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# Albertine Foundation

Supporting French-American Cultural Exchange in Education and the Arts

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## Posts

- [Films On The Green Love Stories Playlist!](https://albertinefoundation.org/films-on-the-green-love-stories-playlist/) - Films on the Green has partnered up with WNYU Radio to create a playlist of our favorite Franco-American songs played at this year's festival! Tune in for songs from Charles Trenet, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Françoise Hardy and many more classic and contemporary musicians.
- [10 Films That Take You On A Mediterranean Journey](https://albertinefoundation.org/10-films-that-take-you-on-a-mediterranean-journey/) - As we are approaching the end of Films on the Green 2015 – our free French film festival in New York City parks – we’ve compiled a list of 10 additional films that fit this season’s theme, La Méditerranée, but were not screened during the festival. We hope you’ll enjoy the diverse cinematography and rich cultures depicted, as
- [Rebecca Mitnik Mediterranean Playlist For Films On The Green](https://albertinefoundation.org/rebecca-mitnik-mediterranean-playlist-for-films-on-the-green/) - From the classically French “Zou bisou bisou", made famous by Mad Men to the near Orient sounds of Orange Blossom’s “Cheft-El-Khof,” we bring you a fresh and fun playlist in partnership with WHCS Hunter College Radio by DJ Rebecca Mitnik, the host of WHCS's All Synths Considered. Designed to transport you back to the Mediterranean, long after
- [10 Reasons You Should Be Excited About Films On The Green](https://albertinefoundation.org/10-reasons-you-should-be-excited-about-films-on-the-green/) - The theme of this year’s festival is a play on the 1966 Godard film title Masculin Feminin, “Masculin, Masculin” celebrates a bevy of the most beloved actors in French cinema. Here are 10 reasons why you should see these actors at their best whether you’re French, American, or somewhere in between. 1. The James Dean look-alikeA
- [James Ivory Presents The Wild Child at Films on the Green](https://albertinefoundation.org/james-ivory-presents-the-wild-child-at-films-on-the-green/) - On Thursday, September 7, hundreds of students and New Yorkers gathered at Columbia University, in front of Low Library, to watch the French classic, The Wild Child. For this last screening of the season —a back-to-school event organized in partnership with the Columbia Maison Française— director James Ivory joined us to introduce the film, which he
- [The French Embassy Received the Alice Guy-Blaché Award](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-french-embassy-received-the-alice-guy-blache-award/) - On Saturday September 1st, The Cultural Services of the French Embassy received the 2018 Alice Guy-Blaché Award from the Fort Lee Film Commission. For the first time in 2018, Films on the Green, the free outdoor French film festival produced annually by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, FACE Foundation and NYC Parks, expanded to Fort
- [Hello world!](https://albertinefoundation.org/hello-world/) - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
- [Seth Kurke's Playlist For Films On The Green!](https://albertinefoundation.org/seth-kurkes-playlist-for-films-on-the-green/) - Films on the Green has teamed up with WHCS, Hunter College Radio for this year’s festival to bring you tunes before Riverside Park' screenings. Now, we’re offering a sample of their DJ skills; embrace the summer vibe with this playlist by DJ Seth Kurke, the host of WHCS's The Last Exit with Seth Kurke. Follow him on Instagram @sethkurke!
- [Museums & Cultural Heritage](https://albertinefoundation.org/museums-cultural-heritage/)
- [Films On The Green: Women Of Mediterranean Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/films-on-the-green-women-of-mediterranean-cinema/) - This year’s Films on the Green Festival centered on the theme of La Méditerranée, but a hidden common thread of strong and confident female roles also weaved through our series. Below, we highlight these powerful, resilient, liberated, and confident figures. Juliette in …And God Created WomanJuliette is an 18-year-old orphan with a high level of sexual energy. She makes
- [Full circle: from FHLP student to French teacher](https://albertinefoundation.org/full-circle-from-fhlp-student-to-french-teacher/) - We are sharing with you the story of one of our former student, Samirath Gnabode, now an assistant teacher in the program at International High School at Union Square. She embodies our mission and illustrates how deep of an impact the program can have. We invite you to read her inspiring story and also her
- [A partnership with Lafayette College](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-partnership-with-lafayette-college/) - During the February break, the French Heritage Language Program launched a pilot program with Lafayette College and its students from the French department, led by Mary Toulouse.The plan is to build a partnership called PAL (Partenariat de l'Amitié Lafayette) between the two institutions with mutual benefits: the FHLP students are mentored on college prep, and Lafayette students are given the opportunity
- [Two FHLP students awarded the NY Seal of Biliteracy](https://albertinefoundation.org/two-fhlp-students-awarded-the-ny-seal-of-biliteracy/) - This year, Manda Ba of Union Square International High School (Manhattan) and Fatoumata Fadiga from Community International High School in the Bronx, two FHLP students have been awarded the NY State Seal of Biliteracy. The New York State Seal of Biliteracy (NYSSB) is an award given by a high school, school district or county office
- [A field trip to the FIAF to see "Swagger", a french documentary](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-field-trip-to-the-fiaf-to-see-swagger-a-french-documentary/) - On March 10, just a few days before schools closed and confinement and distance learning became the new norm, 25 students from Community International High School took the subway to the FIAF in New York to watch "Swagger", a documentary by Olivier Babinet following 11 teenagers from the most underprivileged neighborhoods in Paris. The projection was followed
- [The FHLP during Covid-19: maintaining a sense of community from a distance.](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-fhlp-during-distance-learning-maintaining-a-sense-of-community-from-a-distance/) - When the city of New York decided to close the schools on March 13, our FHLP students were among the 1,126, 000 students sent home for distance learning and among the 13% of English Language Learners (ELLs); they also fall in the category of the 72.8% economically disadvantaged students. So for them, not being able to
- [Getting ready for the French AP Exam](https://albertinefoundation.org/getting-ready-for-the-french-ap-exam/) - The French AP exam is a prestigious exam that sanctions a college level course in French usually offered to students with high proficiency level. Every year, we prepare 30 to 40 students by offering classes and two intensive workshops during the school breaks. And this year was no different. The first bootcamp place during the
- [FHLP students win prizes at the French Theater Festival at the Lycée Français](https://albertinefoundation.org/fhlp-students-win-prizes-at-the-french-theater-festival-at-the-lycee-francais/) - For the 7th consecutive year, 20 students from the French Heritage Language Program (FHLP) led by their teachers participated in the annual French Theater Festival “Première Scène” organized by the Lycée Français de New York. Started 21 years ago by two LFNY teachers, the festival gathers every year more than 200 students from schools all
- [From Brittany to the Bronx](https://albertinefoundation.org/from-brittany-to-the-bronx/) - For the fifth consecutive year, French Heritage Students from International Community High school welcomed French high schoolers from Lycée Jeanne D’Arc St Ivy, in Bretagne. They toured the school, shared lunch and exchanged their experiences in high school, talking about the differences between France and the US. Au programme: pizza, music, great conversations! The FHLP students
- [Wild Boys / Sauvage (second line)](https://albertinefoundation.org/wild-boys/) - https://youtu.be/lXSojVVG4Z8 One of the boldest aesthetic statements in recent French cinema,Wild Boys is a gender-bending, influence-scrambling adventure tale about five teenage miscreants sent on a boat journey with a mysterious Dutch captain who has promised to bring them back to their parents as obedient boys—or not at all. What the Captain hasn’t mentioned is that

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- [Home](https://albertinefoundation.org/)
- [Albertine Literature and Translation](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/) - Albertine Foundation works in partnership with Villa Albertine's Books & Ideas department, the Institut français, and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, to promote French and Francophone literature, offering several programs to support the English translation of French books in all categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s books, and comics). Villa Albertine's Books & Ideas department
- [2026-2027 Film Selection](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/film-selection-2026-2027/) - The CinéSchool 2026–2027 film selection features a diverse lineup of French-language films for students from elementary through high school. Each title is paired with engaging educational resources designed to enrich the viewing experience and support French-language learning. Below, you will find detailed information about each film, including streaming dates on FestivalScope, synopses, themes, age recommendations,
- [Guide and Registration](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/guide-inscription/) - CinéSchool is a free educational film program for young audiences, designed to support French language learning in the United States through French-language and Francophone cinema. The program is offered by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation as part of the French For All initiative. It is open to French teachers in public and private nonprofit schools,
- [Educational Resources](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/ressources-educatives/) - Pour enrichir l'expérience, CinéSchool met l'accent sur l'accompagnement pédagogique. Pour chaque visionnage des ressources éducatives sont mises à disposition.
- [Charters & Policies](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-portal/charters-policies/) - / ByLaws / Albertine Foundation - ByLaws FACE Foundation - ByLaws / Charters / Audit Committee CharterExecutive Committee CharterNominating & Governance Committee CharterFinance & Investment Committee Charter / Policies / Board Travel & Expense Reimbursement PolicyConflict of Interest PolicyGift Acceptance PolicyGift Acceptance Policy (Updated in 2019)Record Retention PolicyWhistleblower PolicyWebsite Privacy PolicyInvestment PolicyInvestment Policy (Updated in
- [Minutes & Documents](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-portal/boards-minutes/) - / 2026 / Board Minutes 06-03-26— Board Documents Executive Committee Minutes 05-27-26— Executive Documents Board Minutes 02-09-26— Board Documents Executive Committee Minutes 01-30-26— Executive Documents / 2025 / Board Minutes 02-05-25— Board Documents Board Minutes 06-12-25— Board Documents Board Minutes 11-06-25— Board Documents Executive Committee Minutes 02-03-25— Executive Documents Executive Committee Minutes 02-14-25— Executive Documents
- [Partners and Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/sponsors-partners/) - CinéSchool is a free educational film program for young audiences, designed to support French language learning in the United States through French-language and Francophone cinema.The program is part of French For All, an initiative launched by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation to expand access to French language education across the United States. 2026–2027 Sponsors &
- [Previous editions](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/) - Explore past editions of CinéSchool and discover the films, themes, and educational resources that have shaped the program since its launch.Each edition reflects CinéSchool’s commitment to supporting French language learning through cinema, while introducing students across the United States to the diversity of French-speaking cultures.Browse the previous editions below: 5th Edition: CinéSchool 2025-2026 4th Edition:
- [CinéSchool Digital Tools](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/les-outils-de-cineschool/) - CinéSchool uses three online tools to offer teachers and students a rich, interactive learning experience: FestivalScope for online film viewing, Genially for self-correcting comprehension activities, and Padlet for post-screening discussions. Together, these tools help students engage with French-language films before, during, and after the viewing experience. FestivalScope FestivalScope is the streaming platform used by CinéSchool
- [CinéSchool](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/) - #Learn French Through Francophone Cinema CinéSchool is a free educational film program for young audiences, designed to support French language learning in the United States through French-language and Francophone cinema.Part of the French For All initiative launched by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation, CinéSchool gives teachers access to a curated selection of films for students
- [For Students: how to watch the film](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/for-students-a-step-by-step-guide-to-watch-the-film/) - This school year, your class is participating in the CinéSchool program, a film initiative for students across the United States. The CinéSchool screenings are free and hosted on FestivalScope, a virtual cinema platform. Your teacher will provide you with the exact dates when the film will be available to watch. During that designated weekend, you
- [Film Selection 2025-2026](https://albertinefoundation.org/film-selection-2/) - The CinéSchool Film Selection for the 2025-2026 school year features a diverse lineup of Frenc-speaking films tailored to various age groups, from elementary school to high school. Each film is accompanied by engaging educational resources to enhance your students' learning experience. Included below is detailed information about each film, including available viewing dates on the
- [Film Selection 2026/2027](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/film-selection-2026/) - Contemporary List RESURRECTION Bi Gang THE STRANGER François Ozon YOUNG MOTHERS Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne TWO PROSECUTORS Sergei Loznitsa CASE 137 Dominik Moll LITTLE SISTER Hasfia Herzi AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Albert Serra PROMISED SKY Erige Sehiri NOUVELLE VAGUE Richard Linklater LUMIERE, LE CINEMA Thierry Frémeaux A PRIVATE LIFE Rebecca Zlotowski PUT YOUR SOUL ON
- [Albertine Cinémathèque](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/) - Bring French Cinema to Your Campus with Albertine Cinémathèque! Albertine Cinémathèque is designed to expand access to French cinema and support film programming at American colleges and universities. It provides grants for on-campus French film festivals to its members, along with extensive resources to enrich their events, including: — A curated list of films selected by
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/partners-sponsors/) - Albertine Cinematheque is made possible with the support of : Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée Created in 1946, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC) is a public administrative organization, set up as a separate and financially independent entity. The principal missions of the CNC are:– Regulatory– Support for
- [Distributors' Information](https://albertinefoundation.org/members-corner/) - The information below is non-binding and provided as a reference only. Big World Pictures Disco Boy Contact:Jonathan HowellJonathan@bigworldpictures.orghttps://www.bigworldpictures.org/ Screening Fees:$350-500, depending on the seating capacity of venue (DCP, DVD/BluRay, MP4 file) Cohen Film Collection The Beauty of Devil Contact:psteele@cohenbrothers.com Screening Fees:$350 + shipping Distrib Films US No Chains, No MastersSisterhoodToni Contact:Clemence Taillandierclemence.taillandier@gmail.com www.distribfilmsus.com Screenings Fees:$350-$500
- [Four Nights of a Dreamer](https://albertinefoundation.org/four-nights-of-a-dreamer/) - Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
- [Lovers on the Bridge](https://albertinefoundation.org/lovers-on-the-bridge/) - Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.
- [Breathless](https://albertinefoundation.org/breathless/) - Small-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and murders a policeman. While onthe run, he reconnects with Patricia (Jean Seberg), a journalism student living in Paris, and triesto convince her to go on the lam with him
- [A.K](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-k/) - A documentary portrait of Akira Kurosawa during the shooting of his epic Ran, focusing less on the logistics of production than on the director’s reserved yet meticulous personality and working methods.
- [Brigitte and Brigitte](https://albertinefoundation.org/brigitte-and-brigitte/) - Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne.
- [The Comedy of Work](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-comedy-of-work/) - Françoise, an employment agency employee, is in love with an unemployed man. She does everything she can to find him a job, even though he doesn't want to work.
- [Affection Affection](https://albertinefoundation.org/affection-affection/) - In the winter on the French Riviera, a teenage girl goes missing on her birthday. Géraldine, an employee in the mayor's office, takes on the role of a detective. Versions of the truth rapidly multiply and she struggles not to be overwhelmed by all the gossip and theories. The unexpected return of her mother will
- [That Summer in Paris](https://albertinefoundation.org/that-summer-in-paris/) - Paris, 2024 Olympic Games. Blandine, 30, arrives from Normandy to watch the swimming competitions. Disoriented by the bustling and chaotic city where nothing seems to go her way, she will unexpectedly renew ties with her estranged half-sister and niece.
- [The Girl in the Snow](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-girl-in-the-snow/) - Soudain is a hamlet surrounded by snow on a remote mountain in the Alps. One stormy night arrives Aimée, a young teacher who will stay on for the winter to instruct the village’s children. Shortly after her arrival, an avalanche engulfs a young mountain dweller, and men start disappearing…
- [Nino](https://albertinefoundation.org/nino/) - In three days, Nino will face a major challenge. But first, his doctors have assigned him two vital tasks. Two missions that will lead the young man on a journey through Paris, compelling him to reconnect with the world - and himself.
- [Wild Foxes](https://albertinefoundation.org/wild-foxes/) - At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team. In the ring and in a man’s world, there’s no room for
- [Souleymane's Story](https://albertinefoundation.org/souleymanes-story/) - A Paris food delivery cyclist and asylum seeker named Souleymane has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency.
- [The Mohican](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-mohican/) - Joseph is the last shepherd on the island still grazing his goats on clifftop pastures overlooking the sea. But his land—passed down through generations—is coveted by the mafia and the forces of unchecked greed. When a group of menacing strangers arrives at his door to pressure him one final time, the standoff turns violent. A
- [The Ties That Bind Us](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-ties-that-bind-us/) - Exploring the challenges of modern family structures, the film follows a single father, a feminist librarian and a child seeking a place to belong as they navigate love and desires. It questions what it means to be a family.
- [The Marching Band](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-marching-band/) - A world-famous orchestra conductor and a blue-collar cafeteria worker discover they are brothers who were separated at birth. Despite their differences, they develop a bond through their mutual love of music. A Cannes premiere and Audience Award Winner at Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.
- [Palestine 36](https://albertinefoundation.org/palestine-36/) - Palestine, 1936. The great Arab revolt, aimed at establishing an independent state, is brewing while the territory is under British mandate.
- [Once Upon a Time in Gaza](https://albertinefoundation.org/once-upon-a-time-in-gaza/) - Gaza 2007. A young student named Yahia forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic dealer with a big heart. Together, they begin peddling drugs out of a falafel restaurant, but they are forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego…
- [It Was Just An Accident](https://albertinefoundation.org/it-was-just-an-accident/) - An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.
- [The Secret Agent](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-secret-agent/) - Amid the political turmoil of 1977 Brazil, a technology expert is forced into hiding and seeks help from the underground resistance as he tries to flee the country with his young son.
- [Little Amelie or the character of Rain](https://albertinefoundation.org/little-amelie-or-the-character-of-rain/) - The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family’s housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family’s idyllic life as foreigners
- [Arco](https://albertinefoundation.org/arco/) - In 2075, a ten year old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
- [Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk](https://albertinefoundation.org/put-your-hand-on-your-soul-and-walk/) - This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatem. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that
- [A Private Life](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-private-life/) - The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
- [Lumière, le Cinéma](https://albertinefoundation.org/lumiere-le-cinema-2/) - In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière invented the Cinématographe and shot some of the very first films in the history of moving pictures: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, Tables Turned on the Gardener… With their discovery of mise-en-scène, tracking shots and even special effects and remakes, they also invented the art of cinema itself!
