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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FRENCH CINEMA WELL REPRESENTED

Back - to - school time after summer migrations and climate incidents. I wish you all the best, with those fresh news. Contents September focuses on cinema with the Toronto International Film Festival. A spe - PAGE 3 - Festival cial newsletter in early September will underline this very flourishing event. Thierry Agnone, shoes’ creator, exposes at the Bata Shoe Museum, introducing PAGE 5 - Exhibitions Marseille artists in Toronto, especially during and after the “Nuit Blanche”. “The PAGE 6 - Music Do”, Jean-Marc Padovani, Gonzales grace French music. Soon in Toronto the Al - PAGE 8 - University gerian and Mediterranean writer Boualem Sansal pronounces a “Small Eu logy to Memory”* to keep close of it even with some worrying. Mean - PAGE 8 - Cinema whil e describing a huge changing country , Guy Sorman makes us look ahead . PAGE 9 - Television Don't we have to invent the upcoming nostalgia? PAGE 11 - Talks

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Montm2a1 rtre, 22 Mon2tm3 artre, 24 25 26 27 crime and pleasure crime and pleasure Jean-Marc « Do-you speak Jazz? » Padovani Thierry Agnone . QG World grad school tour at the Bata Shoe Museum until December 23th

28 29 30 News editor: Joël Savary Montmartre, Creative writer : Martin Colomer-Diez crime and pleasure Audiovisual: Pervenche Beurier Gonzales Music: Simon Grignon Guy Sorman Sub-editor: Virginie Angelliaume presents his The Dø Graphist: Coralie Fondeville new book www.paro-creation.com/ 2 MORE INFOS ABOUT THE TIFF IN EARLY SEPTEMBER ON A festival SPECIAL NEWSLETTER

FROM 10 TO 19 SEPTEMBER TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The Toronto International Film Fes - tival to be open to the public. tive Director John Kochman said, tival (TIFF) is a publicly-attended film “With no fewer than 31 new French festival held each September in A selection of 31 French films, with films including 2 Gala presentations, Toronto, Ontario. 11 world premieres, was announced this year’s festival reaffirms ’s today for the 34th Toronto Interna - paramount position atop the world in - The festival begins the Thursday tional Film Festival®, September 10 - dependent film sector. Every major night after Labour Day (the first Mon - 19, 2009; with critically-acclaimed di - sales agent from France will again be day in September, in Canada) and rectors Jacques Audiard, Claire Denis, in Toronto to close distribution deals lasts for ten days. Between 300-400 Bruno Dumont, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, with American, Canadian and inter - films are screened in this Annual Gaspar Noé, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain national distributors. A perennially event. The attendance exceeds Resnais and François Ozon among the successful event for the French in - 300,000 people. It is considered the star French film directors attending. dustry, Toronto promises to be no dif - second-most important and presti - ferent this year." gious festival after Cannes. Event Commenting on the strength of this better, it is the only top rent film fes - year's lineup, Unifrance USA's Execu -

VENGEANCE, BY JOHNNIE TO

Already acclaimed in Cannes Festi - val, the Johnnie To movie is now pre - sented at TIFF.

In a Hong Kong hospital, a French woman lies in critical condition after a gangland hit that killed her Chinese husband and two small children. Her father Costello (Johnny Hallyday) ar - rives from France and is immediately warned by police not to get involved, even as his daughter wordlessly pleads for his help. A stranger in a strange land and plagued by a failing memory, Costello sits stunned in his hotel room, scrawling the word “vengeance” over the bloody crime scene photos of his daughter's family. 3 A PROPHET César is feared by all the prisoners. When Malik arrives, César simply sees He calls the shots, having bribed the him as a potential foot soldier in his BY JACQUES AUDIARD power structure, and runs the prison private army. from his cell like a personal fiefdom. This movie won the Grand Prix du Jury in Cannes, considered as the sec - ond most prestigious award in this festival.

