On January 26th, the 47th ceremony of the Annie Awards-- which have been rewarding excellence in animation in film and television since 1972-- took place in Hollywood, representing the final hurdle for filmmakers before the prestigious Academy Awards. This year proved to be particularly successful for French creation in animation.

I Lost My Body, nominated in 5 categories, won 3 awards last night:

- Best Indie Feature: I lost my body, Xilam for Netflix.
- Best music, feature: I lost my body, Xilam for Netflix. Nominees: Dan Levy.
- Best writing, feature: I lost my body, Xilam for Netflix. Nominees: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant.

The Beninese artist Angélique Kidjo won the Best World Music Album for Célia at the 62nd Grammy Awards on January 26, 2020.

She won the fourth Grammy award of her career in the category of Best World Music Album for her album Célia, produced by Decca Records France, a subsidiary of Universal Music France.

Masters of Cut brings together sleek designs and impeccably tailored looks by beloved designers Azzedine Alaïa (1935–2017) and Gilbert Adrian (1903–1959). Garments on view display the intricate detailing of Adrian’s suits — the mitered stripes, clever seaming, and unexpected appliqués — in dialogue with Alaïa’s body-celebrating designs. Pairing their work, the exhibition reveals the designers’ intertwined and enduring legacies.

Alaïa-Adrian: Masters of Cut is curated by fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard and organized for SCAD FASH by Rafael Gomes, director of fashion exhibitions.

From January 16 to February 16, moviegoers from around the world will have access to the films of the 10th edition of the first world festival of French cinema online created by UniFrance.

This year, the films will be available on more than 50 VOD platforms around the world and subtitles in 10 languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Polish and Korean.

Posts are invited to give the widest possible response to this event to their partners and the general public.

Supported by MEAE and the CNC, this online festival presents for 1 month.

In this sorrow-tinged romantic comedy, Parisian newlyweds travel to Poland, their honeymoon awkwardly doubling as a bid to reconnect with their Jewish heritage. Anna and Adam (Judith Chemla and Arthur Igual) celebrate their nuptials with a trip to their family homeland, leaving their newborn with grandparents. While Anna is eager to trace her roots, Adam reluctantly attends a memorial for an ancestral village destroyed in the war. Unable to bridge past and present in this strange yet familiar land, the eye-opening journey doesn’t go as planned. Awash with offbeat characters and absurd vignettes, this life-affirming charmer movingly conveys the void experienced by third-generation survivors. Moscow Film Festival FIPRESCI Critics prizewinner.

A bourgeois French couple is again challenged to move past their own prejudices and accept their multicultural family, in this outrageously funny sequel to the surprise international box office hit. The lovely Verneuil daughters are each married to men of varied ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Their well-off, traditional Catholic parents (Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby) have finally stopped worrying and learned to love their diverse sons-in-law. But when circumstances prompt the daughters to uproot and leave France, the distraught elders try to hold them back. This decidedly politically incorrect comedy dismantles tribal stereotypes by tackling all-too-real issues of bigotry and intolerance with a big heart and go-for-broke humor.

The Department of French and Italian, Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries, W.T. Bandy Center, and Cinema & Media Art present an ongoing series this spring called “Censored: Controversial Art in Modern and Contemporary French Culture”. There will be several film screenings and lectures throughout the semester.

French movie with English subtitle.

When an evil magma demon and his minions steal the sun of a magical world, the new guardians of both the sun and the moon must embark on a quest to retrieve it and save their world from disaster as the moon faces destruction as well.

FUSED: French U.S. Exchange in Dance fosters dialogue, strengthens professional relationships, and sparks creative artistry through cultural exchanges by introducing choreographers and performers whose works had never or rarely been seen in the partner country. As such, artists founded by the program achieve international recognition and reach new audiences.

The success of this program led to its expansion: co-produced projects by artist from Africa, the Carribean and the Middle East and a French cultural institution are now eligible to the grant.

Call for proposals is open until February 9, 2020.

The Jazz & New Music program – a formerly two independent programs: French American Jazz Exchange and New Music – is designed to encourage the creative and professional development of French jazz and contemporary composers, musicians and ensembles in the U.S.

Jazz & New Music Program is a program of FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, with support from the Florence Gould Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français-Paris, and Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique (SACEM). Additional support for women artists has been provided by CHANEL Fund for Women in the Arts and Culture.

Call for proposals deadline is March 2, 2020.

8 universities in the Southeast have been selected by the Tournées Film Festival committee. Stayed connected to discover their films selection and dates of screening.

This program of the FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, aims to bring French cinema to American colleges and university campuses. Our objective in providing nearly $200,000 in Tournées Film Festival grants every year is to fund festival endeavors that can eventually become permanent and self-sustaining.

Dispositif de soutien au tissu associatif des Français à l’étranger (STAFE) supports associative projects whose purpose is educational, charitable, cultural or socio-economic and contributes to the influence of France and the support of French people abroad and French-speaking audiences.

When and how to apply?

By withdrawing a grant request file from our services before May 4, 2020. Complete files must be submitted to the consulate before May 11, 2020.