In this week’s look at the art scene in France, RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams meets conceptual artists Wilfrid Almendra from France and Gareth Nyandoro from Zimbabwe whose solo works are part of the Parisian Palais de Tokyo’s summer exhibitions.

Queues to see the sensual works of sculptor Auguste Rodin at Hôtel Biron in Paris are usually long in any season. This year they are longer as the Rodin Museum is leading the events to commemorate the 100th year of the artist's death.

For this week's look at the Arts in France, we go to the 70th Cannes Film Festival. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams talks to Indonesian director Mouly Surya about her third film which is in the programme at the Director's Fortnight, one of the parallel sections.

In this week’s Culture in France, RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams goes to the forest of Fontainebleau, where art historians are preparing plenty of surprises to mark the beginning of June for the 7th Art History Festival around the theme of nature, with this year's guest country: the United States.

In this week’s Art in France, RFi’s Rosslyn Hyams meets young director Justine Wojyniak who has staged a recent Polish play in French with an international cast.

Robert Doisneau is one of France's best-loved 20th century photographers. Doisneau: The Vogue Years exhibition at Versailles shows the artist's initimitable flair for capturing magic moments even if he's better known for his portraits in the streets of Paris, and its suburbs than in ballrooms and chateaux. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams speaks to Doisneau's daughter and granddaughter.

Robert Doisneau is one of France's best-loved 20th century photographers. Doisneau: The Vogue Years exhibition at Versailles shows the artist's initimitable flair for capturing magic moments even if he's better known for his portraits in the streets of Paris, and its suburbs than in ballrooms and chateaux. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams speaks to Doisneau's daughter and granddaughter.

In this week's look at the arts in France, RFI's Rosslyn Hyams discovers part of a private painting and sculpture collection with a distinctly feminine touch.

The 3rd Festival of Russian Film in Paris challenges film buffs to take in an almost 100-year panorama of Russian and Soviet cinema through 30 features and six short films in just nine days. The festival organisers say that five thousand spectators attended in total, up from 3,400 last year.

This year's winners were Pavel Lungin's 2016 The Queen of Spades in the feature category and Soul Sister won the short film prize which takes the director Pavla Stratoulat on an expenses paid trip to France's main short-film meet in Clermont Ferrand.

Rosslyn Hyams reports on the Forum des Images film centre's 2017 City Series and its programme of movies and events featuring four cities in India.