The San Francisco-based writing residency A Room with a View is looking for French authors of fiction, comic strips, youth literature, poetry, or essays. A Room with a View was created in 2017 through a collaborative effort between the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, the Consulate General of France in San Francisco and the French American Cultural Society in partnership with the Institut Français. This call for applications is for the two sessions of 2019, which occur in spring and autumn, and is open until December 3, 2018. More information can be found here.

On November 16 & 17, Compagnie Käfig will be performing its dance piece entitled "Pixel" with Cal Performances at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Pixel was created by Mourad Merzouki in collaboration with the French digital production studio Adrien M & Claire B and features the company's 11 outstanding dancers navigating a sophisticated interactive environment of light and lasers that confounds our perceptions of what is virtual and what is real.

La Mélodie will be playing at the Clay Theater in San Francisco on Thursday, November 8, 2018. In La Mélodie, Simon is a distinguished but disillusioned violinist. He has recently gone through a divorce and found a job teaching orchestra in a working-class neighborhood of Paris. Arnold is a shy and chubby student who is fascinated with the violin and discovers that he has real talent for it. With Arnold's raw talent and the joyous energy of his class, Simon gradually rediscovers the joys of music.

The year 1968 was a watershed that brought about radical political and social changes internationally. These changes are both reflected in and constitutive of radical new cinemas that emerged around that time, in part as a response to anticolonial wars of self-liberation and self-determination that were waged throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s. Until November 29, BAMPFA presents a selection of Ciné-tracts by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, and other French directors.

On November 8, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen will give a talk at Stanford University entitled Casablanca la Juive. The urban scene of Casablanca during the French Protectorate was characterized by an important Jewish presence, when migrants from the coastal cities, and later the interior regions, as well as citizens from Algeria and Tunisia joined the already significant contingent present when Hubert Lyautey’s administration was put into place.  

3rd i's 16th annual festival brings you some of the best cinema from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, Australia, and the USA. Two French produced films will be presented on November 3 and 4: Demons in Paradise and Sir. For online ticket purchases, please use promotional code "cp_2018” and receive 20% off an individual $11 ticket.

Best known for his provocative and enigmatic images of Parisian life between the two world wars, the photographer Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) is one of the most prominent figures of twentieth-century. The exhibition is on show until February 18, 2019.

Over the course of his eight-decade career, Louis Stettner created a singular approach to photographing everyday life. Born in Brooklyn in 1922, Stettner moved to Paris in 1947. The exhibition Traveling Light will be on show at SFMOMA until May 27, 2019.

You are invited to participate to a brainstorming meeting taking place on November 12 at the Lycée Français de San Francisco (Ortega Campus) on the future of French education in the Bay Area. More information and how to register here.

[SOLD OUT] 1987, Sidi Fares, a small village close to Algiers. In a garage secretly transformed into a theater, Samir plays the greatest movie kisses censured by the State.