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Le Programme October – November 2017 02 Contents/Highlights

Ciné Lumière 3–17

Performances & Talks 18–20

Projet Lumière(s) 20

61st BFI London Film Festival Tribute to 25th French Film Festival South Ken Kids Festival 22 5 – 15 Oct 19 Oct – 17 Dec 2 – 9 Nov p.6 pp.16-17 pp.9-13 Kids & Families 23

We Support 24

We Recommend 25

French Courses 27

South Ken Kids Festival Impro! Suzy Storck La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 28 13 – 19 Nov 18 Nov 26 Oct – 18 Nov p.22 p.18 Gate Theatre p.24 General Information 29

front cover image: Redoubtable by Michel Hazanavicius Programme design by dothtm Ciné Lumière New Releases

Le Correspondant In Between On Body and Soul

FRA/BEL | 2016 | 85 mins | dir. Jean-Michel Ben Soussan, Bar Bahar Teströl és lélekröl with Charles Berling, Sylvie Testud, Jimmy Labeeu, Sophie PSE/ISR/FRA | 2016 | 102 mins | dir. Maysaloun Hamoud, with HUN | 2017 | 116 mins | dir. Ildikó Enyedi, with Géza Mousel | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura | cert. 15 Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider | cert. 18 in Hebrew & Arabic with EN subs in Hungarian with EN subs Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their genious Winner of the Young Talents Award in the Women in Marking a singular return for Hungarian writer-director plan to become popular: to host a German exchange Motion selection in Cannes this year, In Between follows Ildikó Enyedi after an 18-year gap, On Body and Soul tells student with a lot of style, preferably a hot girl. Too bad the lives of three strong, independent minded Israeli- the intriguing story of two slaughterhouse workers who for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. live an unusual love story in their shared dreams as a doe life hell. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced and a deer. When their oneiric affair is revealed to them tradition, they find themselves ‘in between’ the free by the company’s occupational psychologist, they struggle Sun 1 Oct 8.30pm and unfettered lives they’re aspiring to lead and the to make their dreams come true. Winner of the Golden Wed 4 Oct 4.15pm restrictions still imposed on them by a blinkered society. Bear at the 2017 Berlinale.

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I Am Not a Witch Loving Vincent Félicité

UK/FRA | 2017 | 98 mins | dir. Rungano Nyoni, with Gloria UK/POL | 2017 | 95 mins | dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh FRA/BEL/SEN/DEU/LBN | 123 mins | dir. Alain Gomis, with Huwiler, Chileshe Kalimamukwento, Travers Merrill Welchman, with Saoirse Ronan, Douglas Booth, Chris O’Dowd Véro Tshanda Beya, Papi Mpaka, Geatan Claudia and The cert. tbc | in English cert. 12 | in English Kasai Allstars | cert. tbc | in Lingala & French with EN subs

After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula The world’s first fully painted animated feature, Loving Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told Vincent explores the life and controversial death of Vincent in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into van Gogh, told by his paintings and by the characters her 14-year old son falls victim to an accident. To save a white goat. As she navigates through her new life, that inhabit them. Beginning a year after his demise, him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the this portrait of the artist is built via a series of interviews of electric Kinshasa – a world of music and dreams consequences of seeking freedom. conducted by Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) – a regular where she’ll cross paths with Tabu… Winner of the Silver model for the artist’s portraits – who becomes obsessed Bear Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Berlinale. Fri 20 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm Fri 27 Oct 6.15pm with van Gogh’s death, caused by a bullet wound to the Sat 21 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Sat 28 Oct 4pm stomach. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? Loving Fri 10 Nov 8.50pm Mon 20 Nov 8.40pm Sun 22 Oct 4pm, 8.30pm Sun 29 Oct 6.15pm Vincent sets out to explore one of art’s great mysteries. Sat 11 Nov 3.30pm Tue 21 Nov 6.30pm Mon 23 Oct 6.30pm Tue 31 Oct 6.30pm Wed 15 Nov 6.30pm Wed 22 Nov 4pm Tue 24 Oct 8.40pm Wed 1 Nov 4pm Fri 20 Oct 6.30pm Thu 26 Oct 6.30pm Thu 16 Nov 8.40pm Thu 23 Nov 4pm Wed 25 Oct 6.30pm, 8.40pm Thu 2 Nov 4pm Sat 21 Oct 4pm Fri 27 Oct 4pm Fri 17 Nov 8.45pm Thu 26 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm Sun 22 Oct 6.15pm Sun 29 Oct 4pm Sun 19 Nov 8.40pm Mon 23 Oct 8.40pm Mon 30 Oct 6.30pm Tue 24 Oct 6.30pm Wed 1 Nov 6.30pm Wed 25 Oct 4pm

See also Gauguin p.11 Ciné Lumière New Releases

The Killing of a Marie Curie: The Lost in Sacred Deer Courage of Knowledge Paris pieds nus FRA/BEL | 2017 | 83 mins | dir.s Fiona Gordon & Dominique IRL/UK | 2017 | 121 mins | dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, with Nicole Marie Curie Abel, with , Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan DEU/FRA/POL | 2016 | 100 mins | dir. Marie Noëlle, with Pierre Richard | cert. tbc | in French & English with EN subs cert. tbc | in English Karolina Gruszka, Sabin Tambrea, Charles Berling | cert. 15 in French, German, English & Polish with EN subs Fiona, a small town Canadian librarian, receives a The comfortable life of Steven (Colin Farrell) and Anna letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Nicole Kidman) and their two children is shaken when Marie Noëlle depicts the most turbulent years in the life (Emmanuelle Riva) living in Paris. Fiona hops on the first Steven forms a friendship with Martin (Barry Keoghan), of a genious woman, Marie Curie. First woman to receive, plane only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an a fatherless 16-year-old boy. Introducing Martin to his not only one, but two Nobel prizes, she challenged avalanche of spectacular disasters, she meets Dom, a family gradually throws their world into turmoil and France’s male-dominated academic establishment both seductive egotistical homeless guy who won’t leave her forces Steven to make a shocking sacrifice or run the risk as a scientist and a woman and changed the face of the alone. A fun and hectic tale of three peculiar people lost of losing everything. world forever. in Paris.

