Films Fri 21 Feb at 6pm Purple Noon / Plein soleil A psychological thriller set amidst the alluring landscape of the Italian coast. A dark tale of betrayed friendships and stolen identities. Starring Alain Delon as…
Kids & Families Sat 22 Feb at 10.30am Histoires et crafts sur les pingouins Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of penguins during a special event for children, combining captivating tales and creative workshops! A fun and educational experience…
Books & Ideas Talks Tue 25 Feb at 6pm NOIR: Truth, Lies and Moral Ambiguity with the Scottish Writer Lisa Ballantyne Lisa Ballantyne is the internationally bestselling author of five novels. Her debut, The Guilty One was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, Longlisted for the International IMPAC…
Books & Ideas Tue 25 Feb at 12.30pm Groupe de lecture “Le gardien de Téhéran” de Stéphanie Pérez Once a month, the reading group meets up to discuss a couple of books selected in advance (from classical to contemporary French literature) and discovers…
Films Wed 26 Feb at 2pm and 6pm Toni / Toni en famille Antonia, known as Toni, raises her five children alone. A full-time job. She also sings in bars in the evenings, to keep her family fed.…
Kids & Families Workshops Jan to May 2025 at 2pm Board games workshops Join us for an afternoon of Board games every last Friday of the month! Our librarian Catherine will prepare you a selection of board games…
Arts Exhibition 5-28 Feb Exhibition: Postcards For Perec Two Hundred and Forty-Three Postcards in Real Colour. Georges Perec (1936-1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the…
Books & Ideas Kids & Families Sat 1 March at 10.30 Heure du conte africain Join us for a special storytelling event filled with captivating African tales that spark imagination and joy! There will be a reading of Le lion…
Films Wed 5 Mar at 2pm and 6pm Take Care France / À nous deux France! Evoking mixed marriages and their difficulties, the author depicts the wanderings of a young black husband, an elegant dandy, who comes to Paris to find…
Books & Ideas Talks Thu 6 March at 5.30pm French, English and Globish: the Francophonie and the challenge of globalization Literature has an increasingly global reach. Literary works go more and more global, as does publishing. With international publishing being heavily impacted by the growing…
Music Performances Fri 7 March at 7pm The Ensemble Sésame plays Ravel and Debussy It was in 2013, after a project initiated by Udo Reinemann around Schubert and the voice, that was created the Ensemble Sésame, intended to promote…
Arts Kids & Families Sat 8 March at 10.30am Impro! Dessine moi une histoire Bring your imagination to life! Join us for an unforgettable morning of live creation featuring a parent who will draw whatever you dream up—right on…
Films Sat 8 March at 6pm RU Based on the Governor General's Award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam,…
Books & Ideas Talks Tue 11 Mar at 6pm Teaching francophone audiovisual cultures: What can songs and screens teach language educators and students? What kinds of spoken French do we find in contemporary song and screen culture? What can the broad range of language varieties evidenced in songs…
Films Wed 12 Mar at 2pm and 6pm A Real Job / Un métier sérieux Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in…
Talks Thu 13 Mar at 6pm Édouard Glissant: a multicultural ideal in an era of resurgent nationalisms Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) is arguably the most considerable non-hexagonal francophone thinker and writer of recent generations. He wrote a sizeable body of theoretical works, novels,…
Kids & Families Sat 15 Mar at 10.30am Histoires tirées des livres de l’autrice québécoise Élise Gravel Join us for a morning of reading with a selection of captivating children's books by Canadian author and illustrator Élise Gravel! She has published many…
Films Wed 19 Mar at 2pm and 6pm A Radiant Girl / Une jeune fille qui va bien Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a young, bubbly, 19-year-old Jewish girl. Her family watches her discover the world, friends, new love and a passion for…
