Le Programme August – September 2019

Home , Alex Lutz, Florian Zeller, For Sama, Isabelle (comics)

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Ciné Lumière 3-12

Talks & Special Events 13

Music 14

Kids & Families 15-17 Germaine Dulac's shorts Dance on Screen In the Eyes of the Law with live music 19-30 Sept 25 Aug – 2 Oct 8 Sept p.8 pp. 10-12 Edinburgh Festivals 18 p.7 FranceDance UK 19

We Support / We Recommend 20

La Médiathèque / Culturethèque 22

French Courses 23

Open House Spanish Film Festival FranceDance UK General Information 24-27 21-22 Sept 25-29 Sept Aug – Nov p.13 p.9 p.19 Venues across the UK

front cover image: The Shock of the Future by Mark Collin Programme design by dothtm

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Building on the success of the 230-seat Ciné Lumière, the Institut français has opened Ciné Lumière II, a new 35-seat boutique cinema, to expand its exceptional programming.

What will you get? We are broadening our programme to include more documentaries. In September, we’ll explore topics as diverse as the war in Syria (For Sama), endangered species (Sea of Shadows), contemporary dance (Dance on Screen season), and justice (In the Eyes of the Law new series).

Our Dance on Screen season, accompanying our UK-wide festival FranceDance UK, kicks off a new strand of films about art forms and artist films, and experimental moving image practices (Germaine Dulac’s shorts).

We are also introducing monthly relaxed screenings tailored for those who may be on the autism spectrum or with sensory difficulties (Playmobil: The Movie, 28 Sept).

Among the novelties, also expect some golden oldies! Thanks to our new screen, we’ll offer additional weekly screenings of our popular Sunday Classics, under the new title Les Classiques, dedicated in September to the representation of justice.

A programming expansion on two screens means a more flexible programme allowing more new released films (from Pedro Almodóvar’s latest opus to Louis Garrel’s new feature – pictured on this page), repeat screenings of the most popular titles and additional films and special events.

What changes from now on? To allow the programme to be flexible, only the opening day for the NEW RELEASES is specified in this brochure. To get the detailed screenings (days & times) of each new release: - Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk - Pick up the New Release Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf version online) - Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london

Sit back, relax, and enjoy!

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Pain and Glory A Faithful Man Transit

Dolor y Gloria L’Homme fidèle DEU | 2018 | 101 mins | dir. Christian Petzold, with Franz ESP | 2019 | 113 mins | dir. Pedro Almodóvar, with Antonio FRA | 2018 | 75 mins | dir. Louis Garrel, with Laetitia Casta, Rogowski, Paula Beer | cert. 12 | in German and French with Banderas, Penélope Cruz | cert. 15 | in Spanish with EN subs Lily-Rose Depp, Louis Garrel | cert. 15 | in French with EN EN subs subs In Almodóvar’s most personal film to date, Salvador The German troops are just outside Paris, a ‘cleansing’ of Mallo (Cannes 2019 Best Actor, Antonio Banderas), a film A heartbroken man (Louis Garrel) gets a second chance undesired people is underway. Assuming the identity of a director facing ill health, takes us through his recollection with his true love, Marianne (Laetitia Casta) after a long dead author, Georg manages to escape to Marseille and of love, breakups, art, cinema, mothers, the act of writing separation – only to get embroiled in all sorts of drama. obtain one of the few scarce visas and passages on a ship and making a film, and importantly the experience of A delightful romantic comedy inspired by the French to Mexico. Based on Anna Seghers’ eponymous novel and desire and pleasure that seem lost to him. A ‘sensuous New Wave, A Faithful Man features an impressive acting set in contemporary France where refugees from the past and deeply personal gem’ (The Guardian). ensemble, including Laetitia Casta and Lily-Rose Depp. meet refugees from today, Transit is a stark reminder of the perils of fascism. From Fri 23 Aug From Fri 23 Aug From Fri 23 Aug Screening on Friday 23 August at 6.30pm followed by a Q&A (TBC)

For full runs (days & times) Visit www.institut-francais.org.uk Pick up the New Release Weekly Calendar available at the box office every Wednesday (or download the pdf online) InstitutFrancaisLondon ifru_london Sign up to our weekly cinema e-newsletter and follow us on our social media for regular updates

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Notorious A Gentle Woman The Souvenir Rojo

