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Want to know what to expect at the French Institute? Check out our July highlights!🌞 👉 institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-…

One of the highlights of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Julien Colonna's debut feature The Kingdom grippingly explores the hidden side of the Corsican underworld. From 18 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️ institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-kin…

#BookoftheWeek ‘A tribute to the love humans feel for their pets’ – @guardian 🐾Ubac and Me is a moving memoir of love, adventure, and the deep bond between a man and his Bernese Mountain Dog. By Cédric Sapin-Defour, trans. Adriana Hunter @IReadVintage waterstones.com/book/ubac-and-…

Time is of the essence? Try our #IntensivePremium French courses and become fluent in no time! New courses opening on 4 Aug, book now. #LearnFrench at the Institut français, c'est magnifique! 👉institut-francais.org.uk/french-courses…

Godard’s masterly hymn to cinema, Le Mépris, features Michel Piccoli and Brigitte Bardot as a couple whose marriage begins to fall apart in the backdrop of a film shooting in Capri. From 13 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️ institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/le-mepr…

#FrenchPostIt #DidYouKnow in 🇫🇷 "it's not the sea to drink" means "it's not a tough nut to crack" in 🇬🇧! #LearnFrench @ifru_london to grasp all the subtleties of the French language 👉 institut-francais.org.uk/french-courses/

📢Ciné Lumière will be screening special previews of Savages, courtesy of @MetFilmDistrib If you enjoyed My Life as a Courgette, don't miss Claude Barras's masterpiece of stop motion animation, Savages. Previews from 19 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️ institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/savages/

Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon) offers a biting satire on bourgeois family values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis, and featuring a cast of top acting talents, incl. Isabelle Huppert. From 20 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/happy-e…

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, amongst many other accolades, Michael Haneke's The white Ribbon explores the oppressively strict social conditions that gave rise to Nazism. From 19 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-whi…

Meet director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and actor Zita Hanrot at the screening of The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire on 18 July at ciné Lumière. The film examines the life of Caribbean surrealist Suzanne Césaire, overshadowed by her husband Aimé Césaire. 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-bal…

Superstar and avid reader @DUALIPA interviews French writer and philosopher Vincent Delecroix, author of Small Boat, shortlisted for the 2025 International @TheBookerPrizes, and her monthly read for July. Watch the interview 👇 youtu.be/ASQI1o_Gt44?si…

📢Ciné Lumière will be screening special previews of Savages, courtesy of @MetFilmDistrib If you enjoyed My Life as a Courgette, don't miss Claude Barras's masterpiece of stop motion animation, Savages. Previews from 19 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️ institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/savages/

Akira Kurosawa's final masterpiece and Oscar and BAFTA award-winning film, Ran is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan. Screened from a 35mm restored print, courtesy of @StudiocanalUK From 20 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/ran/

Happy #BastilleDay! #14July is a moment of celebration — all the more meaningful after the recent State Visit, which highlighted the strength of our shared values. Thank you to all our guests who made this National Day so special. Vive l’Entente amicale! 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧

#FrenchPostIt #DidYouKnow in 🇫🇷 "to have bread on the board" means to have your work cut out for you in 🇬🇧! #LearnFrench @ifru_london to grasp all the subtleties of the French language 👉 institut-francais.org.uk/french-courses/

With President @EmmanuelMacron and my team @FranceintheUK at the French residence in London. Grateful to the remarkable collective effort behind the State Visit and the 37th 🇫🇷🇬🇧 Summit. Thanks & congrats to my wonderful team for the organisation of this historical State Visit!

Chouchou (Brigitte Bardot) falls in love with Michel (Louis Jourdan), but Michel is with Judith (Micheline Presle) and pays no mind to her. What will Chouchou do? Watch Her Bridal Night from 17 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/her-bri…

📢Ciné Lumière will be screening special previews of Savages, courtesy of @MetFilmDistrib If you enjoyed My Life as a Courgette, don't miss Claude Barras's masterpiece of stop motion animation, Savages. Previews from 19 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/savages/

"Brilliant...wonderfully subtle...an ode to cinema" - @SightSoundmag From Spanish director Jonás Trueba comes The Other Way Around, a wry and super-smart meta-romantic comedy. From 11 July at Ciné Lumière with @TullStories 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-oth…

In The Truth, winner of the 1961 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and starring Brigitte Bardot, Henri-Georges Clouzot depicts a puritanical and hypocritical society that shows no compassion for the monsters it creates. From 14 July at Ciné Lumière 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-tru…

Meet director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and actor Zita Hanrot at the screening of The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire on 18 July at ciné Lumière. The film examines the life of Caribbean surrealist Suzanne Césaire, overshadowed by her husband Aimé Césaire. 🎟️institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-bal…