French May Arts Festival
Discovering French artists, watching French films and enjoying concerts, shows or performances in Hong Kong.
The 2026 French May Arts Festival is packed with cultural events that celebrate the illuminating power of exchange and savour the
joys of French heritage.
Initiated & co-founded by the Consulate General of France and the Alliance Française de Hong Kong in 1993, with the support of the
Leisure and Cultural Services Department, French May has grown over the last 30 years to become one of the largest French arts
festivals in Asia.
French May Arts Festival stages every year over 120 of the highest international calibre, covering a broad array of artistic
disciplines that include the visual arts, opera, classical and contemporary music, dance, new circus, theatre and cinema as well as the
culinary arts. The festival is a unique opportunity to discover the best of the French artistic scene in Hong Kong!
Latest French May Events
French May Cinema Programme
The 2026 edition of the French May Cinema Programme celebrates cinema in all its forms. From May 19 to June 3, we offer a diverse selection of French films presented in two sections: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras and The Art of French Comedy: 2026 Edition.
India Song
19 May, 7:50pm / 3 June, 5:00pm
Broadway Cinematheque
In the 1930s British Indias, at the French Ambassy in Calcutta, voices mention the memory of a woman who died and is today buried in
the local cemetery: Anne-Marie Stretter, who used to be the wife of the Ambassador. One evening, at an Ambassy event, the Vice-Consul in
Lahore had screamed out loud his love for Anne-Marie in the middle of all the guests...
Family Price
19 May, 7:50pm / 29 May, 7:50pm
Premiere Elements / Movie Movie Pacific Place
When Alice and Vincent Gauthier ask their three children to come and visit them urgently, the siblings are afraid the
worst is going to happen... however, good news, their parents won the lottery! Only one problem: they are not planning to give then even a
dime.
Destroy, she said
20 May, 7:50pm / 28 May, 7:50pm
Broadway Cinematheque
On vacation at a quiet hotel surrounded by a lush green forest, married couple Max and Alissa become fast friends with two new
arrivals. Elisabeth Alione is coping with a recent miscarriage and seems detached from her wealthy husband, Bernard, while aspiring novelist
Stein grows increasingly besotted with the lovely Alissa. The film focuses on themes of identity dissolution, political allegory, and
psychological manipulation.
Yellow The Sun
21 May 7:50pm / 2 June 7:50pm
Broadway Cinematheque
Staadt is an imaginary state
where two opposed political forces share the power. The people is therefore subject to two different propagandas: "buy", says one, "wait for
our revolution"says the other. But when the time comes to get rid of common enemies who refuse any ideology and try to make a statement out
of their individual liberty ("the right to live and to die"), the two powers unite. The whole movie takes place in a room where are reunited
the representative of the two powers and their enemy, the "Jew". A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals et
comments on their respective ideologies.
Le Navire Night
22 May, 7:50pm / 27 May, 7:50pm
Broadway Cinematheque
Every night, in Paris, hundreds of men and women use old anonymous phone lines from the German occupation to communicate and love.
These people, wrecks of love and desire, are dying to love and exist the depths of their loneliness.
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12/05/2026
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8pm, Theatre Hong Kong City Hall
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8pm, Concert hall, Hong Kong city Hall
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30-31/05/2026
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