USA | 1946 | 102 mins | dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Une femme douce UK | 2019 | 120 mins | dir. Joanna Hogg, ARG | 2018 | 109 mins | dir. Benjamín with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman | cert. U FRA | 1969 | 88 mins | dir. Robert Bresson, with Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Naishtat, with Dario Grandinetti, Andrea in English | New 4K restoration | Re-Release with Dominique Sanda, Guy Fragin, Jeanne Swinton | cert. 15 | in English Frigerio, Alfredo Castro | cert. TBC Lobre | cert. TBC | in French with EN subs in Spanish with EN subs Following the conviction of her Nazi father New 2K Digital restoration | Re-Release Chelsea, London in the early 1980s: film for treason, Alicia Huberman (Ingrid student Julie wants to use her camera Highly praised at the San Sebastián Film Bergman) takes to drink and men. She Adapted from Dostoyevsky’s short story to better understand the world. Anthony Festival, Benjamín Naishtat’s film Rojo is approached by a government agent, A Gentle Creature, Bresson’s first film in unexpectedly enters her bubble. He is recounts the fall from grace of Claudio, Devlin (Cary Grant), who asks her to spy colour is set in Paris. When his young wife older and more refined, but he harbours a middle-aged lawyer with a prosperous on a group of her father’s Nazi friends Elle (Dominique Sanda) commits suicide a dark secret. Joanna Hogg’s semi- life in 1975 Argentina. One night at a operating out of Rio de Janeiro. with no explanation, her husband Luc (Guy autobiographical new film is both a restaurant, he is verbally attacked by a A romance develops between Alicia and Frangin), an introspective pawnbroker, personal take on upper-class Britain mysterious stranger; an argument which Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in looks back on their life together. and an incisive exploration of spaces, will escalate to drastic consequences. her work at her own risk. landscapes, dependent relationships and, While Claudio tries to forget, a series From Sun 25 Aug not least, the medium of film. of circumstances forces him to face his From Sat 24 Aug actions. From Fri 6 Sept From Fri 6 Sept

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The Shock of the Future For Sama Sea of Shadows

Le Choc du futur UK | 2019 | 97 mins | dir.s Waad al-Khateab, Edward Watts AUT | 2019 | 104 mins | dir. Richard Ladkani | doc | cert. TBC FRA | 2019 | 84 mins | dir. Marc Collin, with Alma Jodorowsky, doc | cert. TBC | in Arabic with EN subs in English Philippe Rebbot, Geoffrey Carey | cert. TBC | in French with EN subs Winner of l’Œil d’or for Best Documentary When Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, For Sama is an intimate join forces to poach the rare Totoaba fish in the Sea Paris 1978. In a male-dominated industry, Ana uses her and epic journey into the female experience of war, a love of Cortez, their deadly methods threaten virtually all electronic gadgets to make herself heard, creating a letter from a young mother to her daughter, as we follow marine life in the region, including the endangered whale new sound that will mark the decades to come. Director Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in species, the vaquita porpoise. Sea of Shadow follows a Marc Collin (co-founder of the band Nouvelle Vague) has Aleppo in Syria, where she falls in love, gets married and team of dedicated scientists, investigative journalists created a poignant tribute to the unrecognised women gives birth to Sama. and undercover agents who put their lives on the line to pioneers of the electronica movement. save the last remaining vaquitas and bring the vicious From Fri 13 Sept international crime syndicate to justice. From Fri 13 Sept Preview screening on 5 Sept at 6.30pm, followed by a From Fri 27 Sept Screening on Fri 13 Sept at 6.30pm followed by a Q&A Q&A with directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts with dir. Marc Collin and Alma Jodorowsky (TBC) As part of Women Shaping the World series As part of Women Shaping the World series

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The Seashell and the Internal Affairs 49th Parallel Clergyman + Shorts USA | 1990 | 115 mins | dir. Mike Figgis, with Richard Gere, UK | 1941 | 123 mins | dir. Michael Powell, with Leslie Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis | cert. 18 | in English | 35 mm Howard, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns FRA | 1927/1928/1929 | 64 mins | dir. Germaine Dulac cert. U | in English | 35 mm cert. TBC | silent | 35 mm Set in the mean streets of L.A., Academy Award nominee Mike Figgis’ second feature film, after the critically A German U-boat crew on the run discovers the cultural Based on a script by Antonin Artaud, Dulac’s seminal acclaimed Stormy Monday, is a thriller with a lot of punch. and geographic diversity of Canada. This first major work The Seashell and the Clergyman is widely recognised While investigating on a misconduct case, Raymond wartime saga from Powell and Pressburger won an as the first surrealist film. A complex, controversial Avilla (Andy Garcia), a detective from the Internal Affairs Oscar for its bold script, and launched The Archers as the and multi-layered film, it is considered as “a visually Division of the L.A. County Police becomes convinced that most irreverent and ambitious of Britain’s new generation imaginative critique of patriarchy – state and church – Dennis Peck (Richard Gere), a respected street cop, is of filmmakers in the 40s. The propaganda's aim was to and of male sexuality” by the British Film Institute, and a involved in a complicated web of criminal activities. encourage US involvement in WW2, but the film, also pioneering feminist manifest by Germaine Dulac. provided a timely primer in democratic values standing Wed 18 Sept 6.30pm up to fascism. The screening will be followed by 3 other shorts by Dulac (Disque 957, Thèmes et Variations and Étude Followed by a Q&A with director Mike Figgis Mon 23 Sept 7.30pm cinématographique sur une Arabesque). As part of the Craft of Film: Academy of Motion Picture Preceded by Archers Assemble: Creating the Powell- With live musical score by In The Nursery which at Ciné Lumière Pressburger Partnership, a free lecture by Prof. Ian reinterprets the inherent symbolism of the films, using Christie at 6pm, in partnership with Gresham College. sound design and experimental recording. Save the date for the next Craft of Film screening: Children of a Lesser God, Sun 8 Sept 5.15pm attended by dir. Randa Haines, on 1 Oct