- [Nouvelle Vague](https://albertinefoundation.org/nouvelle-vague/) - This is the story of Godard making “Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.
- [Promised Sky](https://albertinefoundation.org/promised-sky/) - An Ivorian pastor and former journalist, Marie, opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women: Naney, Jolie, and Kenza. A mother desperate to obtain residency status in Tunisia, Naney seeks a better life for herself and her daughter. Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family’s expectations for
- [Afternoons of Solitudes](https://albertinefoundation.org/afternoons-of-solitudes/) - The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.
- [Little Sister](https://albertinefoundation.org/little-sister/) - Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path,grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole newworld, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one
- [Case 137](https://albertinefoundation.org/case-137/) - Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates police violence against young protester Guillaume during chaotic Paris demonstrations, uncovering institutional secrets and a personal connection from her hometown. Her probe reveals potential cover-ups in a tense crime drama.
- [Two Prosecutors](https://albertinefoundation.org/two-prosecutors/) - Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev.
- [Young Mothers](https://albertinefoundation.org/young-mothers/) - Five teenage mothers in a Belgian maternity shelter confront poverty, addiction, and neglect while striving for better futures for themselves and their children, aided by dedicated staff in this realist drama. Set in Alleur, it portrays their raw struggles with humanity and hope.
- [Resurrection](https://albertinefoundation.org/resurrection/) - Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates police violence against young protester Guillaume during chaotic Paris demonstrations, uncovering institutional secrets and a personal connection from her hometown. Her probe reveals potential cover-ups in a tense crime drama.
- [The Stranger](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-stranger/) - In French Algeria, Meursault drifts through life and love with mysterious detachment. When he stands accused of murdering an Arab man, indifference is his only alibi in François Ozon’s fresh take on Albert Camus’s classic novel.
- [Film Selection 2025](https://albertinefoundation.org/film-selection/) - Contemporary Films ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTOLE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO DAHOMEY THE EMPIREL'EMPIRE FROM GROUND ZERO, AN ANTHOLOGY FLOW GHOST TRAILLES FANTÔMES HOLY COWVINGT DIEUX IT'S NOT MEC'EST PAS MOI KYIV THEATRE: AN ISLAND OF HOPEAU BORD DE LA GUERRE, ARIANE MNOUCHKINE ET LE THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL À KYIV LAST Contemporary Films ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTOLE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO DAHOMEY THE EMPIREL'EMPIRE FROM GROUND ZERO, AN ANTHOLOGY FLOW GHOST TRAILLES FANTÔMES HOLY COWVINGT DIEUX IT'S NOT MEC'EST PAS MOI KYIV THEATRE: AN ISLAND OF HOPEAU BORD DE LA GUERRE, ARIANE MNOUCHKINE ET LE THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL À KYIV LAST
- [When Fall is Coming](https://albertinefoundation.org/when-fall-is-coming-2/) - In a quiet Burgundy village, retired Michelle lives near her longtime friend Marie-Claude and looks forward to hosting her grandson Lucas for the school holidays. After Michelle, stressed during a visit from her Parisian daughter Valérie, accidentally serves poisonous mushrooms, Valérie survives but bans her from seeing Lucas, plunging Michelle into guilt and loneliness until
- [Leave One Day](https://albertinefoundation.org/leave-one-day/) - Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born. Far from the hubbub of Paris life, she runs into her teenage crush. The memories come flooding back, destabilizing her
- [Redisland](https://albertinefoundation.org/redisland/) - In 1970s Madagascar, 10-year-old Thomas on a fading French military base observes the crumbling colonial world, sexual tensions, and independence struggles through his family's life and spy fantasies. The film contrasts idyllic facades with underlying political and personal turmoil.
- [Lumière, le Cinéma](https://albertinefoundation.org/lumiere-le-cinema/) - In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière invented the Cinématographe and shot some of the very first films in the history of moving pictures: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, Tables Turned on the Gardener… With their discovery of mise-en-scène, tracking shots and even special effects and remakes, they also invented the art of cinema itself!
- [Ghost Trail](https://albertinefoundation.org/ghost-trail/) - Two years after his release from a Syrian prison, Hamid, now a construction worker in Strasbourg, joins a clandestine group tracking Syrian war criminals in Europe. Convinced he has recognized his former torturer living under a new identity, he begins a tense surveillance and is pushed toward revenge, forcing him to confront the moral cost
- [Villa Albertine Washington DC](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-washington-dc/) - Overview Washington, DC, is both the seat of American political power and the main site for demonstrations on the major issues affecting American society. Government and cultural institutions, especially the national museums of the Smithsonian, play a key role in helping Americans understand their past in order to face the challenges of the present and
- [Support Villa Albertine Miami](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-miami/support-villa-albertine-miami/) - Villa Albertine Miami is a program of the Albertine Foundation, in partnership with Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education. Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to the Albertine Foundation [EIN: 13-6165672] are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor, you will receive an automated tax receipt and
- [Villa Albertine Miami](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-miami/) - Overview What we know about Miami is often limited to Instagram-friendly trendy Miami Beach spots. Yet the city is constantly changing. It is a crossroad of the Caribbean and Latin America, a crucible of countless diasporas where Spanish has emerged as the everyday language. Miami is known for its Latin lifestyle, but its unruly teenage
- [Support Villa Albertine Houston](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-houston/support-villa-albertine-houston/) - Villa Albertine Houston is a program of the Albertine Foundation, in partnership with Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education. Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to the Albertine Foundation [EIN: 13-6165672] are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor, you will receive an automated tax receipt and
- [Villa Albertine Houston](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-houston/) - Overview Villa Albertine host residency programs all over Texas, including in Houston and Marfa. These two cities are a study in contrasts for the Lone Star state: dubbed the “Bayou City,” the former is a sprawling, multicultural metropolis and a hub for the oil and aerospace industries, whereas the latter is a small rural desert
- [Villa Albertine Boston](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-boston/) - Overview The Boston Tea Party, Harvard, MIT – symbols that designate Boston as a cradle of the United States, the Athens of America, and a leader in the high-tech sector. This industrial city has gradually transformed itself into a hub of scientific excellence and technological innovation, as evidenced by Route 128, which connects more than
- [Support Villa Albertine New Orleans](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-new-orleans/support-villa-albertine-new-orleans/) - Villa Albertine New Orleans is a program of the Albertine Foundation, in partnership with Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education. Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to the Albertine Foundation [EIN: 13-6165672] are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor, you will receive an automated tax receipt
- [Villa Albertine New Orleans](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-new-orleans/) - Overview New Orleans – the birthplace of jazz, American Mardi Gras capital, and catalyst for the revival of the global French-speaking community. The city has long been etched upon the collective imagination, especially for the French. Hiding behind these familiar images (some of which remain a living part of the cultural landscape) lies a complex
- [Support Villa Albertine Atlanta](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-atlanta/support-villa-albertine-atlanta/) - We are actively seeking engagement from individuals, foundations, and corporate partners to support our activities in the Atlanta area. Albertine Foundation [EIN # 13-6165672] is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation by Internal Revenue Service determination and your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor to the Villa Albertine Atlanta program, you
- [Support Villa Albertine Boston](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-boston/support-villa-albertine-boston/) - Villa Albertine Boston is a program of the Albertine Foundation, in partnership with Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education. Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to the Albertine Foundation [EIN: 13-6165672] are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor, you will receive an automated tax receipt and
- [Support Villa Albertine Washington DC](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-washington-dc/support-villa-albertine-washington-dc/) - Villa Albertine Washington DC is a program of the Albertine Foundation, in partnership with Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education. Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions to the Albertine Foundation [EIN: 13-6165672] are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. As a donor, you will receive an automated tax receipt
- [Partners and Donors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-los-angeles/partners-donors/) - We would like to express our deepest gratitude for the generosity of our donors, whose support is essential to making all of these projects possible: — Gregory & Regina Annenberg Weingarten — Esther Chui-Chao & Andrea Chao-Kharma — Gisèle & Andy Chulack — Stanislas & Elizabeth Debreu — Elisabeth & Arthur Forney — Robert Galstian
- [Villa Albertine Atlanta](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/villa-albertine-atlanta/) - Overview The Villa Albertine Atlanta program is dedicated to fostering connections between France and the Southeastern United States, encompassing Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. The Southeastern United States is undergoing a creative renaissance, transforming its complex history into a source of innovation. From the musical legacies of the Mississippi Delta, Memphis,
- [Cities](https://albertinefoundation.org/cities/) - UNDER CONSTRUCTION Chapters Albertine Chicago Albertine Los Angeles Albertine San Francisco Cities Villa Albertine Atlanta Villa Albertine Boston Villa Albertine Houston Villa Albertine Miami Villa Albertine New Orleans Villa Albertine Washington DC Administration Flore Fouret | Executive Directorflore.fouret@albertinefoundation.org
- [Contact](https://albertinefoundation.org/contact/) - Administration Flore Fouret | Executive Directorflore.fouret@albertinefoundation.org For General Questionsinfo@albertinefoundation.org Cultural Programs ALBERTINE CINEMANathalie Charlesnathalie.charles@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE DANCELouise Dodetlouise.dodet@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE DESIGN & CRAFTZoé Appyzoe.appy@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE IDEASVincent Manovincent.mano@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE LITERATURE & TRANSLATIONVincent Manovincent.mano@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE MUSEUMS & HERITAGEOlivia Bourratolivia.bourrat@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE MUSICDylan Hadidadylan.hadida@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE NEW MEDIACamille Jeanjeancamille.jeanjean@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE RESIDENCIES & POST-RESIDENCIESLina Pamartlina.pamart@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE THEATERLouise Dodetlouise.dodet@villa-albertine.org ALBERTINE VISUAL ARTSGuillaume Lefevreguillaume.lefevre@villa-albertine.org Education
- [Audits & Financials](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-portal/audits-financials/) - / 2024 / Albertine Foundation - Audited Financial StatementsAlbertine Foundation - Form 990 / 2023 / Albertine Foundation - Audited Financial StatementsAlbertine Foundation - Form 990 / 2022 / Albertine Foundation - Audited Financial StatementsAlbertine Foundation - Form 990 / 2021 / FACE Foundation - Audited Financial StatementsFACE Foundation - CHAR 500FACE Foundation - Form
- [About Albertine Foundation](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/) - Albertine Foundation (formerly known as FACE Foundation) is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In partnership with Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education of the French Embassy in the United States, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary and educational exchange and collaboration between creative
- [Albertine Design and Craft](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-design-craft/) - Oui Design! Oui Design!, a program of Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine is a curated path of open studios, designer talks, exhibitions, and exclusive events that celebrates the rich tradition of collaboration between the French and American design scenes. Oui Design! is conducted in partnership with Mobilier national. Oui Design! 2025 Experience the third edition of
- [Albertine Museums and Heritage](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-museums-heritage/) - The Albertine Museums & Heritage program, created by the Institut français des Etats-Unis – Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation, aims to respond to the many requests and needs for support of French museums and Heritage institutions in their American challenges and projects. The growing importance of these subjects within Villa Albertine is intended to concern
- [Festivals & Initiatives](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/)
- [Guidelines](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/festival-grant/) - ONLY REGISTERED MEMBER OF ALBERTINE CINEMATHEQUE CAN APPLY UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THE NEW PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE ! Starting this year, members will apply for a grant in the fall to support their French film festival on campus the following year — prior to the announcement of the new film selection. The grantees and the 2026–2027 Film
- [F. A. Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/f-a-q/) - How can I apply to Albertine Translation? Applications must be submitted electronically via the Albertine Foundation portal. I am an American publisher. Can I be the recipient of more than one of the programs listed on your website? A publisher can apply for both our Acquisition of Rights and Albertine Translation Fund programs – those
- [Eligibility & Guidelines](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/guidelines/) - Eligibility The Albertine Translation program prioritizes books that were published in France within the past 10 years. However, each funding cycle may include one grant for a classic work of French or Francophone literature—a title that has been previously overlooked or needs a new translation. Authors, agents, translators, French and American publishers may apply for
- [Curatorial Fellowships](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/curatorial-fellowships/) - Overview Etant donnés offers grants to American curators wishing to conduct research on the French visual art scene. These grants are intended to expand the opportunities of American curators, to encourage in-depth explorations of French cultural resources, and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and knowledge among artists, professionals, researchers, and institutions.
- [Creative Grants](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/creative-grants/) - Guidelines These grants provide financial support to American and French nonprofit institutions (museums, art centers, etc.) wishing to organize exhibitions featuring living French or France-based artists and American artists, respectively. The aim is to encourage the international development of American and French contemporary art institutions, to support the French art scene and American artists to
- [Albertine Visual Arts](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/) - Overview Etant donnés is a program which aims to foster, promote and support artistic performances and creations, through cultural institutions and artistic exchanges. For 30 years, Etant donnés has focused on introducing French and American visual artists whose works have rarely, if ever, been shown in the United States or in France. It aims also
- [F.A.Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/f-a-q/) - What is Albertine Theater? Albertine Theater is a program of Villa Albertine in partnership with Albertine Foundation that provides grants to non-profit organizations supporting contemporary theatrical forms (such as theater, circus, puppetry, street theater, and hybrid forms) between France and the United States. What are the deadlines? THE 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IS CLOSED Can
- [Albertine Theater](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/) - Overview Since 1999, Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine have proudly undertaken a comprehensive program dedicated to theater. Albertine Theater aims to encourage and support collaborative endeavors between French and American artists in contemporary theater, circus, puppetry, street theater or hybrid forms by allocating grants to French and American nonprofit venues. Discover the 2025 grantees
- [Touring Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/touring-grant/) - Promoting French musicians and ensembles in the United States is a core goal of the program. Touring projects will be supported with up to 10,000 dollars, solely for projects confirmed by an American presenting venue. Project Eligibility — Tours must include at least 3 shows or public programs (masterclasses are considered).— Ensembles and artists must be based
- [Educational Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/educational-grant/) - Educational and artistic exchange programs, including master classes, workshops, and teaching residencies in U.S. academic institutions and schools will be supported with up to 10,000 dollars. PROJECT ELIGIBILITY — Educational and artistic exchange programs may include master classes, workshops, and teaching residencies in U.S. academic institutions and schools. Priority will be given to: — Projects
- [Creative Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/creative-grant/) - The program encourages applications for projects resulting in the creation of new works. Commissions by American ensembles to French composers or composers based in France, as well as collaborations between French and American musicians and institutions will be supported with up to 10,000 dollars. Project Eligibility — Commissions may include arrangements, compositions, rehearsals, performances and recordings.— U.S.
- [Albertine Music](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/) - Overview Albertine Music is a comprehensive grant program designed to support musical projects between French and American artists and ensembles in the fields of jazz and classical music—from Baroque to contemporary. This initiative marks an important step forward for Villa Albertine and the Albertine Foundation, deepening musical dialogues between France and the United States. The
- [F. A. Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/f-a-q/) - What is FUSED? Albertine Theater FUSED is a program of Villa Albertine in partnership with Albertine Foundation that provides grants to non-profit organizations supporting contemporary dance projects between France and the United States. What are the deadlines? THE 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IS CLOSED Can you present my performance? Our organizations are not presenters and
- [Albertine Dance](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/) - Overview Since its inception in 2004, FUSED: French-U.S. Exchange in Dance fosters collaborative initiatives between France and United States based artists in contemporary dance by allocating grants to nonprofit venues. Over the past twenty years, FUSED has provided more than $2 million dollars to over 220 projects, showcasing the cultural and artistic diversity of contemporary
- [TRANSATLANTIC RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP ](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/) - Overview The Transatlantic Research Partnership (TRP) provides a 2-year grant to support collaborative research projects, jointly led by US-based and France-based scholars. The program fosters an interdisciplinary community of France- and US-educated researchers, enhancing mobility and amplifying the impact of their research on academia and society. TRP serves as an incubator for ambitious initiatives and
- [Guidelines](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/application-guidelines/) - General Information The Transatlantic Research Partnership aims to encourage innovative research and new collaborations, with a view to supporting projects involving young researchers. Created by the Embassy of France in the United States and the Albertine Foundation, the Transatlantic Research Partnership fosters forward-looking collaborative research that addresses pressing global challenges. To this end, the program
- [Trustees Bios](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-portal/trustees/) - CHRIS ALLEXANDRE Chris Allexandre has been living in San Francisco since 2014 with his wife Audrey and their three children, Mateo, Tilo and Lily-Jeanne. Previously they lived for 10 years in Shanghai, China and Munich, Germany. Chris is an executive in the semiconductors industry as well as board member, adviser and investor in technology start-ups.
- [Board of Trustees](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-of-trustees/) - Honorary Chair H.E. Laurent BiliEx officio, French Ambassador to the United States Trustees Patrick Pagni | ChairChairman & CEO of Lexington Global Distribution Partners Slawomir Krupa | Vice ChairCEO Societe Generale Clémence Boissonnas Molin | Vice PresidentAdministrator at Financiere Clairac Adrienne Halpern | SecretaryCo-President at Rialto Pictures Aymeric Lepeu | TreasurerChief Financial Officer / Chief Operating
- [Pedagogical Project Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/annual-grant-program/) - Supporting schools that provide free French classes to Francophone students. In 2023, school districts, after school programs, and community organizations wishing to implement affordable French courses for youth for whom French is a heritage language were invited to apply for a grant of up to $30,000. The funds are intended to serve as a catalyst
- [French Heritage Language Program](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/) - Overview Created in 2005, the main goal of the French Heritage Language Program (FHLP) is to help francophone immigrants and young Americans with francophone background to maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage. FHLP has been dedicated to supporting underserved French-speaking youths making French an asset for new Americans. We also directly contribute to college readiness
- [Professional Learning Opportunities](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/future-immersion-teacher-fellowship/) - Ongoing training for DLI teachers and administrators is crucial to maintain high teaching standards, stay updated with DLI education best practices, and ensure effective language immersion for students. For this purpose, the Albertine Foundation supports ongoing professional development through two initiatives : the French for All Summer Institute and the French Dual Language Leadership Seminar.
