In partnership with The National Gallery of Art – Film Department, The Avalon Theatre, AFI (American Film Institute), Film at Lincoln Center, UniFrance, The Film Services of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in NYC, and La Maison Française.
Programmed by Nicholas Elliott, New York correspondent, Cahiers du Cinéma, and Sarah Diligenti, Executive Director, Alliance Française of Washington DC.
More details here.
Film Festival Schedule:
Monday, November 11, 3:00 pm at the National Gallery of Art, Lecture Hall of the West Building
La pointe courte (1954), by Agnès Varda | 86 min | France | in French with English subtitles
Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 pm, at Alliance Française of Washington, DC
Détruire, dit-elle (1969), by Marguerite Duras | 100 min | France | in French without subtitles
Wednesday, November 13, 8:00 pm, at the Avalon Theatre
De l’autre côté (2002), by Chantal Akerman |103 min | France, Belgium, Australia, Finland | in French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
Thursday, November 14, 7:15 pm, at the American Film Institute
35 rhums (2008), by Claire Denis | 100 min | France, Germany | in French and German with English subtitles
Friday, November 15, 7:00 pm, at AFDC
La nuit porte-jarretelles (1985), by Virginie Thevenet | 85 min | France | in French without subtitles
Monday, November 18, 7:00 pm, at La Maison Française at the French Embassy
Paul Sanchez est revenu! (2018), by Patricia Mazuy |110 min | France, Belgium | in French with English subtitles
VENUE AND DATE TBC
Fad, Jal (1979), by Safi Faye | 112 min | France, Senegal | in Serer with English subtitles
Please join us at the Alliance Française of Washington, DC for ICWA fellow and journalist Karina Piser's discussion about French identity politics, in which Karina will report about French government initiatives to promote the state policy of secularism and Muslim integration in the aftermath of the 2015 and 2016 terrorist attacks.
Following her talk, Karina join panel discussion on migration and identity politics with former ICWA fellows Malia Politzer (Spain, 2013-2015) and Jean-Benoit Nadeau (France, 1998-2000), moderated by ICWA trustee Pascal Saura.
Please RSVP here !
Bienvenue! You are invited to the Alliance Française to discover our programs for children from 1 to 18-years-old! Visit our beautiful building and classrooms dedicated to babies and toddlers. Meet our experienced teachers, native speakers trained to teach French in full immersion. Listen to a few songs in our warm and welcoming library and introduce your child to French and francophone culture through a comic books, novels and movies. Children can also attend one of our mini-classes to get a taste for French language classes at the Alliance. And for those who are interested in registering, placement tests will be available for classes beginning in September.
Free event, but please RSVP !
Not sure what your level of French is? Do the free placement test online or join us for one of our on-site placement test nights! Take the Placement Test now
The next Placement Test Night will be on November 20 from 5:30 to 9:00 pm for the Adult Winter Session The evening is open house style so come take the test (typically ~20 minutes for the written part), meet the staff, and enjoy refreshments after.
Register for Placement Test Night
Come join us at AFDC and fine-tune your grammar in these three-hour review sessions. Each Boot Camp review will take place twice, once in the morning and once in the evening so you can't miss out! These Boot Camps are intended as a review for certain aspects of French grammar, so pick and choose what you need help with!
The Alliance Française de Washington provides customized private one-on-one and semi-private instruction on-site and off-site, as well as Skype lessons with fully qualified French teachers. Start at any time and benefit from flexible scheduling and personalized instruction.
Submit request form for adult private classes. Learn more about our adult private classes. Learn more about kids & teens private classes here.
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