The film begins with the imprison - ment of nineteen-year-old Malik El Djebena. Estranged from the Muslim community, Malik is brutally initiated into prison reality from the get-go. Power is held not by the guards, but by a grizzled Corsican kingpin who has found himself behind bars. Sur - rounded by a coterie of bodyguards,

WILD GRASS, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Anne Marguerite is a single dentist who Consigny, Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu happens to fly airplanes as a hobby. BY ALAIN RESNAIS Amalric are among the prestigious Georges cannot decide if he should casting of this film. contact Marguerite, and this dither - When Georges, an elderly, happily ing over whether or not to approach married house-husband and father of her sets the tone for the bizarre mo - two, comes across a wallet in a park ing ments of miscommunica tion that un - lot, he is intrigued by a photograph of its derline their relationship. owner that he discovers within.

UNE CATASTROPHE, Toronto. Returning to the essayistic style that has come to define his extensive BY JEAN-LUC GODARD post-Nouvelle Vague body of work, the film brings a flash of the direc - While the world eagerly awaits his new tor’s prosody, complete with the feature, Jean-Luc Godard’s very short (1 grunting sounds of a tennis match, a minute) “Une Catastrophe (Switzer - dash of German melodrama and his sig - land/Italy) has its Canadian premiere in nature epigrammatic wordplay.

And many others French movies, www.tiff.net 4 THE DEPARTMENT GALLERY MAINSPACE 1389 DUNDAS STREET WEST exhibitions (416) 716-8273 THIRTY IN TWENTY FROM SEPTEMBER 3 rd TO 26 th LE DEPARTMENT GALLERY MAIN - cou ple madea list of ten fabulous This unique exhibition will feature SPACE presents an Exhibition of Pho - three-star restaurants in the eastern three ticketed food and wine tast - tographs, Food, and Wine. half of the country. ings. In 1973, living in Canada but origi - Having no intention of spending pre - Food will be prepared by seven of nally from Holland, Toni (then forty- cious money on hotels and accommo - Canada’s most talented chefs. six)and Ria Harting (then thirty), dation,they rented a Volkswagen Dishes will be chosen from the planned a three-week trip to renew camper with enough room to sleep. menus offered at Maxim’s, Paul Bo - an acquaintancewith fabled French These stars shine to this day, pre - cuse,La Pyramide, and L’Oasis. cuisine in the country itself. served in photographs and collected With the assistance of the authori - memorabiliato be shown to the public tative Guide Michelin Rouge, the for the first time.

THIERRY AGNONE AT BATA SHOE MUSEUM FROM SEPTEMBER 23 rd TO DECEMBER 23 rd

Thierry Agnone is an artist who cre - for a year. not only a utilitarian object but also a ates women shoes. The Bata Shoe My life has since taken different symbolic one. Museum will show his work from paths, but my passion for shoes has Fairy tales, princess stories and September 23rd to December 23rd. remained the same. In the meantime magic lands...” I decided to become an artist and shoes were a natural subject for my Agnone works is a call to travel into artistic research. Alongside painting an enchanting world. His princess and creating sculptures, I worked on shoes are majestic, graceful, beautiful. shoes in many different ways, using This exhibition is taken part of diverse materials such as; lead, wood, “Toronto-Marseille - Bridging creative polyester resin, tape, earth, etc. I cre - communities through a rare mix o f indie ated installations with shoes that films, videos, music and exhibitions.” looked used, discarded and abandoned; as would be seen at the scene of an ac - cident or a terrorist at tack. The shoes revealed a morbid connection to the world, conveying my own feelings to - wards the world at the time. “My interest in shoes dates back Slowly the negative feelings dis - more than 20 years. At the age of 19 solved, and today I work on the po - I became an apprentice with a shoe - etic side and I dream of shoes. Lately maker in Marseille. During my 3 years I have only worked on women’s shoes of apprenticeship I learned each and made from paper. This is not because every step of shoe repair along with paper is an affordable medium, but the basic elements that pertain to instead to underline the fragility and different styles of shoes. Later I got lightness of women’s shoes. I want to a job as shop manager in a shoe store convey the message that shoes are

