News of recent NNRFA events and activities
News of recent NNRFA events and activities
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This is England film festival 2025
This is England film festival 2025
The annual Rouen festival of short films in the English Language is organised by supporters of our friends in the Club Rouen Norwich. This year it ran from 15 to 22 November.
You can get a flavour of the variety of films shown on their website.
Rouen Twinning Association Film Evening and World Calvados Day
Rouen Twinning Association Film Evening and World Calvados Day
Crime and French Cinema
Thursday 16th October 2025
St Anne’s Church Hall
Colman Rd, Earlham, Norwich NR4 7HD
Guns, Girls and Gauloises Bleues: how France fell in love with the criminal classes
French crime cinema – or the "polar" – blends American noir influences with a distinctly Gallic style, focusing on themes of fatalism, cool brutality, and the "milieu of criminals".
In this presentation, Bob Peckitt leads the audience a merry dance, through the films of post-1945 French cinema, up to the radical offerings of the late 1990s. We will explore the origins, themes and surprising influences at play here, with illustrative clips of often little-seen films, and the stories of gangsters, good-time girls and gendarmes behind it all.
World Calvados Day celebrations in Norwich
Our friends in Rouen celebrated too!
Norwich is a Royal Castle Reborn
Norwich is a Royal Castle Reborn
Norwich has one of the country's finest Norman castles. It has now finally fully reopened to the public on 7 August after a multi-million-pound refurbishment project which has taken five years.
The transformation has restored the stone keep at the heart of Norwich Castle to how it would have looked in its original form as a Norman Royal Palace. These thrones in the great hall would have welcomed Henry I, third son of William the Conqueror, and his wife.
The project is an exciting foretaste of 2027: The Year of the Normans. The twinning between Norwich and Rouen – capital city of the Normans in Normandy – means that NNRFA and our sister organisation in Rouen, Rouen Norwich Club, will play a part in the celebrations.
Rouen junior footballers compete in Cringleford
Rouen junior footballers compete in Cringleford
The hundreds of young footballers competing in the Cringleford International Junior Football Tournament on 2/3 August included 60 youngsters from Rouen!
What a thrill to see the Rouen and the French flags flying on their gazebos!
You can read all about it on our Football page.
Triorca concert in Rouen
Triorca concert in Rouen
The international youth orchestra Triorca played in Rouen cathedral on Friday 11 July. The Triorca page on this website gives a fuller account of this very successful event, described in this video by those who took part.
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