People from all over the world meet on a weekly basis at the Atelier de conversation of the Bibliothèque publique d'information located in the Centre Pompidou in Paris to practise their French. Refugees of war sit together with businessmen, easy-going students next to victims of political persecution. As diverse as its members might be, they have one goal in common that connects all of them: to learn the language and find companions while living abroad – if not to survive living abroad. At this hopeful place, social and cultural borders dissolve. People, who otherwise would never have been in touch, meet eye to eye.
Conversation Studio Atelier de conversation
People from all over the world meet on a weekly basis at the Atelier de conversation of the Bibliothèque publique d'information located in the Centre Pompidou in Paris to practise their French.
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Last Screening
Mirrors No. 3 Miroirs No. 3
Christian Petzold
Monday, 10. 11. 2025 / 17:00 / Main Hall
Christian Petzold once again explores themes of loss, memory, and identity – this time in a mysterious family psychodrama, a modern fairy tale for adults, in which two women try to piece together the fragments of their broken lives.
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Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Monday, 10. 11. 2025 / 18:00 / Small Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.