Young French musicians, members of the band "Violons Tziganes de Cannes”, will perform an international Gypsy repertoire. Q&A session with the artists will follow the performance. CDs are available for sale on the day of the concert.
The ticket price will enable Alliance Française of Washington DC to make a donation to Violong Tziganes de Cannes, once expenses are covered. If you wish to make a larger donation, you can do it through Eventbrite as well. A heartfelt thank you for your generosity.
Get a taste of "Violons Tziganes de Cannes" now: https://youtu.be/05DZEx0WY78
Alliance Français of Washington, DC and a French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma are partnering again, this time to bring you its first Film Festival "SEVEN WOMEN: Seven Decades of Alliance Française through Seven Films by Women".
The opening film, La Pointe Courte, will be screened at the National Gallery of Art on November 11, 2019 at 3 pm. The film will be Introduced by Nicholas Elliott, a US correspondent for Cahiers du cinéma.
La Pointe Courte (1954) | 86 minutes | France
In French with English subtitles. FREE.
Agnès Varda’s first feature, La Pointe Courte was filmed with a small crew in a coastal fishing village and, typical for Varda’s work, proved to be ahead of its time, ultimately inspiring the cinematic new wave in France. Local fishermen play themselves, while a pair of actors, playing a young couple with marital woes, arrive on holiday, a counterpoint to local life against a backdrop of Varda’s neorealist visuals. Check out the trailer 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, 7:00 pm, at the Avalon Theatre
Fad, Jal (1979), by Safi Faye | 112 min | France, Senegal | in Serer with English subtitles
Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm, at Alliance Française of Washington, DC
La nuit porte-jarretelles (1985), by Virginie Thevenet | 85 min | France | in French without subtitles
Friday, November 15, venue and time TBC
De l’autre côté (2002), by Chantal Akerma |103 min | France, Belgium, Australia, Finland | in French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
Saturday, November 16, venue and time TBC
35 rhums (2008), by Claire Denis | 100 min | France, Germany | in French and German with English subtitles
Monday, November 18, 7:00 pm, at La Maison Française of the French Embassy
Paul Sanchez est revenu! (2018), by Patricia Mazuy |110 min | France, Belgium | in French with English subtitles
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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.
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