
Season 2 Episode 3 Meet Mahen Bonetti, Founder of the African Film Festival
Mahen Bonetti, Founder and Executive Director of the African Film Festival is our special guest of La Culture Oui, But Why? and she also participates in a panel on cinema organized by the Cultural Cen...
5 Nov 202122min

Season 2 Episode 2 The Jeanne Claude and Christo Project seen by Hadrien Cassan
Alum from the Lycée Francais de New York and Graduate in Urban Design, Hadrien Cassan is a cultural mediator for the Jeanne Claude and Christo project of the Wrapped Arc de Triomple. He is spending ha...
29 Sep 202117min

Season 2 Episode 1 Director Jules Naudet on Filming 9/11
As we are commemorating the 20th anniversary of 09/11, we asked French-American Director Jules Naudet who was the first person, together with a few firefighters, to enter Tower 1 at the World Trade Ce...
2 Sep 202117min

Episode 12 Emel Sings to Celebrate la Francophonie
Born in Tunisia, Emel evokes her childhood and her musical beginnings. Singing in English and in Arabic, sometimes in French, Emel talks about identity as a language of creation. What is it to be a Fr...
19 Mar 202124min

Bonus : Interview with Film Director Remi Chayé
Film Director Remi Chayé ( Up North, Calamity Jane), special guest at the Lycee and at Animation First, FIAF Animated film festival (ww.fiaf.org), talks about his works and his latest movie Calamity J...
2 Mar 202114min

Episode 11 FIAF Film Curator Delphine Selles on Animated First
French born Delphine Selles is Film Curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) in New York. There she co-curates with French cinema consultant Catherine Lamairesse, Animation First, an ...
1 Feb 202122min

Episode 10: Benoit Cohen and His Yellow Cab
French producer, filmmaker and writer Benoit Cohen has been living in Brooklyn since 2014. In 2019, we invited him at the Lycée Français de New York to talk about his books. The first one Yellow Cab i...
31 Des 202018min

Episode 9 On Being A Francophone Writer With Abdourahman Waberi
Writer Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti in 1965 when Djibouti was a French colony, and his native language was somali. He came to France in 1985 to study English Litterature. He started his ca...
13 Nov 202025min




















