SPECIAL EVENTS

Mosaïques Festival: 3 – 12 June
Preview Screening of The Concert Q&A with Radu Mihaileanu: 10 June
Resistance on Screen: 15 – 24 June
Music Day: 20 June
Special Screening of Villa Amalia Q&A with dir. Benoît Jacquot and actress Isabelle Huppert: 25 June
Preview Screening of Heartbreaker Q&A with actor Romain Duris: 29 June


FILMS

TUE 1 JUNE:
Did You Miss it: Lebanon
6.20pm | dir. Samuel Maoz | cert. 15

New Release: Eyes Wide Open
8.30pm | dir. Haim Tabakman | cert. 12A

WED 2 JUNE:
Did You Miss it: Give Me Your Hand
3.30pm | dir. Pascal-Alex Vincent | cert. 15

Double Bill: The Page Turner
6.30pm | dir. Denis Dercourt | cert. 15

Double Bill: Highly Strung
8.30pm | dir. Sophie Laloy | cert. 15

THU 3 JUNE:
Did You Miss it: Lebanon
3.30pm | dir. Samuel Maoz | cert. 15

Mosaïques: Whisper with the Wind
6.00pm | dir. Shahram Alidi | cert. PG | London Premiere

Mosaïques: Casanegra
8.30pm | dir. Nour-Eddine Lakhmari | cert. 15 | UK Premiere | followed by Q&A with dir. Nour-Eddine Lakhmari

FRI 4 JUNE
Mosaïques: Mugabe and the White African
3.30pm | doc | dir.s Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson | cert. 12A

Mosaïques: Harragas
6.15pm | dir. Merzak Allouache | cert. 12A | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: The Famous and the Dead
8.30pm | dir. Esmir Filho | cert. 12A

SAT 5 JUNE:
Mosaïques: Délice Paloma
3.00pm | dir. Nadir Moknèche | cert. 12A

Mosaïques: Slam, ce qui nous brûle
5.45pm | doc | dir. Pascal Tessaud | cert. PG

New Release: London River
8.30pm | dir. Rachid Bouchareb | cert. 12A | Preview Screening | followed by Q&A with co-producer Bertrand Faivre

SUN 6 JUNE
Sunday French Classics: Casque d'or
2.00pm | dir. Jacques Becker | cert. PG

Did You Miss it: No One Knows About Persian Cats
4.00pm | dir. Bahman Ghobadi | cert. 12A

Mosaïques: The Ballroom
6.15pm | dir. Lais Bodanzky | cert. 15 | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: Roads to Mecca
8.40pm | doc | dir.s Taran Davies & Ghasem Ebrahimian | UK Premiere | followed by Q&A with directors Tara Davies & Ghasem Ebrahimian, co-writer of Journey to Mecca Tahir Shah and producers Jake Eberts, Jonathan Barker and Dominic Cunningham-Reid

MON 7 JUNE
Mosaïques: Jaffa
8.30pm | dir. Keren Yedaya | cert. 12A

TUE 8 JUNE
Mosaïques: Short World Animation Films
3.30pm | £5, conc. £3

Mosaïques:Lost Persons Area
6.15pm | dir. Caroline Strubbe | cert. 15 | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: Pour un sourire d'enfant
8.40pm | doc | dir. Christian des Pallières | £7, conc. £5

WED 9 JUNE
Mosaïques:Linha de Passe
3.30pm | dir.s Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas | cert.15

Mosaïques:Eastern Plays
6.15pm | dir. Kamen Kalev | cert. 15 | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: The Day God Walked Away
8.30pm | dir. Philippe Van Leeuw | cert. 18 | UK Premiere


THU 10 JUNE
Mosaïques: Finzan
3.30pm | dir. Cheik Oumar Sissoko | cert. 15

Mosaïques:Bhutto
6.00pm | doc | dir. Johnny O'Hara | cert. 12A | UK Premiere | followed by Q&A with producers Duane Baughman, Mark Siegel & Glenn Aveni | £7, conc. £5

Preview Screening: The Concert
8.30pm | dir. Radu Mihaileanu | cert. tbc | followed by Q&A with director Radu Mihaileanu and actress Mélanie Laurent (tbc)

FRI 11 JUNE
Mosaïques: Dernier maquis
3.30pm | dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | cert. 12A

