Films Wed 15 Jan at 2pm and 6pm Abel Gance et son Napoléon With the help of rare and previously unpublished documents, Nelly Kaplan, who was Abel Gance's young assistant, revisits the filmmaker's career in the 1920s. The…
Kids & Families Workshops Sat 18 Jan at 10.30 Galette des rois and Crafts for Kids Join us at the Institut Français d'Écosse to celebrate the Epiphany! Children will share a delicious Galette des rois and have fun with a craft…
Films Wed 22 Jan at 2pm and 6pm Homecoming / Le retour Khédidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offered her to mind their children for a summer in Corsica. Bringing along her own two teenage…
Films Fri 24 Jan at 6pm Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series…
Arts Exhibition 25 & 26 Jan City Space City Space is a video installation by Donald Sinclair featuring two films focussing on creative life in contemporary cities shot in Paris and Berlin with soundtracks…
Books & Ideas Tue 28 Jan at 12.30 Groupe de lecture “Grâce et dénuement” d’Alice Ferney 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 29 Jan at 2pm and 6pm The Rapture / Le Ravissement Lydia, a dedicated midwife, is in the middle of a breakup. At the time, her best friend Salomé tells her she is pregnant and asks…
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…
Kids & Families Sat 1 Feb at 10.30 La Chandeleur: crêpes pour tous ! Join us for a delightful family-friendly event as we celebrate La Chandeleur with delicious crêpes and exciting activities for kids! Bring your appetite and your…
Education Talks Mon 3 Feb at 12.15 Language Trends Scotland – Launch event British council Scotland invites you to the inaugural launch of Language Trends Scotland! Language Trends Scotland is an in-depth survey for all primary and secondary schools across the…
Books & Ideas Talks Tue 4 Feb at 6pm Night of Ideas 2025: “Taking Action” Join us for the Night of Ideas, our annual night of debate and discussion at the Institut français d'Écosse! Bringing together top thinkers, artists and…
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…
Films Wed 5 Feb at 2pm and 6pm My American Uncle / Mon oncle d’Amérique Three destinies, those of a journalist, news director on a radio station, a farmer's son recycled in a textile industry itself in mutation, and that…
Books & Ideas Thu 6 Feb at 5.30pm Three Poets Between Languages: an Encounter in English, French and Scots Join us for a fascinating exchange of personal experiences, ideas, poetic practices – and languages with multilingual and Scotland-based poets Elodie Laügt, Paul Malgrati and…
Films Fri 7 Feb at 6pm Dahomey November 2021. 26 royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave Paris to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic…
Books & Ideas Kids & Families Sat 8 Feb at 10.30 “Lapin is cold” puppet show Lapin is cold. Very cold. But how can he warm up? Join Tania and her Parisian garden friends as they embark on a charming bilingual…
Books & Ideas Kids & Families Sat 8 Feb at 10.30 Heure du conte with the author Angélique Leone Join us at the Institut français d'Écosse for a reading in French and workshop with Angélique Leone, author of children's books! Angélique Leone will read…
Films Wed 12 Feb at 2pm and 6pm No Love Lost / La Fille de son père Étienne is barely twenty when he falls in love with Valérie. They are hardly any more when their daughter Rosa is born. And then, one…
Music Thu 13 Feb at 7pm Jazz Concert: Aleph Quintet Awarded by the Journées Musicales de Carthage in Tunisia and the Prix de la Presse Musicale in France, Aleph Quintet is one of the recent…
Books & Ideas Talks Wed 19 Feb at 4.15pm Une histoire franco-écossaise d’un soldat polonais The fascinating story of Jean (Jan) Novak (1917-2005). Polish by birth, he moved to a small town in the Aisne region of northern France at…
Films Wed 19 Feb at 2pm and 6pm The Black Tulip / La Tulipe noire French Revolution-era count leads double life as bandit "Black Tulip," robbing village. Injured, he has brother impersonate him. Brother discovers count's selfish motives, sparking conflict…
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 10.30 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 12.30 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.…
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 Thu 6 March in Glasgow - Fri 7 March in Edinburgh 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…
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 10.30 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 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 Tue 25 March at 12.30 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…
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 Anousha Nazari (Mezzo-soprano) and Antoine Morinière (classical guitarist) invite you to immerse yourself in Baroque Labyrinth: When Handel Meets Maraghi with two exceptional concerts: on…
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…
Books & Ideas Tue 29 April at 12.30 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 : Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot Fri 24 Jan at 18:00
Books & Ideas Talks 3 to 8 Feb Languages Week Scotland 2025 Next event : Language Trends Scotland - Launch event Mon 03 Feb at 12:15
Books & Ideas Films Talks March 2025 Mois de la Francophonie 2025 Next event : French, English and Globish: the Francophonie and the challenge of globalization Thu 06 Mar at 17:30
Music Performances March - April 2025 Celebration of Maurice Ravel’s 150th Birthday Next event : The Ensemble Sésame plays Ravel and Debussy Thu 06 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
