Monday January 20
We vote for our favorite short film or mini-series from the Nikon Film Festival
Like every year, the Nikon Film Festival takes us to discovery of new audiovisual talents. The idea? Encourage video creation, promote the emergenceallow everyone to create and broadcast a short film or mini-series for free. For this 15th anniversary edition – with Noémie Merlant as president of the jury – a multitude of talents submitted their creations around the same theme, “A super-power”, which directly echoes that of the very first edition: “I am a hero”. The films are now broadcast on the festival platform, and the time of vote for your Audience Award has arrived. Until March 20, 300 short films and mini-series are waiting for only one thing: your support! Then meet on April 9 for the traditional awards ceremony at the Grand Rex.
Nikon Film Festival
Votes open from January 20 to March 20, 2025
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Tuesday January 21
We talk about IVG with comedian Laura Domenge and Family Planning at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
As part of the 50 years of the Veil Lawthe comedian Laura Domenge has a very special evening in store for us collaboration with Family Planning at the Theater of the Work. An evening to talk, laugh and break the taboos that still persist around abortion. On this occasion, Laura does not hesitate to share her journey and testify with humorand invites Albane Gaillot (co-director of Family Planning) on stage at the end of her show to inform, prevent and make abortion visible. The opportunity for us to interact with those who are on the ground and who work every day in difficult conditions (and with few resources) to protect women's rights. The little extra? All profits from this evening will be entirely donated to Planned Parenthood!
Laura Domenge x Planning Familial
Theater of the Work
55, rue de Clichy – 9th
Tuesday January 21, 2025 at 8 p.m.
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Wednesday January 22
We discover Sydney Valette at the Boule Noire
After 10 years of career navigating between several electronic spheres, Sydney Valetta was anchored in his journey between dark wave, EBM, ambient, rave and even italo discoall crowned with a heart noticeably pop. A complex universe with resolutely punk borders, materialized in a 7e album released last September: The Healer. And this week, Parisians will have the opportunity to discover this project on the Boule Noire stage, with the promise of a live performance as dynamic as it is captivating. On the opening side, we find the hypnotic solo project Sad Madonna, a regular with Parisian dark and new wave audiences.
Sydney Valetta
The Black Ball
120, boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart – 18th
Wednesday January 22, 2025 at 8 p.m.
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We're celebrating in Vincent at Point Éphémère
In case you're not up to date on your calendar, this Wednesday, we're celebrating the Vincents! For the occasion, Oxfam is organizing an exceptional evening at Point Éphémère celebrating a Vincent well known to all: Vincent Bolloré. So there is no question here of celebrating the multi-billionaire, of course, but of restart the debate about what it represents : a power inherited from African resources, the propagation of a far-right ideology, or even control of powers and the media. To do this, Oxfam invites Guillaume Meurice (ex-columnist on France Inter, dismissed last June, now on Nova) and a series of artists and speakers for a lively evening of stand-ups and round tables of all kinds, all followed by a DJ set anyway, because we're not going to stop partying.
Vincent's Party
Ephemeral Point
200, quai de Valmy – 10th
Wednesday January 22, 2025 from 6:30 p.m.
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Thursday January 23
We dive into Italian cinema with the From Rome to Paris festival
-This weekend, Italy makes its cinema on the Champs-Élysées with the From Rome to Paris festival. An unmissable event for all fans of Italian cinemathis new edition will preview at Publicis Cinemaand Ferzan Özpetek in nouveau film: Diamonds. A story that oscillates between present and return to the 70s, with a 5-star cast featuring the 18 best Italian actresses todayall generations combined. Together, they revolve around a cinema costume workshop, between elegance, comedy, generosity, a dream world and a deeply feminine universe.
From Rome to Paris
Publicis Cinema
129, avenue des Champs-Élysées – 8th
Diamanti screening on Thursday January 23, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
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Friday January 24
We discover La Question at the Théâtre de la Concorde
A stone's throw from the Champs-Élysées, the Concorde theater reinvents itself as a civic place. With workshops, open stages and showsthis new institution puts art at the service of democratic issueseach month tackling current issues. And at the start of the year, the theater decides to tackle the theme of “Brilliant coup in democracy”a theme that resonates greatly with this new show on display: The Question. Adaptation of the autobiographical work of Henri Alleg – who denounces the torture of civilians during the Algerian war from his cell – this piece by Laurent Meininger uses a “ drought of minutes » like an Assize trial, where we hear the inaudible, the unbearable and even the unacceptable in a concise – almost clinical – narration refusing all emotion.
The Question
Concorde Theater
Gardens of the Champs-Élysées
1, avenue Gabriel – 8e
From January 24 to February 1, 2025
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Saturday January 25
We (re)discover traditional Portuguese cuisine at Sapinho
Did you go on a road trip to the Algarve this summer and want to dive back into the sunny dishes that rocked your dinners? In Paris, it's hard to find anything better than Thrushnice restaurant nestled in square Lamarckto revisit the classics of Portugal. As a starter, we order cod fritters – cod fritters, potato, lemon, egg, parsley – or octopus croquettes topped with just the right amount of spicy mayonnaise, then we share a duo grilled piri-piri chicken to continue to shake up our taste buds with chili peppers high in color and flavor. To end the dinner gently, we quietly enjoy cream puffswhich tenderly remind us of the best we could eat there, at the Manteigaria of course… A authentic tavern which also owes its success to the good humor of Rafael Dos Santos, founder of the place.
Thrush
85, rue Lamarck – 18e
Tuesday to Friday, 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. and from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Sunday January 26
We're raiding free scallops in Montmartre
Alert! The scallop festival is making its comeback on the Butte Montmartre. Direction there Place des Abbessesthis weekend, for a total immersion in the marine flavors of the Breton bay of Saint-Brieuc. Organized by the CCI Côtes d'Armor in collaboration with the Association Réginéenne de la Coquilles Saint-Jacques and the Commanderie du Clos Montmartre, this celebration offers you free tastingsBreton atmosphere and delicious culinary discoveries. Brief, an iodized orgy which may well boost your month of January!
Scallop Festival 2025
Place des Abbesses – 18th
January 25 (9 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and January 26 (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.)