5 Music A CONCERT WITH THE GREAT FRENCH SAXOPHONIST, JEAN-MARC PADOVANI In partnership with the French Con - (Three hours of sunlight), a litterary drum mer Paul Motian led to the sulate in Toronto, the Alliance and musical performance. Recorded recording of « TAKIYA ! TOKAYA ! » in Française and the Humber College with a septet, « Nimeno » was hailed 1996. The following year, he formed present Jean-Marc Padovani. by the French daily Libération as the a new quartet, « Chants du Monde », best jazz recording of 1991. In recent to explore traditional musical idioms Mr. Padovani, one of France’s pre - years, Padovani has created numer - from around the world, with a special eminent jazzmen, will perform live at ous musical theatre performances focus on the the music of the South Humber College, along with some of with writer and actor Enzo Cormann, of France. the school’s most gifted students. as part of the « La grande ritournelle Wednesday September 23rd » company. Humber College As a saxophonist, composer and 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. arranger, Mr. Padovani has worked However, there has been one con - Toronto with the best. His first great success stant in Padovani’s musical journey: Noon came in 1987, with « Tres horas de sol » the quartet. His meeting with 416-922-2014

Wednesday September 30th Mod Club 722 College St. Toronto 8:00pm PIANO TALK SHOW BY GONZALES 416.588.4663

Gonzales is Canadien but he lives in His concerts are actually huge per - In May 2009, he beated the world Paris. He is known for his french artist formances where he demonstrates his record of the longest concert ever, production and arrangement as talents and high dynamism. He is also going past the indian Prasanna Gudi Philippe Katerine, Jane Birkin, Teki very closed to his audience. and its 26 hours and 12 minutes. His Latex. Considered as a virtuoso pi - new world record is 27 hours 3 minutes anist, Gonzales makes a electro-pop and 44 seconds. music even if he specificly learned classic piano. Even if his is Canadian, he works and lives in France. He used to live in He recently made Arielle Domsbale Toronto, which he contributed to the “Glamour à mort” arrangement. world success of the Canadian artist He is a complete artist : pianist, Feist by producing his “Let it die” singer, producter, even rapper with album. PuppetMastaz. However, his albums permit him to demonstrate its piano talents. His 2004 solo piano album has got a worldwide success.

6 « DO YOU SPEAK JAZZ? »

With Beverly Taft, Tom Howell and ate the spirit of jazz nightclub of their guests Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. Artistic director: Dominique Denis Friday, September 25th When we are listening to Nougaro, AFT Spadina Trenet, Legrand, Vian, Salvador and Galerie Pierre-Léon Cie, french and jazz are in perfect 24 Spadina Road communion. 7:30pm By love of jazz and french, the Tickets: 10$ charming Beverly Taft, and her pianist Free for students and AFT members Tom Howell and their guests invite us 416-922-2014 to their jazz program aiming at recre -

THE D Ø PERFORMANCE AT THE WRONGBAR

The Dø is a French-Finnish rock duo uary 14, 2008. The Dø is known to in - formed by musician and soundtrack corporate a great range of instru - composer Dan Levy and ments in their songs, as well as being French/Finnish singer Olivia Meri - a duet completing each other mem - lahti. ber, Merilahti bringing the melody, and Levy the symphonic or jazzy They met while recording the music structure. Most of the lyrics are writ - for the film Empire of the Wolves, ten in English, the rest being in and continued to collaborate for the Finnish. films The Passenger and Camping Sauvage. After an impressive french concerts WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30th tour, the band is going to make plenty WRONG BAR Their early songs include "At Last!", of it in North America, including 1279 QUEEN STREET WEST "The Bridge is Broken", "Playground Toronto, Montreal, New York and TORONTO Hustle" and "On My Shoulders", the Miami. 9pm latter of which has been used in tele - Tickets (GST included) $15.00 vision commercials for Oxford Sta - To reserve : 416.870.8000 or on - tionery. All feature on their debut line on LiveNation.com or Ticket - album “A Mouthful”, released on Jan - master.ca

7 University QG WORLD GRAD SCHOOL TOUR

Are you interested in graduate study Con sulate General of France in in France? Come and meet with the Toronto. It also provides information CampusFrance team on the QS World for International and Canadian stu - Grad School Tour, who will be happy dents interested in studying in to help you design your study project. France.

