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September 28th 2019 Barbican, London London, England

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Retrospective at BPI Centre Pompidou « Je ne fais que passer… »

17/06/2026 au 30/06/2026 MK2 Bibliothèque Paris, France

The 31st edition of É Tudo Verdade / It’s All true – International Documentary Festival 2026 Retrospective

9 e 19 de abril 2026 Em São Paulo e no Rio

CONVERSA COM VIVIAN OSTROVSKY / 31 st Ed of E Tudo Verdade 2026

April 11th at 3:30pm Cinemateca Brasileira São Paulo, Brazil

But Elsewhere Is Always Better – Retrospective Vivian Ostrovsky

17. Nov - 16. Dec 2025 Akademie der Kunste- Zeughauskino Berlin, Germany

Copacabana beach is at Dobra

Dec 3rd 2025 - 6pm Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil - Rua Primeiro de Março, 66 - Centro Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Elizabeth Bishop: From Brazil with Love – Festival do Rio

08/10 21:45 - 10/10 18:50 - 11/1 15:30 - 12/10 19:45 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Archives / Films distribution (1974 – 1980)

In addition to her filmmaking activities, Vivian Ostrovsky was a pioneer in curating, distributing and promoting women’s cinema from the mid 1970s onwards…

Eat is on Tenk

Tenk Escales : Miam, Miam, Miam !

Son Chant & Mais ailleurs c’est toujours at Centre Wallonie Bruxelles

Dec 12th 2024 Centre Wallonie Bruxelles Paris, France

Wherever was never there at Regard Independant

Nov 29th I 2024 9pm Cinéma Jean Paul Belmondo Nice, France

Tatitude is at videodrome 2 Marseille

October 31 2024 8:30PM Videodrome 2 Marseille, France

H2EEF 50 Here and There and Wherever She Is with Vivian Ostrovsky

May 2024 Podcast

Allers-venues & Nikita Kino at Contre-chant : luttes collectives, films féministes

June 22nd 2024 8pm & July 3rd 8pm Centre Pompidou Paris, France

SON CHANT / Hiatus / MM in Motion at Contre-chant : luttes collectives, films féministes

June 22 nd 2024 5pm & June 29th 8pm Centre Pompidou Paris, France

Son Chant at Cinematek

may 30th 2024 7pm Cinémathèque royale de Belgique Bruxelles, Belgium

USSA at DINAMO: Information – IFFR 2024

Jan 25th 2024 6:45 pm KINO 4 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Copacabana beach at « Nos sports, nous mêmes » Programme de courts métrages

Jan 15th 2024 Cité Audacieuse Paris

SON CHANT & Mais ailleurs c’est toujours mieux

Dec 12th 2024 6:30pm Centre Wallonie Bruxelles Paris, France

Copacabana at Germaine Dulac: para além da vanguarda

December 1st 2023 Centro Cultural São Paulo São Paulo, Brasil

TELEPATTES at Miaou ! (Les Froufrous de Lilith )

19th nov 2023 3 PM Musée national d’Histoire naturelle Paris, France

« Les amies de Vivian » au Festival Film Autour de l’Art

July 22-23 rd 2023 Salle Communale Châteauvert, France

COPACABANA BEACH at Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna

July 13th 2023 - 4pm LAB Cinema Expandido Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

MAIS AILLEURS C’EST TOUJOURS MIEUX at festival de l’histoire de l’art

June 3rd 2023 Cinéma Ermitage Fontainebleau, France

Copacabana beach at Husets Biograf

May 15th 2023 3pm Husets Biograf Copenhagen, Danemark

Son Chant at barbican « Alice Neel: Portraiture on Film »

March 30th 2023 Barbican London, England

Copacabana beach at Monokino

March 17th is 2023 KAAP | Oostende Oostende, Belgium

THE TITLE WAS SHOT at VENI, VIDI, VIDEO

March 9th to May 19th 2023 The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery | 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street NY, NY