Fri 10 Nov 4pm, 6.30pm Mon 20 Nov 6.20pm Tue 7 Nov 6.30pm* Mon 27 Nov 8.45pm Sat 25 Nov 4.15pm, 8.45pm Sat 11 Nov 6pm Tue 21 Nov 8.50pm Fri 24 Nov 6.30pm Wed 29 Nov 4pm Sun 26 Nov 6.30pm Sun 12 Nov 8.45pm Wed 22 Nov 8.50pm 8.40pm 6.30pm Tue 28 Nov 8.45pm Tue 14 Nov 8.40pm Thu 23 Nov 6.20pm Sun 26 Nov 8.30pm Thu 30 Nov 4pm Thu 30 Nov 6.30pm Wed 15 Nov 4pm Fri 24 Nov 4pm Fri 17 Nov 6.20pm Sat 25 Nov 6.20pm *Screening as part of the French Film Festival, followed Continues in December Sat 18 Nov 8.30pm Mon 27 Nov 6.20pm by a Q&A with director Marie Noëlle Sun 19 Nov 6.15pm Thu 30 Nov 8.30pm Continues in December 05 06 Ciné Lumière 61st BFI London Film Festival

Ciné Lumière teams up again with the BFI to present the 61st BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express®. Expect some of the most anticipated French movies alongside a selection of European and world cinema, thus making Ciné Lumière expand beyond borders and offering audiences a total immersion into cinema. > screenings are listed p.30 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.bfi.org.uk/lff 5 - 15 October image: Reinventing Marvin image: Reinventing Did You Miss It? Special Screenings

Zoology The Odyssey Carmen Les Demoiselles Zoologiya L’Odyssée Opera broadcast from Teatro dell’Opera de Rochefort RUS/FRA/DEU | 2016 | 91 mins | dir. Ivan I. FRA | 2016 | 122 mins | dir. Jérôme Salle, di Roma Tverdovsky, with Natalia Pavlenkova, Dmitry with Lambert Wilson, , Pierre 4 acts | music: Georges Bizet | conductor: The Young Girls of Rochefort Groshev, Irina Chipizhenko | cert. 15 Niney | cert. PG | in French with EN subs Jesùs López-Cobos | stage director: Valentina FRA | 1967 | 125 mins | dir. , in Russian with EN subs Carrasco | orchestra: Teatro dell’Opera with , Françoise Dorléac, 1946. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his di Roma | performers include: Veronica Michel Piccoli, Georges Chakiris, Gene Kelly Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha lives family live a dream life in their house Simeoni, Roberto Aronica | 190 mins cert. PG | in French with EN subs with her mother in a small coastal town. overlooking the Mediterranean sea. But 1 interval: 30 mins | sung in French with EN As she struggles for independence, she Jacques yearns for adventures beneath subs Starring real-life sisters (Catherine Deneuve has to endure the absurd reality of her life the sea. With his invention, the aqualung, and Françoise Dorléac) as two twins looking filled with gossip spread by the women his vessel, the Calypso, and a crew of free- One of the most favoured operas, Carmen for romance, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort around her. She is stuck and it seems spirited adventurers, he is ready to cross tells the story of naïve soldier Don José is a delightfully frothy follow-up to Les that life has no surprises for her until the world’s oceans. But is this odyssey who is lured away from his beloved by Parapluies de Cherbourg, featuring crazy one day… she grows a tail. Embarrassed worth the sacrifices? With stunning the gypsy factory-girl Carmen, whom he mod costumes, a multi-coloured set and a at first, Natasha decides to go further images, a haunting soundtrack and a allows to escape from custody. Staged by buoyant, jazzy score by Michel Legrand. with the transformation and use it as an superb cast including a magnetic Lambert Argentine director Valentina Carrasco, opportunity to redefine herself as a person Wilson as the famous ocean explorer, The this modern interpretation of Bizet’s Mon 13 Nov 7.30pm and as a woman. Odyssey is worth the journey. classic opera-comique is performed in the enchanting setting of the Terme di Preceded by live music with Jazz singer Mon 16 Oct 6.30pm Mon 16 Oct 8.40pm Caracalla in Rome, the archaeological Lou Tavano, and followed by a Q&A Wed 18 Oct 6.30pm Wed 18 Oct 4pm, 8.40pm site of the Roman Baths where a unique Thu 19 Oct 8.45pm Thu 19 Oct 6.15pm theatrical stage comes to life. As part of the London Jazz Festival Tue 17 Oct 7.30pm 07 08 Ciné Lumière UK Iranian Film Festival

From Paris to Tehran, the South of France to Italy, it’s all about the journey with the London Iranian Film Festival at Ciné Lumière! So, pack your bags and explore the Iranian culture and identity across borders! image: Before Summer Ends image: Before

> screenings are listed pp.30-31 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.ukiff.org.uk 27 - 31 Oct Ciné Lumière French Film Festival

Amant Double Corporate Problemos Fifty Springtimes

L'Amant double FRA | 2016 | 95 mins | dir. Nicolas Silhol, with FRA | 2017 | 97 mins | dir. Eric Judor, with Aurore FRA/BEL | 2017 | 107 mins | dir. François Céline Sallette, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane De Claire Chust, Marc Fraize, Blanche Gardin FRA | 2017 | 89 mins | dir. Blandine Lenoir, Ozon, with , Jérémie Renier, Groodt | cert. U | in French with EN subs cert. tbc | in French with EN subs with Agnès Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Jacqueline Bisset | cert. 18 | in French with Pascale Arbillot | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Emilie is a bright young workaholic Jeanne and Victor join a community set EN subs manager in Human Resources, working against modern society, the great Babylon. Marine Vacth (Jeune et Jolie) plays Chloé, for a huge French agro-food company. Fighting against the construction of an Separated from her husband, unemployed a young woman who falls in love with her Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she aquatic park in the last remaining wet and about to become a grand-mother, psychoanalyst, Paul (Jérémie Renier). is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless zone, they are soon surrounded by anti- 50-year-old Aurore (Agnès Jaoui) feels When they decide to move in together, methods of management into practice. riot police barricades. One day, they wake pushed into the background by a society everything seems perfect, until a series But, one day, one of the employees up to find that the Earth population has set against senior citizens. But what if a of discoveries lead her to suspect that he commits suicide in front of her. Afflicted by been decimated by a terrible pandemic whole life could begin right now? may be living a double life. A whirlwind of this shocking death, she is stuck between and that they are possibly the only heightened senses and amped-up drama, her traumatised colleagues and an survivors. Fri 3 Nov 6.30pm François Ozon’s Amant Double is a filthy inflexible hierarchy. and flamboyant thriller. Fri 3 Nov 4pm Followed by a Q&A with director Blandine Thu 2 Nov 8.40pm Lenoir and actress Agnès Jaoui Thu 2 Nov 6.30pm Followed by a Q&A with director Nicolas Silhol

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Rodin The Workshop Tomorrow and The School of Life FRA/BEL/USA | 2017 | 119 mins | dir. Jacques L'atelier Thereafter L’École buissonnière Doillon, with Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, FRA | 2016 | 113 mins | dir. Laurent Cantet, FRA | 2017 | 116 mins | dir. Nicolas Vanier, Séverine Caneele | cert. U | in French with with Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci | cert. tbc Demain et tous les autres jours with François Cluzet, Jean Scandel, Eric EN subs in French with EN subs FRA | 2017 | 95 mins | dir. Noémie Lvovsky, Elmosnino, François Berléand, Valérie with Elsa Amiel, Mathieu Amalric, Noémie Karsenti | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Paris 1880, Auguste Rodin (Vincent La Ciotat, summer 2016. Antoine has Lvovsky | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Lindon) aged 40, finally receives his first agreed to attend a writing workshop Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one State commission. He creates The Gates for young people in a social insertion Nine-year-old Mathilde lives alone with horizon in his short life: the high walls of of Hell, composed of some of his most programme. Led by Olivia, a well-known her mother (Noémie Lvovsky), a fragile an austere suburban orphanage. So when famous works: The Kiss and The Thinker. novelist, the workshop consists in writing woman on the brink of madness clinging he is entrusted to Célestine and Borel, Sharing his life with Rose, his lifelong a crime thriller for which a form of on as best as she can to a reality she the joyful gamekeepers of a vast estate partner, he encounters the young Camille nostalgia on the industrial past of the city struggles to fit in. Roles switch inexorably in Sologne, a whole world of wild country Claudel. His most gifted student at first, surfaces. More concerned with the fears of but a fused relationship akin to a love story life opens up to him. The scene is set for she quickly becomes his assistant, then the modern world, the young man clashes builds between mother and daughter. the boy to learn about the forest and its his mistress. A decade of passion, mutual with the whole group, including Olivia, Tomorrow and Thereafter recounts this secrets… admiration and complicity ensues. Follow both alarmed and captivated by Antoine's unique relationship. the life of the man behind the artist, violence. Sat 4 Nov 8.40pm applauded and rejected for the sensuality Sat 4 Nov 6.30pm of his work, and undeniably, a pioneer of Sat 4 Nov 4pm modern sculpture.