Campus France, which is partnering with the Tour for the second time will The QS World Grad School Tour will be on hand to give potential students For more information, and to regis - be in Toronto on Monday,September advice on graduate study in compre - ter, go to: www.topgradschool.com 21th at the Fairmont Royal York hensive fields. A government organi - from 4pm-8pm. sation, Campus France works closely with Alliance Française and the

Cinema MONTMARTRE, CRIME, PLEASURE AND ART

The Alliance Française in Toronto streets, caught forever by Doisneau’s presents: camera. Wednesday, September 23rd Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut From artis - AFT Mississauga tic Paris to wayward Paris, from Pi - 4261 Sherwoodtowne Blvd. casso’s paintbrush to Mistinguett’s Mississauga ON, L4Z IY5 pins, this is a figure-hugging twirl 7:30pm though the history of Montmartre. The neighbourhood’s development is Wednesday, September 29th shown from both a historical and ad - AFT Spadina ucational point of view. Extensive li - 24 Spadina Rd. brary footage brings out the artistic Monday, September 21st Toronto ON M5R 2S7 effervescence and hub of pleasure AFT North York 7:30pm that was Montmartre, with its wild 95 Sheppard Av West Entrée libre, Sous-titres en anglais balls and kids tumbling through the 7:30pm 416-922-2014 8 Cultural office of the French Con sulate in Toronto is proud to present a selection of TFO french Television cinema program

L’APPÂT , by Bertrand Tavernier LES MISÉRABLES , by Josée Dayan With Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, and Didier Lecoin Bruno Putzulu. 1995. 105mins. With Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depar - Inspired by a novel of Morgan dieu, Christian Clavier. 2000. Around Sportès, this picture recounts the 350mins in 4 parts. story of three youngs who dream of The scene is set during the French finding enough money to open a Restoration at the beginning of the ready-to-wear chain store in the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley . To achieve one's aim, slave who was sent to prison for steal - they set up a machiavellian plan: kill ing food, is now released after serving in cold blood. This movie won nineteen years. At first he only en - Golden Bear at festival in counter mistrust and closed doors; 1995 . only the saintly Bishop Bienvenu Monday, August 31st, 9pm EAUX PROFONDES , by Michel Deville treats him kindly and takes him in. Tuesday, September 1st 12:30pm With Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis The bishop's truly Christian compas - Trintignant and Christian Benedetti. sion and humanity not only restores MR KLEIN , by Joseph Losey 1981. 90mins. Jean Valjean's faith in the good, but With Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon Tuesday, September 15th, 9pm also smoothes his way back to an or - and Michael Lonsdale. 1976. 123mins. Wednesday, September 16th, derly life... 12:30pm Part 1 Thursday, September 3rd, 9pm Friday, September 4th, 1pm Tuesday, September Friday, September 4th, 12:30pm 1st, 9pm Part 2 Wednesday, Septem - Thursday, September 10th, 9pm ber 2nd, 12:30pm Friday, September 11th, 1pm Friday, September 11th, 12:30pm Part 3 SON FRÈRE , by Patrice Chéreau Thursday, September 17th, 9pm With Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca Friday, September 18th, 1pm Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find and Nathalie Boutefeu. 2003. 95mins. Friday, September 18th, 12:30pm any fault with the state of affairs in Thomas is slowly dying. He has ac - Part 4 German-occupied France.His cosy life cepted this and has decided to wait Thursday, September 24th, 9pm is disrupted when he realizes that for his death on the coast, at the Friday, September 25th, 1pm there is another Robert Klein in Paris house where he spent his childhood. Friday, September 25th, 12:30pm - a Jew with a rather mysterious be - His imminent death will nevertheless haviour. cause catastrophe for those around him, forcing them to re-examine their own existence, and thus prompt JEUX D'ENFANTS , by Yann Samuell change in the course of their own With Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotil - lives lard. 2002. 99mins. Monday, September 7th, 9pm Saturday, September 5th, 9pm Tuesday, September 8th, 12:40pm Sunday, September 6th, 12:30pm 9 Cultural office of the French Con sulate in Toronto is proud to present a selection of TFO french cinema program

