Nadia Yala Kisukidi, the great escape

Published on : 15/11/2022 – 15:16 The philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi publishes her first novel “ Dissociation » published by Seuil. She signs a contemporary and poetic fable, a wonderful escape, an inner and literary journey that recalls all the power of the imagination. Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a university lecturer at Paris 8. She … Read more

François Boucq and Nicolas Juncker, humor at attention

Published on : 03/03/2022 – 16:13 The screenwriter Nicolas Juncker and the cartoonist François Boucq combine their talents and tell in comic strip the events that took place around the Algiers putsch of May 13, 1958. A vaudeville-like politico-military comedy, with striking humor, on an episode major event in the history of the Fourth Republic. … Read more

Mamani Keita and Aïda Nosrat, exile over the voices

Published on : 17/02/2022 – 16:20 The collective “From Kaboul to Bamako” releases an album conceived as a cultural encounter, a musical interbreeding and as a human adventure around the question of refugees and exile. Before going on stage at the “Au fil des voix” Festival, the Malian singer Mamani Keita and the Iranian singer … Read more

Ye Ye examines China through his hospital

Published on : 28/01/2022 – 15:45Modified : 28/01/2022 – 15:47 The Franco-Chinese director Ye Ye presents her documentary, selected by the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2021, “H6, the people’s hospital”. Through the fates of 5 Chinese families in one of Shanghai’s largest hospitals, the film paints a portrait of China between traditional … Read more

Lyna Khoudri and Aurélia Georges, the price of imposture

Published on : 18/01/2022 – 15:03Modified : 18/01/2022 – 15:05 Director Aurélia Georges alongside actress Lyna Khoudri, César for best female hope for “Papicha”, present the film “La place d’une autre” freely inspired by “The New Magdalen”, a novel by Wilkie Collins published in 1873 . It’s a period film, against the background of the … Read more

Joy Majdalani, and the feather caresses the body of desire

Published on : 14/01/2022 – 12:46 Joy Majdalani’s debut novel chronicles the intensity of the emerging desire of adolescent girls for boys in the privileged context of a Catholic institution in Beirut, Lebanon. In the epigraph of the novel, a very short sentence from Charles d’Orléans: “I’m dying of thirst near the fountain”. This sentence … Read more