pay for the hospital bills, Grigris resolves to work for as it closed its borders to thousands of refugees from will also pay tribute to the commitment of the women petrol traffickers. Presented in competition in Cannes in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. They sought and men – activists, students, artists or citizens – who 2013 and never released in the UK, Grisgris was directed refuge in France, Italy, Germany, Greece, Sweden, and help refugees rebuild a decent life in our societies. by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the award winning director of Turkey, but most have not found the safe haven they A Screaming Man (Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2010). wished for. Now they are no longer the centre of media 16 - 20 June attention, put to rest, so to speak, and yet unable to move Sun 16 June 4.10pm forward and simply live.

See also A Season in France (p.4) and Masterclass with Tue 18 June 6.30pm Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (p.9) Followed by a discussion Refugee Week

Migration and Emotions Women Refugees Midnight Traveler

The issue of immigration is too often reduced to a political Violence, harassment, discrimination, trafficking, USA/UK/QAT/CAN | 2019 | 87 mins | dir. Hassan Fazili and controversy or a litany of figures, obscuring the reality marginalisation are the challenges of everyday life for Emilie Mahdavian | doc | cert. tbc | in Persian and English of individual lives: the lives of those who seek refuge, many women refugees seeking asylum in Europe. What with EN subs and the lives of those who help them. Philosophers solutions exist to protect their rights? Join Gambian Fabienne Brugère and Miguel de Beistegui, geographer refugee Debby Karem, active campaigner for Women for In 2015, a death threat from the Taliban saw Afghan Aija Lulle, activists Maddy Robinson (STAR) and Claire Refugee Women, writer-director Sophie Besse, founder director Hassan Fazili, his wife Fatima Hussaini, also Pilidjian (MigrENS) reflect on the emotions created by of PSYCHEdelight, a participatory theatre company a filmmaker, and their two daughters Nargis (11) and migration among refugees and in host societies, to help shortlisted for the Community Integration Award, artist Zahra (6), flee from their homeland to distant Europe fight generalisations and come closer to the everyday Kate Daudy, presenting her immersive art installation in search of safety. En route, during long and uncertain experience of displacement. about home and identity, Am I My Brother's Keeper, and stays in various refugee camps, they draw strength from Laura Padoan, spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency documenting their difficult situation on mobile phones. Thu 20 June 3pm (UNHCR), as they share their experience and discuss Despite adversities and setbacks, they never once lose different pathways and solutions for women and girls to their humanity. in English | free but booking essential: rebuild their lives with determination and hope. [email protected] Thu 20 June 8.15pm Thu 20 June 6.45pm | in English

Double bill: talk + screening of Midnight Traveler: £17, conc. £15

This event is also part of The Borders of Identity series. Also part of Refugee Week: - A Season in France, by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (p.4) - Amin, by Philippe Faucon (p.5)

