Four cities star in Indian Express, a film programme with urban pull at...
Rosslyn Hyams reports on the Forum des Images film centre's 2017 City Series and its programme of movies and events featuring four cities in India.
View ArticleAsian film festival in France honours women filmmakers from Iran and Sri Lanka
Ninety feature films from 20 countries across the full breadth of the Asian continent, from Turkey to Japan via the Caucuses, are on the line-up for this year's International Festival of Asian Film...
View ArticleArt exhibitions in Paris, February-September 2017
Paris pays ample tribute to Auguste Rodin 100 years after his death, Vermeer and the genre painters throw light on Dutch interiors, Watteau and Fragonard cohabit with ecclesiatical Baroque, Karel Appel...
View ArticleViolons Barbares: riding high with Mongolia's horse head fiddle
Violons Barbares (Barbaric violins) is a wild and rather wonderful trio from Mongolia, Bulgaria and France. RFI met the two fiddlers and a percussionist at a recent performance at the Musée Guimet in...
View ArticleThe Dark Wind - A love story that shows Iraq's Yazidi women's suffering
An Iraqi-Kurdish film about the effects of the attacks on the Yazidi community by the Islamic State Group in 2014 in Sinjar screens on Thursday at the International Festival of Asian Cinema, Fica....
View ArticleFrench chef Yannick Alléno celebrates sixth Michelin star
French chef Yannick Alléno has received a third Michelin star for his restaurant 1947 in the French Alps. The feared and respected Michelin Guide awards were announced on Thursday.
View ArticleFrance stays top of world tourism league, despite fall in 2016
The number of foreign tourists to France fell from by about two million last year but it remained the world's most popular destination with 82.5 million people visiting, the Foreign Affairs Ministry...
View ArticleFrench heavy metal band Gojira nominated for Grammys
After two decades growling about the planet's impending environmental collapse, French heavy metal band Gojira has been an unexpected success story ahead of the Grammy Awards on Sunday.
View ArticleKeep Smiling - Georgia's bid for French film festival's Golden Rickshaw
Nine films are vying for the Golden Rickshaw award at the International Festival of Asian Cinema in Vesoul. Film maker Rusudan Chkonia is one of the jury members. Her satirical film, Keep Smiling is...
View Article'500M800M' wins Cyclo d'Or prize at Asian film festival in France
The 23rd International Festival of Asian Film (FICA) in Vesoul, France ended on Tuesday, February 14 with the statutory awards ceremony. The Cyclo d’Or, or Golden Cycle-Rickshaw prize, went to Chinese...
View ArticleAncient film clip may be the only moving image of Proust
An oval face with a thin black moustache, descending the steps of a Paris church: Is this the only known footage showing the French literary giant Marcel Proust?
View ArticlePolanski launches legal bid to return to US
Roman Polanski has "no intention" of attending a hearing on the rape case against him in the US next week, his French lawyer said Thursday. But the 83-year-old film-maker has said he wishes to return...
View ArticleWhat a coq-up! Michelin guide gives restaurant star by mistake
A mistake by the foodies' Bible, the Michelin guide, has meant a sudden leap in fortune for a cheap and cheerful restaurant in central France, which received on of its stars by mistake.
View Article'Spiderman' thief jailed for eight years for €109m Paris art heist
A thief nicknamed "Spiderman", who stole five masterpieces from a top Paris museum, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Monday for one of the most daring art heists in recent years.
View ArticleVermeer masterpieces gathered for rare French exhibition
A major exhibition of works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer is opening in the Louvre Wednesday. It is the first such exhibition in Paris in over 50 years. The last time was in 1966, in the much...
View ArticleÇiğdem Aslan and a thousand cranes
Singer Çiğdem Aslan is one of the most accomplished and emotional performers of "Balkan blues" known as rembetiko: songs of exile from Greece and Turkey that grew out of the population exchanges in the...
View ArticleThe quiz is back!
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the quiz about RFI’s birthday. There’s news from RFI Clubs, your letters, some great music, and of course, the quiz. Just click on the arrow in...
View ArticleStone experience is like ‘tripping’, French artist says
An artist entombed inside a 12-tonne rock for nearly three days has described the experience as like "tripping", insisting he would stick it out for a week.
View ArticleFrench experimental artist emerges 'stunned' from week inside rock
A French artist emerged from a week entombed inside a 12-tonne rock on Wednesday at the Paris museum Palais de Tokyo. He said he was "a little stunned" by the experience.
View ArticleCongo's Jupiter opens door onto sonic sound
Congolese singer "Jupiter" Bonkodji has developed a new Congolese sound, bofenia rock, with his band Okwess International. Taking the country's myriad of traditional rhythms as a base, he uses electric...
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