Carte blanche at 23e rencontres cinéma et vidéo – Regard Independant

November 25th 2022 8:30 pm Cinéma j-P Belmondo Nice, France

Unsound is at 8 Festival video nodoCCS

November 18-20th 2022 Caracas, Venezuela

Son Chant is at Microscope Gallery – Pool Party 2022

Sunday November 13th 2022 - 1 to 3pm ET Microscope gallery NY, NY

Les amies de Vivian : 4 shorts films at Brussels Art Film Festival (BAFF)

November 12th 2022 at 4pm Cinematek Plateau Brussels, Belgium

Unsound is at Les Instants Vidéo numériques et poétiques

October 21th 2022 8:30pm Videodrome 2 Marseille, France

Son Chant is Takt Festival

September 22-25 th 2022 Novi Sad, Serbia

Son Chant is at On Art Film Festival

September 24-30 th 2022 15 cities in Poland

Mais Ailleurs c’est toujours mieux & SON CHANT at FADA ( 6ème Festival Film autour de l’art)

July 23rd 2022 - 8:30pm Centre d'Art de Châteauvert Châteauvert, France

Son Chant is at the International Video Art Now and After

July 14 to August 14th 2022 Fabrika- Center for Creative Industries Moscow, Russia

Son Chant is at 6° Festival ECRÃ

July 1st to 24th July 2022 Estação NET de Cinema y online Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

Son Chant is at Tranås at the Fringe #11 INTER-ACTIONS

July 2nd to 9th July 2022 Tranas, Sweden

USSA is at Futur antérieur #21

July 6th 2022 8pm L'archipel Paris, France

Hiatus is at 1º Pan-Cinema Experimental

June 22nd to 26th 2022 Cinemateca de Curitiba Curitiba, Brazil

Copacabana Beach & Tatitude at An Oceanic Feeling – Institut Français du Royaume Uni

June 12 & 15th 2pm & 6:20pm Institut Français du Royaume Uni London, England

Son Chant is at Per amor a les Arts 2021-2022

May 31st 2022 5 pm Filmoteca de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain

Watch Hiatus – winner (2019) of the Weimar Poetry Film Award

Till 31/05/22

M.M in Motion is at Mostra De Filmes Programa Maya Deren – Cinema e dança

May 15th 2022 7pm Café Terraço (17º andar) Sao Paulo, Brazil

SON CHANT is at Experiments In Cinema

May 9th to 23rd 2022 Online Albuquerque, NM, USA

M.M. in Motion is at FESTIVAL CONFRONTATION “FILMER LE CORPS”

May 8th 2022 2 pm Cinema le Castillet Perpignan, France

Allers Venues is at IndieLisboa 2022

May 5th 2022 7pm Cinemateca Portuguesa- Sala Félix Ribeiro Lisboa, Portugal

Son Chant is at Dock of the Bay

May 6th 2022 7pm Cines Príncipe 10 San Sebastian, Spain

Son Chant is at Bafici

April 20th to May 1st 2022 PREMIERE ARGENTINA Buenos Aires, Argentina

Son Chant is at Fisura

April 19th 2022 9:00 p.m. Cineteca municipal de Durango Durango, Mexico

The title was shot is at XXV Rencontres Internationales Traverse

April 8th 2022 Cinéma Le Cratère Toulouse, France

Son Chant is at FilmArte Festival

April 11th 2022 Oblomov Kreuzkoelln Berlin, Germany

Hiatus is at Bookmarks of Discomfort conceived & curated by Priyanka Das

April 14th 2022 7:30 PM Dixon Theater NY, NY

SON CHANT is at Cosmic rays film festival

April 1st 2022 8:00 pm The Forest Theater NC, USA

Mais ailleurs c’est toujours mieux is at Futur Anterieur #17 – Re:Voir

February 28th 2022 L'archipel Paris, France

P.W. – PINCÉIS E PAINÉIS is at Miramar + Of Murals & Mosaics

February 13th 2022 4 :30pm BAM Rose Cinemas Brooklyn, USA

Son Chant is at 19 Festival de Cortos de Bogota

December 7th to 19th 2021 International Competition Experimental  Bogota, Colombia