Fri 3 Nov 8.45pm FRENCHFILMFIRST EXCLUSIVE Ciné Lumière French Film Festival

Gauguin Foreign Body De plus belle Just to Be Sure

FRA | 2017 | 102 mins | dir. Edouard Deluc, Jassad Gharib FRA/BEL | 2017 | 95 mins | dir. Anne-Gaëlle Ôtez-moi d'un doute with Vincent Cassel, Pernille Bergendorff, FRA/TUN | 2016 | 92 mins | dir. Raja Amari, Daval, with Florence Foresti, Mathieu FRA/BEL | 2017 | 100 mins | dir. Carine Tuheï Adams | cert. tbc | in French with EN with Hiam Abbass, Marc Brunet, Salim Kassovitz, | cert. tbc | in French Tardieu, with François Damiens, Cécile de subs Kechiouche | cert. 15 | in French with EN with EN subs France, Guy Marchand | cert. tbc | in French subs | UK Premiere with EN subs 1891. Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti. Recovering from a serious illness, Lucie is He wants to rediscover his painting, as Seeking refuge from her radical Islamist encouraged by her family to move forward, Erwan, an unshakeable mine-clearing a free, wild man, far from the moral, brother, Samia longs for her independence to go and see the world. But she needs expert, suddenly loses his footing when political, and aesthetic codes of civilised and freedom and, like hundreds before her, first to learn how to love herself so as to he learns that his father is not his father. Europe. Going deeper into the jungle, heads for European shores. She first finds become the woman she has never known Despite all the tenderness he feels for the coping with solitude, poverty, and refuge at a former acquaintance’s from her to be. When she meets Clovis, a charming man who raised him, Erwan discreetly sickness, he makes the encounter of village, Imed, before ending up working love interest, and Dalila, a flamboyant sets out to find his real father. As good Tehura, who will become his wife, and the for a rich widow, Leila. Her relationship dance teacher, she finally finds the things come in pairs, Erwan crosses subject of his greatest paintings. Edouard with Leila soon turns into a sensual courage to overcome her fears. paths with the elusive Anna, whom he Deluc’s film portrays the artist - in the connection, leaving Imed torn between his undertakes to seduce. But one day, Erwan flesh of actor Vincent Cassel – on a quest religious beliefs and his sexual desires. Sun 5 Nov 8.40pm realises that Anna is in fact his half- for absolute and freedom. sister… Sun 5 Nov 6.30pm Sun 5 Nov 4.20pm Mon 6 Nov 6.30pm Followed by Q&A with director Raja See also Loving Vincent (p.4) Amari (tbc)

FRENCHFILMFIRST Also part of Film Africa FRENCHFILMFIRST EXCLUSIVE 2017 (closing night) EXCLUSIVE 11 12 Ciné Lumière French Film Festival

150 Milligrams Lover for a Day Jean de Florette The Paris Opera

La Fille de Brest L'Amant d'un jour FRA/CHE/ITA | 1986 | 121 mins | dir. Claude L'Opéra FRA | 2016 | 128 mins | dir. Emmanuelle FRA | 2017 | 76 mins | dir. Philippe Garrel, Berri, with Gérard Depardieu, , FRA/ CHE | 2017 | 110 mins | dir. Jean- Bercot, with , Benoît with Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, Louise | cert. PG | in French with EN Stéphane Bron, with Stéphane Lissner, Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel | cert. U Chevillotte | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs subs Benjamin Millepied | cert. tbc | doc in French with EN subs in French with EN subs Having just separated from her boyfriend, In the mid-20s, hunchback tax collector In a hospital in Brest, a lung specialist heartbroken Jeanne knocks on her Jean Cadoret inherits a farm in . This documentary by Jean-Stéphane Bron establishes a direct link between father’s door. But her warm welcome The map shows a valuable spring on his follows the first steps of Stéphane Lissner suspicious deaths and the consumption is matched by a baffling discovery: her land, but his neighbours, the cunning as director of the Paris Opera. From the of Mediator, a drug that has been father’s young new and passionate Soubeyrans, have stopped it up. For a artists on the flamboyant stage to the hive on the market for 30 years. From its girlfriend is his student, and Jeanne’s while Jean de Florette and its sequel, of activity backstage, dancers, singers, confidential beginnings to the media age. The film’s stunning black and white Manon des sources, were the most orchestra, crew buzzing to show the frenzy surrounding the case, this David- cinematography and poignant narration successful foreign films in British box- staging of human passions, catch a rare versus-Goliath fable, based on a true take viewers back to another film era, office history, and deservedly so. A two- glimpse behind the scenes of one of the story, climaxes in a victory for truth. In the while firmly remaining in the present. part adaptation of ’s novel most prestigious operas in the world. same vein as Steven Soderbergh’s Erin l’Eau des Collines, these films are, quite Brokovich, shows a Tue 7 Nov 8.50pm simply, a tour de force. Wed 8 Nov 6.30pm thrilling Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) managing against all odds to break a Preceded by Jean-Luc Godard's short film Wed 8 Nov 3.45pm dubious pharmaceutical giant. Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (21 mins) Double bill with Manon des Sources (p.13): Mon 6 Nov 8.45pm £12, conc. £10 Ciné Lumière French Film Festival

Redoubtable Manon des Barbara Dalida Le Redoutable sources FRA | 2017 | 98 mins | dir. Mathieu Amalric, FRA | 2016 | 124 mins | dir. Lisa Azuelos, with FRA | 2017 | 107 mins | dir. Michel with , Mathieu Amalric, Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Hazanavicius, with , Stacy Martin, Manon of the Spring Vincent Peirani | cert. tbc | in French with Rouve | cert. tbc | in French with EN subs Bérénice Bejo | cert. tbc | in French with EN FRA/ITA | 1986 | 114 mins | dir. Claude EN subs subs Berri, with Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Lisa Azuelos's biopic revives the splendour Emmanuelle Béart | cert. PG | in French with Mathieu Amalric offers a sensitive portrait and misery of Dalida's life, the French Paris 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the most EN subs of the French diva with this film telling the music pop icon born in Cairo, idolized by renowned filmmaker of his generation, making of a film about Barbara... Jeanne millions of fans throughout Europe and is shooting La Chinoise with the woman In this sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon Balibar shines like a black diamond in this the Middle East and yet deeply unhappy. he loves, Anne Wiazemsky, 20 years his (Emmanuelle Béart) has grown into a fascinating mise en abyme celebrating A moving and captivating depiction of a junior. Happy, in love, magnetic, they beautiful young sheperdess living in both la dame en noir and the magic of modern woman at a time that was less so, marry. But the film’s reception unleashes the idyllic Provençal countryside. She cinema. a lonely heart whom everybody loved. a profound self-examination in Jean- determines to take revenge upon the man Luc. The events of May ‘68 will amplify responsible for the death of her father. Thu 9 Nov 6.30pm Thu 9 Nov 8.30pm this process, and the crisis that shakes The characters can no longer escape Jean-Luc will change him profoundly, their destiny, one worthy of a great Greek Followed by a Q&A with director Lisa from star director to Maoist artist outsider, tragedy. Azuelos as misunderstood as he is impossible to understand. Thu 9 Nov 3.45pm

