Upcoming Classes & Events

Fall French Classes for All Ages Start Next Week

Sep 26–Dec 11
10-week and 5-week options
In Person / Online

Learn to hear the world in new beautiful ways this fall with FIAF French classes!

FIAF offers flexible in-person and online French classes for every schedule. You will learn from the pros with our experienced native-speaking teachers leading classes for all age groups from toddlers to adults and all levels from beginner to expert.

Your FIAF class comes with a complimentary one-year membership bringing you free tickets to CinéSalon films, access to our library, discounts on all FIAF cultural events, opportunities to practice French with new friends, and more.

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Fall French Day Camps for Toddlers & Kids

Mon, Sep 25 • Mon, Oct 9
FIAF Manhattan

Pre-K / Ages 3–5: 9am–12
Pre-K / Ages 3–5: 9am–4pm
Grade K–3 / Ages 5–8: 9am–4pm

Send your kids to FIAF for fun and learning when they’re off from school for Yom Kippur (Sep 25) and Italian Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day (Oct 9).

Toddlers and kids will learn French through creative activities, games, and visits to Central Park.

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FIAF Preschool Manhattan

Information Sessions
Fri, 8:45–9:45am
Sep 29 • Oct 6, 13, 20, 27
Nov 3, 17 • Dec 1, 8, 15
FIAF Manhattan

A French immersion program for toddlers ages 2½ to 4, the FIAF Preschool combines the best of French and American teaching methods within a rich, multicultural environment. Attend an in-person info session to learn about our program, tour our beautiful space, and observe a class. RSVP here.

Preschool applications now open for school year 2024–25. A few spots also available for 2023–24.

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New Permanent Installation

Plonk & Replonk – Bébert
Cabinet of Curiosities

Opening Reception
Thu, Sep 21, from 6pm–8pm
FIAF Haskell Library 

In honor of its 125th anniversary, FIAF has commissioned a new, permanent installation by the Swiss artist collective Plonk & Replonk – Bébert.

Cabinet of Curiosities, marking the collective’s U.S. premiere, takes visitors on a journey through FIAF’s history, using humorously re-imagined historical artifacts.

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Cinésalon
New Voices In French Cinema

Quartiers Lointains

US Premiere + Q&A
Tue, Sep 26 at 4pm & 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Free for FIAF Members

A touring, short film program, Quartiers Lointains spotlights PanAfrican and French multicultural filmmakers. The program comes to FIAF on its 10th anniversary with four new short films.

Quartiers Lointains founder Claire Diao and writer-director Aude N’Guessan Forget join us for a Q&A following the 7:30pm screening.

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Crossing The Line Festival
Dance

Smaïl Kanouté
Never Twenty One

US Premiere
Wed, Sep 27 at 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement’s #Never21 hashtag, this deeply resonant piece by French-Malian choreographer and dancer Smaïl Kanouté pays tribute to young people of color who have lost their lives to gun violence all over the world before reaching the age of 21.

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Crossing The Line Festival
Dance

Olivier Tarpaga
Once the dust settles, flowers bloom

NYC Premiere
Tue, Oct 3–Sun, Oct 8
The Joyce Theater

Choreographer/dancer/musician Olivier Tarpaga’s powerful work acknowledges the strength of refugees from Africa’s Burkina Faso and its Sahel region—Tarpaga’s ancestral homeland—as well as the suffering faced by women amid religious extremism. It is ultimately a work of not only survival but of hope and love.

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Cinésalon
New Voices In French Cinema

The Worst Ones

Les Pires

A New York Times Critic’s Pick!

Tue, Oct 3 at 4pm & 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Free for FIAF Members

Dir. Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
2022, 99 min
In French with English subtitles

Looking for gritty authenticity, a director shooting a film in the northern French suburbs casts four working class teenagers from the local housing project—kids the locals call “the worst ones”.

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Talk, Q&A, Book-Signing & Party
In Montclair, NJ

An Evening with Comic Artist Joseph Kai

Wed, Oct 4 at 7pm
Investors Bank Film & Media Center
In English

Meet graphic novelist Joseph Kai at a talk and party celebrating the new English translation of his acclaimed first book, L’Intranquille—now titled Restless. The book is a reflection on contemporary Beirut inspired by Kai’s life, explored through the experiences of a young, queer comic book artist named Samar.

Book Giveaway for FIAF Members through Fri, Sep 22 — see details

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Crossing The Line Festival
Theater

Simon Senn
& Tammara Leites
dSimon

NYC Premiere
Fri, Oct 6 & Sat, Oct 7 at 7:30pm
FIAF Tinker Auditorium
In English

Swiss artist Simon Senn explores today’s most exciting and controversial technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI). This timely story relates the creation of an AI entity with Senn’s personality and personal data, and grapples with its transformation into an autonomous, disturbing, and yet familiar monster.
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Crossing The Line Festival
Theater

Isabelle Adjani
Marilyn's Vertigo

North American Premiere
Thu, Oct 12 & Fri, Oct 13 at 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
In French with English supertitles
Advance Tickets Recommended

Renowned actress Isabelle Adjani in a riveting solo stage performance engages in a surreal dialogue with Marilyn Monroe, exploring the complexities of stardom, identity, and legacy. Written by Olivier Steiner and Isabelle Adjani. Directed by Olivier Steiner and Emmanuel Lagarrigue.

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From Our Friends

Exhibition

Enchanting Imagination

The Objets d'Art of Andre Chervin
and Carvin French Jewelers

On view through March 17, 2024
New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West, NYC

The New York Historical Society presents an exhibition of enchanting objets d’art—lamps, clocks, figurines, boxes, accessories, and decorations—created by one of the most acclaimed makers of handcrafted fine jewelry in the world, André Chervin, with his New York atelier, Carvin French. This dazzling exhibition of one-of-a-kind objects with masterfully cut gems such as rubies, diamonds and sapphires features miniature masterpieces on view to the public for the very first time.

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