Greenwich
Connecticut
20th Annual Focus On French Cinema Festival
Arts and Entertainment
March 10, 2025
From: Focus On French Cinema FestivalSchedule Of Events
March 16, 2025
4:00pm : A Day at the Museum (Musée Haut, Musée Bas)
Runtime: 93 minutes, Language: French, Director: Jean-Michel Ribes, Year: 2008
A curator terrified by green plants, a mother plasticized to be exhibited, a ballet of Holy Virgins, guards exhausted by Rodin, a minister lost in an exhibition of sexes, a car missing in the Rembrandt parking lot, provincials in love with the Impressionists, mischievous tourists galloping from one room to another, stowaways in primitive art, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, they are all there in this little world that resembles the big one, in this museum that is not so imaginary, waltzing the human comedy to the point of burlesque.
Location : Greenwich Arts Council
March 23, 2025
2:00pm to 4:00pm : L'Ocean vu du Coeur (Ocean Seen from the Heart)
Location : Bruce Museum
April 3, 2025
6:30pm : Shepherds (Bergers)
Runtime: 113 minutes, Language: French, Director: Sophie Deraspe, Year: 2024
Mathyas swaps his Montreal life as a young advertising executive for that of a shepherd in Provence. But the road to his longed-for pastoral tranquility is littered with hard work. Through self-deprecation, Mathyas survives the violent delirium and decay of the first farmhouse where he begins his apprenticeship. But the arrival of Élise, a civil servant also searching for meaning, gives Mathyas' quest a new direction. Together, they embark on a transhumance. Through the trials and tribulations of the mountains, and with a herd to support, they forge a new life for themselves.
Location : Greenwich Arts Council
April 13, 2025
2:00pm : Aznavour by Charles
Runtime: 76 minutes, Language: English, French, Director: Marc di Domenico, Year: 2019
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
Location : Bruce Museum
April 24 - May 04, 2025 - All Day
Location : Online
Dog on Trial (Le Procès du Chien)
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Year: 2024, Runtime: 80 minutes, Language: French, Director: Laetitia Dosch
April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will be put down.
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Year: 2024, Runtime: 88 minutes, Language: English, French, Director: Arnaud Desplechin
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.
L'Ocean vu du Coeur (Ocean Seen from the Heart)
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Saturday, May 31, 4:45 AM
Runtime: 92 minutes, Language: English, French, Fulah, Director: Boris Lojkine
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Runtime: 90 minutes, Language: French, Director: Stefan Liberski
The Art of Nothing L'Art d'être heureux) is a 2024 comedy written and directed by Stefan Liberski. The story is based on the 2001 novel L'Art d'être heureux by Jean-Philippe Delhomme. A disillusioned painter who decides to quit his job and move to a small town in Normandy, hoping to create a masterpiece.
The Green Deal (La Promesse Verte)
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 4:45 AM
Year: 2024, Runtime: 120 minutes, Language: French, Indonesian, English, Director: Édouard Bergeon
Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Year: 2022, Runtime: 52 minutes, Language: French, Director: Bertrand Delapierre
In the heart of the Antarctic, nine adventurers are about to live an extraordinary story. They come from very different backgrounds, but one thing brings them together: a passion for adventure and testing the limits. Their goal: to follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest legends of the golden age of polar exploration: Ernest Shackleton. In 1914, after the sinking of his ship The Endurance, this hero saved his entire crew from a certain death. 100 years later our expedition sets out to explore the sub-Antarctic islands of Elephant, South Georgia and the South Sandwich by boat, ski and pulka. On board the Australis: an expedition leader, a veteran explorer, a former officer, a skipper, a polar guide, a scientist, two young soldiers and an athlete snowboarder. An expedition to remind us of the fragility of this highly endangered ecosystem, and to improve our understanding of these remote expanses
Thursday, April 24, 12 AM - Sunday, May 4, 11:45 PM
Year: 2024, Runtime: 108 minutes, Language: French, Director: Patricia Mazuy
Almat, alone in her big townhouse, and Mina, a single mother from a housing project in another city, have organized their lives around the prison visits they make to their respective partners. When the two women meet in the room outside the visiting area, an unlikely friendship begins.
Date : February 23 - May 04, 2025
Location :
Greenwich Arts Council , 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830
Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830