- [French Teaching Intern Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/french-teaching-intern-grant/) - Supporting Schools to Host French Teaching Interns The Call for Proposals 2026/2027 for the French Dual Language Fund is now closed. Decisions will be communicated in April 2026. We are pleased to invite you to apply for a $4,000 grant from the French Dual Language Fund that will support your school in hosting one or
- [Pedagogical Project Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/annual-grant-program/) - We invite teachers and administrators of American K-12 public schools, school districts, state agencies who manage French dual language and immersion programs to apply for a grant in the amount of $3,000 to $10,000 to support a specific project aimed at promoting the objectives of the Fund. The project should address one of the four
- [French Dual Language Fund](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/) - Overview French dual language programs offer bilingual education and an exceptional multicultural learning environment to children in public schools across the United States. With classes conducted in both French and English, these programs draw from the best educational models that both countries have to offer. What is the French Dual Language Fund? The French Dual
- [CinéSchool 2025-2026](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/cineschool-2025-2026/) - The Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States presented the fifth edition of CinéSchool for the school year 2025-2026. CinéSchool broadened the availability of French-speaking cinema for schools and students across the US by offering a selection of 9 free movies adapted for vairous age groups,
- [Lafayette Fellowship](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/lafayette-fellowship/) - Objectives Designed to support the next generation of young leaders with a strong interest in the transatlantic relationship, the Lafayette Fellowship will fund one year of master’s-level study in France for up to 30 outstanding American students. Open to both Francophone and non-Francophone candidates, the program partners with leading French academic institutions across STEM, humanities,
- [F. A. Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/f-a-q/) - Program & Application Process What is meant by supporting ‘young researchers’? Projects should be carried out by principal investigators in the early stages of their careers, within 8 years of obtaining their PhD. PhD students cannot be principal investigators, but their involvement is strongly encouraged. How can we involve PhD students? Project investigators are encouraged to
- [Albertine Chicago](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-chicago/) - Overview The Chicago Chapter of Albertine Foundation is committed to fostering connection between the City of Chicago, the Midwest region of the United States, and France. This program supports numerous projects in on three main cultural fields: Art, Education, and Architecture. Through these initiatives, we initiate and strengthen exchanges between French and Chicago artists, creators, academics,
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/partners-sponsors/) - Ford Foundation fordfoundation.org Institut français The Institut français works in partnership with French embassies and cultural centers or institutes around the world to support and organize events such as exhibitions, festivals, symposia, residencies and publications to promote French contemporary creation abroad and exchanges in the arts. institutfrancais.com French Ministry of Culture The French Ministry of
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/partners-sponsors/) - Ford Foundation fordfoundation.org Institut français The Institut Français works in partnership with French embassies and cultural centers or institutes around the world to support and organize events such as exhibitions, festivals, symposia, residencies and publications to promote French contemporary creation abroad and exchanges in the arts. institutfrancais.com French Ministry of Culture The French Ministry of
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/partners-sponsors/) - Ministère de la Culture The mission of the French Ministry of Culture is to make accessible to a grander public the essential works of humanity, and above all the works from France. The Ministry develops cultural policies dedicated to the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage in all its aspects, and supports the creation of
- [Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/current-grantees/) - Creative Grants Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art – Shu Lea Cheang New York, NY | Starting October 2025"LOVER, LOVE," curated by Stamatina Gregory Shu Lea Cheang has conceived an ambitious commission for the context of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, a space dedicated to LGBTQIA+ art and artists. Cheang’s recent US tour associated with her film, Fresh Kill (1994),
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/partners-sponsors/) - Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/ Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ Support The Transatlantic Research Partnership is a program of Albertine Foundation. Albertine Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable foundation and contributions to its programs are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For all donation and sponsorship
- [Selected Projects](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/previous-projects/) - The Transatlantic Research Partnership is proud to support the following projects: CNRS ; AMU (UMR)Westchester UniversityProject: Profiling Education finance regimes a cross-national study Université de Reims Champagne-ArdennesEmory UniversityProject: Integrating predictive modeling and la méthode prospective to support sustainable agricultural transitions in France and the U.S. ENSUniversity of MaineProject: Ice Histories of Central Caucasus Sciences Po
- [Support Us](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-los-angeles/support/) - Albertine Los Angeles, in partnership with Villa Albertine Los Angeles, is committed to fostering connection between the city of Los Angeles, the southwestern region of the United States, and France. By focusing on three main cultural fields: Art, Education, and Cinema, Albertine Los Angeles engages, entwines, and elevates the offerings of these communities. Albertine Los
- [Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/previous-grantees/) - GRANTEES 2025 JAZZ | Touring Grant SextylédoneMobke U.S.A. Spring tour 2026 Sophia Domancich (FR)Lesley Mok (US)Nick Lyons (US)Théo Girard (FR) March 26 – April 4, 2026New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Minneapolis, MN; Madison, WI; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI The Franco-American quartet Mobke was founded by Théo Girard in 2022 with support from Le
- [2025 Films on the Green Festival in the U.S.](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/the-2024-edition/) - The 16 edition of Films on the Green brings this summer 11 French and international movies celebrating sports in cinema to New York City parks.
- [Community College in France](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/community-college-in-france/) - Bringing study abroad opportunities to Community College students across the US. Community College in France aims at building connections between U.S. Community Colleges and French higher education institutions, and increase diversity and inclusion in study abroad. As part of this initiative, the Embassy of France and Albertine Foundation offer community college students with a strong
- [Support Albertine Los Angeles](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-los-angeles/support-albertine-los-angeles-new-page/) - Albertine Los Angeles, in partnership with Villa Albertine Los Angeles, is committed to fostering connection between the city of Los Angeles, the southwestern region of the United States, and France. By focusing on three main cultural fields: Art, Education, and Cinema, Albertine Los Angeles engages, entwines, and elevates the offerings of these communities. Albertine Los
- [Albertine Foundation France](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-foundation-france/) - SOUTENIR ALBERTINE FOUNDATION FRANCE AU SEIN DU FONDS DE DOTATION TRANSATLANTIQUE Fondé en juin 2021, Albertine Foundation France hébergé par le Fonds de Dotation Transatlantique a pour objectif de soutenir des actions contribuant à la promotion de la culture ou de la langue française, au renforcement des liens entre la France et les Etats-Unis, ainsi
- [Albertine San Francisco](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-san-francisco/) - Overview The San Francisco Chapter of Albertine Foundation is committed to fostering connection between the City of San Francisco, the northwestern region of the United States, covering Northern California, Northern Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the Pacific Islands under US jurisdiction (Guam and Samoa). We support numerous Villa Albertine San
- [Albertine Los Angeles](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-los-angeles/) - Overview The Los Angeles Chapter of Albertine Foundation is committed to fostering connection between the city of Los Angeles, the southwestern region of the United States, and the nation of France. By focusing on three main cultural fields: Art, Education, and Cinema, the Los Angeles Chapter of Albertine Foundation engages, entwines, and elevates the offerings
- [Future Teachers Program](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/future-teachers-program/) - Part of French for All, this program leverages the skills of French-speaking Americans of all backgrounds to train a new generation of French teachers, notably through the creation of the TAPIF to Teacher and the French Teaching Fast Track training. We offer Americans and native French speakers support to become teachers of French with 150
- [French in Higher Education](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-in-higher-education/) - Languages are more important than ever to understand diverse communities, excel in business or tackle global challenges. It is the critical mission of language departments in colleges and universities to prepare this next generation of citizens. The French Embassy in the United States and Albertine Foundation have joined forces to support innovation in French and Francophone
- [Support](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/support-the-fdlf/) - Thanks to the generous support of our donors, the French Dual Language Fund supports the expansion of bilingual education through the following initiatives: • Support pedagogical projects in 200 schools ($150,000/year in grants). • Allocate scholarships for 120 future teachers ($180,000/year in scholarships). • Fund 75 interns from France ($70,000/year in stipends). • Support the
- [French DL Schools in the U.S.](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/grantees/) - Map of French Dual Language and Immersion Programs Nationwide
- [French For All](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/) - Supporting foreign language education across the United States, French For All encompasses 4 programs: K-12 French Dual Language Fund Launched in 2017, expands and supports bilingual K-12 programs in American public schools. These programs focus mainly on Title 1 schools, where the majority of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The French Dual Language
- [CinéSchool 2024-2025](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/cineschool-2024-2025/) - Albertine Foundation, Villa Albertine, and the French Embassy in the US presented the fourth edition of CinéSchool for the school year 2024-2025. CinéSchool broadened the availability of French-speaking cinema for schools and students across the US by offering a selection of 9 free movies adapted for vairous age groups, and available on the streaming platform
- [Support us](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/partners-sponsors/) - For the last 17th years, Films on the Green has brought contemporary and classic French and Francophone cinema to New York City and has expanded tremendously from presenting at small community gardens to the notable grassy venues of Central Park, Washington Square Park and Riverside Park. Festival themes have varied over the years and ranged from Women
- [Previous NYC Festival Editions](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/) - Festival themes have varied over the years and ranged from musical comedies and Mediterranean cinema to literary adaptations. Films on the Green 2024 | Sports and Cinema Films on the Green 2023 | The Art of Dance in FilmFilms on the Green 2022 | From Page to Screen Films on the Green 2021 | Music
- [Albertine Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/) - Films on the Green C’est Chic! Fashion-themed “Films on the Green” Festival Brings Free French Films Nationwide Starting May 30! This summer, cinephiles visiting local parks will be captivated by the glamour of French fashion through Films on the Green, Albertine Foundation and Villa Albertine’s free outdoor French film festival. This year’s selection of films
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/partners-sponsors/) - The Florence Gould Endowment for Literary Exchange The Florence Gould Endowment for Literary Exchange (a unique endowment funded by the Florence Gould Foundation) provides support to Writers’ Residencies within the Villa Albertine initiatives, and to the Albertine Translation program. Institut français Under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institut français implements France’s cultural
- [Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/current-grantees/) - 2024 - first session 2024 - second session 2023 - first session 2023 - second session
- [Support Albertine San Francisco](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-san-francisco/support-albertine-san-francisco/) - How to Contribute Albertine Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation. [EIN # 13-6165672] Contributions to Albertine San Francisco are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.As a donor, you will receive a tax receipt as well as a recognition letter from Albertine Foundation. Please note that our preferred methods of contribution are by wire transfer
- [2025 Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/current-grantees/) - Announcing the 2025 Theatre & New Forms Grantees Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation are pleased to announce the laureates of the 2025 Theatre & New Forms grants, which support theater, circus, puppetry, street theater, and hybrid forms. This initiative aims to foster artistic exchanges in the contemporary field between France and the United States, by
- [2025 Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/grantees/) - Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation are delighted to announce the laureates of 2025 FUSED grants, which support contemporary dance. This initiative aims to foster artistic exchanges in the contemporary field between France and the United States, by supporting tours and collaborative projects related to the performing arts. Discover the 2025 supported projects, which will tour
- [Sudan, Remember Us](https://albertinefoundation.org/sudan-remember-us/) - A collective portrait of the young Sudanese generation fighting for freedom through their words, poems, chants, and artistic creativity. Dreaming of a new Sudan led by a democratic and civilian government, they risk everything in their impassioned revolution to overthrow the country's military regime in the tumultuous years leading up to a military coup and
- [Previous Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/previous-grantees/) - 2024 Nadia BeugréQUARTIERS LIBRES (revisited) Walker Arts Center – Minneapolis, MNFrench Institute Alliance Française, New York, NY Are there spaces where we cannot go? Places that we do not have the right to explore? And if we penetrate them, what would happen, what would we become? 12 years after its premiere in France, Nadia revisits
- [Previous Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/previous-grantees/) - 2024 Touring Grants This grant is designed for tours in the United States by France-based companies or artists from Africa, the West Indies, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, that receive support from French institutions. Elise VigneronLes Vagues Directed by Élise VigneronWith Chloée Sanchez, Zoé Lizot, Loïc Carcassès, Thomas Cordeiro, Azusa Takeuchi (or Yumi Osanai)
- [Laureates](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-mobility-program/laureates/) - 2024 I/ University of Pittsburgh & Université Lyon 2 For an integrated research strategy in student education. Development of international cooperation II/Georgia Institute of Technology & Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Marseille (ENSA-M) Atlanta Marseille Urban Studies III/ Arkansas State University & Centrale Supélec, Multicultural research-based training for the next generation of materials scientists, engineers
- [2025 Auction Highlights](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-san-francisco/2025-auction-highlights/) - Lot 1 Your Ultimate VIP Cultural Experience in ParisTailor your bespoke itinerary by selecting from the once-in-a-lifetime experiences below For 4 guests · Flexible dates available before May 2026 Option #1 Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Mobilier NationalFrance’s Royal & Presidential Furnishings Collection (Paris) Enter the Mobilier National—the legendary institution safeguarding the opulent furnishings of
- [Selection Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/selection-committee/) - Alessandra Benedicty-KokkenResearch Coordinator and Senior Researcher, Research Center of Material Culture Rebecca ByersPublishing Consultant, Freelance Roger CelestinProfessor of French and Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut Peter ConsensteinProfessor of French, CUNY, Graduate Center Stéphane GersonProfessor of French and French Studies, New York University Kaiama GloverProfessor of African American Studies and French, Yale University
- [Sports and Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/sports-and-cinema/) - In 2024, Films on the Green returned to celebrate 'Sports and Cinema' with a captivating selection of French and international cinema. From May 31 to September 6, the 16th festival edition showcased 11 stunning features across eight beautiful parks in Manhattan and Brooklyn, celebrate the thrill, competition, and triumph of sports. Check out the 2024
- [The Art of Dance in Film](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/the-art-of-dance-in-film/) - The 15th edition of Films on the Green brought a lineup of 12 French and international movies celebrating the art of dance in film to New York CIty parks.
- [Passages](https://albertinefoundation.org/passages/) - Celebrated independent filmmaker Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Keep the Lights On) makes a breathtaking return with PASSAGES, a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on romantic chaos, featuring emotionally nuanced performances from Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom), Ben Whishaw (Women Talking) and Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is the Warmest Color). Set in contemporary Paris, this seductive
- [CinéSchool 2022-2033](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/cineschool-2022-2023/) - Albertine Foundation, Villa Albertine, and the French Embassy in the US presented the second edition of CinéSchool for the school year 2022-2023. French teachers got access to educational resources for each movie, and thanks to digital tools like Flip, students were able to share their reviews in French about the films. Directors David Alaux (Les
- [CinéSchool 2021-2022](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/cineschool-2021-2022/) - Albertine Foundation, Villa Albertine, and the French Embassy in the US launched the first edition of CinéSchool for the school year 2021-2022. CinéSchool broadened the availability of French-speaking cinema for schools and students across the US by offering a selection of 11 free movies adapted for vairous age groups, and available on the streaming platform
- [CinéSchool 2023-2024](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/cineschool/previous-editions/cineschool-2023-2024/) - Albertine Foundation, Villa Albertine, and the French Embassy in the US presented the third edition of CinéSchool for the school year 2023-2024. CinéSchool broadened the availability of French-speaking cinema for schools and students across the US by offering a selection of 10 free movies adapted for vairous age groups, and available on the streaming platform
- [Albertine Higher Education](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/)
- [City/Cité](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/city-cite/) - Designed in 2015 and first implemented in Chicago and San Francisco, City/Cité is a transatlantic cooperation and exchange program on urban issues and city making, initiated by Villa Albertine. In 2022, City/Cité came to Atlanta for the first time with discussions and artistic programming that highlight connections in culture, urban development, and society between Atlanta
- [Albertine Dance Season 2023](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-dance-season-2023/) - A YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION OF THE ART OF DANCEFROM INCEPTION TO PERFORMANCE For many years, international dance exchange between France and the United States has been thriving. The ability to cultivate new relationships and reinforce dynamic cooperation among individuals and institutions across the Atlantic has nurtured and given rise to a new generation of artists and
- [Sounds of New York](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/sounds-of-new-york/) - From April 8 to 12, 2024, Sounds of New York will welcome seven French podcasters to take part in a one-week learning expedition to New York to meet key industry players. This program from Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation, supported by Spotify, Radio France, RFI (France Médias Monde), SACD, Institut français, INA, Ausha and Paradiso Media —
- [Albertine Residencies](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-residencies/) - Villa Albertine's Residencies is a new kind of cultural endeavour whose purpose is to create a community for arts and ideas, between France and the United States. The historic Villa model, which offers a space to welcome a group of residents in a unique setting abroad, meets its limitations when transported to the United States.
- [Albertine New Media](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/) - Overview French Immersion is a program initiated by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and developed to support emerging and innovative French creators. Albertine Foundation and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, in partnership with UniFrance, the Institut Français, the CNC, launched this program in 2018 to support producers and creators of VR
- [Albertine Ideas](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-ideas/) - Night of Ideas Night of Ideas is a virtual marathon of philosophical debate and artistic performances. The event is coordinated by the Institut Français and co-produced by Villa Albertine - French Embassy. The global live stream is available to stream at nightofideas.org All events are free and open to the public. nightofideas.org
- [The Beauty of the Devil](https://albertinefoundation.org/beauty-of-the-devil/) - Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature... whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life. But with youth, Faust's interest is diverted from science to women. And Mephistopheles,
- [The Count of Monte Cristo](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo/) - Marseille, 1815. All of young Edmond Dantès’ dreams are about to come true –promoted to ship’s captain he can finally marry the love of hislife, Mercedes.But his success inspires jealousy from various quarters. Betrayed by his rivals and denounced as a member of a pro-Bonaparte conspiracy, he is imprisoned without trial at the Château d’If, with no hope of return.
