I Am the People by Anna Roussillon

September 19, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Embassy of France

The Cultural services of the French Embassy presents the 2014 documentary I Am the People (Je suis le Peuple) by Anna Roussillon.

In January 2011, Egypt was marked by anti-government demonstrations. Intimately shot over the three year period from the toppling of President Mubarak to the election and fall of Mohamed Morsi, I Am the People is the portrait of a family, far from Tahrir Square in Egypt’s rural South, as they follow the Tahrir uprising via television and daily newspapers.

In this first feature, Anna Roussillon, a French citizen raised in Egypt, shows an alternate view of the revolution from the perspective of Farraj, his family, and friends as they make sense of and debate national politics.

In Arabic with English subtitles

Online reservation is required for this free admission screening

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The French Cinémathèque at the Avalon Theatre Presents: Les Cowboys

September 21, 2016 | 8:00 p.m.
Avalon Theater

The monthly French Cinémathèque series at the Avalon Theatre, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, presents the screening of the 2015 film Les Cowboys by Thomas Bidegain.

The story opens in 1994 at a country-and-western fair in rural France. Alain is a central figure in this community. He's dancing with his daughter Kelly, 16, as his wife and their young son Kid watch from the sidelines. On this day, Kelly disappears, and Alain embarks on a relentless search for her, even though it costs him everything and takes him to some far-off places. Along with his son, the single-minded father goes to great lengths to look for the missing teen, who may have run off with a young jihadist.

In French with English subtitles.

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Hubert Robert, 1733–1808

June 26 - October 2, 2016
The National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art presents Hubert Robert, 1733–1808, an exhibition organized with the Musée du Louvre in Paris that celebrates the prominent French painter and draftsman.

By combining famous monuments of antiquity and modernity in unexpected ways to create new and imaginative city scenes and landscapes, Hubert Robert played a fundamental role in promoting the architectural capriccio.

The Paris-born painter followed a remarkable artistic path that led him from Rome, Italy in the mid-18th century, where he spent more than 10 years, to the court of France. In Paris, he produced some of the most spectacular decors in the decade that preceded the French Revolution.

Hubert Robert, 1733–1808 is the first monographic exhibition in the United States on the artist as well as the first exhibition to survey his achievements as both a painter and a draftsman. With some 50 paintings and 50 drawings, the exhibition showcases the works of one of the 18th century’s greatest creators of poetic images.

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