13 14 Spotlight on the Comédie-Française

© Jan Versweyveld / coll. Comédie-Française © Stéphane Lavoué-Christian Lacroix/coll. Comédie-Française © Vincent Pontet © Jan Versweyveld / coll. Comédie-Française To celebrate the return of the Comédie- Française to the UK – after an absence Enluminures – Masterclasses Electre / Oreste of 19 years – with The Damned (Les Damnés) at the Barbican in June, the Christian Lacroix / with the Comédie- Theatre Broadcast from the Institut français puts to centre stage Comédie-Française the outstanding troupe of actors of the Stéphane Lavoué Française Troupe FRA | 160 mins | author: Euripides |dir. Ivo prestigious Parisian institution. van Hove, with the troupe of la Comédie- Exhibition On the occasion of the return of the Française | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs From a unique exhibition of portraits by Comédie-Française in London, the acclaimed designer Christian Lacroix For more than twenty years, the iconic Institut français hosts three exceptional After Les Damnés (The Damned), Ivo van and photographer Stéphane Lavoué, to and internationally celebrated French masterclasses with the actors from the Hove comes together again with the masterclasses with first-class actors fashion designer Christian Lacroix and the cast of The Damned, presented at the Troupe of the Comédie-Française for an of the Troupe, and a sneak preview of Comédie-Française have been working Barbican. Each masterclass will be led by epic House of Atreus saga. Merging two Ivo van Hove’s latest collaboration with together skilfully dressing the actors on a trio of actors discussing the production, ancient Greek tragedies by Euripides, the Comédie-Française, we direct the various productions. Christian Lacroix was their career and their work with the he tells the story of a brother Orestes, spotlight onto the Comédie-Française. invited by Éric Ruf, Administrateur Général legendary Parisian institution. and a sister, Electra, united in crime and Our Sunday Classics will also explore de la Comédie-Française, to illuminate vengeance against their no-less criminal how theatre has inspired the greatest their portraits, shot by Stéphane Lavoué, 21 June 2.30pm - 4pm mother Clytemnestra and step-father filmmakers, from Bergman to Truffaut. thus revealing the mark each actor has 22 June 2.30pm - 4pm Aegisthus. left on him. Embellished with collages and 23 June 3pm - 4pm See The Damned (19 - 25 June) and doodles by the great master, the colourful Wed 26 June 7.45pm Masterclass with Guillaume Gallienne (21 62 portraits are presented for the first in English | £7, conc. £5 June) at the Barbican (p.26) time outside the Comédie-Française. Preceded by an introduction by actor See our website or stay tuned to our Christophe Montenez 19-26 June social media for the final line-up. Free visit during La Médiathèque opening Please note that some scenes contain hours (12-6pm) images of graphic nature The Stage on Screen

© Lola Films L’Esquive Molière All About My The Music Room FRA | 2003 | 117 mins | dir. Abdellatif FRA | 1978 | 260 mins | dir. Ariane Mother Jalsaghar Kechiche, with Osman Alkharraz, Sara Mnouchkine, with Philippe Caubère, IND | 1958 | 99 mins | dir. Satyajit Ray, with Forestier | cert. 12 | in French with EN subs Joséphine Derenne, Brigitte Catillon, Armand Todo sobre mi Madre Chabbi Biswas, Padma Devi, Ganda Pada Delcampe | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs ESP/FRA | 1999 | 101 mins | dir. Pedro Basu | cert. U | in Bengali with EN subs In a suburban high school, a group Almodóvar, with Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorin, New print of students rehearse dialogues from The life of the great French actor- Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz | cert. 15 Marivaux’s play A Game of Love and dramatist Molière is brought vividly to the in Spanish with EN subs Voted one of the greatest films of all Chance (1730). Located at the intersection screen in this spectacular fresco by Ariane times by Sight and Sound, Satyajit Ray’s of theatre and reality, Kechiche (Blue Mnouchkine, founder of the Theatre du Awarded an Academy Award for Best The Music Room brilliantly evokes the is the Warmest Colour) generates an Soleil and one of the major figures of Foreign Language film, All About My crumbling opulence of the world of a energetic and intelligent reflection on the modern French stage. Molière is her Mother is Pedro Almodóvar's ode fallen aristocrat, Roy. His greatest joy is French society while offering various first foray into fiction film as she takes us to actresses. As they come out of a the music room in which he has hosted levels of interpretation of Marivaux’s text on a journey into the dramatist’s life, his performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, lavish concerts over the years—now a and dialogues between the teenagers writing and inspirations in the background Manuela mentions to her son Esteban that shadow of its former vivid self. themselves. L’Esquive was awarded four of Seventeenth century France. Selected she played herself Blanche alongside his Césars, including Best Film and Best to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, father. It is the first time Esteban hears of New digitally restored version Director. Molière went on to win two César awards his father. Shaken, he is hit by a car and for Cinematography and Production dies while chasing after the play’s main Sun 23 June 2pm Sun 2 June 2pm Design. actress for her autograph. Devoured by grief, Manuela searches for the man she As part of the London Indian Film Festival Sun 9 June 2pm once loved. (see p.18)

