Cinema, music, arts, festivals and global cultural trends.
Katie Kitamura, whose latest book 'Audition' is nominated for the Pulitzer and Booker Prize, tells France 24 that her work is written with the reader. The novel follows an actress confronted by a man claiming to be her son, exploring the many roles we play in life.
Award-winning author Rob Franklin's novel 'Great Black Hope' centers on David Smith, a young Black man from the South navigating race, class, and belonging, exploring the psychological toll of respectability politics and fear of rejection.
The Museum of Information and the Press (Musip) will open in Paris in 2029, announced Antoine Mariotti, its president-founder and France 24 journalist. Supported by UNESCO, various media, and Reporters Without Borders, the project has a 20 million euro budget.
During Pope Leo XIV's visit to France, the gospel song "How Can I Not Praise You" was sung by nearly 80,000 youths at Stade de France. This refrain, now familiar to Christians, was composed by a Cameroonian clergyman.
Meryem Koufi and Mehdi Haddab unveil "Nuba Nova II," an album revisiting the traditional nouba of the Algiers School with a blend of electric oud, kouitra, and mystical singing, balancing spirituality and sensuality.
Céline Dion's stage return in Paris attracts a worldwide audience including Rihanna, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey. Once seen as kitsch, she is now embraced by top fashion houses, analyzed by Valentin Grimaud in "Céline Dion Vestale."
Pope Leo XIV celebrated mass before around 150,000 people at Lourdes, a major Catholic pilgrimage site, during his visit to France.
Michel Butor, an encyclopedic and experimental writer, celebrates his centenary in 2026. His work, blending essays, poetry, and arts, includes La Modification, a flagship Nouveau Roman novel.
Cameroonian Hermine Yollo has won the 2026 RFI Theatre Prize for her work "Ima Maryam: The Judgment of Mary," a text that boldly questions religious dogmas and violence against women. The award ceremony will be held on September 27 in Limoges during the Les Zébrures festival.
British director Mike Leigh received the Golden Shell, the top prize at the San Sebastián Festival, for his film "Tender Loving Care," which also won screenplay and acting awards.
Sunville, an afrofuturist musical theatre mixing Congolese rumba, jazz, electronic and contemporary music, is presented at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Led by poet Fiston Mwanza Mujila, director Stephanie Thiersch, and composer Sofia Jernberg, it explores exile, memory, and reconciliation.
Sokona Sissoko, founder of Beneïsha Paris, highlights femininity with glamorous bridal and evening gowns at Paris Fashion Week during the France edition of FIMO228.
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