Armidale Events

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00amm - Jean Valjean (M - mature themes and violence), 1hr 39 mins, Drama) - Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - A Dash of Love (M - mature themes, coarse language and sexual references), 1hr 30 mins, Comedy) - Mélanie, a lawyer suffering from an incurable disease, has decided it’s time to enjoy life! She whisks Benjamin, her childhood friend, off on a road trip to Spain to explore their sensuality in a brothel. Now here they are, onboard a rundown […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - Jean Valjean (M - mature themes and violence), 1hr 39 mins, Drama) - Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - The French Job (M - coarse language), 1hr 34 mins, Drama) - Jonathan, an expert in luxury watches, leads a grey and monotonous life until he meets Eric, a charming conman and dealer in stolen goods. Fascinated by his lifestyle, Jonathan is drawn deeper and deeper into the world of criminal transactions. The situation spirals out of control when the […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - The Rookie Guide (M - coarse language), 1hr 25 mins, Comedy) - Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - Nun in the City (PG - mild violence and coarse language), 1hr 26 mins, Comedy) - Sister Lucie, a dedicated nun, decides to flee her convent after 20 years to find her love of youth. It is for her the beginning of an extraordinary adventure. 6.30pm - Jean Valjean (M - mature themes and violence), 1hr 39 mins, Drama) - […]

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films! 10.00am - The Rookie Guide (M - coarse language), 1hr 25 mins, Comedy) - Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to […]

Friday, 7 August 4.30pm - Ride Away (Comedy - 1 hr 28 min - France) From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion. 6.45pm - Colours of Time (Comedy - 2 hr 4 min) Directed by Cedric Klapisch, this sweeping French drama brings together family mystery, historical texture and artistic […]

Friday, 8 August 10.00am - Berlin Hero (Comedy - 1 hr 54 min) All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently […]

Sunday, 9 August 12.30pm - Re-creation (Drama - 1 hr 29 min - Ireland) In a fictitious trial, 12 members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these 12 people, a case that ultimately invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions. 2.35pm - Mistura (Drama - 1 hr 37 min - Spanish) A […]

Monday, 10 August 10.00am - Arru (Crime - 1 hr 35 min - Norway) Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project. Amid the growing protests, she is also confronted with deeply buried family traumas. Maia is forced to make a decision. 12.00pm – Case 137 (Crime - 1 hr 56 min) Stéphanie (Léa Drucker), an investigator at the French National Police General Inspectorate (IGPN), is assigned Case 137, involving Guillaume Girard (Côme […]

Tuesday, 11 August 10.00am - Re-creation (Drama - 1 hr 29 min - Ireland) In a fictitious trial, 12 members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of the 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier. Based on real events, the film reconstructs, through the discussions between these 12 people, a case that ultimately invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions. 12.15pm - My Friend Eva (Romance - 1 hr 40 min - Spain) […]

Wednesday, 12 August 10.0Oam - Mistura (Drama - 1 hr 37 min - Spanish) A prejudiced Franco-Peruvian woman opens a restaurant after her husband leaves her for another woman. Through it, she falls in love with the gastronomic and cultural diversity of Peru during the prosperous but troubled Lima of 1965. 7.10pm - Berlin Hero (Comedy - 1 hr 54 min) All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When […]

Thursday, 13 August 10.00am - Colours of Time (Comedy - 2 hr 4 min) Directed by Cedric Klapisch, this sweeping French drama brings together family mystery, historical texture and artistic curiosity in a story that moves between contemporary Normandy and the final years of the 19th century. When four estranged cousins inherit a long-abandoned house, their investigation into its past gradually reveals the life of a young ancestor and opens a wider reflection on memory, kinship and the way personal […]

Friday, 14 August 4.00pm - Arru (Crime - 1 hr 35 min - Norway) Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project. Amid the growing protests, she is also confronted with deeply buried family traumas. Maia is forced to make a decision. 6.30pm - Berlin Hero (Comedy - 1 hr 54 min) All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious […]

Saturday, 15 August 10.00am - Ride Away (Comedy - 1 hr 28 min - France) From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion. 4.05pm - Re-creation (Drama - 1 hr 29 min - Ireland) In a fictitious trial, 12 members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is […]

Sunday, 16 August 10.00am - My Friend Eva (Romance - 1 hr 40 min - Spain) Eva has just turned 50. She’s been married for over 20 years and has two, teenage children. So far, nothing remarkable. But on a business trip to Rome something happens that turns her life upside down. She meets Alex, a scriptwriter who’s spending a few days in the Italian city. The instant attraction she feels for him, the butterflies in her tummy, the seductive hint […]

Monday, 17 August 4.3Opm - Mistura (Drama - 1 hr 37 min - Spanish) A prejudiced Franco-Peruvian woman opens a restaurant after her husband leaves her for another woman. Through it, she falls in love with the gastronomic and cultural diversity of Peru during the prosperous but troubled Lima of 1965. 7.00pm - Re-creation (Drama - 1 hr 29 min - Ireland) In a fictitious trial, 12 members of a jury must decide whether journalist Ian Bailey is guilty of […]

Tuesday, 18 August 10.00am - Berlin Hero (Comedy - 1 hr 54 min) All his life, Michael Hartung, owner of a hopelessly debt-ridden video store, has bet on the wrong horse. When an ambitious journalist confronts him with the results of his research, everything changes for the charmingly melancholy Micha. Many years ago, as an employee of the Reichsbahn, he is said to have organized the largest mass escape in the GDR. Stasi files prove the case. He was apparently […]

Wednesday, 19 August 10.00am - Ride Away (Comedy - 1 hr 28 min - France) From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the ordeals with tenderness, humor and emotion. 6.30pm - Arru (Crime - 1 hr 35 min - Norway) Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project. Amid […]