Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso are two of the foremost figures in the history of twentieth-century art. This touring exhibition, which debuted in 2019 at the Musée national Picasso-Paris and is coming to the High this summer, presents more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper spanning Calder’s and Picasso’s careers that reveal the radical innovation and enduring influence of their art.

This month, immerse yourself in French culture with the TV5MONDE programming. In addition to offering premium films, the program includes several heartwarming comedies, a chance to discover new series, fun-filled variety shows, and engaging documentaries.

MyFrenchFilmFestival is back with a 'Cannes Special Edition'! After many long months in which almost all of the world’s theater screens were empty, the 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival is one of the first global movie industry events to be held post-pandemic. From July 6 to 17, 2021, you can watch 12 feature films and 12 short films free of charge and anywhere in the world on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com, all subtitled in over 10 languages.

Eight years ago, an American writer named Pamela Druckerman emerged on the national and international scene wearing a beret –– somewhat ironically –– and wielding a radical theory of child-rearing. Radical, that is, to Americans, it was completely normal to the French. She’d written a best-selling book that you’ve probably heard of, called Bringing Up Bébé. In it, she revealed the French method of raising well-behaved, sociable children. French babies, she explained, slept soundly through the night, even when they were only a few months old. French kids ate Camembert without complaint; and when French adults were having conversations, their kids didn’t interrupt. She thought this might be one reason why French parents seem so much less stressed out than American parents. She discovered these mysterious differences at first hand, in Paris, while raising her own kids.

The Prix Albertine Jeunesse, a reader’s choice award, invites children to choose their favorite book from a selection of works of Francophone youth literature that are available in English translation.

David Diop's At Night All Blood is Black (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2021, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis) was announced as the winner of the 2021 International Booker Prize on June 2nd. The author granted an interview to the French Institute in the UK and discussed the relation between literature and history, writing for young readers and translation and francophony.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy is pleased to announce the first edition of the Dance Films Catalogue.

Dance and cinema have a long shared history thanks to their common interest: the motion of bodies and energies. With today’s enhanced digital video technologies and the current restrictions on international exchange, dance is reimagining itself in many different spaces, diving into archival material and creating new forms.

YOUNG FRENCH CINEMA is a program of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French films with no US distribution to art house cinemas, film societies, the Alliance Française network, and American universities.

Young French Cinema offers a selection of today’s best French films and filmmakers. The program focuses specifically on rising talents from France, from high-profile independent works, to powerful documentaries and quirky discoveries. This program stands as proof that this young generation of contemporary French filmmakers is—more than ever—a genuine melting pot with a global vision and an amazing capacity to combine cultural influences. Across a wide range of subject matter, their work is innovative in both style and storytelling. Most of the films selected in this program have premiered in the US in one of the top US festivals, but do not currently have US distribution.