Sun 16 June 2pm 15 16 The Stage on Screen

Le Dernier métro Persona French Cancan Opening Night

The Last Metro SWE | 1966 | 83 mins | dir. Ingmar FRA | 1954 | 102 mins | dir. Jean Renoir, with US | 1977 | 144 mins | dir. John Cassavetes, FRA | 1980 | 123 mins | dir. François Truffaut, Bergman, with Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Felix, with Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben with Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu Margaretha Krook, Jörgen Lindström Anna Amendola | cert. PG | in French with Gazzara | cert. 15 | in English cert. PG | in French with EN subs cert. 15 | in Swedish with EN subs EN subs While in the midst of rehearsals for her Set in Paris in 1942, Truffaut’s stirring After Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann), a famed Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly latest play, Broadway actor Myrtle Gordon tribute to the Resistance and to theatre actress, lapses into silence from what alive in this exhilarating tale of the opening (Gena Rowlands) witnesses the accidental is Deneuve’s first pairing with Gérard appears to be a breakdown, she goes to a of the Moulin Rouge in Paris. Jean Gabin death of an adoring young fan, after Depardieu. Marion takes over the theatre beach house with Anna (Bibi Andersson), plays the wily impresario Danglard, which she begins to confront the chaos managed by her German-Jewish husband a nurse, as sole company. Over the next who makes the cancan all the rage of her own life. Headlined by a virtuoso after he goes into hiding. She hires weeks, as Anna struggles to reach her while juggling the love of two beautiful performance by Rowlands, Opening Night Bernard (Depardieu) as the star of her new mute patient, they both find themselves women – an Egyptian belly-dancer and lays bare the drama of a performer who, production and, as rehearsals proceed, an experiencing a strange emotional a naive working girl turned cancan star. at great personal cost, makes a part her attraction grows between them. A calm, convergence. Bergman’s most audacious This celebration of life, art and the City own, and it functions as a metaphor for powerful film about love, drama and the and formally innovative work charts the of Light (with a cameo by Edith Piaf) is a Cassavetes’ singular, wrenched-from-the- place of art and performance in war time. increasingly tense battle of wits between Technicolor tour de force. heart creative method. Le Dernier métro was nominated for the the two women. Academy Awards and awarded ten Césars Sun 14 July 2pm Sun 21 July 2pm in 1981. Sun 7 July 2pm Followed by a discussion with Nick Sun 30 June 2pm Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club)

Followed by a discussion with Nick Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) 19–25 Jun ★★★★★ Ivo van Hove directs the Comédie-Française Guardian ★★★★ The Damned New York Stage Review (Les Damnés) One family’s perilous path to destruction

With the support of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. 18 London Indian Film Festival

