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Youth Festival

From 05/12/2007 at 08:00 to 08/12/2007 at 08:00

Youth Festival
10th Anniversary Edition

5th to 8th December 2007 at the Institut Français, London

picture by David Merveille

A four-day celebration of books and reading for young people aged 3 to 15. Talks, workshops and book-signings with top French and British illustrators, a temporary bilingual bookshop and the pick of the latest children’s films from both sides of the Channel.

Guests this year include Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen, Emma Chichester-Clark, Julia Golding and Ian Whybrow; and from France and Belgium Daniel Pennac, Nancy Boulicault, Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod, Olivier Tallec, Hervé Tullet, Beatrice Alemagna, David Merveille, Anne Herbauts, and Miriam Latimer.

picture by Hervé Tullet

Children’s Laureat Michael Rosen will launch the festival on Wednesday 5 December with a performance of his inimitable one-man show, followed by a on-stage discussion between prize-winning French author Daniel Pennac and British illustrator Quentin Blake. That same evening an exihibition of artwork from Blake’s latest project, Vive nos vieux jours!, will open in the Institut’s library and foyer area.

Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December are reserved for school parties, but the festival’s closing day, Saturday 8 December, is open to the general public. Grown-ups are invited to participate in a special edition of the Institut’s ‘Café Philo’ series; children and adults can stock up on Christmas presents from the temporary bilingual bookshop in the Institut’s foyer and have them signed by the visiting authors and illustrators, catch a film, or see children’s singer-songwriter Sophie Forte live in concert.

Sophie Forte sings songs both light-hearted and moving about love (Ma soeur est amoureuse), bad behaviour (Maman dit qu’il ne faut pas), make-believe (Ma cabane en bois), little every-day problems (Chic j’suis malade), and serious subjects like death (Grand-père est au cimetière). This is a show for all the family: children from 4 years or over, elder sisters and brothers, parents and grandparents

Sophie Forte

The festival’s film programme this year includes:

AGES 4+
•    Patate: five shorts illustrating the graphic and narrative inventiveness of contemporary French animation, involving variously a journey in search of stars, a genie in a box of ravioli, four vegetables forgotten in a kitchen garden, a cat, parrot, a fish and an immense château.

AGES 7+
•    U: a feature-length cartoon from France, based on the book by acclaimed children’s author Grégoire Solotareff. U the unicorn becomes a confidante and companion to melancholy Princess Mona. But when Mona finds love, will their friendship survive?

•    Raining Cats and Frogs (La Prophétie des grenouilles): two quick-thinking children save the population of their local zoo from the floods by improvising an ark. A delightful feature-length animation old in a joyful picture-book style, with characters further brought to life by a voice cast drawn from some of France’s best-loved acting talent.

Picture from the film 'Rainong cats and frogs'

AGES 12+
•    Seachd, the Inaccessible Pinnacle: the first Scottish Gaelic feature film follows one boy in his search for the truth behind the death of his parents and his grandfather’s incredible, fearful stories, a quest that leads him to one of Scotland’s most treatcherous mountains: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.

Calendar (public events):

Patate
wed 5 dec | 11.00pm | cert. PG / for children of 4+

Seachd, the Inaccessible Pinnacle
wed 5 dec | 3.00pm | cert. PG / for children of 12+ | in Gaelic with English subtitles

Michael Rosen, Outside In
wed 5 dec | 6.00pm | in English

Quentin Blake in conversation with Daniel Pennac
wed 5 dec | 7.00pm | in English
Daniel Pennac will be in conversation with Quentin Blake, his English illustrator. Sarah Adams, his translator will act as an interpreter

Patate
thu 6 dec | 11.00am | cert. PG / for children of 4+

Seachd, the Inaccessible Pinnacle
thu 6 dec | 8.00pm | cert. PG / for children of 12+ | in Gaelic with English subtitles | followed by a Q&A with dir. Simon Miller, producer Christopher Young and actor Angus Peter Campbell

picture by Beatrice Alemagna

Café Philo: Children’s Literature
sat 8 dec | 11.00am | in French and English
Children's authors and illustrators Beatrice Alemagna, Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod and Olivier Tallec debate the idea of children's litterature.

Raining Cats and Frogs
fri 7 dec | 2.00pm | cert. PG / for children of 7+ | in French with English subtitles

Seachd, the Inaccessible Pinnacle
fri 7 dec | 4.30pm | cert. PG / for children of 12+ | in Gaelic with English subtitles

Patate
sat 8 dec | 12 noon | cert. PG / for children of 4+

U
sat 8 dec | 2.00pm | cert. PG / for children of 7+ | in French with English subtitles

Concert: Sophie Forte, Maman dit qu’il ne faut pas
sat 8 dec | 6.00pm | in French | for adults and children of 4+ | £7, conc. £5
With Antoine Sahler on piano

Picture from the film 'U'

Exhibition: Vive nos vieux jours!
5 – 19 dec | tue to fri: 12 noon to 7.00pm | sat: 12 noon to 6.00pm

    Prices:
    All talks are free and open to all.
    Films: £5, groups £3.

    Venue:
    Institut français
    17 Queensberry Place
    South Kensington
    London SW7 2DT
    Box Office: 020 7073 1350
    Website: www.institut-francais.org.uk

picture by Miriam Latimer