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A Nos Amours is a British cinema collective dedicated to programming overlooked, under-exposed films that audiences may not often if ever get the opportunity to see on a big screen. Film makers and others are invited to advocate and present the films they admire and want to see screened. It was founded in 2011 by film makers Joanna Hogg and Adam Roberts.

Film Screenings
The collective's inaugural screening was the 1983 Maurice Pialat film À nos amours (To Our Loves), from which the collective took its name. Screenings are presented in different venues, if possible, in their original format, and to date have included films rarely screened in the UK, including Stalker and Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky, Fred Kelemen's film Frost, Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, and A Moment of Innocence by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Films too lengthy to screen in regular cinema programmes have also been shown, such as the eight hour epic film War and Peace, the seven and a half hour long Sátántangó by Bela Tarr, which in collaboration with Scalarama was screened in four UK cities, and Out 1: Don't Touch Me by Jacques Rivette. . From 2013 to 2015, Hogg and Roberts programmed a two year complete retrospective of the films of the Belgian-born film maker Chantal Akerman at the ICA in London, the most complete retrospective ever given. Introductions have come from, among many others, Terry Gilliam, Xiaolu Guo, Geoff Dyer, Mark Kermode, Will Self, Carol Morley, Jonathan Romney and Olaf Moller. A Nos Amours is to jointly release Chantal Akerman’s final film "No Home Movie" in 2016, as a first step into film distribution.

Gallery exhibition
The Chantal Akerman retrospective culminated in the exhibition Chantal Akerman Now, co-curated by Hogg and Roberts with the Ambika P3 Gallery. The exhibition comprised seven installation works by Akerman, including the eponymous piece 'NOW', originally commissioned for the Venice Biennale. The opening of the exhibition was planned to coincide with the close of the retrospective and the UK premiere screening of her last film No Home Movie on 30th October 2015. With Akerman's death on 5th October 2015, the exhibition turned out to be the first posthumous retrospective of her installation work. Hogg and Roberts published a tribute to 'an extraordinary talent and friend' in the Guardian newspaper, and were among a group of film makers, curators and artists who contributed to her obituary in Frieze Magazine with appreciation of her " unsurpassed body of work with all the richness and depth of a life lived fully and intensely".

Other events
A Nos Amours has also sought to appreciate and understand film and its place among the arts in genera;. In January 2015 A Nos Amours invited the celebrated philosopher Jacques Rancière to London. Rancière delivered a lengthy critique of Robert Bresson’s "Mouchette" (1959) prior to a screening of the film, and participated in a whole day conference (in collaboration with Kings College London and Birkbeck College) convened to consider the current state of cinephila.