Sibusiso Bheka, winner of the Institut français x Cité internationale des arts residency programme, is a young self-taught South African photographer.

On March 12, 2024, the Cathédrale Saint-Louis des Invalides in Paris hosted a concert as a prelude to the Season of Lithuania in France 2024 and in the presence of HE Mr. Gitanas Nausėda, President of the Republic of Lithuania, accompanied by Mrs. Diana Nausėdienė, and the President of the French...

20 filmmakers and producers from southern and emerging countries are taking part in the Institut français La Fabrique Cinéma this year. 10 first or second feature films, undergoing development and financing, have been selected for the 15th edition anniversary of La Fabrique. 

Between workshops...

Launched by French President Emmanuel Macron and dedicated to the 54 nations of the African continent, Africa2020 Season drew to a close on 30 September 2021. After a rich and varied ten-month programme across both metropolitan and overseas France, relive the Season through ten of its highlights. 

Discover Sport Friendly by French artist based in Argentina Emilien Buffard. Through a photographic exhibition and an album, the project promotes inclusive sport by highlighting LGBTQI+ sports teams. 

To coincide with the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Emilien Buffard and the Institut...

FOLIMAGE is an animation studio specialising in traditional 2D animation and stop motion. It was founded in 1981 by director and producer Jacques-Rémy Girerd, with a strict editorial policy that favours the perspective of authors with atypical worlds and completely singular techniques. 

The...

For the second edition of the Cruzamentos programme dedicated to the performing arts, Villa Tijuca welcomed 28 artists in residence in 5 cities in Brazil and 2 cities in France over the course of 2023. 

Supported by "La Fabrique des Résidences" of the Institut Français, the Cruzamentos programme...

Chloe Saï Breil-Dupont has been selected by a jury of French and Vietnamese experts to take part in Villa Saigon's 2023/2024 season. Her residency, which will run from 26 April to 21 June 2024, will be an opportunity to carry out a series of interviews and portraits of other artists and individuals...

Maude Grübel - Jardin d’essai, exhibition at the Münchner Statdmuseum, Germany, from 6 october 2023 to 7 January 2024. With the support of the Institut français as part to the IF EXPORT 2023 scheme. 

From Tuesday 26 September to Sunday 1 October 2023, the Institut français organised a Translation Focus between Paris and Gif-sur-Yvette to coincide with the VoVf traduire le monde festival, with the aim of strengthening links between translators from French into foreign languages around the world...

Livres des deux rives - un dialogue méditerranéen par le livre is a project run by the Institut français in Paris that aims to bring Mediterranean civil societies closer together through cooperation based on books. 

Look back at images from the two day closing event for the Livres des deux rives...

From 14 to 27 September 2023, the Agence de Voyages Imaginaires show L'amour de Roméo et Juliette continued its world tour in its Spanish version, with the acting duo Pépita Car and Valérie Bournet. The show, adapted from Romeo and Juliet, was performed in Peru, notably in the country's Alliances...

Every year, the Institut français, with the support and by delegation of the French Ministry of Culture and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, enables more than 70 artists from all over the world to benefit from a residency at the Cité internationale des arts, in the heart of the...

A look back in pictures the Ateliers de l'Institut français (AIF) 2023 which took place on Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 July. 

Launched in June 1982 by the Ministry of Culture, the Fête de la Musique first began to be exported in 1985. It is now hugely successful internationally, largely due to the commitment of the French cultural network, which keeps the event going beyond France’s borders. Organised in eighty-five...