Jean-Luc Sonhaye Gbati is head of the PAPRICAI incubator, a unique project that supports cultural initiatives in Togo and West Africa. The ACP-EU Culture AWA programme, notably supported by the...

A teacher, economist and writer, Felwine Sarr was due to see his text Traces – Discours aux nations africaines (Traces – Speech to African Nations), which he wrote in 2018, staged at the Avignon...

Victorine Grataloup was recently appointed director of the Triangle-Astérides art centre at the Friche de la Belle de Mai in Marseille. She is also co-curator of the ¡Viva Villa! festival, which...

The Cameroonian historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe, author of a report on the new relations between Africa and France, submitted to the President of the French Republic on 5 October 2021, is now...

The second Our Future - Africa-Europe Dialogues forum will be held from 1 to 3 December in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Jacques Jonathan Nyemb chairs the Council for the Follow-up of the Recommendations of the...

With films, photographs, prints and more, Éric Baudelaire’s work focuses on historical events and political conflicts that question the order of modern societies. He won the 2019 Marcel Duchamp Prize...

Ghost Song, the second film by director Nicolas Peduzzi, is part of a selection presented by the Institut français on Ifcinéma to mark the 30th anniversary of ACID (Association du Cinéma Indépendant...

Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto is celebrating its 30th anniversary in November 2022. We met with its new director Adèle Fremolle. She discusses her journey, the future of the establishment and the upcoming...

Known for his poetry collections, Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which has just been translated to French, Ilya Kaminsky is the patron of the 2022 Un Week-end à l’Est Festival. As a sign of...

Guinean director, scriptwriter and producer, Thierno Souleymane Diallo examines the history of his country through his films. His first feature film "Au cimetière de la pellicule", developed with the...

Désiré Koussawo is a major player in the field of esports in France and abroad, particularly in Africa. He is president of France Esports and SAGES - Services for Africa Gaming & Esports. 

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Zhanna Ozirna is a Ukrainian director. Her debut feature film, Ground Zero, focuses on the way in which inhabitants of a Soviet era mono-industrial town have had their collective memories controlled...

Natacha Poutoux and Sacha Hourcade are the co-founders of design studio natacha.sacha. Returning from a residency at Villa Kujoyama, they tell us about their process combining technology, ecology and...

Opened in February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français for the French part, comes to an end. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Président of the Season, looks back to the...

The French video artist Irvin Anneix creates, in his own words, projects to give "a voice to those who do not have one in the traditional media". With the web-series Cher futur moi (Dear Future Me)...