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Filmmaker Amr Gamal in residence at the Cité internationale des arts: reviving Yemeni art

From closed theaters to international film festivals, Amr Gamal has charted an extraordinary course as a playwright and filmmaker in Yemen. Founder of the Khaleej Aden theater company and director of...

20 May 2025

Amr Gamal

A look back at the inauguration of the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

On Friday, May 9, the French Pavilion was inaugurated in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Ms. Rachida Dati, the President of the Venice Biennale, Mr. Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the President of...

14 May 2025

Inauguration du Pavillon français - Biennale de Venise 2025

The Institut français at the Cannes Film Festival

As a forum for dialogue between French and foreign cinema, the Pavillon Les Cinémas du monde, a showcase for the French Institute's La Fabrique Cinéma, once again welcomes French and international...

13 May 2025

Fabrique cinéma et pavillon Les cinémas du monde

The Institut français supports the "Trait(s)" show in China

In Trait(s), the Scom company addresses young audiences to tell the story of circus fundamentals: the body, the family and the circle. Through a subtle and sensitive performance, it deciphers the...

30 April 2025

Trait(s) de la compagnie Scom

Back from Villa Kujoyama, Emmanuel Ruben publishes "L'usage du Japon".

Winner of the Villa Kujoyama in 2024, French writer Emmanuel Ruben completed a four-month residency in Japan, where he wrote a logbook studded with drawings and watercolors in homage to Nicolas...

30 April 2025

Emmanuel Ruben publie « L’usage du Japon »

Icinori designers published in South Korea and Italy with the French Institute

Created at school, the Icinori duo travels, observes and illustrates with a passion for prints and printed images. Inspired by painters and printmakers such as Goya, Dürer, Hockney and Kuniyoshi, they...

29 April 2025

Icinori

Mohamed El Khatib, on tour with the Institut français

Nominated at the Molières 2025 awards in the "living francophone playwright" category, playwright Mohamed El Khatib has just returned from a tour of Latin America, supported by the French Institute's...

28 April 2025

Mohamed El Khatib

Artistic creation: 32 French projects supported internationally in April

As part of the IF Export and IF Incontournable calls for projects, the Institut français is enabling 32 projects, starting this April, to take place in France and abroad. Supported by the French...

25 April 2025

L’Institut français promeut les talents français à la Design Week Milano 2025

La Faiseuse d'anges" goes on European tour

In La Faiseuse d'anges, Nathalie Hounvo Yèkpè tackles the painful subject of clandestine abortion and looks at the lack of communication in all spheres of our society. Supported by the French...

16 April 2025

La Faiseuse d’anges

La Fabrique Cinéma winners and highlights of the World Cinema 2025 Pavilion

The Institut français and its official partners France Médias Monde (RFI, France 24 and Monte Carlo Doualiya), as well as the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) are pleased to...

14 April 2025

Fabrique cinéma et pavillon Les cinémas du monde

Villa Kujoyama winner Johan Desprès exhibits at the Emergences Biennial

A 2009 graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble, Johan Després set up his business in renovation and masonry of old buildings in 2013, within the SCOP du bâtiment Cabestan...

10 April 2025

Johan Desprès

Lithuanian season: over 950,000 spectators throughout France

After three months of rich and varied programming in France, the Season of Lithuania in France came to a close on December 12, 2024 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. This major diplomatic and cultural...

8 April 2025

Lina Lapelytė - The Speech, La Bourse de Commerce (Paris)

Pauline Curnier Jardin exhibits at Galeria Municipal do Porto

The circus, the funfair, religious processions and the carnival have been at the center of my work and my life for years

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4 April 2025

Launch of the Brazil-France 2025 Season

From Paris to Pointe-à-Pitre, Cayenne to Lyon via Fort-de-France and Lille, over 300 events are scheduled in more than 50 cities in France from April to September... before crossing the Atlantic to...

2 April 2025

Lancement de la Saison Brésil-France 2025

"Un Océan d'amour": 12 performances in Quebec with the support of IF Export

In Un Océan d'amour, compagnie La Salamandre creates a silent theater where paper flies, tears and organizes itself to tell a love story and adapt the comic strip by Grégory Panaccione and Wilfrid...

2 April 2025

Un Océan d’amour