Wed 8 Nov 8.40pm Double bill with Jean de Florette (p.12): £12, conc. £10

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For the 21st year, the UK International Jewish Film Festival showcases the best films the world has to offer on Jewish culture, from hysterical romcoms to historical testimonies, coming-of-age films to documentaries. image: Mr. & Mrs. Adelman & Mrs. image: Mr.

> screenings are listed pp.30-31 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: ukjewishfilm.org 11 - 15 Nov Russian Film Week UK Portuguese Film Festival

Polina Garri Bardin: Skin Muddy River Polina, danser sa vie A Life in Animation Pele Rio Turvo FRA | 2016 | 112 mins | dir. Valérie Müller and POR | 2006 | 102 mins | dir. Fernando POR | 2006 | 90 mins | dir. Edgar Pêra, with Angelin Preljocaj, with Anastasia Shevtsova, Collection of 4 short animation films Vendrell, with Daniela Costa, Francisco David Almeida, José Ananias, Vítor Correia Niels Schneider, | cert. PG Total running time 46 mins Nascimento, Manuel Wiborg | cert. tbc cert. tbc | in Portuguese with EN subs in French & Russian with EN subs in Portuguese with EN subs A master of detail, an experimenter and Based on the homonymous hypnotic tale Based upon a graphic novel by Bastien a minimalist, Garri Bardin has dedicated Savagely depicting the dysfunctional state by Branquinho da Fonseca, Muddy River Vivès, Polina is a cinematic pas de deux his life to making animation films of post-Salazar Portugal, this gripping recounts the impossible love between an between choreographer Angelin Preljocaj stressing the theme of freedom (or lack melodrama, infused with Almodovarian anonymous topographer, who has arrived and director Valérie Müller. It recounts of), from the Soviet times to this day. The sensitivity and Pop-art visual invention, in a marshland to plan an airport, and the the fall from grace of a promising Russian Film Week pays tribute to this tells the story of Olga who struggles to fit beautiful marsh flower (Teresa Salgueiro, ballet dancer who turns her back to the 70-something enfant terrible in a series of in with her peers and society, being the the ethereal voice of Madredeus). This prestigious Bolchoï when she discovers short animation films from the last three progeny of a mixed-race and illegitimate tragic ballad reveals – to the sound contemporary dance, following her love decades. romantic idyll. of Fado music – parallel narratives of interest Adrien (Niels Schneider) to France suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the to work for famous choreographer Liria Sat 25 Nov 2pm | £5 Tue 28 Nov 6.30pm pace of unconscious forces. Elsaj (Juliette Binoche). Followed by a masterclass with Garri Wed 29 Nov 8.40pm Thu 23 Nov 8.45pm Bardin

15 16 Classics Tribute to Jeanne Moreau

Le Samouraï Monsieur Klein L'Adolescente Ascenseur pour FRA/ITA | 1967 | 105 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Mr Klein The Adolescent l’échafaud Melville, with Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, FRA | 1976 | 122 mins | dir. Joseph Losey, FRA | 1978 | 90 mins | dir. Jeanne Moreau, François Perrier | cert. PG | in French with with Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne with Laeticia Chauveau, Edith Clever, Simone Lift to the Scaffold EN subs Flon, Juliet Berto | cert. 12 | in French with Signoret, Francis Huster, FRA | 1958 | 88 mins | dir. , with EN subs cert.tbc | in French with EN subs Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges The story of a solitary hit man increasingly Poujouly | cert. PG | in French with EN subs ensnared in a web of harassment and In this Kafkaesque tale set in 1942 Directed by Jeanne Moreau, L'Adolescente betrayal, Le Samouraï is the most sombre in Occupied Paris, Robert Klein is a is a sensitive family drama set on the eve Florence and her ex-paratrooper lover and poetic of all Melville’s gangster prosperous art dealer who finds himself of WWII. In 1939, Marie, a Parisian girl, Julien scheme to murder her husband by films, and its final remains one of the mysteriously confused with a Jew of the spends her summer holidays in a village faking a suicide, but a forgotten rope and most stunning yet enigmatic twists ever same name. in the Auvergne region with her loving malfunctioning lift conspire to complicate commited to celluloid. and affectionate grandmother (Simone their plans. In his mesmerising debut Sun 5 Nov 2pm Signoret). Discovering her feminity, she feature, Louis Malle brought together Sun 1 Oct 2pm falls passionately in love with a young the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the As part of the French Film Festival Jewish doctor (Francis Huster) who has a camerawork of Henri Decaë, and a new As part of Jean-Pierre Melville Season short-lived affair with her mother (Edith legendary score by Miles Davis. Clever). These holidays mark the end of a carefree existence before the war breaks. Sun 22 Oct 2pm

Thu 19 Oct 4pm Followed by a discussion with Nick Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) Tribute to Jeanne Moreau

La Baie des Anges Les Amants La Notte Jules et Jim

Bay of Angels The Lovers FRA/ITA | 1960 | 122 mins | dir. Michelangelo FRA | 1963 | 90 mins | dir. Jacques Demy, FRA | 1958 | 90 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with Antonioni, with Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne FRA | 1961 | 105 mins | dir. François Truffaut, with Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann | cert. PG Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Alain Cuny Moreau, Monica Vitti | cert. 12 | in French with with Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri in French with EN subs cert. 15 | in French with EN subs EN subs Serre, | cert. PG | in French with EN subs Demy’s second feature has a ravishing Jeanne Moreau plays a chic, high-society The second film in Antonioni’s ‘trilogy’, Jeanne Moreau, ash-blonde for the wife with money, a daughter, smart friends La Notte can be seen as his cool riposte Perhaps Truffaut’s most celebrated film, occasion and dressed all in white, as a and a casual lover. Then one night, she to Fellini’s exuberant portrait of the cited by Scorsese as a stylistic influence compulsive gambler. Mainly shot inside makes passionate love with a young decadent, idle rich in La Dolce Vita. Moving on , this offered Jeanne Moreau the casinos in Nice and Monte-Carlo, it is student she has only known for a few from a hectic Milan afternoon through one of her most memorable roles as conceived as a dazzling symphony in black hours, and drops everything for a new an all-night debauch to a tentative dawn, Catherine, a free spirit who captivates two and white. life. A controversial study of bourgeois the story centres on a successful novelist close male friends in the early years of the emptiness and sexual yearnings. (Marcello Mastroianni), who is losing his 20th century. All three become involved in Sun 29 Oct 2pm desire to write, and his disaffected wife a triangular relationship that will change Sun 12 Nov 2pm (Jeanne Moreau), who is losing her desire their lives forever. to desire. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Followed by a discussion with Nick 1961 Berlin International Film Festival. Sun 26 Nov 2pm Walker (Rochester Kino Cinema Club) Wed 22 Nov 6.30pm Season continues in December Sun 26 Nov 4.10pm

