A compassionately splendid The Happy Prince, in We the Coyotes, LA tests...
For RFI's December Cinefile, there's Rupert Everett's The Happy Prince about the legendary writer Oscar Wilde's last chapter of life. We the Coyotes is a Franco-US coming of age-couple flick with...
View ArticleDonel Jack'sman: Laughing in the face of racism
French comedian Donel Jack'sman, renowned for poking fun at racial stereotypes, has returned to the stage two weeks after being called sale noir or "black bastard" during a Christmas performance.
View ArticleLove smoulders in Cold War and embers refuse to die in L'amour Flou
In October's Cinefile, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams talks to Cannes award-winning director Pawel Pawlikovski about his grave love story, Cold War and talks about light-hearted but serious unlove story L'Amour...
View ArticleLandmark Caravaggio exhibition shows rough and fleshy 17th century Rome
'Caravaggio in Rome: Friends and Foes' at the Jacquemart-André Musuem in central Paris offers a rare opportunity to become intimate with ten or so the works of one of the greatest European masters of...
View ArticleWW2 'Nomad Internment' exhibition warns against institutionalised discrimination
The Shoah Memorial in Paris is exhibiting the French government's discriminatory treatment of "travellers" or "nomads" from the late 19th century up until 1946. The historical, political and social...
View ArticleLa Chica: the sound of magic realism
La Chica Belleville is a music project created by Franco-Venezuelan singer songwriter Sophie Fustec. If magic realism had a soundtrack this could be it: with her hypnotic vocals, Debussy-inspired piano...
View ArticleThe French Prime Minister’s response to the Yellow Vests
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about French Prime Minister Edouard Phillippe’s December 4th announcement to the Gilet Jaunes. There’s “On This Day”, music by...
View Article2147 - What if Africa disappeared?
Franco-Ivorian director Moïse Touré gathers singers, musicians, dancers and actors on stage backed by video and a sparse decor in his latest production at the Tarmac theatre in the north of Paris. The...
View Article'Caravaggio in Rome' - Paris museum hosts rare exhibition
Caravaggio in Rome: Friends and Foes is a compact yet intense exhibition running at The Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris. Some of the most important works of the early 17th-century Italian painter, as...
View ArticleFrench films for free online in Africa, Latin America, Russia
Unifrance, the French film exporting agency, is looking forward to breaking last year's record 12-million views for its month-long online My French Film Festival, which begins on 18 February. Quentin...
View ArticleThe guitar maker capturing the soul of old New York
As old buildings in New York City are torn down or refurbished, Rick Kelly sees a chance to keep their memory alive. The legendary guitar maker uses reclaimed wood from the city's buildings to create...
View ArticleGérald Toto: Swaying to a slower rhythm
French singer Gérald Toto's lilting melodies and imaginary language make his music truly universal and deeply comforting. He talks to RFI about his new solo album 'Sway': an invitation to be quiet in...
View ArticleFrench President Emmanuel Macron’s concessions to the Yellow Vests
This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about French President Emmanuel Macron’s concessions to the gilets jaunes, the Yellow Vest protest movement. There’s “On This...
View ArticleMarcel Azzola, French accordionist who played with Brel, dies age 91
French accordionist Marcel Azzola, who played with greats including Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Barbara and Sid Vicious, has died at the age of 91. He'd devoted his entire life to the accordion.
View ArticleNew French Fipadoc festival marks swing to non-fiction film
For years, one of the out-of-season professional events held in Biarritz, a resort on the French Atlantic coast, was centred around television production and called FipaTV. This year it has been...
View ArticleEx-Beatle John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘Imagine’ sets the scene at documentary...
US director Michael Epstein’s latest documentary called John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky was chosen to open the 2019 Fipadoc festival in Biarritz, in the south-west of France Tuesday evening. Lennon...
View ArticleWho stole Goya's head? A new documentary asks questions about the treatment...
Vying for a prize in the Fipadoc international competition category in Biarritz in January 2019 is Oscuros y Lucientes. Madrid director Samuel Alarcon's second film digs into the mystery surrounding...
View ArticleZimbabwe mourns loss of its 'African Diamond' singer Oliver Mtukudzi
Tributes have been flowing for the acclaimed Zimbabwean Afro-jazz artist Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi who died on Wednesday aged 66.The self-taught guitarist and songwriter died at a hospital in Harare after...
View ArticleLeyla McCalla's Capitalist Blues
For her third album The Capitalist Blues, Haitian American singer and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla questions the race to get ahead, and sings for the people left behind. "It’s hard to call a...
View ArticleFrench documentary Shell Shock tackles PTSD war wounds
War, conflict and peace are necessarily part of Fipadoc's more or less 100 documentaries, across all categories. In the national competition section, Nicolas Mingasson's Shell Shock brings unseen army...
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