- [Misericordia](https://albertinefoundation.org/misericordia/) - The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has
- [When Fall is Coming](https://albertinefoundation.org/when-fall-is-coming/) - After a tumultuous life in Paris, Michelle (Hélène Vincent) has retired to a quiet existence in Burgundy, tending her garden and attending services at her parish. The voracious hostility of her adult daughter Valérie (Ludivine Sagnier) remains Michelle’s great puzzlement: how can a child for whom she sacrificed so much treat her with such contempt
- [The Wages of Fear](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-wages-of-fear/) - In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of
- [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg/) - An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely
- [The Temple Woods Gang](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-temple-woods-gang/) - A gang of small-time criminals in a working-class French suburb stage a daring heist against a mysterious Saudi Prince. “Like all of this great French-Algerian director’s films, The Temple Woods Gang rages at the conditions of our oppression.” – Screen Slate “One of the ten best films of the year.” – Cahiers du Cinéma “One
- [The Crazy Ray](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-crazy-ray/) - The Crazy Ray represented a delightfully entertaining feature debut for the young René Clair. Also known as Paris Qui Dort, Clair's 1924 film humorously combines the new art of the cinema with other modern symbols: the airplane and the Eiffel Tower. Again, Clair re-edited the film in the '50s to the concise featurette presented here.
- [Terrorists in Retirement](https://albertinefoundation.org/terrorists-in-retirement/) - Too controversial to be shown on French TV when first released – after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1983 – TERRORISTS IN RETIREMENT is the story of men and women from Armenia, Poland, and Romania, mostly Jews, who fought the German occupation of Paris during World War II. Most infamously, there were
- [Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat](https://albertinefoundation.org/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/) - United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez explores a moment when
- [Sisterhood](https://albertinefoundation.org/sisterhood/) - Despite their different social backgrounds, Amina, Djeneba, and Zineb have been friends for as long as they can remember. When Zineb experiences harassment from her brother's best friend, Amina decides to post a compromising video of him on social media, hoping he will stop. Little does she know that the video will not only jeopardize
- [Red Island](https://albertinefoundation.org/red-island/) - Living on one of the last remaining military bases admist a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family's blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering the hidden
- [No Chains, No Masters](https://albertinefoundation.org/no-chains-no-masters/) - In 1759, the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean is under French colonial rule. The enslaved population working in the sugar cane plantation live in constant fear. Among them, 16-year-old Mati refuses to accept her fate. Unlike her father Massamba, who has grown disillusioned by years of oppression, Mati dreams of freedom and a
- [Meeting with Pol Pot](https://albertinefoundation.org/meeting-with-pol-pot/) - Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits,
- [Marcello Mio](https://albertinefoundation.org/marcello-mio/) - This is the story of a woman named Chiara. She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. During a summer that sees her reality fall into disarray, Chiara decides to live as her father. She dresses like him. She speaks like him. She breathes like him. Chiara's impersonation is so convincing
- [Last Summer](https://albertinefoundation.org/last-summer/) - With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion. A remarkably nuanced, radiant Léa Drucker plays Anne, an attorney who has plateaued in her marriage to
- [It's not me](https://albertinefoundation.org/its-not-me/) - French cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent 40 years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from Boy Meets Girl (NYFF23) and Lovers on the Bridge (NYFF30) to Holy Motors (NYFF50) and the recent musical Annette. In his new film, he lovingly evokes the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the
- [Holy Cow](https://albertinefoundation.org/holy-cow/) - Totone, 18 years old, spends most go his time drinking beers and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends. But reality catches up with him: he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He then sets out to make the best Comte cheese
- [The Beast](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-beast/) - The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris, Louis is a British man who woos
- [From Ground Zero](https://albertinefoundation.org/from-ground-zero/) - From Executive Producer Michael Moore and Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war, who captured their lives in Gaza amidst war. Using a blend of animation, documentary, and fiction, they create a powerful testament to the steadfastness of
- [Flow](https://albertinefoundation.org/flow/) - A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a
- [Dahomey](https://albertinefoundation.org/dahomey/) - Winner of the coveted Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale, DAHOMEY is an immersive and astounding work of art from Mati Diop – director of the award-winning Atlantics. Delving into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution, this acclaimed documentary is a poetic look at a seldom-discussed history. Taking place in
- [Auction](https://albertinefoundation.org/auction/) - André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day statingthat a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Veryskeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the truth: the painting is authentic, a masterpiece gonemissing since 1939, confiscated by
- [Army of Shadows](https://albertinefoundation.org/army-of-shadows/) - France, The Resistance: an escape from the Gestapo, so sudden and hairsbreadth as to leave the toughest of tough guys gasping with the icy sweat of terror and relief; two brothers remain unaware, to the end, of each other’s clandestine activities; patriots, who, in relentless pursuit of traitors, must steel themselves to the most brutal
- [All We Imagine As Light](https://albertinefoundation.org/all-we-imagine-as-light/) - The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire
- [A Woman is a Woman](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-woman-is-a-woman/) - When Angela (Karina) wants to have a baby, but finds her boyfriend Émile (Brialy) an unwilling participant, she goes to his friend Alfred (Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she'll go to his friend Alfred (Belmondo), proving the lengths to which she'll go to realize her dream. Festooned with enough eccentric musical moments to satisfy
- [A Prince](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-prince/) - Pierre-Joseph goes to an apprenticeship college to train as a gardener. There he meets a series of characters - Françoise Brown, the principal, Alberto, his botany teacher, and Adrien, his employer - who will prove decisive in his apprenticeship story and in unleashing his sexuality. Forty years later Kutta appears, Françoise Brown's adoptive child whom
- [Kyiv Theater, An Island of Hope](https://albertinefoundation.org/kyiv-theater-an-island-of-hope/) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 brings back dark memories of 1930s Europe for Ariane Mnouchkine, the 84-year-old theater director and founder of the prestigious Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. Against this backdrop and in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance, Mnouchkine decides to put together a theater workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine. Twelve days of intensive
- [The Empire](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-empire/) - In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. In an attempt to restore their empires, two opposing forces from the depths of outer space, One and Zero, unleash an apocalyptic conflict on Earth. The villainous Zero
- [Film Club Agenda](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/film-club/) - Our Film Club has a new format! — Streaming the film and Q&A is FREE and reserved to Albertine Cinémathèque members and their students. Become a member — Members can RSVP below to receive a link to access the film. Please forward the link to all your students so they can take advantage of the Albertine Cinémathèque
- [Grantees 2024](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/grantees/) - Creative Grants Creative grants support projects jointly conceived by French and American professional musicians and institutions that encourage artistic exploration, foster intercultural dialogue, and contribute to the dynamism of the musical aesthetics it defends. It also supports new commissions to French composers, especially in the field of new music. ISSUE Project Room Arrow and Synchronicity /
- [Sponsorship Opportunities](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-los-angeles/contribute-support/) - For Individuals Support us by making a tax-deductible contribution to the Los Angeles Chapter of Albertine Foundation and enjoy a selection of the following benefits that can be tailored to your objectives: PLEDGE $ 2,500 – $ 10,000 — Donor acknowledgment on the French Embassy, French Consulate in Los Angeles, and Albetine Foundation’s websites. —
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/partners-sponsors/) - Étant donnés is organized by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation with the exclusive sponsorship of AXA, in partnership with Institut Français, French Ministry of Culture and Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and ADAGP. AXA The AXA Group is a worldwide leader in insurance and asset management, with 145,000 employees serving 93 million clients in
- [Albertine Grants](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/)
- [Previous Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/previous-grantees/) - 2021 FRENCH VOICES GRAND PRIZE IN NON FICTION 2021 FRENCH VOICES GRAND PRIZE IN FICTION Catherine Malabou [Plaisir effacé]Tr. by Carolyn Shread, Polity Press(Plaisir effacé, Editions Payot & Rivages) In her new book, distinguished French thinker Catherine Malabou once again engages her characteristic deconstructive approach at the interface of psychoanalysis and philosophy. She focuses on the clitoris
- [F.A.Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/f-a-q/) - Under construction
- [Artistic Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/artistic-committee/) - The Artistic Committee is comprised of independent American and French professionals who specialize in performing arts. A Program Officer facilitates the operations and activities of the Artistic Committee and plays a vital role in assisting organizations to develop new projects, connect with potential partners, and evaluate the eligibility of their projects for support. Present &
- [Guidelines](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-mobility-program/guidelines/) - — Each institution can present one proposal only. — Select a project leader that will receive and manage the funds: either the French or the American Partner. This project leader will also fill out the application. — Provide information on the French and U.S. partner institutions: name of the institution, address, name of program coordinators,
- [Transatlantic Mobility Program](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-mobility-program/) - The Transatlantic Mobility Program offers funding for American and French Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to co-develop integrated programs of education through mobility. The program is a joint effort between Albertine Foundation, the Embassy of France in the United States, and the Embassy of the United States of America in France, to offer eligible institutions grants
- [Mobility Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/mobility-grant/) - Under Construction
- [Exhibition Grant](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/exhibition-grant/) - Under Construction
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/partners-sponsors/) - TO OUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS...THANK YOU & MERCI ! Foundations, Corporations & Organizations World Education Services (WES)Alfred & Jane Ross FoundationArthur Ross FoundationPrivate Donors Individual Donors Elizabeth and Bertil Lundqvist, Catherine Dumait Harper, Evelyne Estey, Elizabeth Ehrenkranz, Charlotte Collett, Harriet Saxon, Michel Beaujour, Alan Harper, Lavinia Lorch, Michelle Moss, Antoinette Botarelli, Paula Dietz, Ilse Nelson, Eugene
- [Support the FHLP](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/support-the-fhlp/) - Help us open new classes ! Donate to the Albertine Foundation French Heritage Language Program and give a chance for underserved schools and communities to keep up their French in the United States! Your donations are vital in helping us maintain and expand our French classes in public schools and community centers across the country.
- [News](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/news/) - Bravo to our graduating seniors We want to put a bright light on them and their stories because they are truly inspiring. We saw them once or twice a week in their schools and in their own words, "made them feel at home", giving them a space to be themselves, speak their languages and see
- [Resources](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/) - FIRST STEP ! CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY And help us improve these pages by filling out a short survey! Thank you / Merci Since its inception, the French Heritage Language Program has been able to produce and collect a wide variety of pedagogical resources. Below you will find links to eight distinct themes
- [News](https://albertinefoundation.org/news/) - FACE Foundation has now been renamed the Albertine Foundation. With a rich legacy dating back to the 1950s, Albertine Foundation (formerly known as FACE Foundation) has been a stalwart American nonprofit dedicated to fostering French American relations through dynamic cultural and educational initiatives. In close collaboration with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in
- [Chicagoland Seen: Grant Commission](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-chicago/chicagoland-seen/) - Overview Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation are pleased to announce a new grant commission program in support of photographers and other lens-based artists pursuing projects that explore unique aspects of Chicagoland, a region that reaches from the city of Chicago to surrounding areas in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. As the third largest metropolitan area in
- [Artistic Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/artistic-committee/) - Past PanelistsFRENCH AMERICAN JAZZ EXCHANGE Nasar Abadey, Franck Amsallem, Jamie Baum, Vincent Bessières, Pierre de Bethmann, Joanne Brackeen, Gene Dobbs Bradford, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Greg Caroll, Ron Carter, Susan Dadian, Riccardo Del Fra, Sophia Domancich, Jonathan Duclos-Arkilovitch, Alex Dutilh, Andy Elmer, James Emery, Macha Gharibian, John Gilbreath, Taylor Ho Bynum, Susie Ibarra, Karen Kennedy, Nguyên
- [YOU PROMISED ME THE SEA](https://albertinefoundation.org/you-promised-me-the-sea/) - French Brittany, nowadays. Still living at home, Saïd is carrying on a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to confront his family, he accepts an arranged marriage with Hadjira. She too has given in to her mother's demands, following a romantic disappointment and trouble with the law. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces
- [THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES](https://albertinefoundation.org/that-old-dream-that-moves/) - A chronicle of queer lust set against a greasy metallic environment of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the
- [CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO!](https://albertinefoundation.org/cassandro-the-exotico-2/) - This stirring feature portrait of lucha libre star Cassandro in his waning years in the ring is less a swan song than a meteor shower rendered in Technicolor. Famed as much for his flamboyant drag and sky-high pompadour as for his show-stopping kicks and flips, Cassandro’s trailblazing ascent as one the industry’s first openly gay
- [Water Lilies](https://albertinefoundation.org/water-lilies/) - Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage
- [Guidelines](https://albertinefoundation.org/guidelines/) - Call for Proposals – For transformative programs in French and Francophone studies French departments and programs can be found in a wide range of institutions across the United States, from community colleges to public and private colleges and universities. In recent years, these programs have undergone significant transformations. They have embraced the concept of Francophonie,
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-chicago/partners-sponsors/) - We would like to express our deepest gratitude for the generosity of our donors, whose support is essential to making all of these projects possible: • Véronique Bushala • Susan Lyons • Catherine Sarr • Danielle Zimmerman • Terra Foundation for American Art The Terra Foundation for American Art has been a major support for the production of the photographic
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- [Sponsorship Opportunities](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-chicago/contribute-support/) - For Individuals A tax-deductible contribution to Albertine Foundation's Chapter in Chicago will entitle you to a selection of the following benefits that can be tailored to your objectives: MEMBER: $3,000 (3 years commitment) — Preview access events in Chicago, exclusive access to virtual events.— Donor acknowledgment on the French Embassy, French Consulate in Chicago, Albertine
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/albertine-san-francisco/partners-sponsors/) - We would like to express our deepest gratitude for the generosity of our donors, whose support is essential to making all of these projects possible: — Audrey & Chris Allexandre — George & Dolly Chammas — Mélanie Desliens-Flint & Pete Flint — Tom Horn
- [The Passengers of the Night](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-passengers-of-the-night/) - On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and changethroughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end, and she will now have to sup-port herself and her two teenage children. She finds work at a late-night radio show and encountersa troubled
- [Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars](https://albertinefoundation.org/trailer-of-a-film-that-will-never-exist-phony-wars/) - At the time of his death in September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard had been in the midst of planning another feature, an adaptation of Belgian author Charles Plisnier’s 1937 novel Faux Passports. Though it was never produced, Godard put together the intricate and beautiful Trailer Of A Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, which now
- [F.A.Q.](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-mobility-program/f-a-q/) - Eligibility Who can apply to the TRANSATLANTIC MOBILITY PROGRAM? The grant program is for higher education institutions located in the United States and in France. Can we include programs based in Overseas French Territories? Yes. This is highly encouraged. Can US satellite campuses (in France) be considered as eligible partners? No. Partners must be institutions
- [Godard Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/godard-cinema/) - Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in
- [The Goldman Case](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-goldman-case/) - Won the Cesar for Best Actor (Arieh Worthalter) April 1976 saw the start of the second trial of Pierre Goldman, a far-left activist who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for four armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two pharmacists. Claiming his innocence in the latter case, he became an icon
- [The Devil, Probably](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-devil-probably/) - Robert Bresson turned his attention to the politics of the present with this epochal, searing send-up of post-’68 France. Our protagonist is Charles, a young man adrift who tries out a variety of activities to lend meaning to his life: drugs, psychoanalysis, ecology, radical politics…. With surgical precision (and, contrary to his reputation, a sense
- [Messidor](https://albertinefoundation.org/messidor/) - Messidor’s pair of vagabond teenage girls hitchhike their way across the Swiss Alps and are unwittingly drawn into a life of crime through their sordid encounters with predatory men. Within Alain Tanner’s gripping and at times funny road movie lies a bitter critique of cold materialism and the commodification of women. Critic David Robinson, speaking
- [The Night of the 12th](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-night-of-the-12th/) - Awarded for 6 Cesars in 2023 including Best Film, Best Direction, Best Adaptation, Best Supporting Actor for Bouli Lanners, Best Emerging Actor for Bastien Bouillon and Best Sound for François Maurel, Olivier Mortier and Luc Thomas. Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès (Bastien Bouillon)
- [On the Adamant](https://albertinefoundation.org/on-the-adamant/) - Winner of the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlinale in 2023. This affecting, enlightening documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant and witness the transformational power of art and community. The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge
- [The Taste of Things](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-taste-of-things/) - Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
- [Scarlet](https://albertinefoundation.org/scarlet/) - Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) returns home from the frontlines a widower and father to an infant daughter. Raised in rural Normandy, the child Juliette (Juliette Jouan) grows into a headstrong young
