Experience the French Film Festival in a deeper and more engaging way with our Ciné Class by Stéphanie: a unique concept combining cinema, discussion and conviviality.
When you purchase a ticket for this event, you will receive a 2-for-1 cinema pass valid for any standard screening of the
AF French Film Festival (excluding Special Events). This gives you the opportunity to watch the film that will later be studied during the
Ciné Class, either The Stranger (L'Etranger) or Colours of Time (La Venue de l’Avenir) on the big screen,
and bring a guest for free.
After seeing the film at Palace Electric, join us at the Alliance Française for a two-hour in-depth workshop led by our
teacher Stéphanie. Together, you will explore the film’s themes, cultural context, characters and cinematic techniques in a friendly and
interactive setting.
Please note that you must watch the film at Palace Electric before attending the Ciné Class at the Alliance Française de Canberra.
See available screening
times at Palace Electric.
Your Ciné Class session at the Alliance Française de Canberra also includes a glass of wine and some nibbles,
allowing you to relax and enjoy thoughtful conversation while delving deeper into French culture.
Watch. Learn. Discuss. Savour.
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On 18 March from 6 to 8 pm.
Summer, 1938. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming clerk in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, a colleague he randomly encounters at the local baths, and quickly slips back into routine. However, daily life is soon disrupted by his volatile neighbour, who draws Meursault into a dispute involving an ex-lover. Then, one blisteringly hot afternoon, an inexplicable event occurs on a beach, an incident that will see Meursault’s moral standing brought into question.
Beyond the plot, The Stranger explores themes of emotional detachment, social judgment and the absurdity of moral expectations: Meursault is scrutinised not only for what he did, but for what he seems not to feel. Set against the tensions of its time and place, the film also invites reflection on power, violence and the narratives' society builds to decide who is “guilty.”
On 1 April from 6 to 8 pm.
In 2025, nearly 30 people discover they are unexpectedly connected through one shared ancestor: Adèle Meunier. The inheritance awaiting them is unusual, a long-abandoned country house in Normandy, frozen in time. Four relatives, Seb, Abdel, Céline and Guy, are sent to survey the estate, expecting documents, order and clear boundaries. Instead, the house answers with silence, dust, and fragments of a life.
As they piece together Adèle’s story, the film opens onto another era. In 1895, twenty-year-old Adèle leaves Normandy and resurfaces in Paris, a city electrified by invention, early photography and the rise of Impressionism. Moving between 2025 and 1895, Colours of Time explores how the past shapes the present, and how inheritance can be emotional as much as material.
At its heart, the film reflects on identity, family memory and what we choose to carry forward, inviting us to reconsider legacy not as something fixed, but as something we continually reinterpret.