Films Fri 21 Mar at 6pm The Truth / La vérité Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) comes to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused…
Books & Ideas Talks Sun 23 March at 5pm Celebrating Celtic Languages The Institut Français d'Ecosse and Bilingualism Matters invite you to an evening of inspiring talks and conversation to celebrate the “Mois de la francophonie” in…
Books & Ideas Tue 25 March at 12.30pm Groupe de lecture “un homme sans titre” de Xavier Le Clerc Once a month, the reading group meets up to discuss a couple of books selected in advance (from classical to contemporary French literature) and discovers…
Films Wed 26 Mar at 2pm and 6pm Papicha Algeria, 1990s. Nedjma, an 18 year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War to keep her…
Performances Theatre 27, 28, 29 & 30 March at 6pm Lorenzaccio, by Alfred de Musset The play is performed by Les Escogriffes, Edinburgh University’s French Theatre Society. First established in 1969, the society aims to promote Francophone culture through performing…
French Courses Workshops Sat 29 March at 10am Stop-Motion animation Creative Lab Christopher Tourner, French director trained at the world’s leading school for animation Ecole des Gobelins in Paris will be leading a stop motion animation workshop.…
Music Performances Tue 1 April at 7pm April’s Follies: Concert with Héloïse Bernard, Annemarie Klein and Jan Waterfield If Folly is the opposite of Reason, then musicians throughout the ages have embraced this side of human behaviour and celebrated it through songs, dances…
Music Performances Sat 5 Apr at 7pm Organ recital with Caroline Cradock and John Kitchen Join us for an exceptional organ recital as part of our Baroque Music Festival with Scottish organists Caroline Cradock and John Kitchen at Greyfriars Kirk,…
Music Performances Thu 10 April in Edinburgh | Fri 11 April in Glasgow - 7pm Baroque Labyrinth: When Handel Meets Maraghi Iranian mezzo-soprano Anousha Nazari and French classical guitarist Antoine Morinière invite you to immerse yourself in Baroque Labyrinth: When Handel Meets Maraghi with two exceptional concerts: on Thursday…
Films Fri 11 April at 6pm Édouard et Caroline Pianist Edward and his wife Caroline are expected at a party at the house of her affluent uncle. Edward plans to use the opportunity to…
Music Performances Thu 24 Apr at 7pm Mujie Yan plays Handel and Rameau For this concert at St Cecilia's Hall, Mujie Yan will guide us through a captivating harpsichord programme that showcases the instrument’s versatility, expressiveness, and timeless…
Music Fri 25 April at 7pm Tombeau: Couperin & Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin harks back both to the time of Louis XIV and to the years of the Great War, when Maurice Ravel left…
French Courses Workshops Sat 26 April at 10am Echos cartographiés Are you ready to explore the soundscape of Edinburgh? Led by sound artist Boris Allenou, this workshop invites you to engage in a deep and…
Books & Ideas Tue 29 April at 12.30pm Groupe de lecture “Nos richesses” de Kaouther Adimi Once a month, the reading group meets up to discuss a couple of books selected in advance (from classical to contemporary French literature) and discovers…
Films Fri 9 May at 6pm One Fine Morning / Un beau matin In Paris, a young, widowed mother juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and her elderly father, who suffers…
Performances Sat 10 May at 7pm Maxim Emelyanychev plays Mozart “Power without ego” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “He is dynamic, energetic and exciting to watch, exhilarating for musicians and audience alike.” The Guardian Join Maxim Emelyanychev…
Films 2024-2025 Edinburgh Film Guild Season Next event : Purple Noon / Plein soleil Fri 21 Feb at 18:00
Books & Ideas Films Talks March 2025 Mois de la Francophonie 2025 Next event : Heure du conte africain Sat 01 Mar at 10:30
Music Performances March - April 2025 Celebration of Maurice Ravel’s 150th Birthday Next event : The Ensemble Sésame plays Ravel and Debussy Fri 07 Mar at 19:00
Music April-May 2025 Baroque Music Festival Next event : April’s Follies: Concert with Héloïse Bernard, Annemarie Klein and Jan Waterfield Tue 01 Apr at 19:00