- [NO FEAR, NO DIE](https://albertinefoundation.org/no-fear-no-die/) - Claire Denis’s rarely screened second feature is a radically physical cinematic journey into the shadowy (under)world of illegal cockfighting. Isaach De Bankole and Alex Descas star as Dah and Jocelyn, two immigrants (from Benin and French Antilles, respectively) living on the outskirts of Paris who earn money from cockfights. The escalating violence of the bouts—at
- [The Five Devils](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-five-devils/) - Eight-year-old Vicky (newcomer Sally Dramé) has an unusual gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne (Palme d’Or winner Adèle Exarchopoulos). When Vicky’s estranged aunt suddenly returns to their mountain town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel the mystery
- [Four Daughters](https://albertinefoundation.org/four-daughters/) - One of the year's most acclaimed releases, this riveting documentary by two-time Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized,
- [Orlando, my political biography](https://albertinefoundation.org/orlando-my-political-biography/) - "Come, come! I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another." Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado has fashioned the documentary, Orlando: My Political Biography, as a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto which premiered and took home four prizes
- [Contempt](https://albertinefoundation.org/contempt/) - Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and producer (Jack Palance) as they film an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
- [Lumumba : Death of a Prophet](https://albertinefoundation.org/lumumba-death-of-a-prophet/) - Investigating revolutionary Patrice Lumumba's brief tenure as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the machinations behind his shocking assassination, legendary Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck discovers critical flashpoints where a nation's officially curated narratives intersect with repressed truths. At eight years-old Peck was brought by his family to the
- [Toni](https://albertinefoundation.org/toni/) - Antonia, affectionately known as Toni, is a single mother who tirelessly cares for her five children while juggling a demanding full-time job. Her evenings are filled with song as she performs in local bars to support her family. Toni possesses a remarkable talent, evident from a chart-topping single she recorded two decades ago. As her
- [Our Body](https://albertinefoundation.org/our-body/) - French documentary titan Claire Simon observes the everyday operations in the gynecology ward of a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and
- [Belle de Jour](https://albertinefoundation.org/belle-de-jour/) - Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her after­noon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and
- [Mars Express](https://albertinefoundation.org/mars-express/) - In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet’s capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret
- [Disco Boy](https://albertinefoundation.org/disco-boy/) - Awarded Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival. Following a difficult journey across Europe, Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) reaches Paris to enlist in the French Foreign Legion — a highly selective military corp that allows any foreigner, even undocumented, to be granted a French passport. In the Niger Delta, Jomo
- [Coconut Head Generation](https://albertinefoundation.org/coconut-head-generation/) - Every Thursday, a group of students from the University of Ibadan, the oldest in Nigeria, organizes afilm club, transforming a small lecture hall into a political agora where they develop a critical voice."Coconut Head Generation", a scornful expression to designate a stubborn and brainless youth, takeson a whole new meaning when the students turn this
- [Chicken for Linda !](https://albertinefoundation.org/chicken-for-linda/) - Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which reminds her of the dish her father used to make. But with a general strike closing stores all across town and pushing people into the
- [Casablanca Beats](https://albertinefoundation.org/casablanca-beats/) - Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from
- [Banel & Adama](https://albertinefoundation.org/banel-adama/) - Set against the terrestrial majesty of the Sahel, Banel & Adama is a tragic romance following two young lovers as they strive for independence and self-possession in the face of imperious tradition. Neither Senegal nor the rest of the world has known a love like Banel (Khady Mane) and Adama’s (Mamadou Diallo), each eager to
- [The Animal Kingdom](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-animal-kingdom/) - Awarded for 5 Cesar : Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography. In a world hit by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife, who is affected by this mysterious condition. As some of
- [Anatomy of a Fall](https://albertinefoundation.org/anatomy-of-a-fall/) - For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel's suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra
- [TMP-JeanSe](https://albertinefoundation.org/tmp-jeanse/)
- [Going Green!](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/going-green/) - In 2009, Films on the Green was going… green! For its second year running, the popular free outdoor French film festival featured in June movies about the environment and the beauty of the natural world, as we seek to tackle the challenges of global warming and environmental degradation. In July, Films on the Green continued its free outdoor
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/sounds-of-new-york/partners-sponsors/) - Spotify Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70 million tracks, including more than 2.9 million podcast titles, for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features for music including improved sound quality and an on-demand, offline, and ad-free listening experience.Today, Spotify is the world’s
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/community-college-in-france/partners-sponsors/) - Community College in France is made possible by: L'Oréal Fund for Women Since the launching of the Fund in 2020, approximately 240 frontline non-profit organizations were supported, which have directly helped more than 1,230,000 women and girls, and this is more than 8,000,000 people supported in total including their families and communities who have indirectly
- [Immersion Grants](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-design-craft/immersion/) - Oui Design! Immersion Grants are aimed at young craft professionals looking to develop their business in the American interior design and decoration markets. The program offers a week-long immersion during NYCxDESIGN week. Through this opportunity, French craftspeople will be able to meet professionals and learn about the different ways of promoting their exceptional skills in
- [Exhibition Grants](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/albertine-design-craft/exhibition-grant-application/) - The Oui Design! Exhibition Grants provide financial support through a grant system to New York based galleries and exhibition spaces that wish to organize exhibitions or installations featuring young or emerging French and France-based designer, including a public event as part of Oui Design! during NYCxDesign (16-23 May, 2024). The program aims to support innovative and engaging design projects that address relevant issues in contemporary design across the world. The program primarily
- [From Page to Screen](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/from-page-to-screen/) - In 2022, we were thrilled to bring back Films on the Green with an exciting lineup of international cinema and a new and vibrant visual identity inspired by movie theaters and electrifying city nightlife. From June 3 to September 9, 2022, Films on the Green brought French and Francophone cinema to the New York City
- [Arts](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/arts/) - The arts resources below introduce students to a range of artistic disciplines, providing them with the necessary analytical tools to study and understand a wide variety of genres. Many of these lesson plans culminate with a capstone assignment where students produce their own creations. From scripting an original film to staging plays and penning songs,
- [Casa Susanna](https://albertinefoundation.org/casa-susanna/) - In the 1950s and ‘60s, an underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills region of New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place for them to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed—dressed
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- [Mission Statement](https://albertinefoundation.org/about/board-portal/mission-statement/) - Albertine Foundation's mission is to further international understanding by fostering French American cultural exchange and supporting contemporary creative work in the arts and education. Albertine Foundation supports relationships between professionals in all creative fields and encourage collaborative projects between cultural and educational institutions. Albertine Foundation combine the strengths of both the French and American systems
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- [Benedetta](https://albertinefoundation.org/benedetta/) - In the late 17th century, with plague ravaging the land, Benedetta Carlini joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany, as a novice. Capable from an early age of performing miracles, Benedetta’s impact on life in the community is immediate and momentous.
- [Saturn Bowling](https://albertinefoundation.org/saturn-bowling/) - Police detective Guillaume decides to gift the family bowling alley to his estranged half-brother, Armand, following the death of their father. Their already contentious relationship is further strained by a series of murders that transform a tense drama into a twisty neo-noir as Guillaume’s investigation brings him deeper into conflict with his brother. Deservedly named
- [Rewind & Play](https://albertinefoundation.org/rewind-play/) - In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the show, he was invited to appear on a French television program to perform and answer questions in an intimate setting. Using newly discovered footage from this recording, director Alain
- [Winter Boy](https://albertinefoundation.org/winter-boy/) - 17-year-old Lucas is drifting through his last year of boarding school until the sudden death of his father strips away everything he took for granted. Left filled with anger and despair, he visits his older brother in Paris seeking comfort in the new city.
- [Support](https://albertinefoundation.org/support/) - Albertine Foundation (formerly known as FACE Foundation) is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and under Villa Albertine, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries. With additional
- [Gagarine](https://albertinefoundation.org/gagarine/) - Youri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarine Cité, a vast redbrickhousingprojectontheoutskirts ofParis. Fromtheheightsofhisapartment, hedreams ofbecoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish hiscommunity’shome areleaked,Youri joinsthe resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarksona missiontosave Gagarine,transformingthe estateintohisown “starship”–beforeit disappears into space forever.Thefilmwasshotonthecuspoftheactual demolitionof the Cité Gagarine housing project in collaboration with its residents
- [The Super 8 Years](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-super-8-years/) - The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted just last year into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory. Compiled from gorgeously textured home movie images from 1972 to 1981
- [Saint Omer](https://albertinefoundation.org/saint-omer/) - Saint Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call
- [Revoir Paris](https://albertinefoundation.org/revoir-paris/) - After an idyllic date night full of red wine and a late-night motorcycle ride home, Mia (Virginie Efira) stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a down pour. Her reprieve is shattered when a gun man opens fire. Three months later, with a frustratingly hazy memory of the attack, Mia finds herself numbed
- [Pacifiction](https://albertinefoundation.org/pacifiction/) - On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially
- [Other People's Children](https://albertinefoundation.org/other-peoples-children/) - When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it's not long before she also falls for his daughter Leila. The lustful giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous evolves into the familiar warmth of family picnics and after-school pickups. Although she feels like a mother, Rachel is
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- [Return to Seoul](https://albertinefoundation.org/return-to-seoul/) - After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
- [One Fine Morning](https://albertinefoundation.org/one-fine-morning/) - Sandra (Lea Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same
- [The Innocent](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-innocent/) - Part crime thriller, part family farce, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows with panache and pathos the dangerous lengths two men go, and the outlandish lies they tell, for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, a museum educator and widower whose mother, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), marries Michel (Roschdy Zem), one of her drama pupils in the
- [Hold Me Tight](https://albertinefoundation.org/hold-me-tight/) - In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature
- [The Gravity](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-gravity/) - An unprecedented alignment of planets impacting gravity will upset the balance of a ghetto and the destiny of two duos of brothers eager to do anything for their freedom in an unceasing fight between old and new generations.
- [De Humani Corporis Fabrica](https://albertinefoundation.org/de-humani-corporis-fabrica/) - Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering and hope,
- [Corsage](https://albertinefoundation.org/corsage/) - Faced with a future of strict ceremony and royal duties, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebels against her public image and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
- [Colette and Justin](https://albertinefoundation.org/colette-and-justin/) - Born in Kinshasa and living in Paris, filmmaker Alain Kassanda embodies the classic immigrant dual identity: in the Democratic Republic of Congo he is seen as French, while in France he is seen as Congolese. Determined to understand the colonial legacy from which he comes, Kassanda convinces his grandparents—Colette and Justin—to sit for a series
- [Onoda: 10000 Nights in the Jungle](https://albertinefoundation.org/onoda-10000-nights-in-the-jungle/) - A drama based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the legendary Japanese soldier who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle, refusing to surrender because he was convinced World War II had not ended. Camouflaged by leaves and bark, shooting water buffalo for sustenance, Onoda will not believe even the recordings of his brother's
- [Who are our students?](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/who-are-our-students/) - They are Multilingual: “I speak Fulani with my parents, Wolof with my sisters, French with my friends from Africa and Haiti and English with my American friends" El Hadj. They are the future of Bilingual education: “ I strongly believe that more bilingual programs are crucial for students whose first language is not English, as a
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/partners-sponsors/) - The French Dual Language Fund is made possible by contributions from: – Chanel, Inc.– Societe Generale– Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation– Private Donors
- [BAMAKO](https://albertinefoundation.org/bamako/) - Outside the modest home that singer Melé and her husband Chaka share with other families stands a make-shift open-air courtroom. The accused: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the inequities of globalization perpetrated on all of Africa. One by one, witnesses take the in stand Sissako's pointed, nuanced meta-drama.
- [Aline](https://albertinefoundation.org/aline/) - The youngest of a hardworking French-Canadian couple’s 14 children is propelled to global music superstardom in Aline, a fictional musical dramedy freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion, written by, directed by and starring two-time César Award winner Valérie Lemercier. For Aline Dieu, nothing in the world matters more than music, family and love.
- [Ahed's Knee](https://albertinefoundation.org/aheds-knee/) - A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign
- [AFROFUTURISTIK - Quartiers Lointains - Season 6](https://albertinefoundation.org/afrofuturistik-quartiers-lointains-season-6/) - This program of short films has been curated by CLAIRE DIAO and is under the patronage of SELLY RABY KANE. Distributed by SUDU CONNEXION The program will be followed by a Q&A © Courtesy of Mostra de cine africanos - Brazil, 2020 / Ana Camila Esteves Quartiers Lointains is a travelling short film programme of African and French fiction, documentary,
- [A TALE OF SUMMER](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-tale-of-summer/) - According to Rohmer, the third film of Tales of the Four Seasons is his “most personal vehicle.” Based on events from Rohmer’s youth, A Tale of Summer follows amateur musician Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) to a seaside resort in Dinard, on the coast of Brittany. There, each of three women (Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, and Aurelia
- [A Married Woman](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-married-woman/) - "Extraordinary...Godard's most interesting film since BREATHLESS." -- The New York Times A MARRIED WOMAN is an often-overlooked masterwork from Godard’s most productive period. The plot appears to be simple: Charlotte (Macha Méril) is a young married woman having an affair with an actor. When she discovers that she is pregnant, she must decide which man is the father
- [Artistic Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/artistic-committee/) - The Artistic Committee is comprised of independent American and French professionals who specialize in contemporary art. A Program Officer facilitates the operations and activities of the Artistic Committee and plays a vital role in assisting organizations in developing new projects, connecting with potential partners, and evaluating the eligibility of their projects for support. Past &
- [Albertine Chapters](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-chapters/) - ALBERTINE CHICAGO ALBERTINE LOS ANGELES ALBERTINE SAN FRANCISCO
- [France](https://albertinefoundation.org/france/) - Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (The Life of Jesus, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a
- [Previous Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/previous-grantees/) - ----- William Klein: YES; Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948-2013 International Center of Photography, New York, NYJune 3 - September 12, 2022 Curated by David Campany William Klein (born April 19, 1928) is an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the
- [Artistic Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/artistic-committee/) - The Artistic Committee is comprised of independent American and French professionals who specialize in the performing arts. A Program Officer facilitates the operations and activities of the Artistic Committee and plays a vital role in assisting organizations to develop new projects, connect with potential partners, and evaluate the eligibility of their projects for support. Present
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- [Selection Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-research-partnership/advisory-committee/) - The Transatlantic Research Partnership Selection Committee is composed of: Allan GoodmanPresident and CEO of the Institute of International Education in the U.S Martina KnoopDirector of the Mission for transversal and interdisciplinary initiatives, CNRS
- [Guidelines & Eligibility](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/eligibility-guidelines/) - Guidelines French Immersion provides Travel Grant (flight and/or hotel). The Cultural Services provides communication support, establishes connections between French creators and US professionals, informs US partners about French projects, informs French creators and producers about US submissions calendar and processes. Grant Amount Maximum $1,000 / travel / personMaximum 2 trips / project for each selection.Maximum
- [>> Application Form](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-translation/application-center/) - [wpforms id="2356" title="false"] Contact Books & Ideas DepartmentCultural Services of the French Embassy / Villa Albertine972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075translation@villa-albertine.org T: 929 505 0842
- [FILM SELECTION – SEASON 2023 / 2024](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/film-selection-season-2023-2024/) - Contemporary Films CASA SUSANNA CASABLANCA BEATSHAUT ET FORT COLETTE AND JUSTINCOLETTE ET JUSTIN CORSAGE DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA THE GRAVITY LA GRAVITE HOLD ME TIGHTSERRE-MOI FORT THE INNOCENTL’INNOCENT ONE FINE MORNINGUN BEAU MATIN ONODA: 10,000 NIGHTS IN THE JUNGLEONODA, 10 000 NUITS DANS LA JUNGLE OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDRENLES ENFANTS DES AUTRES PACIFICTION RETURN TO SEOULRETOUR A
- [Post-Screening Form](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/post-screening-form/) - In order to receive the grant payment, participants must complete the following Post Screening Form and submit it with the budget and distributors invoices. Please be as detailed as possible in your responses on the Post Screening Form as it will be taken into account should you re-apply in the future. Participants will receive the
