Sunday, April 2, 2023
3pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Netia Jones’ new production of Mozart’s iconic opera retains the essence of Beaumarchais’ original play, while cleverly adapting the story to a modern setting, that now takes place backstage at the famous Palais Garnier opera house in Paris!
NY Premiere
Tuesday, April 4
4pm & 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Dir. Charles de Meaux, 2017
In Chinese and French with English subtitles
Fan Bingbing stars as an empress that commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider (Melvil Poupaud) in hopes of reawakening her husband’s interest.
Tuesday, April 11
4pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1997
In French with English subtitles
An attorney (Catherine Deneuve) defends a young man (Melvil Poupaud) on trial for killing his aunt, a psychiatrist who raised him to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Tuesday, April 11
7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Dir. Raúl Ruiz, 1986
In English and French with English subtitles
Anna Karina, Martin Landau, Jean-Pierre Léaud and a young Melvil Poupaud star in Raúl Ruiz’s reimagination of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s story.
Friday, April 14, 2023
7pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
SOLD OUT
Dir. Gad Elmaleh, 2022
In French with English subtitles
Join actor and filmmaker Gad Elmaleh on April 14 for the NY premiere of his autobiographical comedy, Stay with Us, followed by a Q&A. Inspired by the director’s own fraught relationship with religion and starring his real-life family, the film is a heart-warming and charming story about faith, family and acceptance.
Tuesday, April 18
4pm & 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Dir. Zoe R. Cassavetes, 2008
In English
Single, thirty-something Manhattanite Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly carefree Frenchman. After spending a passionate couple of days together, Julien must return to France and Nora finds herself following him on an adventure across the ocean to give the relationship a chance.
Tuesday, April 25
4pm & 7:30pm
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Dir. Xavier Dolan, 2012
In Quebec French with English subtitles
Laurence Anyways is the critically acclaimed story of Laurence (Melvil Poupaud) and Fred (Suzanne Clément), a couple living in 1990s Quebec who are confronted with people’s prejudices and phobias in response to Laurence’s choice to live his life as a woman.
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