Join the French Cultural Center next week as they screen the César-award winning film Mustang, a powerful, female take on contemporary Turkey, as part of the monthly Ciné-Club de l'Alliance. After the movie, their in-house film expert, Barbara Bouquegneau and Tim Jackson, co-film critic at The Arts Fuse will lead a Q&A with a reception to follow. This event is co-presented by the Consulate General of France in Boston.

No Home Movie offers an intimate portrait of the tender and complex relationships between Chantal Akerman, her sister, and their mother, certain to resonate with anyone who has provided care for an ailing loved one. In her statement about the film, Akerman writes: “The narrative advances step by tiny step, a little like how we enter this apartment in Brussels, where a woman walks with the fragile grace of someone who is trying to maintain her precarious balance.” This poignant film would be Akerman’s last.

Les Enfants d'Orphée is a new, international, Boston-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of French baroque vocal music. Les Enfants marry a solid musicological foundation with vocal and instrumental prowess. They strive to introduce and promote "Le Goût Français"- the French taste- to new audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

“Visiting Masterpieces: Pairing Picasso” offers a unique opportunity to study the artist’s range of techniques and styles, with themes including the stylistic transformation of the human figure, variation of a single subject across works, and emulation of revered artistic forebears.

Photo: Head of a Woman, Portrait of Marie Thérèse Walter (1934. Oil on canvas. Isabelle and Scott Black Collection)

This exhibition explores the mysterious visual world of symbolism, an open-ended cultural phenomenon of the late 19th century that formed an important bridge between impressionism and modernism. Yet more than these two movements, symbolism sought to evoke ideas subjectively—through color, form, and composition—rather than objectively representing worldly appearances. The title of the show is inspired by Les Fleurs du Mal (1857), an influential collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, thus alluding to the literary antecedents of the movement.

American and French speakers will give lectures about the Comédie-Française Registers Project, a website which displays the detailed records of the theater troupe's box office receipts for every single one of their performances from 1680 until 1791. The program also features a theatrical presentation (in French) on the Friday night and a "Hack-a-thon” on the Saturday.

After their residency last year at the Vermont Performance Lab, French contemporary dance duo Projet In Situ presents an experimental, site-specific work combining movement, technology, participatory theater, and sound installation, intitled La Ronde, in the leading center for contemporary visual art and performing arts MASS MoCA. Each audience member receives earbuds to use with cell phones, to listen to audio recordings that uncover a choreographed journey through MASS MoCA. Departures take place every 15 minutes between 4pm and 8:45pm. The performance is approximately 70 minutes long.

Friday Face - a year in Boston is the result of a year-long experiment in spontaneous drawings and interviews led by French artist Aurélie Galois. Once a week, the artist would do a quick, small-palette portrait of whichever person she happened to be most interested in at that moment, accompany it with a brief handwritten text explaining who the person was, and post it online. The process, which was conceived in late 2014, was rapid, informal and an immediate success.

Albertine, the French Embassy’s reading room and bookshop in New York, is now offering a selection of high quality French language ebooks via its website. The vast majority of these ebooks are available in the U.S. for the first time.