Preview Screening: Breathless
6.15pm | dir. Jean-Luc Godard | new print | cert. PG

New release: Eyes Wide Open
8.30pm | dir. Haim Tabakman | cert. 12A

SAT 12 JUNE
Mosaïques: Khamsa
3.00pm | dir. Karim Dridi | cert. 15 | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: Everyday is a Holiday
5.30pm | dir. Dima El-Horr | cert. 12A | UK Premiere

Mosaïques: Freedom
8.00pm | dir. Tony Gatlif | cert. 12A | £12, conc. £10 | UK Premiere | tickets include entry to the Mosaïques party

SUN 13 JUNE
Sunday French Classics: Le Plaisir
2.00pm | dir. Max Ophüls | cert. PG

New release: The Girl on the Train
6.00pm | dir. André Téchiné | cert. 15

New release: Eyes Wide Open
8.30pm | dir. Haim Tabakman | cert. 12A

MON 14 JUNE
New release: The Girl on the Train
6.00pm | dir. André Téchiné | cert. 15

Did You Miss it: Lourdes
8.30pm | dir. Jessica Hausner | cert.U

TUE 15 JUNE
Resistance on Screen: Libres Français de Londres
8.30pm | doc | dir. Timothy Miller | cert. tbc | UK Premiere | followed by Q&A with director Timothy Miller and producer Fabienne Servan Schreiber

WED 16 JUNE
Resistance on Screen: Le Grand Charles
3.30pm | dir. Bernard Stora | cert. tbc | introduced by Professor Julian Jackson

THU 17 JUNE
Resistance on Screen: L'Armée des ombres
7.30pm | dir. Jean-Pierre Melville | cert. 12A | introduced by Professors Ginette Vincendeau and Professor Sylvie Lindeperg

SAT 19 JUNE
Resistance on Screen: Lucie Aubrac
3.30pm | doc | dir. Claude Berri | cert. 12A | introduced by Professor Rod Kedward

Resistance on Screen: A Man Escaped
6.15pm | dir. Robert Bresson | cert. U | Introduced by Professor Ginette vincendeau

Resistance on Screen: Apocalypse
8.30pm | doc | dir.s Isabelle Clarke & Daniel Costelle | cert. tbc | episodes 1 & 2 | UK Premiere | followed by Q&A with BBC executive producer Nick Fraser, Apocalypse producer Louis Vaudeville, ECPAD director Isabelle Gougenheim and Henrietta Foster

TUE 22 JUNE
New release: The Girl on the Train
6.05pm | dir. André Téchiné | cert. 15

Resistance on Screen: Now It Can Be Told
8.30pm | doc | dir. Edward Baird | £7, conc. £5

followed by:

Resistance on Screen: Yesterday's Witness: Distant Guns with the French Resistance
doc | dir. Christopher Cook | double bill with Now It Can Be Told | followed by Q&A with historian Mark Seaman

WED 23 JUNE
Did You Miss it: Double Take
3.30pm | dir. Johan Grimonprez | cert. 15

Resistance on Screen: La Bataille du rail
6.15pm | dir. René Clément | introduced by Professor Rod Kedward

Resistance on Screen: L'Armée du crime
8.30pm | dir. Robert Guediguian | cert. 15 | introduced by Professor Rod Kedward

THU 24 JUNE
Did You Miss it: Give Me Your Hand
3.30pm | dir. Pascal-Alex Vincent | cert. 15

New release: The Girl on the Train
6.05pm | dir. André Téchiné | cert. 15

Resistance on Screen, Tribute to Humphrey Jennings:
London Can Take It
A Diary for Timothy
Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
8.30pm | £7, conc. £5 | followed by Q&A with film critic Kevin Jackson and film director Kevin MacDonald

FRI 25 JUNE
Did You Miss it?: Lourdes
3.30pm | dir. Jessica Hausner | cert.U
New release: Wild Grass
6.10pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

New release: Villa Amalia
8.30pm | dir. Benoît Jacquot | cert. 15 | £12, conc. £10 | followed by Q&A with actress Isabelle Huppert and director Benoît Jacquot

SAT 26 JUNE
New Release: Eyes Wide Open
3.30pm | dir. Haim Tabakman | cert. 12A

New release: Wild Grass
6.10pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