ERIC ROHMER, OR FRENCH INDIE L'ANGLAISE ET LE DUC , by Eric CINEMA Rohmer Eric Rohmer is a famous french in - With Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Lucy Rus - dependent director. He belongs to the sell and Rosette. 2001. 129mins. french “New Wave”. He created the An episodic look at Grace Elliott “Gazette du Cinéma” where he met (1760-1823) and Philippe, the Duke of several of the most famous french di - Orleans, during the French Revolu - rectors as Godard, Rivette, Chabrol tion. In 1790, they are friends, no and Truffaut. He was also news edi - LES AMOURS D'ASTRÉE ET DE longer lovers. He suggests she leave tor of “Cahiers du Cinéma” from 1957 CÉLADON , by Eric Rohmer France, she warns him to quit the to 1963. With Andy Gillet, Stéphanie De Revolution. In 1792, she must escape Crayencour, Cécile Cassel and Paris on foot. Less than a month later, The French Television of Ontario Véronique Reymond. 2007. 109mins. she returns on an errand of mercy and presents two of his last movies: Celadon the shepherd and Astrea shows great courage saving the gov - “L’Anglaise et le Duc” and “Les the shepherdess are united in pure ernor of Tuileries.The Duke in turn Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon”. love. Misled by a jealous suitor, Astrea steps in to protect Grace. But the orders Celadon to stay away from her guillotine awaits. for evermore. In his despair, he jumps Monday, September 21st, 9pm LES PALMES DE M. SCHUTZ , by into a rushing river. She thinks he is Tuesday, September 22nd, 12:30am Claude Pinoteau dead, but he is secretly rescued by a With Isabelle Huppert, Charles bevy of nymphs... Berling and Philippe Noiret. 1996, Nominated at Golden Lion in Venise 104mins. in 2007; Won the Étoile d'Or for the A humoristic view of the lives of Best Male Newcomer (Andy Gillet) in Marie and Pierre Curie and their dis - 2008 coveries around radioactivity Tuesday, September 22nd, 9pm Monday, September 28th, 9pm September 23rd, 24th, 12:30am Tuesday, September 29th 12:40am

L'EMPLOI DU TEMPS , by Laurent VA SAVOIR , by Jacques Rivette Cantet With Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castel - With Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard litto and Jacques Bonnaffé. 2000. and Serge Livrozet. 2001. 132mins. 154mins. Recently fired from his job,Vincent Monday, September 14th, 9pm spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell LA FRANCE , by Serge Bozon phone and staring into space. Vincent With Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory fabricates a new job for himself so his and Guillaume Depardieu. 2007. family and friends will not know that 102mins. he is out of work... Saturday, September 19th, 9pm Tuesday, September 29th, 9pm Sunday, September 20th, 12:30am Wednesday, September 30th, 12:30am

10 PLUG IN ICA 286 MCDERMOT AVENUE WINNIPEG, MANITOBA 204 942 1043 Talks Thursday, August 27 at 7 p.m. TALK IN WINNIPEG WITH YANN CHATEIGNÉ TYTELMAN

Plug In ICA presents a talk by visiting popular culture since the early 2000s. and Les Cahiers du Musée National curator Yann Chateigné Tytelman, as Previously, he held positions at the d’Art Moderne. part of Summer School 2009. The talk Pompidou Center and the French Min - Tytelman taught history and theory will take place Thursday, August 27 istry of Culture. He has organized sev - of art and culture at Ecole du Louvre at 7 p.m. The talk is open to the pub - eral solo and collective independent and Paris 8 University in Paris, and lic, free and everyone is welcome to curatorial projects setting up specific has given numerous lectures in Uni - attend. methodologies on singular cross-dis - versities and other teaching programs Yann Chateigné Tytelman is Head of ciplinary subjects, such as the rela - in France and abroad. Programs at the Museum of Contem - tions between art and theater (“A porary Art (CAPC) in Bordeaux, Theater without Theater”, MACBA, Tytelman is currently preparing a col - France. Since 2007 he has developed Barcelona / Museu Berardo, Lisbon, lective research-based exhibition on an active research-based program of 2007-2008). folklore in art and architecture, “In - exhibitions, events and publications. Tytelman has published his essays, siders: Know-hows, Usages, Prac - Tytelman has been researching, cu - articles and reviews in various books, tices”, which will be held at CAPC, rating, writing, teaching and publish - exhibition catalogues and magazines Bordeaux, in October 2009. ing on visual and live arts, music and including Frog, Beaux-Arts Magazine