17 18 Performances © Camille Cooken © Camille Music Rendezvous with Gipsy Kings with Chico Impro! Cléa Vincent Thirty years after shaking the world with their massive Music & Live Drawing Impro hits Bamboleo, Djobi Djoba, Volare, internationally Discover young French singer-songwriter Cléa Vincent renowned musicians the Gipsy Kings and their It’s the South Ken Kids Festival’s 20th birthday! Come as part of our series of intimate performances in our Art charismatic leader Chico are back on stage for an celebrate 20 years of amazing children’s illustration Deco listed library. Cléa Vincent has created a repertoire exclusive performance including live drawing from the and writing with our magical live drawing and music melding melodies from the 60’s and 90’s electro artists attending the South Ken Kids Festival. Prepare to jam, to the sound of Jacques Tellitocci’s vibraphone. An arrangements. She will offer a selection of her ingenious be transported to the South of France with their unique, exceptional line-up of past and present guests of the songs followed by a snug conversation with the audience. irresistible blend of traditional flamenco styles and festival will be taking part! Western pop and Latin rhythms. Thu 2 Nov 7pm Sat 18 Nov 5.30pm Fri 17 Nov 6pm in French & English | £7, members & conc. £5 in English | for kids (5+) and families | £7 in English | all ages | £7 Discover Cléa Vincent on Part of South Ken Kids Festival (p.22) culturetheque.com > LISTEN Part of South Ken Kids Festival (p.22) Talks

Tatiana de Rosnay: Robert Desnos, Artist in Residence: Les Bonnes Manderley Forever Surrealist, Lover, Baudoin Feuilles de Join best-selling novelist Tatiana de Resistant Artist in residence for the South Ken Kids Quentin Blake Rosnay (Sarah’s Key) for an exclusive Festival, Baudoin is a prolific and much- talk with Daphne du Maurier’s eldest On the occasion of the publication of a loved author and illustrator of graphic In a special public appearance as part of daughter, Tessa Montgomery, chaired by new edition of one of the greatest French novels. Winner of three Alph-Art prizes the 20th South Ken Kids Festival, beloved Dr Laura Varnam, on the occasion of the poets, award-winning rhyming translator from the Angoulême Festival de la Bande illustrator and festival patron Quentin UK publication of Manderley Forever (Allen Timothy Adès will talk about Robert Dessinée, Baudoin is known for his work Blake will talk about his enthusiasm & Unwin). Through her characteristic Desnos’s life and times and read some adapting famous biographies such as Dalí, for France, for Voltaire, La Fontaine and novel-like prose and meticulous research, of the 300 poems with recorded voices or fairy tales such as Peau d’Âne (Donkey Cyrano de Bergerac, along with readings Tatiana de Rosnay delivers a fascinating of Juliette Gréco and Sonia Masson. He Skin), as well as his passion for portraying, and illustrations from and The and vivid portrait of Daphne du Maurier, a will be joined in conversation by Dame travelling, and nature. He invites his Comical History of the States and Empires writer who has influenced her deeply, and Marina Warner, Professor of English and London readers to a special evening of of the Moon. she shines a new light on the importance creative writing at Birkbeck University of music and live drawing, followed by a du Maurier accorded to her French London and president of the Royal Society conversation with Paul Gravett, director of Sat 18 Nov 4.30pm heritage. of Literature. Comica Festival. 1h | in English & French | for ages 10+ Thu 5 Oct 7pm Wed 18 Oct 7pm Wed 15 Nov 7pm and families | £7

1h30 | in English | £7, members & conc. £5 1h30 | in English & French | £7, members 1h | in English & French | for ages 13+ Part of South Ken Kids Followed by book signings & conc. £5 and families | £5 Festival (p.22)

Part of South Ken Kids Festival (p.22) 19 20 Talks Projet Lumière(s) ©Jérôme Prébois ©Jérôme Café Philo Support Us! Lambert Wilson, Patron Open to everyone interested in discussing philosophical After the successful completion of the renovation of of Projet Lumière(s) issues in an informal setting, the Institut’s Café Philo La Médiathèque, the Institut français and its trust, The meets every Saturday. Friends of the French Institute have launched Projet “I am delighted to support the Institut français du Royaume- Lumière(s), a new fundraising campaign aiming to Uni as Patron of the Projet Lumière(s). It's a great initiative Sat 7 & 28 Oct, 25 Nov | in French develop complementary spaces and expand the scope of – fostering further cross-cultural exchange between France Sat 14 & 21 Oct, 4 & 11 Nov | in English our programming. and the UK. These ‘lumières’ – whether they are those of cinema or enlightened minds – must be treasured. Creating 10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | contact: [email protected] For this purpose, we wish to renovate our reception a new home within the Institut's premises will encourage rooms (the Salons), to create another cinema room (Ciné increased dialogue and challenge ideas.” Lumière II) and develop our programme of activities Lambert Wilson Reading Group further while enhancing our visitors's experience. The Institut français is delighted that Lambert Wilson, Join our unique bilingual literary discussion with a little The Institut français has embarked on a new journey, get recently seen on the big screen in The Odyssey, has French twist! involved and support us! agreed to be the Patron of Projet Lumière(s).

Thu 12 Oct | D’après une histoire vraie (Based on a True Greatly involved in the development of the project he will Story), by Delphine De Vigan (2017) – tr. G. Miller take part in future events at Ciné Lumière, to be revealed soon. Thu 9 Nov | L’Œuvre (The Masterpiece), by Emile Zola (1886) – tr. T. Walton Check out Projet Lumière(s) teaser with Lambert Wilson on our website or on the screen of Ciné Lumière. 7pm | 1h30 | in English and (easy) French £5, members £3, including a glass of www.institut-francais.org.uk/projet-lumieres wine courtesy of Sud de France