New release: Villa Amalia
8.30pm | dir. Benoît Jacquot | cert. 15

SUN 27 JUNE
Sunday French Classics: Et Dieu créa la femme
2.00pm | dir. Roger Vadim | cert. PG

Preview Screening: Heartbreaker
4.05pm | dir. Pascal Chaumeil | cert. tbc

New release: Wild Grass
6.30pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

New release: Villa Amalia
8.45pm | dir. Benoît Jacquot | cert. 15

MON 28 JUNE
New release: Wild Grass
6.10pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

New release: Villa Amalia
8.30pm | dir. Benoît Jacquot | cert. 15

TUE 29 JUNE
New release: Wild Grass
6.10pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

Preview Screening: Heartbreaker
8.30pm | dir. Pascal Chaumeil cert. tbc | £12, conc. £10 | followed by Q&A with actor Romain Duris

WED 30 JUNE
New release: Wild Grass
3.30pm | dir. Alain Resnais | cert. tbc

New release: Villa Amalia
6.10pm | dir. Benoît Jacquot | cert. 15


TALKS

WED 2 JUNE
New Talent in Translation Prize
On the occasion of the The New Talent in Translation Prize ceremony award, test your translation
skills with members of the jury panel: the renowned translators Adriana Hunter and Will Hobson. Expect discussions, comments from the jury and translation challenges! During the evening, the jury panel will award the New Talent in translation Prize to one of the 8 shortlisted entrants. Come along and discover which translation will be chosen and who will win a weekend in Paris!
7.30pm | free

SAT 5 JUNE
Coffee Concept: Café Philo
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | in French

TUE 8 JUNE
An Unfinished Business, by Boualem Sansal
History, identity and violence course through the writing of Boualem Sansal: his recently translated
An Unfinished Business ( Bloomsbury, translated by Frank Wynne)tackles one of the great taboos of Muslim culture – the Shoah. Sansal's subject matter is both harsh and delicate, and his books have
been censored in his native Algeria.Born in 1949, Boualem Sansal lives in Boumerdès, near Algers.
His first novel Le Serment des barbares (1999) won the Prix du Premier Roman. In 2003 he was dismissed from his civil servant position for criticising the Algerian government. Today he is
considered not only one of Algeria’s most important writers, but a literary figure of international
stature.
7.30pm | £5, conc. £3 | in English

SAT 12 JUNE
Coffee Concept: Café Philo
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | in English

TUE 15 JUNE
Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud and Helen Simpson on Short Stories
On the occasion of the English publication of his short stories collection A Life on Paper (Small Beer Press, translated by Edward Gauvin) Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud (Prix Goncourt for Short Stories in 2005) will discuss with Helen Simpson the similarities and differences of short stories in France and in the UK. Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud was born in Paris in 1947. He has written numerous short stories and novels (La Faculté des songes, Le Démon à la crécelle, Singe savant tabassé par deux clowns, L’Autre rive). Helen Simpson lives in London. She has won numerous prizes for her various short stories anthologies. Her latest collections of short stories are Constitutional (2005), and In the Driver's Seat (2007).
7.30pm | £5, conc. £3 | in English

SAT 19 JUNE
Coffee Concept: Café Philo
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | in French

MON 21 JUNE
Postgraduate Publishing Education in the UK and France
As leading providers of postgraduate publishing education in the UK and France as well as major research institutes, University College London and the University of Paris 13 have embarked on a programme of co-operation to develop teaching and research links. Led by Professors Bertrand Legendre and Iain Stevenson, the two institutions have had a very successful exchange of students which involved a series of seminars, a student-led conference and highly-successful visits to publishers, bookshops and trade organisations. Discussions have already begun to establish joint research programmes led by Professor Nicholas and Dr Rowlands.
6.00pm – 8.30pm | free | for registration, email nicole.bea@diplomatie.gouv.fr

THU 24 JUNE
European Provocations
Gerald Moore, Lecturer in French (Wadham College, University of Oxford), will discuss the French Sociologist and Anthropologist Marcel Mauss and consider his theory of 'Gift Exchange', which appeared in his most influential work The Gift published in 1925.
7.00pm | free | in English

