Author Talk: Véronique Le Bris—Alice Guy, la plus audacieuse des pionniers du cinéma

As part of Festival de la Francophonie 2026 and in partnership with Villa Albertine, the Alliance is honored to welcome French journalist Véronique Le Bris for a presentation of her book Alice Guy, la plus audacieuse des pionniers du cinéma : la biographie de la première femme réalisatrice au monde.

Film Screening: Cinémélodie—Félicité with Eliana Vagalau

Join us for a special installment of our 2025/2026 music-themed film series, Cinémélodie, as part of Festival de la Francophonie 2026: a screening of French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis’ 2017 drama Félicité.

Film Screening: Amélie & la métaphysique des tubes

Calling all Amélie Nothomb fans! Join us for a screening of Malïys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s animated film 2025 Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain), an adaptation of Belgian author Amélie Nothomb’s 2000 novel La métaphysique des tubes as part of Festival de la Francophonie 2026.

Film Screening: Becoming Human

The Alliance is pleased to partner with Asian Pop Up Cinema (APUC) and the National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial on a special screening of self-taught Cambodia-based filmmaker Polen Ly’s 2025 supernatural drama Becoming Human.

Film Screening: Cinémélodie—À peine j'ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes)

Join us for the April installment of our 2025/2026 music-themed film series, Cinémélodie! In celebration of Arab American Heritage Month, we’re screening Tunisian screenwriter and filmmaker Leyla Bouzid’s 2015 drama À peine j’ouvre les yeux (As I Open My Eyes).

Film Screening: Cinémélodie—Dans la cuisine des Nguyen (In the Nguyen Kitchen)

Join us for the May installment of our 2025/2026 music-themed film series, Cinémélodie! In celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re screening French filmmaker Stéphane Ly-Cuong’s 2025 musical Dans la cuisine des Nguyen (In the Nguyen Kitchen).

Film Screening: Cinémélodie—Montréal New Wave

Join us for the June installment of our 2025/2026 music-themed film series, Cinémélodie: québécois filmmaker Erik Cimon’s 2016 documentary Montréal New Wave, which explores the ups and downs of new wave music from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s and its influence on today’s cultural scene.

Film Screening: Cinémélodie—Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)

JJoin us for the final installment of our 2025/2026 music-themed series, Cinémélodie: French director Jacques Demy 1964 musical romantic drama *Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)*! We kicked off Cinémélodie in September with a screening of Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort, and so it’s only fitting that we bookend the series with the other musical for which he is best known.