French wirter and geographer Philippe Vasset will be giving a presentation at University of California, Berkeley's French Department. Vasset’s fictions are non-standard and go beyond literary genres; molded by reality, their author calls them “exofiction”. Press reviews suggest that Vasset’s unusual style of writing may be forging a new genre of geographical literature.

Françoise Vergès will be participating to the symposium "Memory Without Borders: Violence, Justice, and Practices of Remembrance" at University of California, Berkeley's French Department. Françoise Vergès has published extensively on postcolonial theory, creolization, psychoanalysis, slavery and the economy of predation and Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.

Join Two Lines Press for a night of experimentation and conversation to celebrate the work of French writer and artist Edouard Levé.

Jean-Luc Godard’s films from the 1980s, the focus of this installment of Pacific Film Archive's ongoing retrospective, are sometimes referred to as the director’s Second Wave because of their (relative) return to narrative and larger budgets.

A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, what is he accused of? Based on the novel by Georges Simenon. Directed by Mathieu Amalric.

Renoir’s masterpiece of understanding across enemy lines—produced during the dark period leading up to WWII—follows soldiers and officers, both working-class and aristocratic, through their journeys during the great war.

1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a Japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier.

The San Francisco Dance Film Festival was established in 2010 to give the Bay Area a much-needed platform for the presentation and further development of dance-based films. French programs and French productions are part of this year's selection.

Behold the exhilarating, alien world of insect life in a French meadow, teeming with activity. Bees collect nectar, ladybugs devour mites, snails copulate, spiders ensnare prey, a scarab beetle battles up a hill, endless lines of caterpillars march on and an underwater spider builds a home out of an air bubble. Stunning close ups are captured using macroscopic, slow motion and time-lapse photography.

Jules Maeght continues the Maeght family legacy of passion, adventure, and a commitment to artists and creative experimentation in the new Hayes Valley San Francisco gallery.

One of the rising stars of hip hop dance in France, Zamounda, will be performing at the 16th San Francisco International Hip Hop DanceFest.

The Théâtre du Lycée Français presents Happy Days, a play in French and English by Samuel Beckett, from the Stanford Repertory Theater.