SAT 26 JUNE
Coffee Concept: Café Philo
10.30am to 12.15pm | £2 | in English


SPECIAL EVENT

FRI 18 JUNE
Radio France Commemorates the 18 June Appeal Live from the Institut français
Radio France will broadcast a special programme at the Institut français on 18 June, to mark the 70^th anniversary of the Appeal of General de Gaulle. All broadcasts will be open to the public
5.00am – 11.00pm | free


MUSIC

SUN 20 JUNE
Music Day

Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
This quite exceptional duo is made up of Ballake Sissoko, the Malian who has established himself as one of the best kora players of his generation, and Vincent Segal, the renowned French cellist perhaps best known for his collaboration with Bumcello and M. Hear two instruments that compliment each other perfectly. The album Chamber Music will be released in the UK later this year.
6.00pm | in the cinema | free

GaBlé
GaBlé is a three-piece hailing from Normandy, France and write scruffy, off-the-wall pop songs with echoes of The Vaselines, Beat Happening and Lou Barlow’s solo endeavours. GaBlé’s work is in constant dialogue with DIY sensibility and aesthetic, sometimes literally; as the title of the first album I’m OK is a direct reply to the question posed by Daniel Johnston, with his album Hi, How Are You.
7.15pm | in the cinema | free

Cocoon
Two sublime voices that seem made to blend together, an acoustic guitar bursting forth with powerful arpeggios, poignant keyboards, and even a catchy ukulele from time to time. Cocoon have gained a stellar reputation with their wonderful debut album, and also as a live band whose chops have been cut on the roads of France and Europe, from smaller clubs to the most prestigious venues. After amazing reviews at SXSW music festival, this will be their first London show.
8.30pm | in the cinema | free

Workshops
Music’all, a unique bilingual school of music in South Kensington, is organizing three workshops, open to all-young and not so young - on the theme World Music: Samba in South Ken to learn the flute, cello or percussions. The workshops are all accessible to beginners and at the end of each session, participants and teachers will have the opportunity to give final a performance together.
10:00am - 11:00am: flute or singing/percussion | free
11:00am - 12:00pm: cello or singing/percussion | free

Music on the Terrace
On the sunny terrace of the Institut's language centre, Scottish Indie label Fence Records will host an afternoon of acoustic sets by some of their most exciting new bands: My Ant, Frànçois & the AtlasMountains and Rozi Plain.
3.00pm to 6.00pm | language centre terrace | free


European Blast!
In the Lycée Français' courtyard, a special European singer-songwriter stage will be set up, showcasing some of the finest solo artists from 5 European countries – featuring the blonde-rock singer Aaron Blond (Belgium), folk-rockers Claudine Muno (Luxembourg), the acoustic reggae-leanings of Antoine Villoutreix (France), the minimalist acoustic sounds of Illute (Germany), and the enigmatic Franco/British Sophie Delila, whose recent collaborations with Nouvelle Vague and Plan B will certainly draw the crowds! This stage, between 5 and 8pm will be a chance to relax in the sun with a barbecue provided by the Institut Francais – truly a great European event!

DJs in Le Bistrot
DJ's will take over the bistrot, playing a mix of party music, classic French tunes and the latest French electro to swing your hips to. DJs will include Rockfort (Ludo and David) and FrenchRevolution (La Mèche). Come and enjoy a drink and dance to celebrate the close of Music Day 2010.
8.00pm to midnight | in the bistrot | free


WINE TASTING

MON 7 JUNE
Fine White Wines of Burgundy
7.00pm | wine tasting | £36, members £33


KIDS

SUN 6 JUNE
Tell me about the Circus!
Magicians, clowns, acrobats, lion tamers... across the globe, the circus transcends the ages and continues to enchant us. The Médiathèque is offering children from 6 to 10 the chance to join a circus-themed afternoon with story-telling and a juggling workshop. With the aid of Alix the Juggler, children will learn to make their own juggler's balls and learn to master the art of juggling. All disguises are welcome. Bring your red nose!
2.00pm | £3 | ages 6 – 10

Film tickets: £9, conc. £7
Reduced prices on:
Weekday Matinees (before 5.30pm): £7, conc. £5
Monday all day: £7, conc. £5
Sunday French Classics: £7, conc. £5
Groups (ten or more people; standard screenings): £7, plus one free ticket for every 10 purchased