For more than two decades, the Alliance Française of Greenwich has presented one of the very best French film festivals in the U.S., with a selection of the latest French and French-language movies, including many U.S. premieres and award-winning films.
Read about the 2026 festival here:
We are thrilled to announce that in 2026-2027, the festival will expand into a yearlong celebration of French-language cinema with
monthly screenings at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich!
The festival’s 22nd edition will begin on Sunday, September 27, 2026, with a screening of Hugo, directed by
Pascal Bonitzer and starring Fabrice Luchini, Chiara Mastroianni and Marie Narbonne. Click below for more information and to register.
Cinephiles should also be sure to check out our weekly Cinema club: French
Cinémathèque
and our quarterly film series French Movie Nights at the Byram Shubert Library!
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Discover the magic of French Cinema! Stream movies at home, then join us on Zoom each Wednesday for a discussion (in English) led by film critic Joe Meyers.
October 7 - Heal the Living (2016, Katell Quillevere) - Streaming on: Kanopy, tubi, Prime Video, YouTube
Anne Dorval and Tahar Rahim star in a moving drama. A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.
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Discover the magic of French Cinema! Stream movies at home, then join us on Zoom each Wednesday for a discussion (in English) led by film critic Joe Meyers.
October 14 - Le Choc Du Futur / The Shock of the Future (2019, Marc Collin) - Streaming on: tubi, Hoopla, Apple TV, YouTube, Favesome
Paris, 1978. In a male-dominated music industry, Ana uses new electronic machines to make herself heard, thus creating a new sound that is destined to mark the decades to come: the music of the future.
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Bruce Museum (1 Museum Drive, Greenwich CT) |
Join us for the October Focus on French Cinema screening at The Bruce Museum!
The film will be followed by a live Q&A with FFC Director of Programming Joe Meyers and author Karen E. Olson.
Karen E. Olson is the award-winning and Shamus-nominated author of 14 crime novels: the Annie Seymour and Tattoo Shop mysteries, the Black
Hat Thrillers, and the Modern Tudor Mysteries. A former editor in both newspapers and at Yale, she lives in Connecticut with her husband, a
freelance journalist, and cat Seamus.