Sir The River Widow of Silence Urojahaj

IND/FRA | 2018 | 99 mins | dir. Rohena FRA/UK/IND/USA | 1951 | 99 mins | dir. Jean IND | 2018 | 85 mins | dir. Praveen Morchhale, The Flight Gera, with Tillotama Shome, Vivek Gomber, Renoir, with Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, with Shilpa Marwaha, Ajay Chourey, Bilal IND | 2018 | 82 mins | dir. Buddhadeb Geetanjali Kulkarni | cert. tbc | in Hindi, Radha Brunier, Patrica Walters | cert. U Ahmad | cert. tbc | in Urdu with EN subs Dasgupta, with Chandan Roy Sanyal, Parno English, Marathi with EN subs | UK Premiere in English and Bengali with EN subs | 35mm UK Premiere Mittra, Sudipto Chatterjee | cert. tbc | in Bengali with EN subs | European Premiere Premiered at the Critic’s Week in Cannes A lyrical adaptation of Rumer Godden’s Aasia works as a nurse in a hospital to last year and winning hearts and awards beloved coming-of-age novel, Renoir’s first maintain herself, her young daughter and Legendary Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb the world over, Rohena Gera’s second film colour feature follows a close-knit upper sick mother-in-law, and tries to obtain Dasgupta, akin to Guillermo Del Toro, Sir looks at the age-old divide between the class British family living in Bengal in the a death certificate for her husband who introduces perhaps his finest film. An classes in India and wonders if it can ever waning days of colonial India. Harriet and had been taken away by the police and idealistic villager discovers a wrecked WW2 be bridged. A wealthy young Indian man her four adolescent sisters’ placid lives are presumed dead. With her life in limbo, Japanese warplane deep in a ghostly forest. in Mumbai, with baggage from the past, disrupted with the arrival of a soldier who unable to neither re-marry, nor settle Seeing passenger planes overhead, his falls in love with his servant, a widow who is recovering from the horrors of war, and her considerable financial debt, Aasia is dream has always been to fly. He sets about dreams of becoming a tailor. This brilliant offers the smitten girls an insight into a forced to make difficult decisions. Widow secretly repairing it. This latest film from the romantic comedy features captivating wider world they have never been exposed of Silence is a gripping and soulful film veteran director is a timeless parable full performances from actors Tillotama to before. with breathtaking visuals of the Kashmir of magic and mystery around a man trying Shome and Vivek Gomber. landscape. to follow his dreams no matter the cost. Sun 23 June 4.10pm Sat 22 June 6.30pm Mon 24 June 6.30pm Mon 24 June 8.40pm Introduced by dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta Followed by a Q&A with dir. Rohena Gera Followed by a Q&A with dir. Praveen Followed by a Q&A with dir. Buddhadeb Morchhale Dasgupta (p.15) www.londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk See also The Music Room (p.15) In the Mood for Food

© Nikita Kino © Victoria and Albert Museum, London This focus on food is part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival (28-30 June) and echoes the Food: Bigger than Food: All About the Plate Babette’s Feast the Plate exhibition at the V&A throughout the summer. It also coincides with our very own Fête du Cinéma, with Talk DNK | 1987 | 103 mins | dir. Gabriel Axel, with Stéphane almost all tickets for £5, so there are plenty of reasons Audran, Bodil Kjer, Brigitte Federspiel | cert. U | in French, to celebrate! V&A curators Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Danish, Swedish with EN subs Sloan present Food: Bigger than the Plate, a major new Curators of the V&A exhibition discuss the making of exhibition at the V&A. Joined by artist Elaine Tin Nyo, At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate the Food: Bigger than the Plate exhibition while our whose project This little pig features in the exhibition, and evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about selection of films addresses the various themes of the author and illustrator, Guillaume Long, known for his food, the Oscar-winning Babette’s Feast is a deeply exhibition from eating to farming, agriculture to trading, illustrated cookbooks (Tales from a French Kitchen) and his beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and food production to the environment, via organic and culinary drawn blog A boire et à manger in Le Monde, they adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly traditional ways, as well as artist and comic takes on will discuss the importance of the senses, and explore layered tale of a French housekeeper (Stéphane Audran) food, its pleasures and complexities. how artists and designers are bringing together the with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in politics and pleasures of food. Guillaume Long will draw the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious For more treats, come and visit the Institut français’ live during the discussion. villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. stand on Exhibition Road (29 & 30 June) Fri 28 June 6.30pm | £7, conc. £5 Fri 28 June 8pm 28 June - 4 July During the Great Exhibition Road Festival, Guillaume www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk Long will share his drawing and culinary skills and run drawing workshops at the Institut français’ stand on Exhibition Road. Sat 29 June 11am-12pm & 3-4pm Sun 30 June 1-2pm 19 20 In the Mood for Food