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© Laurent Philippe The Institut français is presenting Dance on Screen from September The Legacy of One Day Pina La Danse: The to November, a film season complementing FranceDance UK, its Pina Bausch Asked Paris Opera Ballet UK-wide festival of contemporary dance (see p.19). Das Erbe der Pina Bausch Un jour Pina a demandé La Danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris DEU/FRA | 2019 | 52 mins | dir. Anne Linsel FRA | 1983 | 57 mins | dir. Chantal Akerman FRA | 2009 | 159 mins | dir. Frederick Dance has been a central feature doc | cert. TBC | in German with EN subs doc | cert. TBC | in French and English with Wiseman | doc | cert. TBC | in French and in films ever since the beginning of EN subs English with EN subs cinema. The September programme On 30 June 2009 the world learnt of the includes Thèmes et Variations (1928) death of Pina Bausch. This monumental The encounter between Pina Bausch Entering the bowels of the prestigious and Etude cinématographique sur une figure in contemporary dance was 68 years and Chantal Akerman is a meeting of Palais Garnier, Frederick Wiseman arabesque (1929), two experimental films old and left behind a unique body of work sensibilities. Editing side by side scenes follows, over the course of twelve weeks, by pioneering filmmaker Germaine performed by her company, Tanztheater from performances and rehearsals from the production of seven ballets by the Dulac (on 8 Sept, see p.7). We’ll also Wuppertal. Today the company keeps alive the Tanztheater Wuppertal company while world-renowned Paris Opera Ballet. From be showing Frederick Wiseman’s Bausch’s legacy by continuing to perform they were in Venice, Milan, and Avignon, Angelin Prejlocaj’s rendering of Medea to extraordinary documentary on dance her work internationally. This documentary with interviews of the dancers and of Pina Pina Bausch’s Orpheus and Eurydyce, this and the Opéra Garnier as well as two pays tribute to the choreographer and herself, Akerman manages to evoke the documentary navigates through the whole films celebrating the work of ground- investigates her influences and legacy. artistic and imaginary universe of the structure of the Parisian institution that breaking choreographer Pina Bausch, choreographer. celebrates its 350th anniversary in 2019. who died ten years ago. Thu 19 Sept 6.30pm | £7 Tue 24 Sept 7pm * Wed 25 Sept 6pm * 19 – 30 Sept Special screening launching a new Sat 28 Sept 4pm * Sun 29 Sept 5pm To continue in Oct & Nov partnership with the European culture TV Mon 30 Sept 7.30pm * channel Arte. FRANCEDANCE UK As part of Women Shaping the World series * Screenings in Ciné Lumière II

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Spain. ¡Bienvenidos al Ciné Lumière! image: Crime W > screenings are listed p.27 > see dedicated Festival printed programme & website: www.londonspanishfilmfestival.com 25 – 29 September

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We are launching a new series of films on justice, spreading out over the coming months, aiming to provide La Vérité Z a small panorama of the wide range of existing films on the theme, a central preoccupation of cinema ever since The Truth FRA | 1969 | 125 mins | dir. Costa-Gavras, with Jean-Louis Georges Méliès’s seminal 1898 film The Dreyfus Affair. FRA | 1960 | 130 mins | dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, with Trintignant, Yves Montand, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey | cert. 15 | in French with EN subs cert. 15 | in French with EN subs Offering both a historical perspective and a contemporary outlook, September’s programme Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) is on trial for The investigation on the violent death of a medical includes recent documentaries on judges and lawyers the murder of her lover Gilbert Tellier (Sami Frey). As professor uncovers a network of police and government who interpret the law on a daily basis, together with the hearings go on, the accused’s character comes to corruption. A coded study of Greece under the Generals, classics that address and sometimes challenge, in often light. In this feature, winner of the 1961 Golden Globe Costa-Gavras’s masterpiece was showered with prizes, dramatic ways, various aspects of the legal system. We for Best Foreign Film, Henri-Georges Clouzot depicts including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and are thus aiming to provide a platform for discussion, a puritanical and hypocritical society that shows no the Jury Prize in Cannes. inviting filmmakers, judges and lawyers to Q&As and compassion for the monsters it creates. The result is a panels. film of remarkable precision and ruthless irony in which Sun 1 Sept 2pm Brigitte Bardot gives the performance of a lifetime. Wed 4 Sept 7pm * 25 Aug – 2 Oct To continue in Oct & Nov Sun 25 Aug 2pm As part of Les Classiques Wed 28 Aug 6.40pm * The screening on Wed 28 Aug will be introduced by Prof. Ginette Vincendeau, King's College London

