The 13th edition of the Montreuil Film Festival, to be held from September 24 to 30, 2025, promises once again to be a not-to-be-missed event for international film enthusiasts. This new edition will...

On September 17, 2025 at 2pm, at the Cité internationale de la Gastronomie in Lyon, the Institut français, the City and the Metropole of Lyon signed the renewal of their partnership for the period...

"Soft power, the weapon of the weak?" was the question that brought together Malick Ndiaye, curator of the Musée Théodore-Monod d'art africain in Dakar and artistic director of the Dakar Biennale...

From March 2025 to February 2026, the Cité internationale de la langue française is hosting eight authors from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, for writing residencies as part of the Livr...

A 2019 graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, designer Pauline Esparon, is interested in raw natural materials, particularly linen, which she has made her specialty. Winner of the 2024 edition of...

This edition of the Facing War - European Dialogues cycle, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is part of the Shared Horizons program. This program strengthens dialogue between young people in the Western Balkans...

Launched in August in Brasília and São Paulo, then in Belém and Salvador, the Saison de la France au Brésil kicked off with a series of cultural and artistic events drawing large audiences...

Elie Levasseur is in charge of the Cannes Film Festival's Immersive Competition, launched in 2024. Since this year, he has also been leading the development of the new Immersive Market, which is an...

The French Institute took part in the Fabrique de la diplomatie, the flagship event of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' back-to-school diplomatic season organized on September 5 and 6, 2025...

From December 2025 to March 2026, France and Ukraine join forces on the cultural front to make the voice of a resilient and creative Ukrainian society resonate through a major festival: The Journey to...

The French Institute and the French Institute of Japan are pleased to announce the new Villa Kujoyama laureates, whose portraits you can discover today on the Villa Kujoyama website.

As part of theShared Horizons program, the French Institute runs initiatives for committed youth in the Western Balkans. Milica Nikolic and Nikolina Klajić took part in several stages of the European...

As director of the Alliance Française de Banjul, Justine Guschlbauer launched La Maison des artistes Musa Ngum in November 2022, a residency that welcomes artists from all backgrounds and disciplines...

Selected by young people from the "Atelier des deux rives" program as part of the Institut français' "Livres des deux rives" program, Marwan Chahine and Hélène Gaudy had the opportunity to chat with...

Winner of the Villa Kujoyama in 2018, Benoît Buquet is curator of the exhibition "Tarô Okamoto. Un Japon réinventé", held at the musée du quai Branly- Jacques Chirac until September 7, 2025. He talks...

After the opening of the Saison du Brésil en France last April, which revealed to the French public the richness and diversity of Brazilian contemporary creation through over 300 events across the...