La Grande bouffe Wine Calling Foodnotes: Three Bread Day FRA/ITA | 1973 | 130 mins | dir. Marco Ferreri, FRA | 2018 | 90 mins | dir. Bruno Sauvard Films by Vivian RUS | 1998 | 55 mins | dir. Sergei Dvortsevoy with Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, doc | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs doc | cert. tbc | in Russian with EN subs Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferréol Ostrovsky restored film on DCP cert. 18 | in French with EN subs | restored While there are more than 3,000 wine film on DCP growers in France, less than 3 percent Programme length: 70 mins In this exceptional first documentary of them are working with organic, by award-winning filmmaker Sergei Four world-weary middle-aged men (a biodynamic or natural methods. Wine Avant-garde filmmaker and film curator Dvortsevoy (Tulpan), life is both ugly and pilot, a chef, a judge and a TV personality) Calling showcases some of the most Vivian Ostrovsky takes us from three star beautiful, as individuals try to eke out decide to gorge themselves to death in exciting new French wine makers, leaders Michelin restaurants to food festivals their existence in a Russia in transition. one final orgiastic weekend of gluttony, of a rising global movement calling for in the South of France, via childhood Once a week, on ‘bread day’, a group of wanton sex, and general hedonism. (Re) superior taste, sustainability and ethical memories in the 1960s Brazil and USSR elderly people inhabiting a hamlet north discover Ferreri’s scandalous blackly- agriculture in general. with a selection of three short films – of St. Petersburg get a bread delivery at comic satire of modern consumer society, Nikita Kino (40 mins), Eat (15 mins) and a nearby train station. Braving the harsh with its quest for constant, unlimited and Sat 29 June 6.40pm *** (Trois étoiles) (12 mins) – shot between weather conditions and the derelict state guilt-free pleasure. Fri 5 July 7.30pm 1987 and 2002. of the rails, the people push an uncoupled train carriage themselves to town. Sat 29 June 4pm The screening on 29 June will be followed Sun 30 June 6.40pm by a Q&A with dir. Bruno Sauvard Sun 30 June 8.30pm Followed by a Q&A with dir. Vivian Ostrovsky Preceded by an introduction by filmmaker Vivian Ostrovsky In the Mood for Food

More than Honey Our Daily Bread Bloody Milk The Biggest Little CHE | 2012 | 92 mins | dir. Markus Imhoof Unser täglich Brot Petit Paysan Farm cert. tbc | in German, English and Mandarin AUT | 2005 | 92 mins | dir. Nikolaus FRA | 2017 | 90 mins | dir. Hubert Charuel, with EN subs Geyrhalter | doc | cert. 12 | in German and with Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, Isabelle USA | 2018 | 91 mins | dir. John Chester, with Polish with EN subs Candelier | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs John Chester, Molly Chester | doc | cert. tbc Fifty years ago, Einstein already insisted in English that “if bees were to disappear from Welcome to the world of industrial food A surprise of Cannes Critics week 2017 the globe, mankind would only have production and high-tech farming! To the and a huge success in France, Bloody Following its UK premiere at the four years left to live.” As 80% of plant rhythm of conveyor belts and immense Milk won 3 César awards, including Edinburgh Film Festival, Emmy Award species require bees to be pollinated machines, the film, with its sumptuous Best First Film, Best Actor and Best winner John Chester’s The Biggest Little and without pollination, there can be no cinematography, looks into the places Supporting Actress. Pierre is a 30-year- Farm chronicles his eight-year quest fruits or vegetables, bees appear to be where food is produced in Europe: old dairy farmer. His life revolves around with his wife Molly, incited by the love of a as indispensable to the economy as they monumental spaces, surreal landscapes the family farm he took over, his cows, his rescue dog, to trade city life for 200 acres are to man’s survival. In More than Honey, and bizarre sounds – a cool, sanitized veterinarian sister and his parents. When of barren farmland in California, and a Markus Imhoof examines how, since environment which leaves little space for the first cases of an epidemic disease dream to harvest in harmony with nature. the 1980s, numerous colonies of bees our fantasies of small, bucolic farms. break out in France, Pierre finds out that Featuring breathtaking cinematography throughout the world have mysteriously one of his animals is infected. Losing his and captivating animals, this outstanding been decimated. Tue 2 July 6.30pm cows is not an option for Pierre. He has documentary provides us all with a vital nothing else and he will do whatever it blueprint for saving and nurturing our Mon 1 July 6.30pm Screening introduced by Catherine Flood takes to save them... endangered biodiversity. and May Rosenthal Sloan, curators of the Screening introduced by Catherine Flood Food: Bigger than the Plate exhibition at Thu 4 July 4pm Thu 4 July 6.30pm and May Rosenthal Sloan, curators of the the V&A (tbc). Food: Bigger than the Plate exhibition at See also Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse by the V&A (tbc). Agnès Varda (p.11) 21 22 Talks

