A new program for children is arriving at Micro-Folie! What is in my museumallows you to explore the collections of museums around the world and select your favorite works!
Saturday, 29th March 10 :30 am – 11 : 30 am AF – Micro Folie space
For 4 days, come to the Alliance and discover a selection of short films we’ve curated just for you!
Rates:
Free for AF members. Become member now! €3 session (1 day – 4 or 5 short films). Check the program. €10 full pass (4 days – 18 short films). Get your here!
Nothing stops the imagination! Proof of this in 5 stories where anything becomes possible.
Tête en l’air
By Rémi Durin – 2023 10 : 32
Alphonse, a squirrel, always has his head in the clouds. He loves to gaze at them and sometimes even take pictures of them. Neither his parents nor his friends understand this passion. Yet, contemplating clouds is no easy task. Alphonse even has to show a certain amount of courage, worthy of the greatest explorers…
Mon monstre et moi
By Claudia Rothlin – 2008 03:21
A little girl is very afraid of monsters. She sees them everywhere: in the basement, on the street, and even under her bed.
Couleurs d’enfance
By Alexandre Labarussiat – 2023 10:29
What imagination nourishes children’s drawings? A poetic and sensitive dive into a world of colors and emotions. A portrait of a kindergarten class in the middle section, in Montreuil.
Le Jouet
By Noémie Cathala-Vergnaud – 2017 02:34
A little girl is bored at the supermarket with her mother. She spots a sword on one of the shelves and rushes to grab it. The world around her changes as she dives into a daydream.
Lili dans les nuages
By Toma Leroux – 2017 15:00
On vacation at her grandfather’s, Lili decides to build an airplane…
There’s no age to question ourselves, our bodies, our emotions… It’s precisely what helps us move forward!
Le Lettre
By Michel Gondry – 1998 13:52
One evening at the end of December 1999, Stéphane talks with his older brother about the anxiety of the approaching turn of the millennium, but also about girls, and more specifically about Aurélie, a classmate whom Stéphane is clearly in love with. The next morning, Aurélie invites Stéphane to come see her: she has a letter to give him…
Orgesticulanismus
By Mathieu Labaye – 2008 09:29
“It is through movement that we claim our own life. Through the freedom to go, to come, to express gestures of love, of anger, no matter what. When one is deprived of movement, as I am, if one wants to survive, one must reinvent movement in another way.”
Goût Bacone
By Emma Benestan – 2016 15:45
It’s the aftermath of a rumor sparked by the sharing of an ambiguous Snapchat. Two friends, Bilal and Adil, set out to find girls to save their reputation. But the journey is far from what they had imagined…
The Orchestra
By Mikey Hill – 2015 15:00
Imagine a world where an orchestra of tiny musicians follows you everywhere, playing the soundtrack of your life, expressing your emotions, your fears, and your hopes. In this world lives Ederly Vernon, a lonely man whose crippling shyness causes his little orchestra to play horribly out of tune…
I would like the father in transition, the estrangedbrothers, the abandonedson, the toxicgrandmother, and the son in search of normality.
SOLE MIO
By Maxime Roy – 2019 22:00
Daniel struggles, as best as he can, with the despair of his mother, who has heard nothing from his father. When the latter shows up at his place the day before his surgery to become a woman, Lisa, he has to force his father to finally tell the truth.
Vagabonds
By Amartei Armar – 2018 15:00
An orphan’s life is turned upside down when he learns that his youngest brother has been chosen by an American adoptive family
The Ringer
By Alexandre Labarussiat – 2023 10:29
What imagination nourishes children’s drawings? A poetic and sensitive dive into a world of colors and emotions. A portrait of a kindergarten class in the middle section, in Montreuil.