22 20 South Years Festival 13-19 Nov

The Line-Up Special Treats A World of Books Brought to you by the Institut français, the South Ken Kids Our launch event features former children’s laureate Bilingual throughout and Festival is back! And you know what, it turns 20 this year! Michael Morpurgo and French illustrator François even multilingual at For our birthday edition we have prepared a glorious line- Place for a special musical and poetic evening. Graphic times, the festival will have up of authors, illustrators and translators coming from novelist Baudoin, our artist in residence this year, will a focus on translation activities. This both sides of the Channel, and beyond. Quentin Blake, be setting up in La Médiathèque and talking about his will include writing and translation Kitty Crowther, Michael Morpurgo, Stephanie Blake, life and work as illustrator, writer and traveller. The ever workshops, and a multilingual Slam François Place, and Axel Scheffler… In total, 24 writers, wonderful Quentin Blake, who has been the South Ken Poetry Contest as well as a lot of activities in illustrators, translators and booktubers will be our guests Kids Festival’s patron since the very beginning, will be both French and English. at the Institut français and in partner schools. sharing his love for France and commenting a few of his Bonnes Feuilles. New this year, there will also be They will be drawing live, telling stories, recording some BookTubing with a nationwide book reviews, and talking about books and translation Our exciting live drawing events are back too! Aurélie competition featuring budding reviewers, with parents and children of all ages, Guillerey will be joining Axel Scheffler on stage, and Kitty as well as workshops with famous BookTubers. with meet-the-artist events, exciting Crowther crossing the pen with Benji Davies. Weekend workshops and film screenings to delight festivities will come to a head with live drawing and music For full details of the programme or to book an event, schools and families alike. jam Impro!, led by vibraphone player Jacques Tellitocci. visit our website: www.southkenkidsfestival.co.uk Kids & Families

Things are looking up in October and November

at the Institut français! The South Ken Kids 2 image: Paddington Festival is upon us and we have tons of fun and creative activities in store!

CinéKids Screenings Your favourite Peruvian bear is about town with Paddington 1 and 2, as well as the super-bad turned super-dad Gru in Despicable Me 1, 2 and 3. We’ll also take you on a journey Long Way North and on a desert island with The Red Turtle. Every Sat 2pm & Sun 11am

Kids Activities There’s so much ado about everything with our Book Club, > all Kids & Families activities are listed pp.30-31 Art Club, BookTube Club, T(h)inker Club, e-Workshops, > see our dedicated printed Kids Programme & website: Kids French Lab, and so much more! Kids will be busy www.institut-francais.org.uk/kids-families creating, inventing, reading and even playing non-stop! 24 We Support

Medea (Written in Rage) Dance Umbrella Suzy Storck EFG London Jazz Festival

Catch the English language premiere Dance Umbrella celebrates 21st century The capital’s biggest music festival of Jean René Lemoine’s startling choreography across the capital with an features a great spread of French talent contemporary re-imagining of the classic exciting line-up including our favourites, including Henri Texier, Airelle Besson legend of passion and revenge, Medea, Satchie Noro and Sébastien Ohl, Rachid & Vincent Segal, Leila Martial, Laura translated and directed by Neil Bartlett. Ouramdane and the Lyon Opera Ballet. Perrudin, Ben L’Oncle Soul, The Gipsy Kings & Chico and more. www.theplace.org.uk www.danceumbrella.co.uk www.efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk 5 – 7 Oct The Place 11 – 28 Oct Throughout London © Richard Haughton 10 - 19 Nov Throughout London Neïl Beloufa: Occidental The Lakes International Comic Art Festival The Gate Theatre presents the UK première of Magali Mougel's haunting Le Monde d’hier Among many fabulous events, this festival play, Suzy Storck, directed by Jean-Pierre features French artists such as Frédéric Baro, one of the most exciting new voices Laurent Seksik adapts Stefan Zweig’s Maupomé, Dawid and Pascal Mériaux. in French Theatre. masterful autobiography, the story which inspired Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest www.comicartfestival.com www.gatetheatre.co.uk Hotel. Both a swan song and a message of hope, this is a piece of unbelievable poetry 13 – 15 Oct Kendal 26 Oct – 18 Nov Gate Theatre and power.

Ensemble intercontemporain, Matthias Sound Festival 2017 www.the-print-room.org Pintscher Do not miss the screening of French- Scotland’s Festival of New Music hosts a 13 – 15 Nov Printroom at the Coronet Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa's comic Ensemble intercontemporain presents series of French-Scottish collaborations, arthouse thriller, Occidental, as part of Tate mesmerising music by Pierre Boulez, including the Red Not Ensemble playing Meeting Lou Reed Film new programme. Jonathan Harvey and Philippe Schoeller with world renowned bassoon player, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, as part Pascal Gallois, as well as a Franco- Meeting Lou Reed is the project created www.tate.org.uk of Southbank Centre’s festival Belief and Scottish musical twinning involving by the French contemporary ensemble Beyond Belief. composers Stéphane Magnin (France) and 2e2m and the German Zeitkratzer. The 11 Oct Tate Modern John De Simone (Scotland). Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival www.southbankcentre.co.uk confronts those two ensembles with www.sound-scotland.co.uk affirmed, radical aesthetics for a novel 14 Oct Southbank Centre performance. 26 Oct – 11 Nov Sound Festival www.ensemble2e2m.com Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, Fluxus Art Projects, Diaphonique and the French Music Export Office. 17 Nov Bates Mill We Recommend

Language Show 2017 Cézanne Portraits Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains Blick Bassy Whether you’re a language teacher, Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains have Blick's last album Akö saw him professional or just love languages, attend endeared themselves to discerning UK maintaining a connection with his three inspirational days packed with audiences with infectious, African-tinged Cameroonian roots and delivering the educational seminars, language classes, indie-pop that has taken a rockier turn on most intimate music of his career. live forums and cultural performances. their most recent album Solide Mirage. www.unionchapel.org.uk www.languageshowlive.co.uk www.thegarage.london 17 Nov Union Chapel 13 – 15 Oct Business Design Centre 7 Nov The Garage Fishbach Van Kuijk Quartet Tour Cézanne Portraits brings together for the Voila! Europe first time over fifty of Cézanne’s portraits France’s new dark star mixes DIY After a noticeable appearance at from collections across the world, Voila! Europe, London’s language-barrier- synthwave and grandiose mainstream BBC Proms this year, one of the most including works which have never been on busting theatre festival, is back with pop. Having graced The Great Escape and promising ensemble, the Van Kuijk public display in the UK. multilingual plays from the UK and the a Oui Love night earlier this year, she's Quartet comes back for its 2017 British continent! Bigger and bolder, this non- playing her first UK headline show. tour. www.npg.org.uk Brexit-fearing event brings 30 companies to three venues, showcasing the best of www.thousandisland.co.uk www.quatuorvankuijk.com 26 Oct – 11 Feb National Portrait Gallery what European theatre has to offer! 27 Nov Thousand Island 19 – 30 Oct Throughout the UK The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in www.voilaeuropefestival.com London Petit Biscuit Edith Canat de Chizy & The Van Kuijk 8 – 18 Nov Various venues in London Quartet Impressionists in London, French Artists in The classically trained French electronic Exile (1870–1904) is the first exhibition to HUNTED producer has been seducing the US with The ECHO Rising Stars series spotlights map the connections between French and tunes like Alone and Sunset Lover. Now the French string quartet Quatuor van British artists, patrons and art dealers In HUNTED, up and coming French he's coming over to the UK to promote his Kuijk, in music by Haydn, Janácek, during a traumatic period in French choreographer Maud Le Pladec first full-length release. Ravel and the world premiere of French history. collaborated with New York writer and contemporary composer Edith Canat de performer Okwui Okpokwasili. Performed www.electricballroom.co.uk Chizy's New Work. www.tate.org.uk in London by Dorothée Munyaneza, this powerful solo uses storytelling and ritual 30 Nov Electric Ballroom www.thsh.co.uk 2 Nov – 7 May Tate Britain to evoke the witch in every woman.