Retrospective at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

November 12th to Nov 21, 2021 Pera Museum Istanbul, Turkey

Unsound is at Videobardo 25 años

29th Nov to 3rd of dec 2021 Online Buenos Aires, Argentina

SOn Chant is at FESTIVAL traces de vies

November 27th to 4th December 2021 Salle Georges Conchon Clermont–Ferrand, France

Scratch Collection – ESCAPE INTO LANDSCAPE

November 18th 2021 8:30 pm Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Son Chant is at rencontres internationales Traverse

November 13th 2021 Cinéma Le Cratère Toulouse, France

Son Chant is at Brussels Art Film Festival

November 13th 2021 7:00 pm CINEMATEK LEDOUX Bruxelles, Belgique

Scratch Collection – PINK-U PUNK-Y

November 11th 2021 8:30pm Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Scratch collection – Elusive illusions

November 2nd 2021 Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Allers venues is at 18 festival de Sevilla (40 años de Light Cone)

November 9th 2021 Sevilla, Spain

Unsound is at VII Festival Cinemistica- opening evening

November 4th - 7:30 PM Cinemateca Granada, Spain

SCRATCH COLLECTION 2021 ! Six séances avec VIVIAN OSTROVSKY

5/10 - 14/10 - 26/10 - 2/11 - 11/ 11 -18/11 2021 à 20:30 Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Son Chant is at Riga short film festival

October 22nd 2021 7:30PM Riga, Latvia

Scratch Collection – STILL CAMERA ON THE RUN

14 octobre 2021 Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Scratch collection – DISJOINTED GAZES

26 octobre 2021 20:30 Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Son Chant is at Corsica.doc

Sat 9th October Ellipse cinema

Scratch collection – SIGNIFICANT SPACES

5 Octobre 2021 à 20:30 Luminor Hotel de Ville Paris, France

Son Chant is at Split Film Festival

15th to 21st September 2021 Split, Croatia

Hiatus is at Les Mains Gauches – Festival à étiquettes glissantes

9th to 12th september 2021 Vidéodrome 2 Marseille, France

SON CHANT is at Sao Paulo International short film festival

August 19th to 29th 2021 Online Sao Paulo, Brazil

Son Chant is at West Sound Film Festival

August 8th 2022 ROXY THEATRE Bremerton, WA, USA

Unsound is t 45. Open Air Filmfestival

August 13th 2021 Open Air Weiterstadt, Germany

Unsound is at On Art Film Festival

July 25th 2021 9:30 PM Plaża Romantyczna Wawer Rychnowska 15 Warsaw, Poland

TÉLÉPATTES is at Futur Antérieur #12 • The private life of a cat

July 19th 2021 8:00pm L'archipel - Re:voir Paris, France

Son Chant is at Sheffield Doc/Fest – UK Premiere

June 5th 2021 Showroom Cinema 1 Sheffield, United Kingdom

SON CHANT is at 67. International Short Film Festival

1st of May 2021 Online Oberhausen, Germany

Retrospective au Festival international du Film sur l’art

March 16th to 28th 2021 Focus Experimental Online - Canada only

Copacabana Beach is at Lieu Unique

March 7th 2021 Lieu Unique Online

Unsound is at Demetera International Short Film Festival

March 10th to 17th 2021 Online

DVD – M.M. in Motion en Version restaurée (VF)

Centre Simone de Beauvoir Version Française

Unsound is at WEST SOUND FILM FESTIVAL

January 29th to 31st 2021 Online

Unsound is at Fisura Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental

January 22nd 2021 at 5PM (Mexico Time) Zoom session at 6:PM Online

« A Day with Vivian Ostrovsky », Cyprus Contemporary Film Centre

December 27-28th 2020 7pm Online Cypriot audience only

UNsound is at ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2020

December 9th 2020 8:00 pm Student's City Cultural Center Belgrade, Serbia

Hiatus is at Happy Hour Online com leituras e bate papo sobre Clarice Lispector

December 10th 2020 Online NY 3:45pm - Paris 9:45pm

Unsound is at MICROACTS 7

December 10th 2020 6-10pm Elephant Hotel ( registration microactslondon@gmail.com) London, England