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* Screenings in Ciné Lumière II

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12 Angry Men So Help Me God Sisters in Law

USA | 1957 | 96 mins | dir. Sidney Lumet, with Henry Fonda Ni Juge ni soumise CMR/UK | 2005 | 104 mins | dir.s Florence Ayisi and Kim cert. U | in English FRA/BEL | 2017 | 100 mins | dir. Yves Hinant and Jean Libon, Longionotto | doc | cert. TBC | in English with Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide | doc Winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin and earning a Best cert. TBC | in French with EN subs Winner of the Prix Art et Essai at the Cannes Film Foreign Actor BAFTA Award to Henry Fonda, 12 Angry Festival, Florence Ayisi and Kim Longionotto’s Men follows the deliberation of the jury in a murder trial. Awarded with César and Magritte awards for Best documentary follows the work of two women, the State As the dozen men try to reach a unanimous decision, Documentary this year, So Help Me God observes the Counsel and Court President in Kumba, a small town one juror (Henry Fonda) casts considerable doubt on everyday work of Brussels judge Anne Gruwez, from in Southwest Cameroon, in an attempt to change their elements of the case. Personal issues soon rise to the interrogating suspects to visiting crime scenes and community, and especially the life of women, through the surface, and conflict threatens to derail the delicate directing DNA tests in consultation with detectives. The use of law and justice. process that will decide a boy's fate. events unfolding in the atypical and eccentric judge’s chambers and beyond, show that blunt reality can prove Thu 12 Sept 7pm * Sun 8 Sept 2pm more exhilarating than fiction. Tue 10 Sept 7.30pm * As part of Women Shaping the World series Wed 11 Sept 6.30pm As part of Les Classiques The screening on Wed 11 Sept at 6.30pm is followed by a Q&A with judge Anne Gruwez and one of the directors

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L’une chante, l’autre pas In the Name of the L'Aveu One Sings, the Other Doesn't Father The Confession FRA | 1977 | 116 mins | dir. Agnès Varda, with Thérèse Liotard FRA | 1970 | 130 mins | dir. Costa-Gavras, with Yves Montand, cert. 12A | in French with EN subs UK/IRL | 1993 | 133 mins | dir. Jim Sheridan, with Daniel Day- Simone Signoret | cert. TBC | in French with EN subs Lewis, Emma Thompson | cert. 15 | in English | 35 mm Agnès Varda’s portrait of womanhood is at once a In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, government tragedy, an unconventional musical and a pamphlet Winner of the Golden Bear at the 1994 Berlinale and minister Anton Ludvik (Yves Montand in a heartrending for women’s rights spanning over ten years. Two young based on a true story, In the Name of the Father recounts performance), a war veteran who has long been a loyal women live in Paris in 1962. One dreams of becoming the police errors that led to the wrong conviction and party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife, a singer, the other looks after her two children. They go sentence to life imprisonment of Gerry Conlon (Daniel Lise (Simone Signoret). One day, he is arrested, tortured their separate ways and meet up ten years later during an Day-Lewis), and three other suspects, in the aftermath of and made to confess to treason. Based on the true story abortion-rights demonstration. the 1974 Guilford pub bombings in Northern Ireland that of Artur London and sharply written by Jorge Semprun, killed four off-duty British Soldiers and a civilian. L'Aveu is a plea against every form of totalitarianism. Sun 15 Sept 2pm Wed 18 Sept 7pm * Sun 22 Sept 2pm Sun 29 Sept 2pm Tue 24 Sept 6.30pm Wed 2 Oct 7pm * The screening on Sun 15 Sept is introduced by Dr Ros Murray, Lecturer in French at King's College London

