Wednesday 20 February 14:00-15:45
Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?
Wednesday 20 February 18:45-20:30
Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?
Friday 22 February 15:00-16:00
For February’s goûter littéraire, Anne O’Connell will lead an active discussion on and sharing of Poetry.
Saturday 23 February 11:45-13:15
Pour la cinquième séance, nous aborderons plusieurs extraits des essais et romans de Sylvain Tesson pour donner un panorama de la pensée et de l’écriture de l’auteur voyageur.
Wednesday 27 February 14:00-16:00
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
Wednesday 27 February 18:45-20:45
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
Thursday 28 February 17:30-19:15
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin and Marianne Dautrey will present their movie "Bazin roman" and book on the director. Followed by a Q&A by Table ronde animée par Prof. Marion Schmid, Dr Davide Messina, Dr David Sorfa (university of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures).
Wednesday 6 March 14:00-15:45
During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him. A long night will begin, during which she’ll have to fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can Justice be made when it lies on the side of the tormentors?
Wednesday 6 March 18:45-20:30
During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him. A long night will begin, during which she’ll have to fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can Justice be made when it lies on the side of the tormentors?
From 7 March 19:00 to 12 March 22:00
The first international harpsichord festival in Edinburgh
Thursday 7 March 19:00-20:30
The Institut français is delighted to welcome Paolo Zanzu for the opening of the first edtion of Harpsichord en fête
Friday 8 March 16:30-17:30
Join us for an exciting concert performed by pupils of St Mary’s Music School!
Friday 8 March 19:00-20:40
The Institut français is really honored to welcome David Gerrard and John Kitchen for a duo harpsichords recital!
Saturday 9 March 19:00-20:30
The Institut français is delighted to welcome for the first time in Scotland "Le Stagioni".
Sunday 10 March 15:00-16:15
As a part of the Harpsichord en fête programme, Jan Waterfield will be leading a workshop on basse continue, a form of musical accompaniment, which lends itself well to improvisation and which was used prominently during the Baroque period.
Sunday 10 March 19:00-20:15
The Institut français is really honored to welcome Jan Waterfield and László Rózsa for a recital on the French Chamber Music from the Early Eighteenth Century.
Tuesday 12 March 19:00-20:30
The Institut français is delighted to welcome Jean Rondeau, one of the most famous harpsichordist in the world of his generation.
Wednesday 13 March 18:45-20:30
Luna lives near Monptellier and works in a farm. She is beautiful, funny and live life to the full. She si ready to do anything to keep Ruben’s love. During a drinking party with her friends, they attacked a young man. Some weeks later, he came back in Luna’s life ...
Wednesday 20 March 14:00-16:00
From 3 stars chefs to female cooks, sommelières, entrepreneuses all around the world, meet innovative women who want to change the world through gastronomy!
Wednesday 20 March 18:45-20:45
From 3 stars chefs to female cooks, sommelières, entrepreneuses all around the world, meet innovative women who want to change the world through gastronomy!
Saturday 23 March 10:30-12:00
In this talk illustrated by extracts from her films, Pascale Breton, one of the most original voices in contemporary French cinema, offers insight into her practice as filmmaker and scriptwriter.
Wednesday 27 March 14:00-15:30
A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.
Wednesday 27 March 18:45-20:15
A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.
Saturday 30 March 11:45-13:15
Un samedi par mois, un rendez-vous littéraire à l’Institut.
Wednesday 10 April 14:00-15:45
North of France. The factory where Hervé is working will have to move. He is the only one worker to accept this fact, because he is chasing another destiny : to become a fisherman and pass on this passion to his son.
Tunis’s council estate. The factory is relocated. Foued thinks it’s a good opportunity to find a job, help his mother and seduce the woman he loves. Hervé and Foued trajectpries ressemble each other and enter into a life long rythm of call and response.
Wednesday 10 April 18:45-20:30
North of France. The factory where Hervé is working will have to move. He is the only one worker to accept this fact, because he is chasing another destiny : to become a fisherman and pass on this passion to his son.
Tunis’s council estate. The factory is relocated. Foued thinks it’s a good opportunity to find a job, help his mother and seduce the woman he loves. Hervé and Foued trajectpries ressemble each other and enter into a life long rythm of call and response.
Wednesday 17 April 14:00-15:30
In this movie from Daniel Roby (2017), a family attempts to survive a massive catastrophe in Paris, completely immersed in a strange fog.
Wednesday 17 April 18:45-20:15
In this movie from Daniel Roby (2017), a family attempts to survive a massive catastrophe in Paris, completely immersed in a strange fog.
Wednesday 24 April 14:00-16:30
Etienne comes to Paris from Lyon to study cinema, meets many new friends with the same passion and falls under the thrall of the mysterious Mathias.
Wednesday 24 April 18:45-21:15
Etienne comes to Paris from Lyon to study cinema, meets many new friends with the same passion and falls under the thrall of the mysterious Mathias.
Saturday 27 April 11:45-13:15
Un samedi par mois, un rendez-vous littéraire à l’Institut.
Wednesday 1 May 14:00-16:00
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon’s greatest achievement.
Wednesday 1 May 18:45-20:45
A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon’s greatest achievement.
Saturday 25 May 11:45-13:15
Un samedi par mois, un rendez-vous littéraire à l’Institut.
Saturday 22 June 11:45-13:15
Un samedi par mois, un rendez-vous littéraire à l’Institut.