Federation Alliances Françaises USA

Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights with Aleksandra Crapanzano 🍫✨

Join us online for a delicious conversation with award‑winning writer and chef Aleksandra Crapanzano, as she presents her new book "Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights".

A James Beard Award–winning author and longtime food columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Aleksandra will share stories, inspirations, and tips from a life spent between New York and Paris, writing about gastronomy for some of the world’s leading publications.

📍 Location: Online
🕓 Time: August 13, 2026 – 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
💵 Cost: Free event

👉 Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/aleksandra-crapanzano-chocolate-parisian-desserts-and-other-delights/

Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights with Aleksandra Crapanzano 🍫✨

Join us online for a delicious conversation with award‑winning writer and chef Aleksandra Crapanzano, as she presents her new book "Chocolat: Parisian Desserts and Other Delights".

A James Beard Award–winning author and longtime food columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Aleksandra will share stories, inspirations, and tips from a life spent between New York and Paris, writing about gastronomy for some of the world’s leading publications.

📍 Location: Online
🕓 Time: August 13, 2026 – 1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET
💵 Cost: Free event

👉 Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/aleksandra-crapanzano-chocolate-parisian-desserts-and-other-delights/

🎬 French Cinémathèque: L’Origine du mal / The Origin of Evil

Join us for this month’s One Film One Federation event as we explore Sébastien Marnier’s 2022 thriller L’Origine du mal / The Origin of Evil, starring Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc, Suzanne Clément, and Véronique Ruggia Saura. When Stéphane, a 45-year-old worker in a fish cannery, reconnects with the father she barely knew, she is drawn into the world of his wealthy and deeply unsettling family, where suspicion, ambition, and hidden motives quickly rise to the surface.

Hosted online in English with critic and film historian Beatrice Loayza, this free discussion brings together Francophiles from across the Alliance Française network to celebrate the tension, intrigue, and dark wit of contemporary French cinema.

🗓️ Date: August 24, 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET (Online)
💬 Cost: Free for all Alliance Française chapter members

Watch the film in advance via Telescope Film and then join the live conversation on its themes of family secrets, social ambition, and the many faces of deception.

👉 Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/french-cinematheque-lorigine-du-mal/

Explore how fashion became a revolutionary force in 18th-century France 👗⚔️

Join us online for “Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution,” a conversation with art historian Anne Higonnet, author of Liberty, Equality, Fashion; The Women Who Styled the French Revolution. Discover how three extraordinary women, Joséphine Bonaparte, Térézia Tallien, and Juliette Récamier, reinvented themselves as style icons and helped overthrow centuries of royal dress codes, from corsets and brocades to light, mobile dresses, short hair, and the handbag.

We’ll explore how their daring fashion choices challenged social norms, reshaped how women’s bodies were seen in public, and brought a new, radical meaning to liberty and equality through clothing.

📅 July 17, 2026
🕓 4:00–5:00 pm ET (1 pm PT / 2 pm MT / 3 pm CT)
💻 Online
🎟 Free for all AF, AATF, and TAPIF members

Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/liberty-equality-fashion-the-women-who-styled-the-french-revolution/

🎬 French Cinémathèque: Conte d’été / A Summer’s Tale

Join us for this month’s One Film One Federation event as we dive into Éric Rohmer’s 1996 classic Conte d’été / A Summer’s Tale, starring Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, and Aurelia Nolin. Spend a sunlit summer in Bretagne with Gaspard, a recent graduate whose quiet holiday becomes a tangle of hesitations and mixed signals as his love life grows more complicated by the day.

Hosted online in English with critic and film historian Beatrice Loayza, this free discussion brings together Francophiles from across the Alliance Française network to celebrate Rohmer’s delicate exploration of desire, indecision, and the fleeting nature of youth.

🗓️ Date: July 20, 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET (Online)
💬 Cost: Free for all Alliance Française chapter members

Watch the film in advance via Telescope Film and then join the live conversation on its gentle humor, romantic entanglements, and seaside summer atmosphere.

👉 Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/french-cinematheque-conte-dete/

En français (with English subtitles) - La surprenante histoire entre la Liberty Bell et les Alpes françaises 🇺🇸🛎️🏔️

Le 9 juillet 2026, de 13h à 14h (ET), rejoignez-nous en ligne pour une conférence animée par Anne Paccard, directrice marketing et communication de la Fonderie Paccard à Annecy.

Vous découvrirez comment cette fonderie familiale de Haute-Savoie en est venue à réaliser les répliques de la Liberty Bell que l’on retrouve dans de nombreux Capitoles d’État aux États-Unis, ainsi que d’autres installations qui relient directement les Alpes françaises au territoire américain.

Un voyage inédit entre patrimoine, histoire et savoir-faire français.

📍 Lieu : En ligne
🕐 Date et heure : 9 juillet 2026, 13h–14h (ET)
👉 Inscription : https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/la-liberty-bell-et-les-alpes-francaises/

🎬 French Cinémathèque: Vie privée / A Private Life

Join us for this month’s One Film One Federation event as we explore Vie privée / A Private Life (2025), directed by Rebecca Zlotowski and starring Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste, and Luàna Bajrami.

Follow psychiatrist Liliane Steiner as she investigates the death of a patient she suspects was murdered, uncovering a mystery that forces her to confront her own role in the lives of those she treats.

Hosted online in English with critic and film historian Beatrice Loayza, this free discussion brings together Francophiles from across the Alliance Française network to celebrate the depth and originality of contemporary French cinema.

🗓️ Date: June 22, 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET (Online)
💬 Cost: Free for all Alliance Française chapter members

Watch the film in advance via Telescope Film and then join the live conversation delving into its themes of guilt, responsibility, and the blurred lines between care and control.

👉 Register here: https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/french-cinematheque-vie-privee/