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/partners-sponsors/) - Unifrance UniFrance is the organisation in charge of promoting French cinema throughout the world. Created in 1949, in the form of an association under the law of 1901, UniFrance is administered by French state authorities, in particular the CNC. The association has nearly 1000 members: producers of feature films and shorts, exporters, sales agents, directors,
- [Supported Projects](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/supported-projects/) - Dedicated to promoting immersive works and officially launched in April 2018 in Paris during the New Images festival, the French Immersion program immediately came into effect. The program has already supported the following projects: BattleScarSelected at TriBeca Film Festival, FilmGate Miami VestigeSelected at TriBeca Film Festival Firebird – The UnfinishedSelected at TriBeca Film Festival, FilmGate
- [2022/23 Grantees](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/grantees-2022/) - ATLANTA Region: North CarolinaAppalachian State University, North CarolinaCape Fear Community College, North CarolinaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North CarolinaWake Forest University, North Carolina South CarolinaUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia, South CarolinaWinthrop University, South Carolina GeorgiaEmory University, GeorgiaGeorgia Gwinnett College, GeorgiaUniversity of West Georgia, Georgia MississippiUniversity of Mississippi, Mississippi AlabamaUniversity of North Alabama, Alabama
- [A DRAMATIC FILM](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-dramatic-film/) - Commissioned as a dedicated artwork for the newly constructed Dora Maar middle school on the outskirts of Paris, Un Film Dramatique is a lively portrait of the first class to attend the school, filmed over the course of four years. The group of 21 middle schoolers discuss the drama of their daily lives and experiment
- [Residencies](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-visual-arts/etant-donnes-residencies/) - GRANTS TO FRENCH & FRANCE-BASED ARTISTS. Institut français-Paris, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and FACE Foundation joined forces in 2017 to launch a new residency program: Etant donnés Residencies, in order to support French visual artists seeking to spend 2 to 4 months in the United States, in a
- [A German Youth](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-german-youth/) - Q&A Session with Jean-Gabriel Périot by Sam Di Iorio (Hunter College/CUNY) In the 1960s, the young democracy of West Germany was embarrassed by its Nazi past, and ingrown in its role as imperialist and capitalist outpost faced by its communist double. The postwar generation, in direct conflict with their fathers, was trying to find its
- [Charters & Policies](https://albertinefoundation.org/charters-policies/) - ByLaws FACE Foundation - ByLaws Charters Audit Committee CharterExecutive Committee CharterNominating & Governance Committee Charter Tax Exemption - IRS Letters FACSEA - 1977 LetterFACE Foundation - 2018 Tax Exempt Determination Letter Policies Board Travel & Expense Reimbursement PolicyConflict of Interest PolicyGift Acceptance PolicyGift Acceptance Policy (Updated in 2019)Record Retention PolicyWhistleblower PolicyWebsite Privacy Policy Original Charters
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- [Queen Margot](https://albertinefoundation.org/queen-margot/) - "Thrillingly savage!" - Time Out New York France, 1572. During an uneasy break in the wars of religion, Catholic King Charles IX concludes a marriage of state between his sister Margot and the Protestant Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. But Margot's Queen Mother is already plotting the attack on the Huguenots that would come to
- [Secret Defense](https://albertinefoundation.org/secret-defense/) - "A thriller of the mind, beautifully made, emotionally powerful." - The Daily Telegraph (UK) "Pure class...a superior crime thriller." - Uncut "Clearly the work of a master." - Empire "A performance of concerted, gaunt integrity from Bonnaire." - Time Out When a brilliant scientist (Sandrine Bonnaire) discovers that her father did not die accidentally but was murdered by
- [The Gang of Four](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-gang-of-four/) - Intimations of conspiracy hover over a group of actors in this underrated but decidedly major work from New Wave master and former Cahiers du Cinema editor-in-chief Jacques Rivette. Four young women share a house on the outskirts of Paris and study acting under a demanding teacher (Bule Ogier). Outside class, each is questioned by a
- [Le Cercle Rouge](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-red-circle/) - Corey is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei, a cat-loving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico, his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen, in a jewel heist. While Corey is harried by the vengeful Rico,
- [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/) - Rafael Acosta, Ambassador of the South American Republic of Miranda, arrives with M.and Mme. Thévenot and the latter's younger sister Florence to dine at the home of M. andMme Sénéchal (the three men enjoy a profitable association, smuggling heroin in thediplomatic pouch). Learning from Mme. Sénéchal that her husband is out and that theyhave arrived
- [Chocolat](https://albertinefoundation.org/chocolat/) - Claire Denis drew on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her work. Returning to the town where she grew up in Cameroon after many years living in France, a white woman (Mireille Perrier) reflects
- [Advisory Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/advisory-committee/) - The Advisory Committee provides guidance and counsel on the general goals and objectives of the Fund. The Advisory Committee is comprised of education leaders within the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, as well as high-level administrators and change-makers in the domain of dual-language education across the United States. The Committee may provide feedback on
- [Steering Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-dance/steering-committee/) - The Steering Committee decides the strategies of the program and is composed of the following representatives: Institut français - Paris Villa Albertine - USA Gaëtan BruelDirector of Villa Albertine Diane JosseDirector of Visual & Performing Arts Nicole Birmann BloomProgram Officer, Performing Arts FACE Foundation Laurent AuffretExecutive Director Contact Nicole Birmann BloomProgram Officer, Performing Artsnicole.birmann@villa-albertine.org
- [Steering Committee](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-theater/steering-committee/) - The Steering Committee decides the strategies of the program and is composed of the following representatives: INSTITUT FRANCAIS Fabrice RoziéDirector, Department of Cooperation and Cultural exchanges VILLA ALBERTINE - USA Gaëtan BruelDirector of Villa Albertine Diane JosseDirector of Visual & Performing Arts Nicole Birmann BloomProgram Officer, Performing Arts FACE FOUNDATION Laurent AuffretExecutive Director Contact Nicole
- [> Grant Application](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/grant-application/) - THE 2023 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IS NOW OPEN APPLICATION DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 28, 2023 DOWNLOAD :Budget Template [xlsx] N.B.: Prior to the deadline, applicant organizations should contact FACE Foundation representative to ensure the eligibility of the artists or ensembles for whom they wish to apply. Dylan HadidaProgram Officer, Musicdylan.hadida@villa-albertine.org [wpforms id="3446"]
- [Useful links to authentic resources in French](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/useful-links-to-authentic-resources-in-french/) - These sites offer guidelines for the teaching of Heritage Languages, the latest research articles, information about Heritage Language Programs across the United States, and links to major resource centers (all websites in ENGLISH). National Heritage Language Resource Center The NHLRC is a federally funded resource center. Above all the NHLRC endeavors to develop pedagogical approaches
- [Global Challenges : Environment](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/global-challenges/global-challenges-environment/) - Our resources devoted to climate change aim to build upon students' environmental awareness by explaining the mechanisms and far-reaching consequences of global warming while also exploring ecologically sustainable solutions. Environnement et urbanité (fiche pédagogique) Comprendre le réchauffement climatique (vidéo) Fiche 1.1 Partie 1 Fiche 1.1 Partie 2 Fiche 1.1 Partie 3 Impact de l’homme sur
- [Global Challenges : Health](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/global-challenges/global-challenges-health/) - The following lesson plans serve as a basic guide to certain health topics, particularly those that concern the larger issue of public health. For this reason, they function well as a springboard for larger discussions of the health challenges we currently face. La santé (fiche pédagogique) C’est quoi un virus ? (vidéo) Questionnaire : Qu’est-ce
- [Arts : Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/arts/arts-cinema/) - The first of these lesson plans offers students an introduction to African cinema, cinematic terminology and analysis. The additional lesson plans center on specific films therefore providing an opportunity for more in-depth analysis of individual works. Introduction au cinéma africain : Histoire du cinéma africain (fiche pédagogique) Borom Sarret (film) La Noire de (extrait de
- [Arts : Literature](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/arts/arts-literature/) - The lesson plans under this heading offer an introduction to literature and storytelling. The classes focus on various literary excerpts and tales in order to build upon reading comprehension and written expression. In addition, there is an entire section devoted to the life and work of Aimé Césaire. The lessons explore Césaire's legacy as well
- [Social Justice : Immigration](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/social-justice/social-justice-immigration/) - The FHLP has created many resources devoted to the topic of the immigration experience. With these resources we aspire to uplift and empower our students' unique voices and stories. These FHLP lesson plans try to strike a balance between acknowledging the past and current challenges faced by immigrants while also encouraging students to realize the
- [Identity : Multi-culturality](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/identity-17/identity-multi-culturality/) - The following resources allow students to take stock of and appreciate their cultural heritage all while learning about their newest patrimony: American culture. The lesson plans provide an opportunity for students to speak about their experience with multi-culturality. They may also help students understand what it means for the individual and the collective when different
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 7](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-7/) - The following sequence teaches students all about francophone games. Following instructions and learning game-related vocabulary are two of the main skills that these classes aim to develop. At the end of the sequence, students will have the chance to create and play the game of Awalé, among other activities. Séquence 7 : Moi, ma famille
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 6](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-6/) - In these classes, students explore many engaging francophone stories and nursery rhymes. Students learn about narrative structure by retelling stories and recreating them through drawing. Dramatic play is an important part of this sequence as the students' final project entails their own interpretation of one of the stories. Séquence 6 : Moi ma famille et
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 5](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-5/) - The sequence below allows students to discover the different animals living in a variety of francophone regions. Students will learn how to talk in detail about the animals, using a wide range of vocabulary. They will also use a number of information sources in order to research these animals. Séquence 5 : Moi, ma famille
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 4](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-4/) - The lesson plans below are all devoted to music! There are many activities designed around various francophone instruments and songs. Some of the exercises even have students create their own instruments! Séquence 4 : Moi, ma famille et les autres - Les instruments de musique de la Francophonie (fiches pédagogiques) Fiche évaluation séquence 4 Annexes
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 3](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-3/) - The culinary arts are the focal point of this sequence where students explore francophone foods and recipes. Although there is an emphasis on taste and being able to describe different foods, students also learn about the four other senses. Séquence 3 : Moi, ma famille et les autres - Les arts culinaires (fiches pédagogiques) Fiche
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 2](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-2/) - These lesson plans cover types of professions and vocabulary related to clothing. Students will learn how to formulate sentences and ask question about jobs, the places where the jobs are performed and in some cases, the uniforms associated with specific professions. Séquence 2 : Moi ma famille et les autres - Les métiers et les
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7 : Séquence 1](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7-sequence-1/) - This sequence of lesson plans teaches students how to speak about themselves and their family. It also covers colors, numbers and the alphabet. Links to relevant class materials can be found directly below in the annexes. Séquence 1 : Moi, ma famille et les autres - Moi et mon école (fiches pédagogiques) Fiche évaluation séquence
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 5-7](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-5-7/) - Below you will find links to the overall curriculum for French heritage students aged 5 through 7 and a lexical guide outlining key words used in the lesson plans. Curriculum des 5-7 ans du French Heritage Annexe lexique Click on the individual sequences below to access specific lesson plans and class materials.
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Séquence 5](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-sequence-5/) - The sequence below allows students to discover the different animals living in a variety of francophone regions. Students will learn how to talk in detail about the animals, using a wide range of vocabulary. They will also use a number of information sources in order to research these animals. Séquence 5 : Les animaux de
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 8-10](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-8-10/) - Below you will find links to the curriculum for older elementary school students. There are also two documents that detail the portfolio language method. Curriculum French Heritage pour les 7 à 9 ans Méthode portfolio : portfolio européen des langues pour les 8 à 10 ans Fiche évaluation : portfolio The following pedagogical sequences for
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/) - Our New York City elementary school content caters to students who have just begun school as well as those who have a couple years under their belt. Click on the links below to find age-appropriate lesson plans and materials for your classes.
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/) - Each of the following five pedagogical sequences include thematic lesson plans and materials that are part of our Miami Elementary School Curriculum.
- [Social Justice](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/social-justice/) - Topics related to social justice have always occupied an important place in the FHLP curriculum. The subject of human rights figures prominently in many of our lesson plans. The following resources cultivate awareness of the history and current state of rights and other concepts related to social justice.
- [Global Challenges](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/global-challenges/) - Climate change, public health and the dissemination of information are just a few examples of challenges that transcend national borders, and as a result, affect each and every person around the globe. Click on the following links to access content related to these sub-themes.
- [Elementary School Curriculum](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/) - Over the years, the FHLP has offered classes to elementary school students in New York City, Miami and Maine. Francophone themes are important to all aspects of the FHLP curriculum, but our elementary educators took particular care to integrate cultural content that is unique to these French heritage communities. Click on the links below to
- [Identity](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/identity-17/) - A strong sense of self is essential when building self-confidence. For this reason, the FHLP has designed many projects that encourage students to speak and write about themselves. Identity can encompass many things both simple and complex: from asking students what their favorite colors and songs are, to looking at identity through the lens of
- [We](https://albertinefoundation.org/we/) - The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, We is subtle and shrewd in a world which favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork
- [U.S. Festivals & Institutions](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/us-festivals-institutions/) - The United States represent a vivid market for festivals and institutions likely to select or program immersive projects and stories. U.S. Festivals South by Southwest / SXSWAustin, Texas – March 13 - 22, 2020 The Virtual Cinema section was created in 2017 and is divided between 360° Video et Room-Scale projects. The French producers we
- [Application](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-new-media/application/) - Special Call for Projects:Two Exceptional Grants in Response to COVID-19 The cancellation of on-site American festivals questions promotion and distribution models for immersive works (XR). In this context, investing more on the distribution of XR works on platforms and their online promotion is a way to adapt and to continue sharing high quality French immersive
- [Partners](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transatlantic-mobility-program/partners/) - Public Diplomacy Services – Embassy of the United States of America in France Under the leadership of the Minister-Counselor for Public Diplomacy, the PublicDiplomacy Office is one of the interfaces between the government of the United States ofAmerica and the French people. The Public Diplomacy Services provide a betterunderstanding of the U.S. culture and society
- [Gallantes Indies](https://albertinefoundation.org/gallantes-indies/) - This is a premiere for 30 dancers of hip-hop, krump, break, voguing... A first for the director Clément Cogitore and for the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a first for the Paris’ Opera Bastille. By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes. From rehearsals to public performances,
- [A Tale of Love and Desire](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-tale-of-love-and-desire/) - Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a collection of sensual and erotic Arab literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls head over heels in love with Farah,
- [Lost Illusions](https://albertinefoundation.org/lost-illusions/) - Lucien is a young unknown poet in 19th-century France. He has great expectations and wants to forge a destiny. He leaves the family printing business in his native province to try his luck in Paris, on the arm of his protector. Soon left to his own devices in the fabulous city, the young man will
- [French Professional Development Summer Institute](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/french-dli-professional-development-summer-institute/) - A Workshop for Experienced and New French DLI Teachers In response to the need for qualified French DLI teachers, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the FACE Foundation are partnering with the University of Utah’s L2 TReC to develop the first French DLI Professional Development Summer Institute. The Institute provides teachers with training
- [Selected Projects](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transitioning-to-virtual-exchange/call-for-proposals-selected-projects/) - The US Embassy in France has organized a round table on May 20th highlighting best practice in Virtual Exchange. Eric Hertzler, grantee of the Transitioning to Virtual Exchange initiative, has shared his learnings (recording available in French). Take a deep dive into the project Virtual Exchange for Translations and Applied Languages between Montclair State University
- [The Francophone Cup](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-francophone-cup-2/) - Join us on June 25, 2022, at Socceroof in Brooklyn, from 1 to 6pm, for the second edition of the Francophone Cup. In partnership with OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) and the FFF Academy New york, we are finishing the school year with a beautiful celebration and hope that you will join us and
- [Film Selection 2021 / 2022](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/albertine-cinematheque/selection-2021-2022/) - Contemporary Films UN FILM DRAMATIQUEA DRAMATIC FILM PETITE FILLELITTLE GIRL MANDIBULESMANDIBLES LA NUIT DES ROISNIGHT OF THE KINGS SLALOM Classic Films BAMAKO EARLY SHORTS BY ALAIN RESNAIS LA SOCIÉTÉ DU SPECTACLE THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE LA PERMISSION THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS CONTE D’ÉTÉA TALE OF SUMMER Alice Diop's Carte Blanche A
