Films Wed 21 Jan at 6pm Borgo Melissa (Hafsia Herzi, César Award for Best Actress), a prison guard, moves to Corsica with her family. She joins the staff of a prison that's…
Films Fri 23 Jan at 6pm L’Atalante – SOLD OUT! A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered…
Films Wed 28 Jan at 2pm & 6pm Souleymane’s Story / L’Histoire de Souleymane Awarded the Jury Prize and Best Actor Prize in the Un Certain Regard selection at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, as well as 4 César…
Films Tue 3 Feb at 6pm The Dreamed Path Many years ago, they were a couple. In 1984, Theres and Kenneth travelled through Greece together, paying their way as street musicians. The carefree happiness…
Films Wed 4 Feb at 2pm & 6pm Jim’s Story / Le roman de Jim Based on Pierric Bailly’s 2021 novel Le Roman de Jim, the film features César Award–winning actor Karim Leklou. It follows a family in the Jura…
Films Wed 11 Feb at 2pm & 6pm Mélodie en sous-sol Henri Verneuil’s Mélodie en sous-sol is an extremely stylised black and white gangster film in which Charles (Jean Gabin) plans a ‘last’ heist at the Palm…
Films Wed 18 Feb at 2pm & 6pm Three Friends / Trois Amies In this very French romcom by Emmanuel Mouret (Diary of a Fleeting Affair), Joan (India Hair) is no longer in love with Victor, but it…
Films Fri 20 Feb at 6pm Holy Cow / Vingt Dieux Totone is 18 and spends most of his time drinking beers and partying with his group of friends in the Jura region. But reality catches…
Films Wed 25 Feb at 2pm & 6pm La Ferme des Bertrand La Ferme des Bertrand was awarded the 2025 César for Best Documentary. In the French Alps in 1972: the Bertrand dairy farm with its one hundred…
Films Wed 4 March at 6pm The Last French Canadian + Q&A with director Pascal Justin Boyer and co-creator Isabelle Corriveau Today in Canada, can a Francophone still call themselves “French Canadian”? Actor and host Pascal Justin Boyer, born in Quebec and raised in Ontario, sets…
Films Wed 4 March at 2pm Angry Annie / Annie Colère Angry Annie tells the story of Annie (Laure Calamy), a working mother of two, who accidentally becomes pregnant in 1974 and joins the MLAC (Mouvement pour la…
Films Wed 11 March at 2pm & 6pm La Vie est belle La Vie est belle is a 1987 musical comedy directed by Mwezé Ngangura and Benoît Lamy. The film revolves around the vibrant music scene of Kinshasa and tells the rags-to-riches story…
Films Fri 20 March at 6pm Monsieur Lazhar At a Montréal public grade school, Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While helping his…
Films Music Tue 24 March at 6pm Cinetopia Salons – Finis Terrae + Live performance of a newly composed original score Cinetopia in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild are proud to present this newly composed original score by Edinburgh-based multi-instrumentalist Dan Abrahams and French drummer…
Films Wed 25 March at 2pm & 6pm Skies of Lebanon / Sous le ciel d’Alice In the 1950s, a young woman leaves the Swiss mountains for the shores of Beirut, where she falls in love with a quirky astrophysicist. The…
Festivals & series Women Shaping the World Next event : Teaching French made easy with the Creative Puppetry for French Toolkit Mon 02 Feb at 16:30
Books & Ideas Films Talks March 2025 Mois de la Francophonie 2026 Next event : Concert with the Jen Ewan Band Fri 27 Feb at 19:00
Films Music Networking Performances Cinetopia Salons Next event : Cinetopia Salons – Finis Terrae + Live performance of a newly composed original score Tue 24 Mar at 18:00