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Artist in Residence: Novembre Numérique Update your French with Baudoin This november, the French Cultural network worldwide Easy Readers celebrates digital cultures through a programme of In the run up to 2017 South Ken Kids Festival, French workshops and events: Novembre Numérique. La illustrator Edmond Baudoin is artist in residence at the Médiathèque provides a large collection of digital Easy French books are popular among learners of Institut français! Acting as Ambassador to your beloved resources from French eBooks and comics to popular French, because of their accessibility and helpful festival, the author of Dalí, Peau d’Âne, and Méditerranée magazines and music to stream, reflecting the richness references such as glossary and key expressions. On (among so many others!) will be bringing his inks, paint and variety of what goes on across the Channel. We are Culturethèque, you can enjoy all of the benefits of Easy and brushes to add a touch of French poetry to our dedicated to make these resources more accessible to French resources with additional online features. These Médiathèque. everyone, kids and adults, new technology experts or include media overlay options which allow you to listen to beginners with a series of hands on workshops. the story as you read. You can also modulate the speed of To top it all off, this residence will be closing with the spoken words and adjust the volume. an extraordinary live drawing jam on Wednesday 15 Wed 1 Nov Stream Music with 1D touch November (see p. 19) Tue 7 Nov Discover and Master Culturetheque.com Improving your French is a breeze! Simply take your pick Wed 8 Nov Discover Video Games from a range of Easy French reads from level A1 to B2. The Residence is supported by the Friends of the French Tue 14 Nov New Digital Comicbooks Available now on the Learn tab. Institute trust as part of Projet Lumière(s). Wed 15 Nov Fresh Press & Newspapers Tue 21 Nov Tips to Write a Blog www.culturetheque.com > LEARN