© Succession Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - d'Agay Saint-Exupéry's Tackling Pollution: Women in e-sports Literary Selfies Legacy Tara on the Thames As live video game competitions (e-sports) with Sylvie Weil are a growing industry, it appears that the As world leaders convene in Portsmouth From the Artic to the Pacific, the Tara gaming culture lacks of inclusivity and Taking selfies is not the exclusive to commemorate the 75th anniversary of schooner has sailed the world’s oceans diversity. Who are the women pro-gamers preserve of millennials. In Selfies, Sylvie the Allied landings in France, the Institut to study the ecological crisis they face challenging codes and popping up at Weil gives a playful twist to the concept français pays tribute to author Antoine de due to climate change. In 2019, the premier level tournaments? of self-representation: taking her cue Saint-Exupéry who died during summer Tara Expeditions Foundation focuses on Meet Servane Fischer, professional from self-portraits by women artists, 1944. His great-nephew, Olivier d’Agay microplastic pollution in large European gamer on Counter-Strike and co-creator ranging from the 13th century through the will evoke with best-seller author and rivers. The Tara schooner will start water of the “Incubateur e-sport”, an initiative of Renaissance to Frida Kahlo and Vivian British translator of Le Petit Prince, sampling in the Thames in June, before Women in Games France and Ubisoft, to Maier. Throughout this collection of short Michael Morpurgo, how war and writing heading to 20 other European rivers. train female professionals in e-sport. She texts, Weil creates an unusual genre: the intertwine in both their lives and careers. Join Romain Troublé (Tara Expeditions will be debating with Angela Natividad literary selfie. She will be discussing this The talk will be followed by a concert of CEO), Jean-François Ghiglione (Scientific (tbc), co founder and COO of Hurrah, the new variation of writing self portrait with the award-winning violinist Bomsori Kim Director of Tara Europe 2019) and Holly leading e-sports advertising agency in translators Amanda Hopkinson and Ros who will perform some of Saint-Exupéry's Nel (Research Fellow, U. of Birmingham) a discussion chaired by Marie-Claire Schwartz. favourite scores. who will discuss Tara’s scientific, Isamaan, CEO of Women in Games UK. ecological and political mission. Mon 17 June 7.30pm Wed 5 June 6.30pm | in English | £7, Tue 11 June 7.30pm | in English & in English | £7, members & conc. £5 conc. £5 Tue 11 June 5pm | in English | 1h30 | £5 French | 1h30 | £7, members & conc. £5 Followed by a book signing

As part of Women As part of Women Shaping the World Shaping the World series series Talks

© Joseph Kai Raphaël Enthoven Meet the illustrator: Louis XIV: Hero or Café Philo & Tanvir Bush Joseph Kai Villain? Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical issues in an informal setting, A Question of Identity Living between France and Lebanon, The greatest art patron of his age, Louis the Institut’s Café Philo meets every Joseph Kai’s delicate line and tone are XIV made of Versailles a showroom for the Saturday. In an increasingly global world, how do a fusion of traditional French-Belgian glory of France and a travel destination we define ourselves? In his most recent ligne-claire style and experimental Beiruti for Europeans, and encouraged women’s Sat 8 June, 6 & 20 July | In English book Nouvelles morales provisoires, French trends. He describes the major theme of education. Yet he launched four European Sat 1 & 22 June, 13 July | In French philosopher Raphaël Enthoven wonders his illustration and comics work as the wars and killed French Protestants and who we are and how we fit into the fabric ‘unspoken’, covering sensitive subjects banned their religion. In his new biography 10.30am to 12pm - £2 of society in times of globalisation. In such as marginalisation and gender. He King of the World, Philip Mansel sees Contact: [email protected] conversation with novelist, photographer will present his work and lead a workshop Louis XIV as global and European as well and filmmaker Tanvir Bush, he will introducing budding illustrators and as French, and leaves readers to decide discuss the potential dichotomy between enthusiast professionals to graphic novel. whether he made France stronger or Reading Group the ability of globalisation to both connect weaker. and isolate disabled communities. Mon 1 July 7pm Join our unique bilingual literary age +12 | £9, members & conc. £7 Chaired by Prof. Tim Blanning, Emeritus discussion with a little French twist! Wed 26 June 6pm Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. Thu 13 June | Le cœur à rire et à pleurer : Conference only: £25 Souvenirs de mon enfance – Tales from the Conference, cocktail reception & book Thu 4 July 7pm Heart: True Stories from My Childhood, by signing: £45 £7, members & conc. £5 Maryse Condé – tr. by R. Philcox Booking: www.ryeproductions.uk/event Followed by a book signing 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French Organised by £5, members £3, including a glass of wine 24 Music Workshop