As part of Women Shaping the World series

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© Isabelle Lagny London Design Open House Salah Al Hamdani Café Philo Festival Did you know that the Institut français in Author of some forty books, Salah Al Open to everyone interested in discussing London was founded in 1910 by a woman, Hamdani started his life as a child labourer, philosophical issues in an informal setting, Crossovers in the European Design Scene Marie d’Orliac? Or that it hosted Charles with hardly any education. Later on, as the Institut’s Café Philo meets every de Gaulle during World War II? During a political prisoner under the Saddam Saturday. On the occasion of the Crossovers Open House London, the Institut opens its Hussein regime, he learned to read and exhibition, organised in partnership doors wide and reveals its secrets. Learn write in Arabic. Once released from prison, Sat 31 Aug, 14 & 21 Sept | in English with the London Design Fair as part all about the Institut’s fascinating history he continued to raise his voice against the Sat 7 Sept & 28 Sept | in French of the London Design Festival, Adorno and gorgeous Art Deco architecture. regime, ultimately choosing, at age 21, Design presents dynamic creations by to go into exile in Paris. He now writes in 10.30am to 12pm - £2 independent designers working in the Au programme: French, but remains a poet wounded by Contact: [email protected] intersection of design, art, and crafts. • guided tours led by Dr. Charlotte Faucher the loss of his homeland. Meet Salah Al Leading curators from major European • fr ee screenings in our sparkling new Hamdani in a discussion with his translator design scenes, including Charlotte Ciné Lumière II Sonia Alland followed by a reading and a Reading Group Julliard (France), Annalisa Rosso (Italy), • an archives exhibition and VR tour of book signing of his recent volume of poetry, Sebastian Jansson (Finland) and many French landmarks. Bagdad Adieu (Seagull Books). Our new reading group Season will start more, discuss the future of design in on Thu 24 Oct with L’Amant by Marguerite Europe and its current shifting dynamics. Sat 21 & Sun 22 Sept from 12pm | free Sat 28 Sept 6.30pm Duras. (registrations for hourly tour on the day only) Fri 20 Sept 7pm | in English | £7 1h30 | in English, French and Arabic Save the date and join our literary members & conc. £5 La Médiathèque will be operating a full £7, members & conc. £5 discussion. service from 12pm to 6pm on Sun 22 Sept.

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© Jonathan Nesteruk | © Roger Way Photography © Studio Ledroit-Perrin | © Ramsès Photo COURS FLORENT Colours of Recital of the IN LONDON Autumn Love Fondation STAGE DE THÉÂTRE/CINÉMA James Hendry (piano) and Jacquelyn Royaumont Stucker (soprano) EN FRANÇAIS Edwige Herchenroder (piano) and For the autumn season, Jacquelyn Eléonore Pancrazi (mezzo-soprano) Stucker and James Hendry will perform EXPÉRIMENTEZ DE MANIÈRE LUDIQUE ET EXIGEANTE a programme intertwining music and As a laureate of the Fondation Royaumont, LA PÉDAGOGIE DU COURS FLORENT love. Its emotional colour pallet combines young French mezzo-soprano Eléonore courtship foolishness (Mahler) with Pancrazi has just been nominated Best EXPERIMENT IN A PLAYFUL AND CHALLENGING WAY innocent hope (Fauré), youthful sensuality Lyrical Artist at the Victoires de la Musique THE TEACHING PEDAGOGY OF COURS FLORENT (Marx), romantic magic (Debussy) and 2019. With pianist Edwige Herchenroder, impossible love (Menotti). they will perform a programme focused on heroines in operas from Mozart, 6 INTENSIVE DAYS / 36H Thu 12 Sept 7.30pm Rossini, Ravel and Bernstein. Scores FROM OCTOBER 28TH TO NOVEMBER 2ND, 2019 by Lili Boulanger and Isabelle Aboulker will also give voice to French women REGISTER ONLINE coursflorent.education composers. Each concert £15 | members £13 students £5 Thu 26 Sept 7.30pm « With 50 years of experience in the ﬁeld of education of the dramatic arts, Cours Florent has trained actors like Diane Kruger, Isabelle Adjani, Audrey Tautou, Pierre Niney, Guillaume Canet, Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Gad Elmaleh, Guillaume Gallienne (Comédie-Française)... » As part of Les Salons en Musique, a chamber music concerts series supported by Aline Foriel-Destezet

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Mia and the White Lion Spirou and Fantasio’s Claws, Feathers, Hair Mia et le lion blanc Big Adventures and Moustaches FRA/GER/RSA | 2019 | 98 mins | dir. Gilles de Maistre, with Daniah de Villiers, Mélanie Laurent, Langley Kirkwood FRA | 2018 | dir. Alexandre Coffre | 90 mins | cert. TBC Griffes, plumes, poils et moustaches cert. 12A | in English | 12+ in French with EN subs | 8+ FRA | 1995/2014/2016/2019 | 42 mins | dir.s Raul Robin Morales Reyes, Loïc Bruyère, Aline Quertain & Sylwia Young Mia's life is turned upside down when her family This adaptation of the famous French comic book Szkiladz, Olesya Shchukina & Youri Tcherenkov | cert. U decides to leave London to run a lion farm in South introduces us with Spirou, supposedly a groom in no dialogues | 3+ Africa. The 10-year-old finds happiness once again as she a Palace, who meets Fantasio, reporter scupper. develops a special bond with a beautiful white cub named Between them everything starts very badly, but against This programme of 5 shorts for the little ones focuses Charlie. When Mia uncovers a secret that puts him in all odds they have to team up when Count Pacôme de on the animal world: a tiger goes looking for his missing danger, she sets out on an incredible journey across the Champignac is kidnapped by the men of Zorglub. stripes, a cage bear who cannot sing meets a singing wild plains to find a sanctuary for her beloved friend. bird who cannot fly, a teeny-weeny fox and a daring little Sun 1 Sept 11am girl grow giant plants, an elephant struggles to find a Sat 24 Aug 2pm suitable bicycle , and a bird prepares to take off for the Sun 25 Aug 11am great migration. Follow the adventures of this fantastic Sat 31 Aug 2pm menagerie! Sat 7 Sept 2pm Sun 8 Sept 11am