« Le son d’un regard » rencontre avec Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

December 3rd 2020 6:00pm Online - Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir Regarder la rencontre

Unsound is at L’ Alternativa

November 16 to 29th 2020 Online - Festival de cinema independent de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

AtmoSphere

2020 Violencello : Sonia Wieder-Atherton Images : Vivian Ostrovsky - Editing : Ruti Gadish

NIKITA KINO – Newly Restored Version 2020

Re:Voir Video

Unsound is at 37th Kasseler DoKFest

17-20th November 2020 Online

Unsound is at Film and Video Poetry symposium

November 14th 2020 -program begins at 800pm 5810 1/2 N Figueroa Street outdoor(by reservation only) Los Angeles, USA

Unsound is at XIX Festival Internacional DE CINE DE ALMERÍA

14- 21th November 2020 Alméria, Spain

Unsound is at Doc Buenos Aires

November 12th 2020 18H (CST) FundacionOSDEOficial Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hiatus is at International Portrait film festival

November 15-25th 2020 Online Sofia, Bulagria

Hiatus is at THE FILM AND VIDEO POETRY SOCIETY

November- December 2020 Online

WHEREVER WAS NEVER THERE is at Engauge Experimental Film Festival

Oct 27th - Nov 2nd 2020 Program B Lumen - Wed 10/28 at 12 PM to Thurs 10/29 at 11 AM - Live conversation at 11 AM Thurs 10/29 PDT

Hiatus is at the International Poetry Film Festival of Thuringia

October 22nd - 24th 2020 Online “Winners of the Weimar Poetry Film Award”

Copacabana Beach is at Ism Ism Ism

October 8th 2020 7 pm CDT (5 PM PT) Online

Hiatus is at Das Literatur Film Festival

October 4th 2020 Münster, Germany

The Title was shot at Over The Real

September 30th - October 4th 2020 Festival Internazionale di Videoarte Lucca, Italy

Unsound is at Riga Pasaules Film Festival

September 18th 2020 Online Riga, Latvia

Unsound is at São Paulo International Short Film Festival

August 20th to 30th 2020 Online #CurtaKinoforum

Allers-Venues is at Radio Libertaire

Sunday August 2nd 2020 3:30 PM Radio Addoc #8 – On a déjà traité le sujet : Vacance(s)

Unsound is at Experiments in Cinema

June 1-22 2020 (TC 00:23:38) and (TC 1:21:00) for discussion Experiment 16

Allers-Venues on Tenk

May 1st to June 27th 2020 Centre Simone de Beauvoir Restons confiné-e-s restons féministes

MM in Motion at Institut Français Royaume-Uni

April 23 rd to 30th 2020 International Dance Day

Hiatus is on Indyon.TV

Until April 30th 2020

MM in Motion – Full Movie

1992

Unsound at Ann Arbor Film Festival – Live at 10 am

March 28th 2020 Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Plunge on Re:voir