- [THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-story-of-a-three-day-pass/) - Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, La permission,would become his stylistically innovative feature debut. Turner (Harry Baird), an African
- [THE SOCIETY OF  THE SPECTACLE](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-society-of-the-spectacle/) - Six years after the publication of his Situationist classic The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord released this semi-experimental, essay-film adaptation. Using the classic Situationist technique of “détournement” (think pre-digital remixing), Debord overlays a dizzying array of still and film images with text from the book. The result is a kind of organized chaos that
- [EARLY SHORTS BY ALAIN RESNAIS](https://albertinefoundation.org/resnais-shorts-program/) - All the World's Memory This recently restored early short by French New Wave director Alain Resnais (perhaps best known for Hiroshima Mon Amour), pays homage to the National Library of France. For centuries, the library has served as a repository for all the country’s publications, and more: Maps, prints, comic books, priceless manuscripts, gems, and
- [SLALOM](https://albertinefoundation.org/slalom/) - This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor, played by frequent Dardenne brothers collaborator Jérémie Renier. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski
- [NIGHT OF THE KINGS](https://albertinefoundation.org/night-of-the-kings/) - A young man is sent to “La Maca,” a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. Astradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” andmust tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he
- [MANDIBLES](https://albertinefoundation.org/mandibles/) - When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
- [LITTLE GIRL](https://albertinefoundation.org/little-girl/) - Little Girl is the moving portrait of 7-year-old Sasha, who has always known that sheis a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing theirdaughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and findaffirmation in a small community of rural France. Realized with delicacy and intimacy,Sébastien Lifshitz's documentary poetically
- [The Antoine Doinel films by François Truffaut: Love on the Run](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-antoine-doinel-films-by-francois-truffaut-love-on-the-run/) - In the previous Antoine Doinel film, Bed and Board, the marriage between Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine (Claude Jade) had survived Antoine's infidelity. Love on the Run is set eight years later when Antoine is over thirty. Having an affair with Christine's friend Liliane (Dani) and divorced Christine, he gets a job as a proofreader,
- [The Antoine Doinel films by François Truffaut: Stolen Kisses](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-antoine-doinel-films-by-francois-truffaut-stolen-kisses/) - Discharged from the army as unfit, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) seeks out his sweetheart, violinist Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). He has written to her voluminously (but, she says, not always nicely) while in the military. Their relationship is tentative and unresolved. Christine is away skiing with friends when Antoine arrives, and her parents must entertain
- [The Antoine Doinel films by François Truffaut: Bed and Board](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-antoine-doinel-films-by-francois-truffaut-bed-and-board/) - Expecting his first child and still struggling to find steady employment, Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) involves himself in a relationship with a beautiful Japanese woman that threatens to destroy his marriage. Lightly comic, with a touch of the burlesque, Bed and Board is a bittersweet look at the travails of young married life and the fine line between
- [The Antoine Doinel films by François Truffaut: Antonie and Colette](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-antoine-doinel-films-by-francois-truffaut-antonie-and-colette/) - Antoine et Colette, which was originally made as an episode in the series L'Amour à vingt ans, was a sequel to Truffaut's The 400 Blows. In the film, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) works at the Philips record store and courts the elusive Colette (Marie-France Pisier). The story of Antoine Doinel continues on in Baisers volés/Stolen
- [The Antoine Doinel films by François Truffaut: 400 Blows ](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-antoine-doinel-films-by-francois-truffaut-400-blows/) - A young Parisian boy, Antoine Doinel, neglected by his derelict parents, skips school, sneaks into movies, runs away from home, steals things, and tries (disastrously) to return them. Like most kids, he gets into more trouble for things he thinks are right than for his actual trespasses. Unlike most kids, he gets whacked with the
- [Mr. Klein](https://albertinefoundation.org/mr-klein/)
- [Last Year at Marienbad](https://albertinefoundation.org/last-year-at-marienbad/) - At a social gathering at a château or baroque hotel, a man approaches a woman. He claims they met the year before at Marienbad and is convinced that she is waiting there for him. The woman insists they have never met. A second man, who may be the woman's husband, repeatedly asserts his dominance over
- [THE VELVET QUEEN](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-velvet-queen/) - In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard. Munier introduces Tesson to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals, and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. Through their journey in
- [The Monopoly of Violence](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-monopoly-of-violence-2/) - As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
- [Josep](https://albertinefoundation.org/josep-2/) - February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government built concentration camps, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In one of these camps, separated by barbed wire, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 –
- [Lingui, The Sacred Bonds](https://albertinefoundation.org/lingui-the-sacred-bonds/) - Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives with her daughter, 15-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is pregnant and wants to abort the child, they face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
- [Happening ](https://albertinefoundation.org/happening/) - France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has
- [Bergam Island](https://albertinefoundation.org/bergam-island/) - A couple of American filmmakers, Chris (P.T. Anderson’s Phantom Thread superstar Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth) retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the Summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by,
- [A night of knowing nothing](https://albertinefoundation.org/a-night-of-knowing-nothing/) - In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archivalfootage with student protest videos to tell the story of L, a student at the Film andTelevision Institute of India, writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’reimmersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in
- [Music & Cinema](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/music-cinema/) - After an incredibly difficult year, Films on the Green returned in 2021 with a special hybrid edition and an exciting lineup of international cinema. The festival’s 13th edition, which was screened in parks––and online for the first time!—was centered on the theme of “Music and Cinema.” Featuring tunes by legendary musicians from Daft Punk to Miles
- [THE WOLBERG FAMILY](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-wolberg-family/) - He can make an amazing speech on American soul music to astounded school kids, meddle in the private life of his fellow citizens or even make his 18-year-old daughter swear that never, ever, will she leave the family home. This man’s name is Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial town, madly in love with
- [AS I OPEN MY EYES](https://albertinefoundation.org/as-i-open-my-eyes/) - As I Open My Eyes depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. Director Leyla Bouzid's musical feature debut offers a nuanced portrait of the individual
- [College Prep](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/college-prep/) - Scoring well on language proficiency exams can boost a student's chances of getting accepted to universities. Furthermore, in some cases, it may also allow them to earn college-level credit before they even step foot on campus. For this reason, the FHLP makes sure to incorporate test prep into our curriculum. The following pedagogical resources are
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- [Jazz 2005-2018](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/jazz-grantees-2005-2018/) - GRANTEES [French-American Jazz Exchange] 2018 / 2019 Arturo O'Farrill Malika Zarra Middle Eastern Roots of Afro Latin Jazz is a musical exploration of the Arabic and North African roots of Afro Latin Jazz and Afro Cuban music. The project is led by pianist, composer and band leader Arturo O'Farrill (founder and Artistic Director of the
- [Contemp. Music 2005-2018](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-grants/albertine-music/contemporary-music-grantees-2005-2018/) - GRANTEES[New Music Fund] 2018 / 2019 Blank Forms (Brooklyn, United States)U.S. Tour exploring Eliane Radigue’s works Blank Forms will present a program that will reassess the span of Eliane Radigue’s oeuvre by engaging her early and largely unknown tape pieces in direct encounter with recent acoustic compositions. Played by Rhodri Davies, Robin Hayward, Charles Curtis
- [Tey/Today](https://albertinefoundation.org/tey-today/) - Today is the last day of Satché’s life. Though he is strong and healthy, he knows this to be true. Walking through the streets of his home town in Senegal, Satché takes in the sites of his past as if he were looking at them for the last time: his parents’ house, his first love,
- [Under the starry sky](https://albertinefoundation.org/under-the-starry-sky/) - Between Turin, Dakar, and New York, Sophie, Abdoulaye and Thierno’s three destinies cross paths and echo one another, delineating a constellation of exile. Sophie, 24 years old, leaves Dakar to join her husband, Abdoulaye, in Turin. Meanwhile, Abdoulaye has already left for New York through a smuggler’s network. 19-year-old Thierno is traveling in Africa for
- [Skies of Lebanon](https://albertinefoundation.org/skies-of-lebanon/) - Celebrated animator Chloé Mazlo makes her feature debut withthis strikingly original film inspired by her family’s life in theyears leading into the Lebanese Civil War. We begin in the 1950swith Alice, a young Swiss woman eager to escape her strait-lacedhome in the Alps by becoming a nanny in Beirut. She soon fallsin love with Joseph,
- [Should the Wind Drop](https://albertinefoundation.org/should-the-wind-drop/) - When French auditor Alain Delage (Grégoire Colin) is sent to theremote breakaway state of Nagorno-Karabakh to make an officialrecommendation about the feasibility of a new airport that wouldopen this troubled region in the South Caucasus to air traffic afterdecades of war and international isolation, he is drawn into thestruggles of a proud and willful people
- [Network of F.D.L. Schools in New York City](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/network-of-f-d-l-schools-in-the-united-states/) - PS 03 – The Bedford Village SchoolNew York, NY718 622 2960ps3brooklyn.org PS 05 – Dr. Ronald McNair SchoolBrooklyn, NY718 574 2333schools.nyc.gov/schools/K005 PS 20 – The Clinton Hill SchoolBrooklyn, NY718 834 6744ps20.org PS 58 – The Carroll SchoolBrooklyn, NY718 330 9322ps58.org PS 84 – The Lillian Weber SchoolNew York, NY212 799 253484web.org PS 110 – The
- [News](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-dual-language-fund/news/) - Under construction Contact Mathieu AusseilEducation Attaché, Head of Educational Affairs Department,French Embassy in the United Statesfdlf@face-foundation.tempurl.host Nelson LepicouchéProgram Officer, French Dual Language and ImmersionFrench Embassy in the United Statesnelson.lepicouche@ambafrance-us.org
- [dylan](https://albertinefoundation.org/dylan/)
- [Josep](https://albertinefoundation.org/josep/) - The animated feature Josep takes a strikingly original approach tothe story of Josep Bartolí, a Catalan artist who fought Franco in theSpanish Civil War and later went into exile in Mexico City and NewYork. The film focuses on a relatively little known but particularlydark episode in European history: after the fall of Barcelona toFranco’s troops
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Annexes rituels](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-annexes-rituels/) - The documents below include class materials that may be used for each of the sequences of the Miami Elementary School Curriculum. SalutationsChanson : bonjour (paroles) Jours de la semaineChansons : jours de la semaine (paroles et liens vers les chansons)Jours de la semaine (texte)Roue : jours de la semaine Chiffres et nombresAffichage 0 à 10Affichage
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Séquence 4](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-sequence-4/) - In this sequence of classes students learn about parts of the body and the fundamentals of a healthy lifestyle. Students will also be exposed to different francophone recipes in order to teach them all about the ingredients of a healthy diet. Séquence 4 : Corps et santé (fiches pédagogiques) Annexes séance 1Chanson : Tête, épaules,
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Séquence 3](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-sequence-3/) - The lesson plans below are all devoted to music! There are many activities designed around various francophone instruments and songs. Some of the exercises even have students create their own instruments! Séquence 3 : La musique de la francophonie (fiches pédagogiques) Annexes séance 1Chanson frère Jacques (paroles et liens vers des vidéos)Chanson : Frère Jacques
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Séquence 2](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-sequence-2/) - These lesson plans emphasize topics related to Florida, Haiti and Martinique. They discuss the similarities and differences between these three locations while also comparing elements of urban and rural living. In addition, there are exercises devoted to the different types of food that can be found in each location. Séquence 2 : Au soleil :
- [Miami Elementary Curriculum : Séquence 1](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum/miami-elementary-curriculum-sequence-1/) - This sequence of lesson plans teaches students how to speak about themselves and their family. It also covers colors, numbers and the alphabet. Séquence 1 : Moi, ma famille et les autres - Moi et mon école (fiches pédagogiques) Annexes séquence 1Séquence 1 Jeux en ligne (liens pour l’apprentissage du français en ligne) Annexes séance
- [Placement Tests](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/placement-tests/) - Among the files below you will find French language assessments for students in high school and for those in elementary school. These placement tests allow for a better understanding of the student's linguistic background. They also gauge oral and written expression as well as reading comprehension. In addition to these evaluations, we have also included
- [Arts : Theatre](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/arts/arts-theatre/) - Our theatre classes are always a big hit among students as they allow students to get up out of their seats and have some fun while performing. From an educational point of view, theatrical activities help develop many different competencies at once: reading comprehension, oral expression and presentation skills, to name a few. In the
- [FHLP students add their voices to the "I learn America" human library.](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/fhlp-students-add-their-voices-to-the-i-learn-america-human-library/) - Click here to see all the FHLP students on the "I Learn America" Human Library. This spring, a cohort of 5 immigrant youth (ILA Fellows: current participants and alumni of the program) working with I Learn America (ILA) was trained to engage students virtually to harness stories of personal journeys (present, past and future) to
- [The Monopoly of Violence](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-monopoly-of-violence/) - Journalist David Dufresne’s first theatrical feature is a devastatinglytimely investigation of the place of police in democracy and thelegitimacy of violence. Primarily composed of smartphone imagesfilmed at recent demonstrations in France, the film presentsa viscerally shocking picture of police brutality and proteststransformed into scenes of urban warfare. But Dufresne alsoallows us a deeper engagement with
- [Maine Elementary Curriculum](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/maine-elementary-curriculum/) - Each of the following four pedagogical sequences includes thematic lesson plans and materials that are part of our Maine Elementary School Curriculum. Séquence 1 : Vivons ensemble (racines et identité) (fiches pédagogiques) Séquence 2 : Célébrons ensemble en français (Fêtes et traditions)(fiches pédagogiques) Séquence 3 : Partageons la nourriture en français ! (produits, manières, coutumes)
- [Global Challenges : Press and Media](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/global-challenges/global-challenges-press-and-media/) - The resources below address the role of the press and media by examining the spread of information and in some cases that of misinformation. Knowing how to evaluate and consume sources of information is an essential skill and is particularly important as students grapple with the varying global challenges covered in this theme. Media Guidelines
- [Arts : Music](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/arts/arts-music/) - The lesson plans below introduce students to musical structure and help them understand lyrical meaning. Versification, rhythm and rhyme are key takeaways as is the ability to express one's own experience and thoughts through music. La musique : la célébration de nos origines (fiche pédagogique) Guideline pour le prof - Lettre à ma fille (activités)Lettre
- [Social Justice : Human Rights](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/social-justice/social-justice-human-rights/) - The subject of human rights has been a vital component of the FHLP curriculum since the program's inception. In addition to providing insight into the historical context of human rights, our resources also touch upon many specific types of liberties such as children's rights, freedom of religion and freedom of expression, to name a few.
- [Social Justice : Civil Rights](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/social-justice/social-justice-civil-rights/) - Lesson plans in this section give an overview of the history of civil rights within the United States. The objective of these classes is to highlight the role, importance and background of the civil rights movement. They also provide an opportunity for students to discuss the reality and effects of racism and discrimination both throughout
- [Identity : Identity and Diversity](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/identity-17/identity-identity-and-diversity/) - FHLP students are encouraged to discover and express their identity on both an individual and collective level through song, written word and a variety of other ways using multimedia. The goal of these self-portrait projects is to encourage students to explore and appreciate who they are. This theme also examines the way in which diversity
- [Identity : Francophonie](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/identity-17/identity-francophonie/) - The following lesson plans and accompanying class materials highlight the cultural, linguistic and geographic scope of the Francophonie. Lesson plan activities are varied and make use of literary texts, audio clips, videos and grammatical exercises. Francophonie : Introduction Lesson 2014-2015 (fiche pédagogique)Carte de la francophonie (image)Ice breaker “Trouve quelqu’un”Ice breaker: Getting to know each otherPortfolio
- [Family and Community Relations](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/family-and-community-relations/) - The resources below examine the structure and significance of family and community. In addition to examining these two intertwined themes, many of these lesson plans also make a point of helping students become familiarized with their new communities in the U.S. For AP French test takers, the sequence Francophones of New York includes many activities
- [Faithful](https://albertinefoundation.org/faithful/) - On February 11, 1957, Fernand Iveton, a young communist workerdevoted to the struggle for Algerian independence, becamethe only Algerian of European background to be executed as apolitical prisoner by the French authorities during Algeria’s Warof Independence. Though his lawyers had appealed to the highestranks of the French government, including future socialist presidentFrançois Mitterrand, then Minister
- [35 SHOTS OF RUM](https://albertinefoundation.org/35-rums/) - Films about families and their complications all too often pierce eardrums with shrieks of dysfunction. Amid the din, Claire Denis’s sublime 35 Shots of Rum stands out all the more for its soothing quiet, conveying the easy, frequently nonverbal intimacy between a widowed father, Lionel, and his university-student daughter, Joséphine. An homage to Yasujiro Ozu’s
- [Preparing for College in the US: taking the French AP exam](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/taking-the-french-ap-exam/) - The Advanced Placement (AP) French Language and Culture, also known as AP French is a class that lets US high school students earn credit for a college-level French class. It culminates with the AP French Exam, which is generally considered equivalent to a college-level French 301 final exam. Not only does it require to read and write at
- [IN VANDA'S ROOM](https://albertinefoundation.org/in-vandas-room/) - In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. Costa presents the daily routines of Vanda and her neighbors with disarming matter-of-factness, and through his camera, individuals whom many would deem disposable become vivid and vital.
