Born in 1991, Clara Rivault lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. With a diverse academic background, she explores a wide range of complex...

Dancer and choreographer Dovydas Strimaitis is the face of the Lithuanian Season in France, taking place from September 12 to December 12, 2024. With a touch of humor, he answered our questions about...

Represented by the Nev Gallery, based in Ankara, Turkish painter Gökhun Baltaci held his first international exhibition in Paris in 2022, as part of Paris Internationale. It was during his trip to...

A director and cinematographer graduated from the École Louis-Lumière in Paris, Hicham Falah is the General Delegate of the International Documentary Film Festival in Agadir. He reveals to us the...

At the head of the National Center for Music (CNM), Jean-Philippe Thiellay is committed to the development of French artists on an international scale. As the Cité Internationale de la Langue...

We took advantage of his visit in Paris, in the offices of the Institut français, to record a few words from the director of the Ukrainian Institute, Volodymyr Sheiko. 

The Abidjan International Book Fair (SILA) took place from May 14 to 18, 2024. A major event for book industry professionals, this year's fair was associated with the Ressources éducatives project...

Magaly Losange is the French Cooperation Attaché (ACPF) and Deputy Director of the French Institute of Nigeria. Romain Chrétien is the National Director of Courses and Exams at the French Institute of...

Isaline Gailliegue is the Director of the Language Center at the Institut français de Djibouti, as part of a Volontariat International (VI) contract that began six months ago. Romuald Prouteau has...

Yaël Fogiel, producer at Les Films du Poisson, and Stéphane Goudet, artistic director at Cinéma Le Méliès in Montreuil, are the new presidents of Aide aux cinémas du monde. Co-managed by the Institut...

At the end of 2023, Mathieu Lucas participated in a six-day mission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, as part of the cooperation project "Learning from Old Dhaka," led by the Institut français and...

As part of the International Resonances of the Francophonie Festival 2024, the French cultural network abroad is initiating a regional project in the Asia-Pacific region, entitled "Refaire le monde en...

Elected in 2021, Cynthia Eid is the first woman to be president of the International Federation of French Teachers  (FIPF), which the Institut français supports as part of its action to promote the...

A former student of the École normale supérieure, trained at Harvard and Oxford, performer Vanasay Khamphommala has just presented ສຽງຂອງຍ່າ (The Voice of My Grandmother) at the National Theatre of...

The Musée national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the Institut français work in partnership to promote scientific culture in the French diplomatic network abroad. MNHN president Gilles Bloch...