The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne, and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, 30 years after Brook’s legendary production took world theater by storm.

The Festival presents short pieces (15-25 minutes, with English supertitles) acted out by students from 7 Chicagoland high schools and DePaul University.
These students take French as a foreign language and the Festival will be for them a fantastic opportunity to show their talent on stage! Each set will be followed by a stand up comedy show by two comic professionals: Renée-Claude Thériault & Sebastian Marx

Directed by French Victor Quesada Perez, Bertolt Brecht’s compelling parable The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a savage satire of social and political corruption- a political show written during WWII to denounce Hitler’s rise told within a gangster parable that takes place in Chicago in the 1930’s.

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A couture cocktail of tap dance & live music featuring the best of the US, Spain and France with Tapage from Toulouse

The largest festival in the nation showcasing films of the European Union nations, this anniversary festival presents Chicago premieres of 62 new feature films representing all 28 EU nations.

Recieve a special admission price of $7.00/ticket (a $4 savings) for any CEUFF film (excluding Opening and Closing Night)! To receive the discount, please purchase tickets in person at the Film Center box office and mention promo code “FCS” (Discount does not work online). 

"Robert Bresson is French cinema, as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music," -  Jean-Luc Godard. Known for an austere and perfectionistic style, Robert Bresson (1901-1999) is one of the most celebrated and influential French filmmakers. Spanning over five decades and encompassing a wide range of subjects and sources, this retrospective finds the director striving to create a new language of moving images and sounds.

Each Thursday in April, the Block Museum of Art will screen one of Belgian director Chantal Akerman's renowned films. These screenings are free and open to all. There will also be a symposium, Friday, April 28, on Chantal Akerman's cinema.

The Ninth Annual Robert Classic French Film Festival celebrates St. Louis’ Gallic heritage and France’s cinematic legacy. The featured films span the decades from the 1920s through the mid-1990s, offering a revealing overview of French cinema.

This series celebrates 13 women whose films have cast bold shadows over a range of genres in the past 100 years. Featuring Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7 and Claire Denis' Beau Travail. 

Check out the upcoming French films in US theaters.

A a list of some of the best French TV series available on VOD platforms as Amazon, Hulu and Netflix.

Here is a list of some of the best animated TV series available for kids on VOD platforms in the U.S. From famous Heidi, Zorro and Yakari to new characters SamSam and Inami, you’ll find something for all ages!

Viewers can now enjoy a new package of TV5MONDE channels online: TV5MONDE Style, the new art-de-vivre network; TV5MONDE Cinema on Demand, featuring recent and classic French language films; TiVi5MONDE the 24/7 children’s network; and TV5MONDE Info with the latest newscasts produced by TV5MONDE.

Catherine Edelman Gallery is delighted to present the first Chicago exhibition, Somnium,  by French photographer Laurent Millet, whose photography combines the inquisitiveness of a scientist with the wonder of a child. The show presents four different bodies of work that examines his ongoing fascination between the real and the imagined, and our relationship with objects.

Special exhibition of French-Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss, often considered as the last of the French school of photographic humanists who flourished in France after World War II with a style that was a mixture of social realism and poetry.

Internationally acclaimed French-Algerian artist Kader Attia presents his long-term exploration of trauma and repair, both of the body and of society, from the legacies of colonialism, slavery, and xenophobia in our time.

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago presents the exhibition Rooted featuring photographs by French artist Pierre Gonnord. Rooted is comprised of portraits of Asturian miners that invite the viewer to connect with the strength of the human condition.

As part of the WW1 Centennial Celebrations, Vive l’Amérique: French School Children Welcome Their American Ally features 30 drawings and two essays on loan from Le Vieux Montmartre Historical Society. This marks the first time these drawings have been on exhibit anywhere in the world. 

The Marion and Henry Bloch Collection was one of the few outstanding collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art remaining in private hands until it was donating to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in June 2015 which inspired a major renovation of the museum’s European 19th- and early-20th-century galleries and this special exhibition.

The works in the exhibition were created between 1949, the year that saw the division of Germany into East and West, and 1968, a year marked by civil and political unrest across the continent, from student and worker uprisings in Paris to anti-Soviet protests in Prague.

A groundbreaking exhibition about Edgar Degas' fascination with high-fashion hats and the young women who made them including key works by Degas that have never been exhibited in the United States.

Exploring the intersection of French art, fashion, and history, Bijoux Parisiens presents 75 glorious pieces of jewelry by Cartier, Lalique, Van Cleef & Arpels, and others from the Petit Palais in Paris.

With broad selection of artwoks from Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and others, this exhibit offers an overview of the thriving entertainment cultures of Paris in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Children became a popular subject in French art in the 1880s and 1890s. This focused exhibition presents works on paper by Cassatt, Renoir, Lepère, and others.

Opera has plenty of femmes fatales, but there’s only one Carmen!

Nouvelle Vague is a French band founded by producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux, which has gained wide notoriety for their versions of classic 80s and 90s hits, selling more than one million albums globally. 

Famed for staggering visuals and the use of cutting-edge digital technology, Jean-Michel Jarre's new live show promises to be a truly immersive musical journey.

March is the Mois de la Francophonie, and the Midwest is ready to celebrate all the amazing Francophone countries and aspects of the French language! Each year, the Festival de la Francophonie highlights the French-speaking world and its cultural diversity with a host of celebrations and events such as lectures, film screenings, music performances, comedy shows, and many more.

Check out the events at the Alliance Française de Chicago and Minneapolis to celebrate la langue française during this worldwide celebration!  

Daewoo receives the 2016 French Voices Award Grand Prize, Pen World Voices featuring French Writers, etc. 

Le quatrième webinaire de l’année 2017 est sur le thème « Enseigner le français à l’école primaire dans une « perspective actionnelle » : quelles pratiques de classe pour une pédagogie active ? ».

The 2017 Thomas Jefferson Fund call for proposals is now open! This new program aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research projects. Applications are accepted in the three following fields: Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH), Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and Science for Society (interdisciplinary STEM-SSH projects).

LE SENS ET LES SENS/SENSE AND THE SENSES: International Colloquium for 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies with guest speakers Patrick Chamoiseau, Tiphaine Samoyault, Véronique Taquin, Philippe Falardeau, and Nathalie Heinich.