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Francophones and Francophiles. London SW7 3ES [email protected] www.institut-francais.org.uk/support-us [email protected] Tue–Fri: 1.00pm–6.00pm Ciné Lumière is a member of the Sat: 12noon–6.00pm first cinema network promoting www.institut-francais.org.uk/advertise European cinema. 30 Tatiana de Rosnay: The Wound Mon 16 Oct Sun 22 Oct Walking on String October Manderley Forever 9pm | film | p.6 Zoology Despicable Me 6.15pm | film | p.8 7pm | talk | p.19 6.30pm | film | p.7 11am | film/kids | p.23 Yellow Wed 11 Oct Razzia The Odyssey Ascenseur pour l’échafaud 8.45pm | film | p.8 Part of BFI London Mademoiselle Paradis 8.45pm | film | p.6 8.40pm | film | p.7 2pm | film | p.16 Film Festival (p.6) Sun 29 Oct 6.15pm | film | p.6 I Am Not a Witch The Dead Nation Tue 17 Oct Despicable Me 3 Fri 6 Oct 4pm, 8.30pm | film | p.4 Part of UK Iranian Let’s Play! 11am | film/kids | p.23 A Season in France 8.45pm | film | p.6 Loving Vincent Film Festival (p.8) 6.15pm | film | p.6 4pm | kids | p.23 La Baie des Anges Thu 12 Oct 6.15pm | film | p.4 The Song of Scorpions Carmen 2pm | film | p.17 Art Club Sun 1 Oct 8.45pm | film | p.6 7.30pm | opera broadcast | p.7 Mon 23 Oct Loving Vincent 4pm | kids | p.23 The Red Turtle I Am Not a Witch 4pm | film | p.4 Sat 7 Oct Reading Group Wed 18 Oct 11am | film/kids | p.23 6.30pm | film | p.4 I Am Not a Witch 7pm | talk | p.20 Baby Comptines Le Samouraï Café Philo Loving Vincent 6.15pm | film | p.4 The Nile Hilton Incident 11am | kids | p.23 2pm | film | p.16 10.30am | talk | p.20 8.40pm | film | p.4 The Human Comedy 6.10pm | film | p.6 Robert Desnos, Surrealist, A Journey Through French Kids Tales 8.30pm | film | p.8 The Meyerowitz Stories Lover, Resistant Tue 24 Oct Cinema 11am | kids | p.23 Ivan Tsarevitch and the (New and Selected) 7pm | talk | p.19 Le BookTube Club Mon 30 Oct 4.30pm | film 8.45pm | film | p.6 The Odyssey 4pm | kids | p.23 Loving Vincent Le Correspondant Changing Princess 1pm | film | p.6 4pm, 8.40pm | film | p.7 Loving Vincent 6.30pm | film | p.4 8.30pm | film | p.3 Fri 13 Oct Game Lab Zoology 6.30pm | film | p.4 House of Paper Heading for That Adult Crash Mon 2 Oct 2.30pm | kids | p.23 6.30pm | film | p.7 I Am Not a Witch 8.40pm | film | p.8 6.10pm | film | p.6 In Between Racer and the Jailbird 8.40pm | film | p.4 Good Manners Thu 19 Oct Tue 31 Oct 6.30pm | film | p.3 2.45pm | film | p.6 8.40pm | film | p.6 L'Adolescente Wed 25 Oct e-Workshop On Body and Soul Western 4pm | film | p.16 Loving Vincent 4pm | kids | p.23 8.40pm | film | p.3 5.45pm | film | p.6 Sat 14 Oct Art Club 4pm | film | p.4 I Am Not a Witch Spoor Café Philo Tue 3 Oct 4pm | kids | p.23 I Am Not a Witch 6.30pm | film | p.4 8.30pm | film | p.6 10.30am | talk | p.20 Le Book Club The Odyssey 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 Italy Italy Baby Tales 4pm | kids | p.23 Sun 8 Oct 6.15pm | film | p.7 8.40pm | film | p.8 11am | kids | p.23 Thu 26 Oct On Body and Soul Lebanon Factory Zoology Journey's End I Am Not a Witch 6.30pm | film | p.3 1pm | film | p.6 8.45pm | film | p.7 1pm | film | p.6 4pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 Insyriated So Help Me God T(h)inker Club Fri 20 Oct Loving Vincent 8.50pm | film 3.15pm | film | p.6 2.30pm | kids | p.23 I Am Not a Witch 6.30pm | film | p.4 Ana, Mon Amour Wed 4 Oct Cargo 4pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 5.45pm | film | p.6 Fri 27 Oct Baby Comptines 3.30pm | film | p.6 Loving Vincent Lots of Kids, a Monkey Loving Vincent 11am | kids | p.23 Close-Knit 6.30pm | film | p.4 and a Castle 4pm | film | p.4 Le Correspondant 6pm | film | p.6 8.45pm | film | p.6 Sat 21 Oct I Am Not a Witch 4.15pm | film | p.3 Journeyman Café Philo 6.15pm | film | p.4 In Between Mon 9 Oct 9pm | film | p.6 10.30am | talk | p.20 Before Summer Ends 6.30pm | film | p.3 Reinventing Marvin Sun 15 Oct The Red Turtle 8.30pm | film | p.8 On Body and Soul 6.15pm | film | p.6 Summer 1993 2pm | film/kids | p.23 8.40pm | film | p.3 Before Summer Ends Sat 28 Oct 1pm | film | p.6 Game Lab 9pm | film | p.6 Café Philo Thu 5 Oct Walk with Me 2.30pm | kids | p.23 10.30am | talk | p.20 Art Club Tue 10 Oct 3.30pm | film | p.6 Loving Vincent Kids French Lab 4pm | kids | p.23 e-Workshop Scarface 4pm | film | p.4 11am | kids | p.23 Tenerezza - Holding Hands 4pm | kids | p.23 6pm | film | p.6 I Am Not a Witch Despicable Me 2 6.15pm | film | p.6 This is Our Land Film Stars Don't Die in 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.4 2pm | film/kids | p.23 6.15pm | film | p.6 Liverpool I Am Not a Witch 8.30pm | film | p.6 4pm | film | p.4 Sun 5 Nov Fri 10 Nov Wed 15 Nov Tue 21 Nov Sun 26 Nov November Paddington The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Killing of a Sacred Deer Let’s Play! Paddington 2 11am | film/kids | p.23 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.5 4pm | film | p.5 4pm | kids | p.23 11am | film/kids | p.23 Part of UK Jewish Monsieur Klein Félicité Félicité Félicité Jules et Jim Film Festival (p.14) 2pm | film | p.16 8.50pm | film | p.4 6.30pm | film | p.4 6.30pm | film | p.4 2pm | film | p.17 Gauguin Artist in Residence : Baudoin The Killing of a Sacred Deer La Notte Sat 11 Nov 4.20pm | film | p.11 7pm | talk | p.19 8.50pm | film | p.5 4.10pm | film | p.17 Café Philo Wed 1 Nov Foreign Body + Q&A West of the Jordan River Lost in Paris 10.30am | talk | p.20 Wed 22 Nov I Am Not a Witch 6.30pm | film | p.11 8.45pm | film | p.14 6.30pm | film | p.5 Kids French Lab Baby Comptines 4pm | film | p.4 De plus belle Marie Curie: The Courage of 11am | kids | p.23 Thu 16 Nov 11am | kids | p.23 Loving Vincent 8.40pm | film | p.11 Knowledge Félicité 6.30pm | film | p.4 My Mommy Is in America and South Ken Kids Festival* 8.30pm | film | p.5 Under the Smoky Roof Mon 6 Nov She Met Buffalo Bill 6pm – 7pm | kids | p.22 4pm | film | p.4 8.40pm | film | p.8 Just to Be Sure 2pm | film/kids | p.23 Art Club La Notte Mon 27 Nov 6.30pm | film | p.11 T(h)inker Club 4pm | kids | p.23 6.30pm | film | p.17 The Killing of a Sacred Deer Thu 2 Nov 150 Milligrams 2.30pm | kids | p.23 Félicité The Killing of a Sacred Deer 6.20pm | film | p.5 I Am Not a Witch 8.45pm | film | p.12 Félicité 8.40pm | film | p.4 8.50pm | film | p.5 Marie Curie: The Courage of 4pm | film | p.4 3.30pm | film | p.4 Knowledge Tue 7 Nov Fri 17 Nov Thu 23 Nov Amant Double The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8.45pm | film | p.5 Le Book Club South Ken Kids Festival* Art Club 6.30pm | film | p.9 6pm | film | p.5 4pm | kids | p.23 4pm – 7pm | kids | p.22 4pm | kids | p.23 Tue 28 Nov Music Rendezvous with Cléa Mr and Mrs Adelman + Q&A Marie Curie: The Courage of Gipsy Kings with Chico Félicité e-Workshop Vincent 8.30pm | film | p.14 7pm | music | p.18 Knowledge + Q&A 6pm | music | p.18 4pm | film | p.4 4pm | kids | p.23 Corporate + Q&A 6.30pm | film | p.5 Sun 12 Nov The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Killing of a Sacred Deer Skin 8.40pm | film | p.9 Lover for a Day My Mommy Is in America and 6.20pm | film | p.5 6.20pm | film | p.5 6.30pm | film | p.15 8.50pm | film | p.12 She Met Buffalo Bill Félicité Polina Lost in Paris Fri 3 Nov 11am | film/kids | p.23 8.45pm | film | p.4 8.45pm | film | p.15 8.45pm | film | p.5 Wed 8 Nov Problemos Les Amants Baby Comptines Sat 18 Nov Fri 24 Nov Wed 29 Nov 4pm | film | p.9 2pm | film | p.17 11am | kids | p.23 South Ken Kids Festival* The Killing of a Sacred Deer Marie Curie: The Courage of Fifty Springtimes + Q&A Dad in Training Jean de Florette 10.30am – 6.30pm | kids | p.22 4pm | film | p.5 Knowledge 6.30pm | film | p.9 4pm | film | p.14 3.45pm | film | p.12 Les Bonnes Feuilles de Marie Curie: The Courage of 4pm, 6.30pm | film | p.5 Rodin Bag of Marbles The Paris Opera Quentin Blake Knowledge Muddy River 8.45pm | film | p.10 6.30pm | film | p.14 6.30pm | film | p.12 4.30pm | talk | p.19 6.30pm, 8.40pm | film | p.5 8.40pm | film | p.15 The Killing of a Sacred Deer Sat 4 Nov Redoubtable Impro! 8.45pm | film | p.5 Sat 25 Nov Thu 30 Nov Café Philo 8.40pm | film | p.13 5.30pm | performance | p.18 Café Philo Art Club 10.30am | talk | p.20 Mon 13 Nov The Killing of a Sacred Deer Thu 9 Nov 10.30am | talk | p.20 4pm | kids | p.23 Kids Tales Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 8.30pm | film | p.5 Manon des sources Baby Tales Marie Curie: The Courage of 11am | kids | p.23 + Live Music 3.45pm | film | p. 13 Sun 19 Nov 11am | kids | p.23 Knowledge Paddington 7.30pm | film | p.7 2pm | film/kids | p.23 Art Club South Ken Kids Festival* Garri Bardin: A Life in 4pm | film | p.5 Game Lab 4pm | kids | p.23 Tue 14 Nov 10.30am – 5.30pm | kids | p.22 Animation + masterclass Lost in Paris 2.30pm | kids | p.23 Barbara Le BookTube Club The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2pm | film/kids | p.15 6.30pm | film | p.5 The Workshop 6.30pm | film | p.13 4pm | kids | p.23 6.15pm | film | p.5 Game Lab The Killing of a Sacred Deer 4pm | film | p.10 Dalida + Q&A Un Juif pour l’exemple Félicité 2.30pm | kids | p.23 8.30pm | film | p.5 Tomorrow and Thereafter 8.30pm | film | p.13 6.30pm | film | p.14 8.40pm | film | p.4 Lost in Paris Reading Group The Killing of a Sacred Deer 4.15pm, 8.45pm | film | p.5 6.30pm | film | p.10 Mon 20 Nov 7pm | talk | p.20 8.40pm | film | p.5 The Killing of a Sacred Deer *Check out the South School of Life The Killing of a Sacred Deer Ken Kids Festival website 8.40pm | film | p.10 6.20pm | film | p.5 6.20pm | film | p.5 for the full programme Félicité southkenkidsfestival.co.uk 8.40pm | film | p.4 31 BACKCOVER format 216*122 mm - fond perdu 6 mm

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