Public Events

We are happy to welcome everyone in our beautiful auditorium to celebrate Francophone cultures. Check out our amazing program events including movie nights, panel talks, concerts, and more!
 UPCOMING EVENTS

Rough Cut Short Film Festival | April 24 24

Next edition of Rough Cut Festival will take place on April, 24 2025.
Participants should submit their film by April 14

We are looking forward to see you for the screening of short feature films submitted by students from all around the world. 


En français, oui but why? | Sat. April 26

Sat, April 26, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
 
Join us to celebrate French and Francophone culture and attend masterclasses, kid's workshops, book signing, french food and a live show.
Access to the fair and the children’s workshops are free and open to the public.

See the program and register .

FRANCOPHONE SHORT FILMS

Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025 | 6:30 pm

A special evening presented by the Francophone Short Films Festival in HarlemLucie Chabrol-Nyssens, President of the Festival, will show a best-of of the students' Rough Cut Festival.
Q&A moderated by Binita Mehta with directors Juliette Boucheny (Ativo), Elen Sylla Grolimund (Villa Madjo), Brian Hawkins (Les Vouèsins).

>> Free. Films with English subtitles. Book your seat! 

Selection of 5 short films (90'):
Ativo, Juliette Boucheny, 2022, 26’, Togo-France.
Agotimé-Adamé, a village two hours north of Lomé, Togo. Guénolé, a twelve-year-old boy, is gifted with obvious musical talent and dreams of playing the piano but doesn't own one. Supported by his sister Prudence, his grandmother Eternal, and aided by the spirits of nature, Guénolé will try to achieve his goal.

Villa Madjo
, Elen Sylla Grollimund, 2024, 13’, Senegal-France-Belgium.
Starting from the observation that her father -who is white- was born in Africa, and that her mother -who is black- was born in Europe, the director reveals the complex history of her family, from colonialism to their experience of the interracial couple in Europe in the 1950's and 70's.

Eldorado
, Mathieu Volpe, 2024, 19’, Belgium.
Awa, a Cameroonian snow groomer operator, helps a determined young migrant cross the border from Italy to France. As their journey unfolds, a poignant story of redemption emerges amid a web of snow and hidden truths.

Galivan
, Myra Lou Anna Thiemard, 2024, 18’, Switzerland.
Sophie travels to Valparaiso, Chile, to meet her family. This new environment and this imminent encounter plunge her into an introspective state that will resurface long-buried feelings. In the city, her Chilean father is everywhere and not as she imagined...

Les Vouèsins
, Brian Hawkins, 2024, 15’, USA / Missouri - French Créoles.
When he arrived in the summer of 1934, J. M. Carrière described Old Mines as “a straggling, quiet little village in the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks, about sixty-five miles south of Saint Louis. Scattered all along the countryside, I found six hundred French-speaking families living in this community.” Carrière sought out the most accomplished storytellers and meticulously transcribed 73 folktales, documenting both the Creoles’ worldview and the local French language, rapidly falling out of use.

MOVIE NIGHT | May 7 - 6:30 PM

Every first Wednesday of the month, enjoy a film in French with english subtitles in the Lycée's auditorium.
The screening is free and open to all.

Next French movie nights will take place on Wednesday, May 7
We will screen Speak Out (Le Panache, 2024), a film directed by Jennifer Devolder, starring José Garcia, Aure Atika and Joachim Arseguel.

>> Book your seat

Previous screenings featured: 
  • The Heart of the Games (Au coeur des Jeux), docu-series by Jules and Gédéon Naudet, screening followed by a Q&A with the directors, alumni of the Lycée
  • Making of, by Cédric Kahn
  • The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi et l'oiseau), by Paul Grimault
  • Animal Kingdom (Le Règne animal), by Thomas Caillet
 PAST EVENTS

Concert "francophonie pour la paix" | March 20

The annual Concert de la Francophonie, hosted by the Cultural Center of the Lycée Français de New York in partnership with the Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF), celebrate a Spring in francophonie.

This year, Ibrahim Maalouf, virtuoso trumpeter and two-time Grammy Award-nominated producer, was at the Lycée Français de New-York for a unique and unforgettable show full of surprises.