March 25th 2020 password: STAYHOME

DizzyMess at Istanbul Experimental

April 20th 2020 at 6pm for a week online

Restrospectiva Chantal Akerman at FICUNAM But elsewhere is always better

March 5th to 15th 2020 Unam Mexico city

Unsound at Traverse Video

March 14th 2020 Cinémathèque de Toulouse Toulouse, France

Unsound is artfifa

March 17-19th 2020 Montreal, Canada

But elsewhere is always better at French Institute NYC

March 7th 2020 3:15 pm FIAF MANHATTAN New York, New York, USA

Losing the Thread at Cyprus Contemporary Film Center

February 27th 2020 Fotodos Nicosia, Cyprus

Hiatus is at Les Inattendus

February 18th 2020 Lyon, France

DizzyMess is at AESTHETIC OF THE RUINS #1

January 31 2020 Istanbul, Turkey

American International Pictures at IFFR

January 25th is 2020 IFFR Rotterdam, The Netherland

Hiatus at REELpoetry

January 24-26th 2020 Public Poetry Houston, TX, USA

Hiatus at RPM FEST

Jan 31 to Feb 2nd 2020 Revolutions Per Minute Festival Boston, Mass, USA

Tatitude is at Cinema le Bretagne

December 16th 2019 Cinema le Bretagne Guichen, France

Wherever Was Never There at Fotogenia Film Festival

December 11th to 14th 2019 Mexico City, Mexico

But Elsewhere is Always Better at la Reina Sofia

December 7th 2019 7:15pm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte - Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain

Conferences at Zinemaldia 70: All Possible Histories

December 7th 2019 5PM Tabakalera San Sebastian, Spain

Unsound at Festival Tous Courts

December 3rd to 7th 2019 Institut de l'Image Aix-en-Provence, France

Hiatus at Wiener Poetry Film Festival

November 30th 2019 Vienna, Austria

Unsound at The Unforeseen

November 22nd to 23rd 2019 The Center for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade, Serbia

Public Domain at Burstscratch, Hintergrund II

November 21st 2019 Le Molodoi Strasbourg, France

Losing the thread

November 15 & 16th 2019 Artvideo Lab Paris, France

Hiatus at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

November 13th to 17th 2019 Istanbul, Turkey

But Elsewhere is Always Better at Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

November 9th 2019 Judengasse Museum Frankfurt, Germany

Unsound at ZINEBI

November 13th 2019 AZKUNA ZENTROA AUDITORIO Bilbao, Spain

Hiatus at ULTRAcinema

November 20 to 24th 2019 Guelatao, Oax, Mexico

DizzyMess at Festival Les Instants Video

November 5th 2019 Videodrome 2 Marseille, France

Work and Progress at MoMA

November 3rd &10th 2019 MoMA New York, New York, USA

Movie (V.O.) at UnderTheCounterCulture

November 1st to 16th 2019 Corys Building Cardiff, Wales, UK

DizzyMess at INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL CANTON

October 19th to 21st 2019 国际短片展, Guangzhou, China

Allers venues at Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris

October 12th 2019 Cinéma Grand Action Paris, France

Hiatus at Family Film Project

October 14th-19th 2019 Porto, Potugual

Unsound Festival international Signes de Nuit

October 8th 2019 Paris, France

Hiatus & CORrespondência e REcorDAÇÕES

October 2nd & 3rd 2019 Vox Feminae Festival Zagreb, Croatia

Retrospective at 1ª Mostra Cine Brasil Experimental

September 2019 27th to 28th Centro Cultural São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil

Unsound at Dobra

September 28th 3:30 pm MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Losing the thread at Cyprus Contemporary Film Center

25th September 2019 Fotodos Photographer’s Gallery Lefkosia, Cyprus

DizzyMess at Vastlab experimental festival

September 20th & 21th 2019 Vastlab experimental festival Burbank, California

DizzyMess & Hiatus

September 11th to 15th 2019 Strangloscope Florianópolis, Brazil

Hiatus at On Art Film Festival

September 5th 2019 Bydgoszcz, Poland

But Elsewhere is always better at Cine de Artistas

September 7th 2019 Cine de Artistas Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hiatus at Marienbad Film Festival

August 28th to 31st 2019 Marienbad, Czech Republic

Hiatus at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

August 20th-25th 2019 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany

Time and Time Again – Shorts by Vivian Ostrovsky

August 2nd 2019 Cinemathéque Jerusalem

Hiatus at the Fringe – International Arts Festival

July 3rd 2019 The Fringe Tranas, Sweden

Copacabana Beach at Tamayo Museum

August 3rd to October 27th 2019 Ismo, Ismo, Ismo : Cine Experimental En America Latina Mexico city

