François Truffaut

The great French film star Catherine Deneuve will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September, organizers said on June 1.

The French Institute of Athens is organizing a screening of Francois Truffaut's "L'Enfant Sauvage" (1970). The French film, inspired by real events, tell the story of Victor, a child raised by wolves who is found and introduced to human civilization for the first time at the age of 10. A moving story about society values and the personal relationship between a "wild child" and an adult.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center's (SNFCC) Park Your Cinema program continues this Friday, August 11, with Francois Truffaut's 1962 masterpiece "Jules et Jim." A landmark in French New Wave cinema, it stars Oskar Werner and Henri Serre as two friends vying for the love of Catherine, played by the spectacular Jeanne Moreau. The 9 p.m.

A 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury, one of the most prolific science fiction writers of American literature, titled "Fahrenheit 451" was filmed by François Truffaut in 1966. The book and the film depict a "civilization" where the burning of books and hating books are the most important values.