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© designed by Freepik.com Asterix: The Playmobil: Astro Kid Back to School! Secret of the The Movie FRA | 2019 | 90 mins | dir. Eric Tosti | cert. U Ages 0-4 in English | 6+ Magic Potion FRA | 2019 | 99 mins | dir. Lino DiSalvo, Read, play, sing, grow! Whether you love with the voices of Anya Taylor-Joy, Gabriel Following the destruction of their ship, the drawing, reading, clapping or dancing Astérix et le secret de la potion magique Bateman, Jim Gaffigan, Daniel Radcliffe young Willy is separated from his parents there will be something to enjoy on FRA | 2018 | 85 mins | dir. Alexandre Astier cert. U | in English | 6+ with whom he traveled in space. His spare Wednesdays & Saturdays! From nursery with the voices of Christian Clavier, Guillaume capsule lands on a wild and unexplored rhymes to enchanting tales, kids aged Briat, Alex Lutz, Alexandre Astier, Élie The first motion picture inspired by the planet. With the help of Buck, a survival up to 4 years-old can join our Babies Semoun | cert. TBC | with EN subs | 6+ popular brand of toys, PLAYMOBIL®, this robot, he will have to hold until the arrival Corner at Bibliothèque Quentin Blake. story follows Marla, who sets off on an of a rescue mission. These interactive sessions will bring a Our favourite Gauls, Asterix, Obelix and incredible journey through the exciting touch of magic to their mornings, with Miraculix set out to find a druid to whom animated world of Playmobil to find her Sun 29 Sept 11am fun, educational and exciting discoveries Miraculix could pass on the mystery of missing younger brother, Charlie. Director ahead. his magical potion. While the three seek Lino DiSalvo, who most recently served a worthy successor, the evil Heretix works as head of animation for the international Wed 11 Sept | Baby Comptines out a dark plan to get hold of the Disney® hit Frozen, offers an epic adventure Sat 28 Sept | Baby Tales highly-praised recipe. with hilarious and endearing characters. 11am | 45 mins | in easy French Sun 15 Sept 11am Sat 14 Sept 2pm ticket for carer: £3, ticket for kids: £7, Sat 21 Sept 2pm Sat 28 Sept 10am & 2pm £5 members | early booking Sun 22 Sept 11am recommended The 10am screening on 28 Sept is a relaxed screening tailored for those who may be on the autism spectrum or with sensory difficulties.

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Art Club Kids French Lab Game Lab T(h)inker Club

Ages 8-12 Ages 3-6 Ages 6-12 & 8-12 Ages 9-12

What about creating colourful mosaics A fun-filled approach to learning French Let your kids discover a series of playful, This workshop aims to spark critical and cubist inspired pieces? Discovering for kids, through songs, games and recreational & instructional digital thinking and creative problem solving, by the Renaissance paintings or the art of storytelling. We offer a collective and sessions, where we explore the potential using artistic creation to investigate and collage? Children can explore art history informal way of French language discovery that video games and apps may hold. The explore scientific phenomena. Children and develop their creative skills with these focusing on different themes and new sessions encourage collaborative and can create their own design and devise hands-on workshops where they will words in each session. collective gameplay and game literacy for their own machine by using soft circuits be experiencing various mediums and kids. They can expect new games each (electronic and paper), e-textile and techniques. Sat 21 Sept | Asterix week! recycled materials. This is the perfect workshop for little inventors to experiment We recommend booking the whole term in 11am | 45 mins | in easy French Sat 14 Sept | Play Video Games with science, technology, design, arts & advance to ensure participants can learn, £9, £7 members | open to kids only 2.30pm | 1h | French | free crafts. enjoy and create in the best conditions. Combine a session with a same day film for £12, £10 members Sat 28 Sept | Gaming, Minecraft Special: Sat 21 Sept | Tiny Infinity Mirror Thu 12, 19 & 26 Sept Learn How to Design a More Sustainable World | 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy 2.30pm | 2h | Bilingual & easy French 4pm | 1h30 | Bilingual & easy French French | open to kids only £9, £7 members | open to kids only £9, £7 members | open to kids only £9, £7 members

With the App of the Week, budding geeks can also discover a new app every week! See website for details. 17