Mi-Sa Yang © Franziska Strauss / Jonas Vitaud © Jean-Baptiste Millot Mi-Sa Yang & Jonas French Pop Video Workshop on Vitaud Competition Awards Multilingualism and Mozart in Paris Music Rendezvous: Concert with Maud Octallinn Memory The unparalleled duet formed by violinist Mi-Sa Yang About 100 UK primary and secondary schools have taken Professional maternity practitioner, Pascale Rochefeuille, and pianist Jonas Vitaud performs pieces from their part in the nation-wide French Pop Video Competition, gives precious tips and guidance on how to teach children new album dedicated to Mozart’s violin sonatas (Mirare). organised by the Institut français. The grand winners will good habits and develop their memory in a brand new Whether as soloists or chamber musicians, they both receive their prizes as part of a special awards ceremony workshop designed for curious parents. By using your won numerous international competitions such as the which will be followed by a concert featuring upcoming real-life experiences, you will be able to enhance and ARD Music Competition in Munich for Jonas Vitaud or French talent Maud Octallinn. Octallinn's uniquely skewed develop your kids’ language skills and ability to juggle the 55th edition of the Maria Canals International Music take on chanson includes moving odes to sausages and with multiple languages without effort. Competition in Barcelona for Mi-Sa Yang. riding on bulldozers. After her concert, she will discuss her own music videos. Sat 8 June 10.30am Thu 27 June 7.30pm Sat 29 June 2.30pm 2h | bilingual & easy French | £9, members & conc. £7 £15, members £13, students £5 open to future parents or parents with 0-4 aged kids. Kids Free but booking essential: [email protected] welcome. Tickets for carers only As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet Kids & Families

Fly to the Institut français and discover new wonders Dumbo each day! Tales, films, workshops… Pick your treat! image:

Kids Activities Give your kids the ability to juggle with multiple languages or explore their creativity thanks to CinéKids Screenings our workshops In the heat of the summer, why not spend some time with Dumbo and dive in Burton’s fabulous universe? Get to know La Fontaine’s famous fables with La > all Kids & Families activities are listed pp.34&35 Fontaine fait son cinéma and don’t miss the adventures > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: of Monsieur Bout de Bois across the seasons! www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families 26 We Support

The Damned (Les Damnés) NOW 5 Anti-feminism in France and the UK Across the Channel

In the context of growing public awareness A concert crossing the English Channel, on issues of gender stereotypes, both musically and in-person as the harassment, discrimination and violence, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group academics discuss how the discourse of and NEXT musicians are welcoming misogyny and anti-feminism has been performers from Paris-based Ensemble historically constructed. Court-Circuit. Supported by Diaphonique.