GUY SORMAN PRESENTS HIS LAST BOOK “THE EMPIRE OF LIES”

Born in France in 1944, Guy Sorman de Paris (1970 – 2000) and in several with the social reality of the country is a French writer and economist. He foreign universities (China, USA, Rus - he is analyzing. Alexis de Tocqueville, belongs to the liberal intellectual sia, and Argentina). Bertrand de Jouvenel, Raymond Aron branch (in its french sense) and He is a journalist for several news - and Edgar Morin influenced his work. fights for the protection of human papers: le Figaro, Wall Street Jour - rights. Graduated from the Institut nal, Journal da Tarde (Sao Paulo), “The Empire of Lies, the truth d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris Valeurs Actuelles, Asahi Shimbun about China in the twenty-first (1964), from the Ecole des langues (Tokyo), La Nacion (Argentine), century” is an essay about China. orientales, in Japanese and Russian Joong-Ang Ilbo (Séoul). Since 2008, Claude Levi-Strauss says that “[Em - (1964) and from the prestigious Ecole Guy Sorman is contributing editor at pire of Lies] transforms all things we Nationale d'Administration (1969). City Journal, New York. were accustomed to believe con - He founded in 1979 the non gov - cerning China. In Sorman’s new book, ernmental organization Action contre Since 2008, he is global adviser of once again, I am impressed by his la faim. Guy Sorman was also a mem - the Southkorean President Lee. persistent endeavor to reach the ber of the National French Commit - He wrote around twenty books, deepest reality, an incredible wealth tee for Human Rights. some of them where translated into of knowledge, an intimate union be - He was professor in economics in English, Arab, Chinese and Hindi. tween observations and reflection.” several universities such as the IEP They deal with economy but also

Tuesday, September 29th, 12pm Schulich School of Business de l'Université York free but RSVP (416) 736-2100 11 A ROUND TABLE ON BOLOGNA PROCESS

A round table jointly presented b y It was the reaffirmation that E.U. was European Area of Higher Education by French, German and Italian cultural, not only a community of the Euro and 2010, also in the wake of the funda - scientific and consular offices in of the economics agreements but a Eu - mental principles laid down in the Toronto with the support of the Cen - rope of knowledge as well. Moreover Bologna Magna Charta Universitatum tre for European, Russian and Eurasian two principles were stated: of 1988”. Studies. - That governments must strengthen With the participation of Prof. and build upon the intellectual, cul - Roberto Grandi, Provost for Interna - tural, social and technical dimensions Monday September, 1st tional Relations at the University of of the continent. 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Bologna, Dr. Alexandra Hausstein, Rep - - Universities should play a relevant resentative of the German Academic role in developing such dimensions. Campbell Conference Facility Exchange Office in Canada and former It gave rise to the idea of the Euro - Munk Centre for International Studies Bologna Consultant for the German pean Area of Higher Education which University of Toronto Rectors’ Conference. In May 1998 the was launched in 1999, when Ministers 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto Education Ministers of four Countries of Education from 29 European coun - (France, , Italy and UK) par - tries signed the Bologna Declaration. Free but RSVP ticipating in the celebration of the This Declaration stated first of all that 416 921 3802 ext 221 800° anniversary of the University of the “European higher education insti - Paris signed the Sorbonne Joint Decla - tutions had accepted the challenge ration. and taken the lead in constructing the

AND IN OCTOBER

BERTRAND MANDICO (VIDEO/EXPO), LAURENT CHAMBERT (DJ/VJ), THIERRY AGNONE (EXPO) DURING THE NUIT BLANCHE WHO TAKES PLACE ON OCTO - BER 3 rd AND FROM THE “MARSEILLE-TORONTO - BRIDGING CREATIVE COM - MUNITIES THROUGH A RARE MIX O F INDIE FILMS, VIDEOS, MUSIC AND EXHIBITIONS ” PROJECT

AND FRANCO-IRANIAN SAEID SHANBEZADEH CONCERT FROM THE SMALL WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL ON OCTOBER, 3 rd

AND ALSO THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS WITH SEVERAL FRENCH AUTHORS

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