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© Kalakuta Republik – Serge Aimé Coulibaly Edinburgh Edinburgh Vive le Fringe! Also at the International International Book at the Institut Edinburgh Festival Festival Festival français d’Ecosse Fringe

This year, the festival features Serge Aimé Expect an impressive line-up of A live trio of French musicians along with Premiering in the UK and winner of a Coulibaly and his dizzying fusion of dance, French writers, including Man Booker French composer Jean-François Alcoléa Molière Award for Best Comedy Play, music and African revolution Kalakuta International Prize short-listed authors, intertwine playful modern compositions Fishbowl sees the hilarious misadventures Republik, presented as part of FranceDance Mathias Enard and Annie Ernaux, and and the fantasy of the legendary of three eccentric and lovable anti-heroes UK, a UK-wide festival showcasing the Prix Femina 2016 winner Marcus Malte. filmmaker Georges Méliès while the crammed in their wacky rooftop bedsits. best of French contemporary dance. young Quatuor Mona offers a rendition of The award-winning duo of theatre makers, Young French authors such as Jérôme the Debussy Quartet and of the Beethoven Bertrand Lesca, who has collaborated Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Tubiana and Adélaïde Bon will take part op. 59 no. 2. with the likes of Peter Brook and Declan the death of Berlioz, the National Youth in the Amnesty International Imprisoned Donnellan, and Nasi Voutsas, returns to Orchestra of the USA, conducted by Sir Writers Series. The art of translation will Fascinated by cowboys' squinty-eyed Edinburgh to present The End and One at Antonio Pappano, and joined by mezzo also be celebrated with Mireille Gansel, looks and armed only with the savoir- Summerhall. soprano Joyce DiDonato, will convey the Vineet Lal and Ros Schwartz. faire of a modern geek, actor Raphael sultry opulence of Berlioz’s love songs. The Gouisset stars in digital western www.tickets.edfringe.com Orchestre de Paris will mark the end of Annie Ernaux and Adélaïde Bon will also WorldWideWestern. the residency of British conductor Daniel take part in conversations at the Institut 31 July - 26 Aug Harding with two concerts. français d’Ecosse. www.tickets.edfringe.com

www.eif.co.uk www.edbookfest.co.uk 2 – 27 Aug

2-26 Aug 10 – 26 Aug

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The Institut français du Royaume-Uni presents FranceDance UK – a 4-month Kalakuta Republik Dumy Moyi La Fresque festival bringing the best in French contemporary dance to venues across by Serge Aimé Coulibaly Думи мої by Angelin Preljocaj the country. by François Chaignaud Kalakuta Republik is a dizzying fusion World-renowned choreographer Angelin Featuring 50 performances, including of dance, music and African revolution, François Chaignaud’s performances can Preljocaj takes inspiration in the famous several UK premieres, at 16 festivals and inspired by the supercharged music and be placed at a crossroads where various eponymous Chinese story in which a theatres in 9 major UK cities, the festival scandalous life of Fela Kuti. Serge Aimé influences come together – erotic dance, traveller takes shelter from the rain focuses on creation and innovation with Coulibaly takes Kuti’s life and beliefs operetta, hula-hop, drag shows and in a temple and soon finds himself a particular highlight on diversity and as inspiration for this visually stunning, cabaret. Dumy Moyi is a multilingual recital enchanted by one of the women depicted the work of women choreographers hypnotic dance work for seven performers coloured with Ukrainian, Philippine and in a painting on the wall. Preserving the under the honorary patronage of that draws lines from African revolution in Sephardic melodies. In close proximity symbolism of the tale, the piece seeks to international dancer, choreographer and the 1970s to today’s political resistance. to the audience and with a sculpture-like explore the mysterious relations between future Director of Birmingham Royal garment, François Chaignaud performs a representation and reality. Ballet, Carlos Acosta CBE. www.eif.co.uk dream show, halfway between ceremony, parade and recital. www.sadlerswells.com 8 – 11 Aug L yceum Theatre Edinburgh International www.southbankcentre.co.uk 30 Sept – 2 Oct Sadler’s Wells Festival London FRANCEDANCE UK 22 Aug Southbank Centre London www.institut-francais.org.uk/ francedanceuk

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Unorganised Response – Collective Prom 50: Orchestre de Paris Celtic Social Club Please Do Not Sit - Marlène Huissoud Amnesia Reloaded