www.modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk www.bcmg.org.uk The Damned © Jan Versweyveld 13 June Senate House 14 June R oyal Birmingham The Institut français proudly supports The 5th instalment of this series creates Conservatoire the return of the Comédie-Française to temporary works that change over time as A Date with History: London, after an absence of 19 years they are subjected to natural processes of Fashion, Food, and Feminism The Great Exhibition Road Festival from the UK, with The Damned, by transformation and decay, thus exploring Luchino Visconti, directed by Ivo Van Hove. themes of change and growth. Following its triumph at the opening of the Avignon Festival in the Cour d'Honneur of www.nationalgalleries.org the Palais des Papes and its sell-out run in both Paris and New York, The Damned 1 June - 22 Sept Scottish National depicts the disintegration of a society, a Gallery of Modern Art drama that finds unsettling parallels today. The Little Bath by Johanny Bert barbican.org.uk Created for very young audiences, The 19 - 25 June Barbican Little Bath is a show full of white foam, How do the iconic symbols of French and The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a smooth and floating, malleable and British culture define our national identity? new three-day celebration of the arts Masterclass with Guillaume Gallienne fragile. Working with this fascinating Join us as we get behind the mythical and science in the spirit of the Great material is a dancer who sculpts it, blows images and discuss issues linked with Exhibition of 1851. A unique programme Join award-winning actor, director and it and creates landscapes and ephemeral gender and cultural history. Discover of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions screenwriter Guillaume Gallienne for characters. the many surprising ways in which we and performances will connect the area’s a masterclass hosted by journalist and enjoy a shared cultural heritage and the iconic institutions, including the French critic Matt Trueman, alongside Comédie- www.imaginate.org.uk transformations taking place today. Institute, to create a unique weekend of Française’s production of The Damned. discovery. 1 & 2 June Imaginat e Festival, www.yorkfestivalofideas.com barbican.org.uk Edinburgh www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk 14 - 15 June York Festival of Ideas 21 June Barbican 28 - 30 June Exhibition Road We Recommend

Food: Bigger than the Plate Orelsan Welcome to the UK Shubbak Festival From gastronomic experiments to urban The Basique rapper is simply one of the PSYCHEdelight’s new show, performed This year’s edition of Shubbak features farming, this exhibition brings together the biggest names in French music and latest by refugees and European performers, is two thought-provoking performances politics and pleasure of food to ask how album La fête est finie was an undeniable both a satire of immigration policy and an by France-based Syrian artists Ramzi the collective choices we make can lead smash. ode to the UK. Expect humour, horror, live Choukair and Wael Ali: X-Adra and Under to a more sustainable, just and delicious music and candy floss. a Low Sky as well as French writers Leïla food future. www.academymusicgroup.com Slimani, Joseph Kai and Inaam Kachachi. www.thecockpit.org.uk www.vam.ac.uk Mon 3 June 02 Forum Kentish Town www.shubbak.co.uk 11 & 12 June The Cockpit Until 20 Oct V&A Jean Rondeau 28 June - 14 July various venues Boris Charmatz - 10000 Gestures Pierre-Laurent Aimard Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion Freak Show

An individualist, whose performances have enthralled international audiences, Returning to Tate Modern, Boris Charmatz Member of the Ensemble Jean Rondeau rounds off a programme of presents an ephemeral piece composed of Provocative, exuberant and as funny as intercontemporain and alumnus of the works imagined for his instrument with 10,000 gestures performed in a torrent of ever, fashion’s enfant terrible Jean Paul Franco-British fund for contemporary Brahms’s keyboard arrangement of Bach’s non repeating movements questioning the Gaultier presents new designs alongside music, Diaphonique, Pierre-Laurent great D minor violin chaconne. nature of dance’s relationship to time. his most iconic creations in a performance Aimard presents the avant-garde thought out like a grand party, part revue, electronic work of Stockhausen, Kontakte www.wigmore-hall.org.uk www.tate.org.uk part catwalk show – paying tribute to & Klavierstucke. those who inspired him, from Preljocaj to 10 June Wigmore Hall 22 & 23 June Tate Modern Madonna. www.southbankcentre.co.uk Turbine Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk Sat 1 June Southbank Centre 23 July - 2 Aug Southbank Centre

Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects, Diaphonique, En Scène! and the French Music Export Office. 27 28 French Courses at the Institut français

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