Mohamed Zoghlami is a consultant in business engineering and strategic analysis, passionate about new technologies, animation and comics. Since the Tunisian revolution of 2011, he has worked for the international development of African start-ups. His aim is to celebrate African cultures throughout...

Immersive, tactile, audible and augmented: digital comics are a new space for experimentation, for creators and readers alike. These innovative works will be showcased starting in February in the Machine a Bulles (Bubble Machines) exhibition, presented as part of the "Comics 2020: France loves the...

Comic book author and illustrator Ludovic Debeurme has produced many books for young people, including the eco-fantasy trilogy Epiphania. Poetic, psychoanalytic and political, he pushes back on the norms dictated by the collective imaginary. At the beginning of December he took part in the “Man and...

Director of the On a Marché sur la Bulle association, which has organised the Rendez-vous de la bande dessinée d’Amiens (Amiens Comic Festival) every year since 1996, Pascal Mériaux has built up solid experience in the field of comics and mediation with young people. He is the curator of the...

In her comic books published with the independent collectives Zeez and Samandal, the Lebanese illustrator Karen Keyrouz describes a country eroded by violence and suppression. A line that’s both harsh and poetic, that she refines through new experiments around the motive of pareidolia.

Planned for 2022, the France-Portugal Season will bring together artists, thinkers and scientists from both countries around common themes. As part of the Portuguese and French presidencies of the Council of the European Union (Portugal's rotating presidency in the first half of 2021 and France's in...

Following Symphonie Carcérale, a comic strip that plunged us into the daily life of Fresnes prison, the author Romain Dutter and the cartoonist Bouqé have produced Goodbye Ceausescu, a journey into today's Romania. 

Attached to the defence of local values, Mamou Daffé is the head of several organisations and events in Mali. In particular, he directs the Centre Culturel Kôrè in Ségou, a partner of the Institut français for the ACP-EU Culture programme: Support for the Culture and Creation sectors in West Africa...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this second part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, speaks about the Creative Europe programme, support for the...

Andrew Manning is the Director of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). With members in every EU country and over 133 ‘Clusters’ worldwide the organisation believes in the power of culture to build trust and understanding between countries. Within the framework of the French...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this first part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, discusses the role of culture in the political priorities of the...

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 past 9 months.