The Orchestre de Paris and British Taking inspiration from the likes of Buena Award-winning experimental designer The exhibition explores the ways in which conductor Daniel Harding are performing Vista Social Club, the group features Marlène Huissoud will create habitats for artists, including Christelle Oyiri, mobilise Jörg Widmann’s explosive Babylon Suite, musicians from Brittany and Scotland - the animal populations of the Brompton critically and collectively to resist being Beethoven’s "Pastoral" Symphony No. 6, including members of cult Scottish band area in South Kensington – birds, bees and reduced to their various identity markers, and the overture to Schumann’s only The Silencers. all life in between. Discover her work at through a series of projects that explore opera, Genoveva. the 2019 London Design Festival. advocacy and self-organisation through www.the100club.co.uk personal experiences. Supported by www.royalalberthall.com www.bromptondesigndistrict.com Fluxus Art Projects. 7 Sept 100 Club 26 Aug Royal Albert Hall 14 – 22 Sept London Design Festival www.autoitaliasoutheast.org European Women in Games

Until 8 Sept Auto Italia South East, Over 50 speakers and panellists, including London French experts will showcase the diverse talent that exists in the games industry Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019 and help stimulate future generations.

Since 1949, Bloomberg New Contemporaries www.womeningamesconference.com has consistently supported contemporary visual artists to successfully transition 10 - 12 Sept London from education into professional practice, by means of an annual touring exhibition, featuring French artist Camille Yvert. Supported by Fluxus Art Projects.

www.newcontemporaries.org.uk Cultural events in the 'We Support' and 'We Recommend' sections are supported or recommended by the Institut français, 14 Sept – 23 Feb Various Venues Fluxus Art Projects, Diaphonique, En Scène! and the French Music Export Office.

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Keep in Touch - La Rentrée Littéraire ePress On the Go La Médiathèque Online Online Read French newspapers and magazines at your convenience with Culturethèque’s new French press EASY to use website: stay tuned with our regular updates In September begins the great French rendezvous of the offer from ePresse. This selection includes an improved and latest addition to our collections. Refer to the opening Rentrée littéraire. Esteemed authors such as Amélie online reader, access to previous issues (which give hours page to keep an eye on changing times and avoid Nothomb, Patrick Modiano, Kaouther Adimi, Sylvain you the flexibility to catch up with the latest news and any disturbance to your visit. Prudhomme and Marie Darrieussecq are releasing new current affairs in France at your own pace) as well as new novels which are available to read on Culturethèque. options to enable browsing in offline mode (for those long SIMPLE online catalogue: refine your search and discover commutes and holidays abroad). the perfect DVD, book or CD among the 47.000 items in You can also delve back into major works by literary La Médiathèque. greats like, among others, Victor Hugo or Romain Gary Discover new title subscriptions including L’Obs, Le with our collection of audiobooks. Nouveau magazine littéraire, France Football, Science et Vie CLEAR personal account: keep an eye on your loans and Junior and many others! avoid overdue items. You can renew your document and www.culturetheque.org.uk reserve new items in a click and receive updates by email www.culturetheque.org.uk when they’re available to collect. Get in touch: [email protected] Get in touch: [email protected] Opening hours are changing From 27 August, La Médiathèque opening hours will be changing. Please refer to the website or contact us directly for more details: www.institut-francais.org.uk/la-mediatheque [email protected] (0)20 7871 3545

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Standard Courses Virtual Classroom Young Learners Short Courses

The Autumn term is upon us! From With My Virtual Classroom, get all of Worried about your upcoming exam? This autumn, discover a variety of new standard to professional or cultural the classroom, none of the commute! It Our preparation courses for GCSE, AS exciting 15-hour short courses designed courses, our new range of courses provides the flexibility for students to log or A-level will give you specific advice in to help you improve your French in starting from 9 September is now on from anywhere while still receiving key areas to help with your exams. With no time. Through our short courses, available. Don’t miss our Assessment the benefits of live learning in a fun and weekly classes, we will provide the right we provide a relaxed atmosphere in days on 4 September for courses in interactive way. preparation and the best way to achieve a French immersion. Whether it's a Kentish Town or on 26 September for the best grades you can. course on culture, literature, or general courses in South Kensington. Email us at www.institut-francais.org.uk/ conversation, broaden your knowledge of [email protected] to confirm your online-courses www.institut-francais.org.uk/ French and France in a fun and interactive attendance. young-learners way!

www.institut-francais.org.uk/ www.institut-francais.org.uk/ french-courses short-courses

Language Centre at the Institut français 13 Cromwell Place London SW7 2JN 020 7871 3535 [email protected]

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Would you like to host a party or event The Institut français has been welcoming in our beautiful Art Deco building? The French culture enthusiasts for over a Institut can accommodate functions of all century. This is only possible thanks to types, from large-scale parties to small the generous support of our members, group events. It also provides a stunning patrons and corporate partners. Join them backdrop for filming and photoshoots. and you will get involved in a prestigious institution and benefit from exceptional [email protected] advantages. Advertise with Us www.institut-francais.org.uk/support-us

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The European Bookshop, 123 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4TE

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9:30 - 18:30 Saturday 10:00 - 18:30 Sunday 12:00 - 17:00

europeanbookshop.com www.institut-francais.org.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: 020 7734 5259

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