University researcher and radio journalist Alice Lefilleul presents the first season of the podcast Autrement dit, a co-production between the Institut français and the association Making Waves.

Marie-G. Losseau & Yann Deval have been developing the Atlas project together since 2016, creating models of imaginary cities and interactive virtual worlds. 

Caroline Naphegyi is the director of Design for Change, a member of the artistic committee of the national stimulus plan for young creation and former director of programming for Lille Metropole World...

Author and director Eli Commins has just been named director of le Lieu unique, the Scène nationale de Nantes. His theatre explores non-linear textual forms and uses digital media.

Hervé Le Tellier, winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize with his novel L'Anomalie (The Anomaly), participated in “L’Auberge du lointain” with nine of his translators in May this year. This one-week...

Nora Martirosyan’s first feature film, Should the Wind Drop (2020), sadly echoes reality. The director filmed the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has been under a ceasefire since 1994 but which...

Singer-songwriter Jeanne Cherhal has twice been invited to perform at Institut Lumière in Lyon by Thierry Frémaux. The first occasion was in 2019, as part of an homage to Francis Ford Coppola, when...

Paul Rondin has been assistant director of the Festival d’Avignon alongside Olivier Py since 2014 and co-founder of the French Tech Culture Grande Provence. He is preparing, within the current health...

Souleymane Bah, Guinean author exiled in France since 2016, has continually related his country’s suffering since he has been here. This former journalist, who started writing for the theatre late one...

A multi-disciplinary artist, Nathalie Béasse founded her company in 1999 in order to design her own shows blending theatre, dance, and visual arts. In advance of her next project, ceux-qui-vont-contre...

Camille Morineau is a heritage curator and art historian specialising in women artists. In 2014, she co-founded the AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) association, which aims...

For almost thirty years, Denis Lafaurie has been the director of the Alès National Theatre. Like the Cratère Surfaces festival, whose twenty-second edition will be held this year from 29 June to 3...

Thomas Mailaender is a French multi-media artist and Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and creative partner of communications agency KesselsKramer. Both are compulsive collectors of photographs...

For 30 years, Béatrice Thiriet has shared her passion between film and opera scores. The composer recently gave a masterclass co-organized with the SACEM, devoted to film music and composition work...

French violinist, violist and composer Théo Ceccaldi, 34, made a name for himself in jazz. He distinguished himself in particular with the trio Django, whose formation is a distant echo of the...