Camille Blatrix: "Heroe", at the Wattis Institute

Camille Blatrix’s objects are bittersweet—they are impeccably fabricated but fraught with emotional entanglement. The surfaces are scrutinized, the edges are caressed, each detail is perfected, and yet the metaphors remain abstract and the origin stories never clear. Exhibition on show at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco, from Sepmteber 8th to November 19th, 2016.

GenerationTheatre Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary with a Free-For-All Production of KnockSeptember 8, 2016 - September 18, 2016

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, GenerationTheatre offers its audience a free run of Knock or the Triumph of Medicine, Jules Romains’s celebrated comedy about the relationship between medicine and money. Translated and directed by David Valayre, the production runs September 8 through 18 with curtain times on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m., at the Southside Theatre, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

"The Innocents", in Theaters

Warsaw, December 1945: a young French Red Cross doctor is summoned to a local convent where she discovers several nuns in various states of pregnancy, facing an unprecedented crisis of faith as their fiercely private world clashes with harsh realities. Directed by French filmmaker Anne Fontaine.

Guided Tour: Museums in Cinema at BAMPFAJuly 6, 2016 - August 31, 2016

Given the dual nature of BAMPFA, a museum and a cinematheque in one, perhaps planning a series of films looking at museums was inevitable. Aptly, several of the films in the series detail the process and challenges of museum building projects, tracing the arc from the ideal to the real through observing planning meetings and budget discussions and venturing behind the scenes where conservators and curators make decisions about the preservation, selection, and presentation of art and other cultural objects.

Hitchcock/TruffautJuly 14, 2016 - August 28, 2016

Hitchcock/Truffaut provides an engaging look at one of the most beloved film books of all time. Based on a series of interviews that François Truffaut arranged with Alfred Hitchcock in 1962, the documentary deftly combines excerpts from numerous films with original audio recordings and photographs of the conversation to frame the importance of the momentous meeting and resulting publication.

An Evening with Madeleine PeyrouxJuly 21, 2016

The San Francisco Symphony presents singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux, who honed her musical chops busking on the sidewalks of Paris' Latin Quarter, performing classic songs like La vie en rose and J'ai deux amours in an evening dedicated to music from, and inspired by, Paris. Also featuring Gershwin’s An American in Paris and more, come to an enchanted concert of great music paying tribute to the City of Light.

Etant Donnés: French-American Fund for Contemporary ArtApplications Open Until September 5, 2016

Etant donnés aims to support significant and engaging artistic projects that speak to relevant questions in contemporary art across the world. It achieves this by fostering active collaboration and encouraging long-lasting partnerships between French visual artists, curators, or collectives and American curators and cultural institutions. Applications open until September 5th, 2016!