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This year's Croisements festival will be held from May to July. Highlights include the exhibition From Monet to Soulages: Paths of Modern Western Painting (1805-1975), the dance production Seeds, the theater play 2666 and the recital performances by French actress Isabelle Huppert. [Photo provided to China Daily]

French actress Isabelle Huppert will give recital performances of Marguerite Duras' L'amant (The Lover) in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing. In January, Huppert, 64, won the Golden Globe for best actress in a motion picture for her performance in Elle.

Photographer Mai Lucas, who lives in France and the United States, will show at the exhibition, titled Kids, her snapshots of young Chinese in Kunming and Changsha.

"They are growing up in the process of globalization. They are mostly the only child in their families. They are nice and care about other people's opinions. They form several small, quite united groups," Lucas says.

In the photos, she tries to profile the youth of China, which she says represent the world's future.