Institut Francais (French Institute) | Westminster Community Information
The French Institute is both a cultural and a language centre. The Cultural Centre comprises a multi-media library, a restaurant and a 300-seat cinema – the Cine lumiere – showing French, European and International films with English subtitles. It regularly holds film festivals, retrospectives and premieres and hosts talks and book launches.
The multi-media library holds the largest collection of French material in the UK, including newspapers, magazines, videos, audio books, CDs and DVDs. Borrowing rights are available with membership.
The children’s library is stocked with over 10,000 items. French language learning books, bilingual stories and texts, comic books, non-fiction, magazines, DVDs, music and nursery rhymes on CD, audiobooks and video games, novels and picture books.
The Language Centre is the major French language training centre in London, offering language courses for all levels, and courses in business and legal French. Offers optional individual and corporate courses as well as teacher training and an exam centre. Exams offered include DELF, DALF and TCF