3 films by Vivian Ostrovsky at Ciné Lumière, Institut français, London

June 30th 2019 Ciné Lumière, Institut Français Royaume Uni London, England

Hiatus at Asolo Art Film Festival

June 22nd 2019 Cortile del Teatro Asolo, Italy

Retrospective at Videoex – May 30th at 7:30 pm

May 25th to June 2nd 2019 Videoex Zurich, Switzerland

Hiatus at Docaviv

May 24th & 29th 2019 The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival Tel Aviv, Israel

But elsewhere is always better

May 4th 2019 Central London Art Space CAVE- Pimlico London, England

The Title was shot

April 17th to May 12th 2019 International Video Art Festival Moscow, Russia

Plunge at Electronic Arts Intermix

April 11th 2019 6:30pm Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) New York City

Hiatus

April 11th 2019 7pm Cadence Video Poetry Film festival Seattle, USA

Hiatus at Artfifa

March 23rd 2019 ARTFIFA Montreal, Canada

Hiatus at Traverse video

March 17th 2019 Musée des abattoirs- Frac Occitanie Toulouse, France

Hiatus at RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN

March 7th 2019 forum des images Paris, France

Copacabana Beach at Museo Reina Sofia

March 4th 2019 Ismo Ismo Ismo Madrid, Spain

Hiatus at Docfeed

February 21st to 24th 2019 Docfeed Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dvd Plunge by Re:voir

January 30th 2019 16 films and a 60-page booklet

Futur Antérieur#2 Vivian Ostrovsky & Marie Losier

Jan 29th 2019 at 8 PM Cinema l'Archipel Paris

DizzyMess at Revolution per minute festival

February 2-3rd 2019 Boston, USA

Hiatus at Festival International Signos da Noite

January 4-7th 2019 ISDN Lisboa

DizzyMess at Alternative Film/Video

Dec 12-16th 2018 Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, Serbia

Hiatus at Zubroffka Short Film Festival

December 5-9th 2018 Zubroffka Short Film Festival Bialystok, Poland

DizzyMess at Istanbul International experimental film festival

Nov 21-25th 2018 IIEFF Istanbul, Turkey

DizzyMess at Videobardo Festival Internacional de Cine de Videopoesio

Nov 21-26th 2018 Videobardo Buenos Aires, Argentina

Restrospective Vivian Ostrovsky l’humour du geste

12th Nov 2018 Redcat Los Angeles

Hiatus at Aesthetica Short Film Festival

Nov 7-11th 2018 United Kingdom York

Copacabana Beach at Las superochoras

Nov 8th To Feb17th 2019 Museu Universitario del Chopo, UNAM Mexico

Hiatus at Another Experimental by Women Festival

October 25th 2018 6pm Anthology Film Archives. New-York City

Hiatus at Riga Short film festival

October 25th 2018 Riga, Latvia

Hiatus at festival Curta Cinema

Oct 24-31th 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MAM RIO – museu de arte moderna do rio de janeiro

13th October 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Hiatus at She makes Noise

October 18th to 21st 2018 Madrid, Spain

10 titles by Vivian Ostrovsky

Aug 24 & 25th 2018 Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire Lussas, France

Hiatus

August 23rd & 25th 2018 5pm & 5:30pm 29th Sao Paolo International Short Film Festival Sao Paolo, Brazil

Hiatus

August 7th 2018 at 6:45pm Experimental Shorts MIFF 2018 Melbourne, Australia

DizzyMess

July 3rd-7th 2018 Festival international de vidéo expérimentale - 18ème édition Marseille, France

DizzyMess

June 21th 2018 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Germany

DizzyMess

June 2018 Asolo Art film festival, Italy Asolo

Hiatus

May 26th - 3 June 2018 Videoex Film Festival, international competition Zurich

DizzyMess

May 25th 2018 SorsiCorti festival Palermo

HIATUS

May 5th 2018 at 2:30 pm International Competition of the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.  

but elsewhere is always better

April 12th 2018 7:00 pm Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse, France
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