- [LE JOLI MAI](https://albertinefoundation.org/le-joli-mai/) - "A far-reaching meditation on the relationship between individual and society" (Film Comment), LE JOLI MAI is a portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962. It is a film with several thousand actors including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker, a competitive dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle and several
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 8-10 : Séquence 2](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-8-10/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-8-10-sequence-2/) - Family is the main subject of the lesson plans in this sequence. In addition to learning and talking about family members, students also explore the different traditions, customs and living spaces of francophone families. Séquence 2 : Je suis membre d’une famille (fiches pédagogiques) Annexe séance 1Modèles : arbres généalogiques Annexes séquence 2Annexes séquence 2
- [NYC Elementary Curriculum ages 8-10 : Séquence 1](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/resources/elementary-school-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-8-10/nyc-elementary-curriculum-ages-8-10-sequence-1/) - This sequence helps familiarize students with their classroom routine. They will learn how to introduce themselves and acquire vocabulary related to the classroom, colors and physical attributes. This sequence also includes an introduction to different francophone regions. Séquence 1 : Moi, je suis un élève, un écolier (fiches pédagogiques) Annexes séquence 1Annexes séquence 1 pour
- [CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO!](https://albertinefoundation.org/cassandro-the-exotico/) - For close to twenty years, filmmaker Marie Losier has been making singular portraits of the artists and originals of her era, filming the everyday lives of legends like Tony Conrad or Genesis P-Orridge and augmenting them with her vision of their dreams and fantasy lives. With Cassandro, the Exotico!, she turns her inimitable gaze upon
- [The FHLP starts a series of "Story Share" with I Learn America](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-fhlp-starts-a-series-of-story-share-with-i-learn-america/) - All of our students' stories are feature don the I learn America Human Library
- [The Partnership with Lafayette College](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-partnership-with-lafayette-college/) - During the February 2020 break, the French Heritage Language Program launched a pilot program with Lafayette College and its students in the French department. The partnership has mutual benefits: the FHLP students are mentored and supported in the process of university admissions, and Lafayette students have the opportunity to develop new friendships and relationships and practice their
- [A FHLP student obtains the New York State Seal of Biliteracy ](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/a-fhlp-student-obtains-the-new-york-state-seal-of-biliteracy/) - This year, one FHLP student, Amalineda Jean François obtained the "New York Seal of Biliteracy": she is a senior at Prospect Heights International High School; she is from Haiti and she speaks French, Haitian Creole and English. The Seal of Biliteracy is an official recognition by the New York State Department of Education of her bilingualism in
- [14 French Heritage Language Program awarded the Global Seal of Biliteracy.](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-french-heritage-language-program-awards-the-global-seal-of-biliteracy/) - What is the Global Seal of Biliteracy? An international credential The Global Seal of Biliteracy is an international credential that conveys proficiency with language skills in two or more languages for our qualifying candidates. The Global Seal of Biliteracy enables programs across the world to quickly validate a student’s language skills to provide recognition, appropriate
- [Reading Club](https://albertinefoundation.org/reading-club/) - Our students have many opportunities to speak and hear French with their family and friends, through social media, online news and movies they watch on Youtube. It is more challenging to access books French and we try and create those opportunities throughout the year. This year, we picked Lilian Thuram's "mes Etoiles Noires" during Black
- [THANK YOU](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-francophone-cup/thank-you/)
- [Literary Adaptations](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/litterary-adaptations/) - The 2012 festival featured classic and contemporary French films based on French and American literature. From Donald E. Westlake's bestselling novel, The Ax, to Victor Hugo's poem, "How Good are the Poor," Films on the Green introduced viewers to renowned directors such as François Truffaut, Jacques Demy and Costa-Gavras’ adaptations of literature. In keeping with the
- [Musicals](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/musicals/) - There was music in the air the summer of 2010, as Films on the Green presented five French musicals and the film adaptation of an opera in parks throughout New York in June and July. Free and open to the public!All films are in French with English subtitles. The Young Girls of RochefortBy Jacques DemyStarring
- [Summer Newsletter: Stories of Hope and Resilience](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-fhlp-summer-newsletter-stories-of-hope-resilience-and-success/) - Dear friends and supporters of the FHLP,As we wrap up an extraordinary school year and we are all struggling with the new normal created by the COVID-19 pandemic, our summer newsletter brings you the stories of our students. Despite all the inequalities and hurdles they face, they are teaching us all valuable lessons of resilience, success and hope and
- [Women Behind the Camera](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/women-behind-the-camera/) - The 2019 Films on the Green lineup focused on female directors in French and Francophone cinema through a selection of 13 movies. The 12th edition payed tribute to “Women Behind the Camera” in honor of Agnès Varda, feminist filmmaker and pioneer of the French New Wave, who passed away earlier that year. The 2019 selection highlighted the diversity of French and Francophone cinema, featuring
- [Gastronomy](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/gastronomy/) - From Parisian bistros to the vineyards of southern France, the 2018 Films on the Green lineup, through a selection of 12 classic and contemporary French films, explored the profound relationship between French culture and gastronomy, an integral part of France's social fabric. Free and open to the publicMusic by WNYU and WHCS DJs prior to the screenings! LE GRAND RESTAURANTDirected by Jacques
- [10th Anniversary](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/10th-anniversary/) - 2017 marked the 10th anniversary of Films on the Green, the free outdoor French film festival produced annually in New York City parks by the French Embassy, FACE Foundation and NYC Parks. In its landmark 10th year, Films on the Green presented French cinema through the eyes of 10 guest curators and some of the most creative and compelling filmmakers, actors,
- [A Summer in Paris](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/a-summer-in-paris/) - With the theme "A summer in Paris", Films on the Green 2016 offered a striking portrait of the City of Lights, its urban landscape, and cultural diversity. A selection of classic, New Wave, and contemporary films showcased the city’s aesthetic, cultural, and cinematic history from a dramatically unconventional angle through stories of love, romance, adolescence,
- [La Méditerranée](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/la-mediterranee/) - Rich with the vibrant colors, flavors and culture of the Mediterranean, Films on the Green 2015 embarked on an adventure that spans the European continent, from the French Riviera to the coast of Algeria and from Lebanon and Tunisia to the island of Corsica. Check out the articles by Sultana Seban-Sumner about the 2015 Film
- [Masculin / Masculin](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/masculin-masculin/) - A play on the 1966 Godard film title Masculin Feminin, “Masculin / Masculin” presented a gamut of colorful male figures in French film—lovers, heroes, gangsters, and rebels. From love to war, and from neuroses to humor, the 2014 festival offered the most memorable of the masculin in classic love stories, thrilling film noir, and deadpan French comedies. Check
- [Love Stories...](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/love-stories/) - Jealousy, seduction, passion... In 2013, Films on the Green explored the many facets of love with works by established and new directors. French is the language of love, or so the saying goes. But behind this cliché is a multitude of cinematic possibilities. Listen to some music thanks to WNYU with their Films On The
- [Summer Vacations](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/summer-vacations/) - Summer Vacations was the theme of the 2011 film line-up, visited through an array of styles and genres over the course of seven screenings and a special event at Columbia University in September. Free and open to the public!All films are in French with English subtitles. SWIMMING POOL | LA PISCINEby Jacques Deray THOSE HAPPY DAYS
- [Living and Dancing Together](https://albertinefoundation.org/festivals-and-initiatives/films-on-the-green/previous-editions/living-and-dancing-together/) - What could be better than lounging lazily in a park on a lovely summer evening? In May and June 2008, the first edition of Films on the Green presented five movies from a collection called "Living Together" which revolves around solidarity, and the powerful links that are formed between communities, friends and neighbors. Profound and
- [Partners & Sponsors](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transitioning-to-virtual-exchange/partners-sponsors/) - United States Embassy in France Under the leadership of the Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Office is one of the interfaces between the government of the United States of America and the French people. The Cultural Office’s mission is to provide a better understanding of the U.S. culture and society, and to partner
- [Call for proposals](https://albertinefoundation.org/albertine-higher-education/transitioning-to-virtual-exchange/application/) - The Call for applications is now closed. CALL FOR PROPOSALS International education and study abroad have been severely impacted by the current pandemic. In response, the French Embassy in the United States, the U.S. Embassy in France, and the FACE Foundation, will be supporting institutions which are creatively maintaining French-American collaboration by integrating virtual exchange
- [HYENAS (HYÈNES), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/hyenas-hyenes-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: When the struggling inhabitants of Colobane learn that the colossally wealthy Linguère Ramatou is returning to her impoverished hometown, they put together a welcome committee headed by Linguère’s former lover Dramaan Drameh, in hopes that a warm reception will encourage her to use her wealth to put an end to their problems. Yet Linguère
- [HYENAS](https://albertinefoundation.org/hyenas/) - When the struggling inhabitants of Colobane learn that the colossally wealthy Linguère Ramatou is returning to her impoverished hometown, they put together a welcome committee headed by Linguère’s former lover Dramaan Drameh, in hopes that a warm reception will encourage her to use her wealth to put an end to their problems. Yet Linguère arrives
- [THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO (LE MYSTÈRE PICASSO), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/the-mystery-of-picasso-le-mystere-picasso-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of masterpieces of suspense such as Le Corbeau and The Wages of Fear, had been friends for thirty years when they decided to rent a studio in Nice in the summer of 1955 and make a film. The result is one of cinema’s most vivid documents of
- [THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (LA FEMME DE L'AVIATEUR), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/the-aviators-wife-la-femme-de-laviateur-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: To celebrate the centennial of Eric Rohmer’s birth, Tournées offers two films from his delightful “Comedies and Proverbs,” a series of discrete films that represented both a return to the principles with which Rohmer and his Nouvelle Vague friends Truffaut, Godard, and Rivette revolutionized filmmaking—shooting on real streets with young unknowns, privileging spontaneity over
- [BOYFRIENDS & GIRLFRIENDS (L’AMI DE MON AMIE), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/boyfriends-girlfriends-lami-de-mon-amie-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Boyfriends and Girlfriends brought the “Comedies and Proverbs” series to a close with a characteristically light-handed comedy hinting at real philosophical questions. Blanche has just started her first job in the newly built Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise, where she befriends Léa. After Léa introduces her to her boyfriend Fabien, Blanche begins dating Alexandre, a
- [AFRICA ON THE SEINE (AFRIQUE SUR SEINE) - LAMB - A NATION WAS BORN (UNE NATION EST NÉE) - L’ENVERS DU DÉCOR, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/africa-on-the-seine-afrique-sur-seine-lamb-a-nation-was-born-une-nation-est-nee-lenvers-du-decor-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker considered the first sub-Saha- ran African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but
- [THE FRESHMEN (PREMIÈRE ANNÉE), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/the-freshmen-premiere-annee-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Over the last few years, practicing physician Thomas Lilti has carved out a unique place for himself in French cinema as a commercially successful writer-director with a specialization in the medical field. His nearly anthropological but always engrossing approach to various aspects of contemporary French medicine has unfolded in a series of entertaining fiction
- [THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS (LE PROCÈS DE MANDELA ET LES AUTRES), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/the-state-against-mandela-and-the-others-le-proces-de-mandela-et-les-autres-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: In October 1963, Nelson Mandela and nine other leaders of the banned African National Congress appeared before the Pretoria High Court in the apartheid state of South Africa. This diverse group of fighters against apartheid included members of various African peoples, white Jewish South Africans, and an Indian Muslim, all of whom were accused
- [SIBYL, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/sibyl-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Ten years after she published her last novel, Sibyl decides to quit her successful practice as a psychoanalyst and begin writing again, surprising her partner and children with this apparently rash decision. As she is about to leave her practice, she accepts an emergency appointment with Margot, a young actress pregnant with the costar
- [ALL IS FORGIVEN (TOUT EST PARDONNÉ), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/all-is-forgiven-tout-est-pardonne-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is recognized as one of the brightest talents in contemporary French film for the way she has renewed the tradition of the intimate cinema of ideas and emotions epitomized by auteurs such as Eric Rohmer. While her later films such as Things to Come were widely praised in the United States,
- [SYNONYMS, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/synonyms/) - SYNOPSIS: With his third feature and first film set in France, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid provides an incendiary reminder that cinema is most powerful when it raises questions rather than provides answers, when every shot seems born of the desire to try out a new idea rather than bow to narrative convention, and when every
- [VARDA BY AGNES (VARDA PAR AGNÈS), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/varda-by-agnes-varda-par-agnes-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Varda by Agnès, the last film by the late great Agnès Varda, is a typically joyous, digressive, and revealing ramble through the director’s work, based on a series of lectures she gave in the last years of her life. Composed of numerous clips from Varda’s films and public appearances, as well as extensive documentation
- [PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-portrait-de-la-jeune-fille-en-feu-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: Five years after her international triumph Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with a poignant feminist revision of the historical romance. In the late eighteenth-century, Marianne, a free-spirited painter, travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman whose mother has recently taken her out
- [FIRE WILL COME (O QUE ARDE), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/fire-will-come-o-que-arde-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: After spending several years in prison for allegedly setting a wildfire, Amador returns to his elderly mother’s farm in the mountains of Galicia. He lives quietly, resisting his well-meaning neighbors’ overtures, apparently more aware of the terrible stigma associated with his crime than they are. Until another fire breaks out, directly threatening the local
- [JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (NE CROYEZ SURTOUT PAS QUE JE HURLE), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/just-dont-think-ill-scream-ne-croyez-surtout-pas-que-je-hurle-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: In the first minutes of this exquisitely unusual essay film, experimental filmmaker Frank Beauvais tells us that he and his boyfriend have separated after several years and that he has remained alone in the village in Alsace where he and his partner settled six years earlier. Lacking the money to return to Paris and
- [JOAN OF ARC (JEANNE), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/joan-of-arc-jeanne-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: With this follow-up to his jaw-dropping 2017 film Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont, probably the most original auteur in the contemporary French cinema, delivers a dazzling conclusion to his adaptation of early 20th century French poet Charles Péguy’s two plays about Joan of Arc. While Jeanette found Dumont telling the
- [BY THE GRACE OF GOD (GRÂCE À DIEU), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/by-the-grace-of-god-grace-a-dieu-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: This gripping dramatization of the events that led to the exposure of the most significant sex abuse scandal to date in the French Catholic church is a departure for prolific writer-director François Ozon, an au- teur best known as a playful, virtuosic stylist. Here, Ozon sticks to the facts and to a masterfully understated,
- [CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO! PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/cassandro-the-exotico-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: For close to twenty years, filmmaker Marie Loser has been making singular portraits of the artists and originals of her era, filming the everyday lives of legends like Tony Conrad or Genesis P-Orridge and augmenting them with her vision of their dreams and fantasy lives. With Cassandro, the Exotico!, she turns her inimitable gaze
- [ON A MAGICAL NIGHT (CHAMBRE 212), PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/on-a-magical-night-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: After accidentally revealing her long history of meaningless flings to her husband—who doesn’t find them as meaningless as she does—middle-aged professor Maria leaves her home in Paris and checks in to a hotel across the street for a night of soul-searching. But before she has a chance to get too far with her introspection
- [SOLEIL Ô, PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS](https://albertinefoundation.org/participants-portal/soleil-o-promotional-material/) - SYNOPSIS: The late Mauritanian-French writer-director-producer Med Hondo was a trailblazer in making independent films that featured the lives of African immigrants in Europe and denounced all forms of oppression. His first feature Soleil Ô, self-financed and shot over three years in the aftermath of May 68 with a cast of African and West Indian actors,
- [The FHLP during Covid-19: maintaining a sense of community from a distance.](https://albertinefoundation.org/french-for-all/french-heritage-language-program/the-fhlp-during-covid-19-maintaining-a-sense-of-community-from-a-distance/) - When the city of New York decided to close the schools on March 13, our FHLP students were among the 1,126, 000 students sent home for distance learning and among the 13% of English Language Learners (ELLs); they also fall in the category of the 72.8% economically disadvantaged students. So for them, not being able to
- [BOYFRIENDS & GIRLFRIENDS](https://albertinefoundation.org/boyfriends-girlfriends/) - Boyfriends and Girlfriends brought the “Comedies and Proverbs” series to a close with a characteristically light-handed comedy hinting at real philosophical questions. Blanche has just started her first job in the newly built Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise, where she befriends Léa. After Léa introduces her to her boyfriend Fabien, Blanche begins dating Alexandre, a snobbish
- [THE AVIATOR’S WIFE](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-aviators-wife/) - To celebrate the centennial of Eric Rohmer’s birth, Tournées offers two films from his delightful “Comedies and Proverbs,” a series of discrete films that represented both a return to the principles with which Rohmer and his Nouvelle Vague friends Truffaut, Godard, and Rivette revolutionized filmmaking—shooting on real streets with young unknowns, privileging spontaneity over the
- [VARDA BY AGNES](https://albertinefoundation.org/varda-by-agnes/) - Varda by Agnès, the last film by the late great Agnès Varda, is a typically joyous, digressive, and revealing ramble through the director’s work, based on a series of lectures she gave in the last years of her life. Composed of numerous clips from Varda’s films and public appearances, as well as extensive documentation of
- [SOLEIL Ô](https://albertinefoundation.org/soleil-o/) - The late Mauritanian-French writer-director-producer Med Hondo was a trailblazer in making independent films that featured the lives of African immigrants in Europe and denounced all forms of oppression. His first feature Soleil Ô, self-financed and shot over three years in the aftermath of May 68 with a cast of African and West Indian actors, follows
- [ON A MAGICAL NIGHT](https://albertinefoundation.org/on-a-magical-night/) - After accidentally revealing her long history of meaningless flings to her husband—who doesn’t find them as meaningless as she does—middle-aged professor Maria leaves her home in Paris and checks in to a hotel across the street for a night of soul-searching. But before she has a chance to get too far with her introspection she
- [PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE](https://albertinefoundation.org/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/) - Five years after her international triumph Girlhood, writer-director Céline Sciamma returns with a poignant feminist revision of the historical romance. In the late eighteenth-century, Marianne, a free-spirited painter, travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to paint a portrait of Héloïse, a young woman whose mother has recently taken her out of
- [BY THE GRACE OF GOD](https://albertinefoundation.org/by-the-grace-of-god/) - This gripping dramatization of the events that led to the exposure of the most significant sex abuse scandal to date in the French Catholic church is a departure for prolific writer-director François Ozon, an auteur best known as a playful, virtuosic stylist. Here, Ozon sticks to the facts and to a masterfully understated, sensitive style
- [SIBYL](https://albertinefoundation.org/sibyl/) - Ten years after she published her last novel, Sibyl decides to quit her successful practice as a psychoanalyst and begin writing again, surprising her partner and children with this apparently rash decision. As she is about to leave her practice, she accepts an emergency appointment with Margot, a young actress pregnant with the costar of
- [THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-mystery-of-picasso/) - Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of masterpieces of suspense such as Le Corbeau and The Wages of Fear, had been friends for thirty years when they decided to rent a studio in Nice in the summer of 1955 and make a film. The result is one of cinema’s most vivid documents of a
- [SYNONYMS](https://albertinefoundation.org/synonyms-3/) - With his third feature and first film set in France, Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid provides an incendiary reminder that cinema is most powerful when it raises questions rather than provides answers, when every shot seems born of the desire to try out a new idea rather than bow to narrative convention, and when every scene
- [ALL IS FORGIVEN](https://albertinefoundation.org/all-is-forgiven/) - Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve is recognized as one of the brightest talents in contemporary French film for the way she has renewed the tradition of the intimate cinema of ideas and emotions epitomized by auteurs such as Eric Rohmer. While her later films such as Things to Come were widely praised in the United States, her
- [FIRE WILL COME](https://albertinefoundation.org/fire-will-come/) - After spending several years in prison for allegedly setting a wildfire, Amador returns to his elderly mother’s farm in the mountains of Galicia. He lives quietly, resisting his well-meaning neighbors’ overtures, apparently more aware of the terrible stigma associated with his crime than they are. Until another fire breaks out, directly threatening the local community,
- [JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM](https://albertinefoundation.org/just-dont-think-ill-scream/) - In the first minutes of this exquisitely unusual essay film, experimental filmmaker Frank Beauvais tells us that he and his boyfriend have separated after several years and that he has remained alone in the village in Alsace where he and his partner settled six years earlier. Lacking the money to return to Paris and the
- [JOAN OF ARC](https://albertinefoundation.org/joan-of-arc/) - With this follow-up to his jaw-dropping 2017 film Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont, probably the most original auteur in the contemporary French cinema, delivers a dazzling conclusion to his adaptation of early 20th century French poet Charles Péguy’s two plays about Joan of Arc. While Jeanette found Dumont telling the story
- [THE FRESHMEN](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-freshmen/) - Over the last few years, practicing physician Thomas Lilti has carved out a unique place for himself in French cinema as a commercially successful writer-director with a specialization in the medical field. His nearly anthropological but always engrossing approach to various aspects of contemporary French medicine has unfolded in a series of entertaining fiction films.
- [THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS](https://albertinefoundation.org/the-state-against-mandela-and-the-others/) - In October 1963, Nelson Mandela and nine other leaders of the banned African National Congress appeared before the Pretoria High Court in the apartheid state of South Africa. This diverse group of fighters against apartheid included members of various African peoples, white Jewish South Africans, and an Indian Muslim, all of whom were accused of
- [AFRICA ON THE SEINE - LAMB - A NATION WAS BORN](https://albertinefoundation.org/africa-on-the-seine-lamb-a-nation-was-born/) - This program of documentary shorts is both a stirring introduction to the Beninese/Senegalese filmmaker considered the first sub-Saharan African film director and a rich overview of the period of African independence and nation-building. Vieyra’s 1955 essay film Africa on the Seine (co-directed with Mamadou Sarr) begins on the banks of the Niger but moves quickly
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