- Outdoor Screening
- January 11, 12 and 19
- Free
- Various directors
From January 11, 2022, the Institut français is organizing outdoor screenings, its “Ciné-Natte”!
Free entry and outdoor screenings. Enjoy with your friends or family, and accompany your screening with a snack at le Bistrot!
Tuesday 11 January at 7PM
“9 jours à Raqqa” by Xavier de Lauzanne (2020)
ONLY IN FRENCH
90 minutes / Version originale sous-titrée français
Leila Mustapha, 30 ans, ingénieure en génie civil, trois fois major de sa promotion, est la jeune maire de Raqqa, l’ancienne capitale autoproclamée de l’État Islamique en Syrie. Plongée dans un monde d’hommes, elle a pour mission de reconstruire sa ville entièrement détruite par la guerre, de réconcilier et d’y instaurer la démocratie. Une mission hors normes. Une écrivaine française traverse l’Irak et la Syrie pour venir à sa rencontre. Dans cette ville encore dangereuse, elle a 9 jours pour vivre avec Leila et découvrir son histoire.s. Voir la bande annonce !
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Wednesday 12 January 12 at 6:30PM
“Bye Bye Morons” by Albert Dupontel (2019)
88 minutes / French version with English subtitles
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she’s seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap, bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant, helter-skelter journey across the city in search of Suze’s long-lost child. Watch the trailer !
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Wednesday 19 January at 6:30PM
“My Donkey, My Love & I” by Caroline Vignal (2020)
95 minutes / French version with English subtitles
Months that Antoinette waits for summer and the promise of a week with her lover, Vladimir. But, at the last moment, he cancels: his wife has booked a family hike in the Cévennes with a donkey! Abandoned, Antoinette decides on the spur of the moment to set off on her own on the way to Stevenson. When she arrives, no Vladimir, but a certain Patrick – a recalcitrant donkey (nobody is perfect!) – who will accompany her on her singular journey… Watch the trailer !
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