Ma Biche
By Alexandra Naoum – 2022 23:13
Separated from her daughter during her incarceration, Laura tries to manage her anger through prison yoga classes. But during her first parole, she reunites with her mother, a woman with an explosive temper, who is taking care of the little one while Laura serves her sentence…
Tom veut rentrer
By Marianne Gaudilière & Arthur Bacry – 202 19:57
Gary and Tom, father and son, are deaf. It’s vacation time, and they’re hitchhiking on a highway rest stop, heading south. For Gary, it’s an adventure; Tom would have preferred to go by car, like everyone else.
This selection of 4 films highlights the realities, cultures, and landscapes of France’s overseas territories.
DJO
By Laura Henno – 2018 13:00
In the Highlands of Mayotte, a space of secrecy, magic, and escape, men and dogs share a filial, almost fusion-like bond, a companionship between species that share the same territory of transformation and autonomy. Smogi has a special relationship with dogs, but also with the power of the elements, nature, and the mischievous spirits that inhabit it (the djinns). Djo encounters different belief systems in a wild syncretism, where the call to Muslim prayer also marks the moment of reunion with the animist and impure forces of the forest.
BONNARIEN
By Adiel Goliot – 2023 20:35
Mauricette Bonnarien works as a longshorewoman at the port in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she performs slam poetry. Deeply self-conscious about her last name, which was imposed on her ancestor during the abolition of slavery, she fights to complete a process to change her name. It is time to make her new surname heard by those around her.
KABRI I MANZ SALAD
By Nicola Séry – 2023 20:21
In a public housing estate in La Réunion, as the celebration of the Eid al-Kebir sacrifice approaches, 12-year-old Ibrahim, of Comorian descent, is stigmatized by Evan, a neighbor of his age, who accuses him of being an animal killer. When Ibrahim learns that a goat will be delivered to his building, he wants to save the animal… but Evan is watching.
TIMOUN AW
By Nelson Foix – 2020 28:00
While being chased, Chris discovers a baby on his doorstep who seems to be meant for him. Doubting his paternity, he embarks on a search for the child’s mother.
Dive into the stories of a dozen writers from around the world who have chosen the French language as their medium of expression and communication
Inauguration 6:00pm
The Alliance Française Malte-Meditérranée is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of its very first exhibition in its new premises: “Écrire en Français,”
Join us on March 20 for a cocktail, a tour of the exhibition and come share with us one of your best travel memories.
This exhibition offers a chance to explore a rich diversity of authors’ journeys and experiences through quotes from their works and exclusive testimonies.
The exhibition is complemented by portraits created by the illustrator Raphaëlle Macaron.
Workshop écriture créative
Thursday, 13th March 4 : 30 pm – 5 : 00 pm Library – Alliance Française
Like the many authors featured in our exhibition, come and share your best travel memory in the form of a haiku. A haiku is an extremely brief Japanese poem that captures a present moment, sensations, or the passage of time. Your stories will be hung in the exhibition!
The Carnival of Malta is fast approaching ! To celebrate this great event on the island, we invite you to create your own mask with feathers, sequins, colors… think big.
The project is intended to be a starting point for social commitment to tackling the problem of discrimination and violence in sport.
An international photographic production to promote INCLUSIVE SPORT, spotlighting inclusive sports teams from around the world that seek to redefine the classic values of sport, affirming that regardless of sexual orientation or identity, gender or physical or social condition, there is a place for everyone.
Teams working for change and inclusion, in sport and in society.
Sport Friendly – Talk
🎉 🌍🏳️🌈 In celebration of the Paris Olympic Games and Pride in Malta, the Alliance Française of Malta and the French Embassy are delighted to welcome the exhibition “Sport Friendly: The Field of Diversity »!
Before the launch in October, a panel discussion will be held on 10th of October at 7pm : ” Sports Friendly- the Field of Diversity | LGBTQI+ rights in Malta”.
After a presentation of the “Sports Friendly” exhibition, we will discuss the representation of the LGBT community in Malta, as well as the importance of role models, the necessity (or not) of labels, and their place in art, culture, and society.
🎤Speakers: Émilien Buffard – Founder of the “Sports Friendly” project Moussa Hamoud – Allied Rainbow Communities