Music Box Theatre, with the support of the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, is pleased to announce the third edition of the Chicago French Film Festival, a weeklong film festival celebrating the best in recent French cinema, including recent French box office and festivals successes.

The first North American edition of the French experimental comics laboratory Pierre Feuille Ciseaux (“Rock Paper Scissors”) or PFC is coming this summer at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design to explore and invent new ideas about the Comic Art form. Leading up to the Autoptic Festival, it will feature ten North American comics authors as well as six artists from France and Belgium.

Supported by the Institut Français in partnership with the Région Franche-Comté and the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, the Goethe-Institut, the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France and Music Box Theatre in Chicago present the French-German film Wings of Desire during the Chicago French Film Festival followed by a Q+A with Sara Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at UIC and Lorraine Groleau Darrow, Screenwritting lecturer at DePaul University.

Take a cinematic world tour this summer at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus with stops in France with as tour guides some of the most revered French directors in film history, including the likes of Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Becker, Jacques Rivette, Claude Sautet, Marcel Carné, Henri-Georges Clouzot.

The new art house hit Renoir has sparked renewed interest not only in French Impressionnist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir but also in his son, master filmmaker Jean Renoir. The Cleveland Cinemathèque presents four of his greatest color works, one of which pays explicit tribute to his father and the impressionist era.

Detroit Film Theatre presents a serie of French films from new releases to animated like Renoir, Augustine, A Cat in Paris and Azur & Asmar.

Co-presented by the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, Cinema/Chicago and the Institut Français, All that Glitters tells a coming-of-age story with humor, verve and a touch of the absurd showing the limits of friendship, family, and forgiveness.

The Indianapolis International Film Festival returns this summer for 10 days of films from around the world  including 2 films from France: OH WILLY... directed by Emma de Swaef and Marc Roels (2012) and The day of the Crows directed by Jean-Christophe Dessaint (2012).

ANDkids World Film Festival is the Midwest's signature summer children's film festival which features new and classic films for both children and adults including the following French films : The Zig Zag Kid directed by Vincent Bal (2012), Zarafa directed by Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie (2012) and Approved for Adoption directed by Boileau/Henin (2012).

Founded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, the Traverse City Film Festival has grown to become one of the largest summer film festivals in the Midwest.

Program coming soon !

This groundbreaking, internationally acclaimed exhibition has arrived in Chicago, the last stop on its world tour, which has seen crowds of nearly a half-million each at Paris' Musée d'Orsay, where it debuted, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It explores the vital relationship between fashion and art from the mid-1860s through mid-1880s as Paris became the style capital of the world.

Monumental, interdisciplinary, interactive, and intensely emotional Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux is an opportunity to walk through exceptional replicas of the famous caves.

This summer, Sofitel Chicago Water Tower will join the celebration of women with Elles by Gilles Bensimon, a traveling photo exhibit capturing some of the esteemed French fashion photographer’s best work. The exhibit presents an exclusive collection of 25 photos honoring famous women from the arts and entertainment industry. The exhibit is free and open to all hotel guests and visitors.

This exposition explores how Paris emerged as the center of the art world in the nineteenth century, attracting and inspiring the greatest painters of the era, including the well-known leaders of French Impressionism.

This exhibit retraces the new approaches to color lithography and etching, and creative collaborations between artists, printers, and publishers that took place in Paris during the 1890s and early 1900s.

This exhibit presents the achievement of Franco-Russian painter Serge Charchoune (1889–1975) who is among the least widely known or understood in twentieth-century European art.

Bringing the world's top electronic dance music artists to the Windy City's first and only beachfront festival, Wavefront Music Festival returns for its second year to the shores of Lake Michigan and presents French electro artists Appolinea, Cedric Gervais, dOP and Justice.

Lollapalooza is a three-days annual music festival in downtown Chicago. For those lucky ones attending, check out Phoenix performing their new album Bankrupt! .

The North Coast Music Festival is a three-day event featuring the world's greatest and most cutting edge electronic, indie, hip hop, jam and rock and roll artists including Madeon, one of the most electrifying French EDM artists in the scene right now.

Steeped in France's chanson tradition of forlorn radio poetry, Keren Ann's songs reveal a quirky, world-traveler sensibility, shaped by German cabaret and British trip-hop.

Madeon is one of the most electrifying EDM artists in the scene right now. As a sign of his rapid rise to international fame, he is invited to perform at 3 summer music festival in the Midwest.

Olivier Latry, titular organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, and professor at the Paris Conservatory performs a organ recital on the occasion of the Jubilee of Notre-Dame de Paris (850 years).

From the French island in the Indian Ocean, La Réunion, comes an orchestra composed of 46 students playing a unique group of instruments, including 14 instrumental accordions, with a wide repertoire: classical, Latin, French chanson and La Réunion folk music. The concert is free, open to the public and sponsored by Alliance Française de Grand Rapids.

Award-winning professional theatre Court Theatre at the University of Chicago takes a bold new approach to Molière's The Misanthrope and Tartuffe.

The Tony Award-Winning Comedy Art from French playwright Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton is coming to Milwaukee this summer.

Writers’ Theatre favorite William Brown directs this costume comedy in verse, newly adapted from the classic Corneille by modern wordsmith and celebrated Broadway playwright David Ives.

The Goethe-Institut Chicago, in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank, and the Cultural service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago, is organizing the 3rd Common Economic Challenges conference : "Social Market Economy and the Euro".

This Fall, a lot of French authors will be touring the United States. Jean-Christophe Valtat, Catherine Millet and Olivier Rolin will be in New York for a festival on “Proust and Contemporary Writing”. François Bon will participate in the upcoming digital publishing conference in San Francisco. Laurent Binet will be the French author featured at the 2013 New Literature from Europe festival for his novel HHhH, which received excellent reviews in the US. Last but not least, organizers of the Miami Book Fair have chosen children's book illustrator Marc Boutavant as one of their panellists. All of these authors and many more would be delighted to meet other audiences all over the U. S. Are you interested?

Click below for a list of Bastille Day celebrations being held throughout the Midwest on the occasion of the French National Holiday! including the Bastille Day Chicago and La Fête de Marquette in Madison (WI).

If you’re planning to spend the holidays in France this summer (which kicked off unofficially last week with the sun reappearing over bridges and castles), check out our list of not-to-be-missed film festivals in must-see cities !

We are excited to present French Fiction Fridays, a summer series highlighting works of contemporary French fiction not yet translated into English. Each Friday, we will highlight two titles with excerpts from the books presented in the original French alongside an English translation.

American director Quentin Tarantino will receive the Lumiere Award during the 5th Festival Lumière that will be held in Lyon next October 14-20, 2013. Former Lumiere Award recipients since the inception of this annual event in 2009 are Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gerard Depardieu and Ken Loach.

To celebrate the centennial of Swann’s Way, La Revue des Deux Mondes, the prestigious French publication founded in 1829, sheds light on a rarely explored topic: Proust and its American readers.

In honor of summer reading and International Crime Month, we have put together a list of exciting Francophone crime fiction available in English translation. What better way to spend an oppressively hot and sunny summer day than bathed in the chilling pages of a noir novel or collection?

Created in September 2005 by four Belgian and French publishers, Cairn offers the most comprehensive collection of French language publications in the humanities and social sciences available online. In 2013, around 400 journals and more than 4,000 eBooks from French, Belgian and Swiss major publishers will be made available at www.cairn.info, enabling students, scholars and librarians all over the world to access more than 200,000 articles and book chapters online, in full-text.