french with english subtitles

Winner of the Palme d'or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival

France's official entry in the Oscars' Best Foreign Language Film category

A surprise French box-office hit, a charming tale which will give you a refreshing taste of French life.

The Grocer's Son / L

The French film “Tell no one” (Ne le dit à personne) of Guillaume Canet in Canal Place Cinema.

Romance in a Can presents Serko, a film of Joël Farges inspired by Jean-Louis Gouraud's novel.

In 1889, mounted on a small gray horse named Serko, Dimitri leaves his garrison of the Asian borders of the Russian Empire on the edges of the river Amour.

NR, France, 2008, 82 minutes.

In French with English subtitles. A film by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti & Richard McGuire

Six of the world's hottest graphic artists bring their creepiest visions to the big screen in gorgeously innovative, hair-raising black-and-white animation.

From November 12–16 BAMcinématek, the repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas, presents New French Films.

This annual BAMcinématek showcase returns with five new features direct from France.

Éliane Weiss (almond-eyed, mischievous-under-a-smooth-surface Emmanuelle Devos) is an elementary schoolteacher in Paris who is fiercely attentive to the needs of everyone in her life, from her old-fashioned husband and her daughter to her neurotic widowed mother and her pupils.

Attentive to everyone, that is, except herself.

Nominated for eight César awards in its native France, Private Fears in Public Places is an intelligent, adult look at loneliness in the twenty-first century.

The film examines the interrelated lives of six main characters who are trying desperately but failing at making real, long-lasting connections.

Olivier Assayas's film Eldorado / Preljocaj, making its NY premiere on October 1 at FIAF, tracks the collaboration between French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj and composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.

US Premiere

Yugoslavian-born Body Art performance artist Marina Abramovic is the subject of Pierre Coulibeuf's film Balkan Baroque which is being screened with the US premiere of his short film Love Neutral on September 30 at FIAF.

Pierre Coulibeuf will introduce his films and hold a post-screening Q&A.