Arts in France this week with Rosslyn Hyams makes the most of a festival and awards celebrating living cinema history.

Arts in France this week with Rosslyn Hyams makes the most of a festival and awards celebrating living cinema history.

RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets artists from a group of thirty-two in an exhibition of art from Tunisia. Med'In Peace is being held in Montélimar in southwestern France.

RFI's Rosslyn Hyams meets artists from a group of thirty-two in an exhibition of art from Tunisia. Med'In Peace is being held in Montélimar in southwestern France.

Nice surprises are tucked away in unlikely places in Paris. Rosslyn Hyams takes us to sample a roaring multi-discipline performance in the Festival Etrange cargo - Strange Cargo Festival.

Nice surprises are tucked away in unlikely places in Paris. Rosslyn Hyams takes us to sample a roaring multi-discipline performance in the Festival Etrange cargo - Strange Cargo Festival.

Daffodils and birds return to their nests under light showers of rain. These images conjure up the spring season in northern Europe, but also recollections of poetry from the last century or even earlier writings inspired by nature. This year, the French annual Printemps des Poètes festival of events dedicated to poetry, chose "Poets of the 20th Century" as its theme. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams found that, in its 18th year, it is really in harmony with 21st art forms.

Montmartre in Paris is most widely known as an over-crowded tourist attraction on a hill with a magnificent vista of the city from in front of the Sacré Coeur church.

Its 19th century literary and visual romanticism has drawn so many visitors that souvenir shops now overflow with trinkets and baubles and key-rings and magnets which represent very little in fact of the area which includes its own vineyard.

One of the quieter locations of historical and artistic value in Montmartre is in a side street, and looks onto the vineyard. It's the Montmartre Museum.

Internationally renowned French stage director Philippe Decouflé loves to mix his media. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams reports on his show Contact which is currently on tour.

Internationally renowned French stage director Philippe Decouflé loves to mix his media. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams reports on his show Contact which is currently on tour.