Events

Ciné-Club: La Douleur: 10 January 2019 | 6:30pm

Desperate for news of her husband, who has been arrested by the Germans, a writer and resistant enters into a high-risk game of psychological cat and mouse with a Nazi collaborator.

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Concert: Les Flûtes Enchantées: 09 January 2019 | 6:30pm

Flute is associated through the world with enchantment, nature and magic power: the poetry of Mallarmé about Pan echoes the Krishna depicted in Surdas verses. With two masters of flute from France and India, Les flutes enchantées takes you through the poetic and musical repertoire of the enchanting flute players, beautifully choreographed by Tanya Saxena.

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Ciné-Club: COMME DES GARÇONS: 20 December 2018 | 6:30pm

Reims, in 1969. Paul Coutard, inveterate seducer and sports correspondent to the everyday life (daily paper), the inhabitant of the Champagne region, decides to organize a feminine soccer match to challenge his director (manager) during the annual carnival of the newspaper. His biggest enemy, Emmanuelle Bruno, executive secretary, finds himself grateful (inescapable) to assist him (it). Without knowing it, they are together going to launch into the creation of the first women's team of soccer of France.

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Ciné-Club: LUMIÈRE D’ÉTÉ: 18 December 2018 | 10am

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker. Scripted by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, the film was banned from theaters for the duration of the occupation for its dark portrayal of the hedonistic excesses of the ruling class. Today, it is often singled out as Jean Grémillon's greatest achievement.

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OLIVIER MOULIN – A Piano recital tribute to Debussy and Hazrat I. Khan

The French pianist Olivier Moulin studied under Eric Heidsieck and Gery Moutier at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique of Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded first prize with honors. After advanced studies in the same institution, he continued his training in Austria at the Salzburg Mozarteum in the classes of Karl – Heinz Kammerling and Clemens Hagen, where he obtained a Master of Arts with highest honors.      

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KATHAKALI – KING LEAR – An adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear into Kathakali Theatre

Kathakali is a classical dance-theatre of India. Dance, a complex gestural language involving hands face and eyes, a broad range of song and percussive music, elaborate make-up and spectacular costumes make Kathakali a total art. In this theatre which is both refined and popular, extreme codification and stylization achieve an extraordinary intensity of effect.

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ZOOM DADA – A Hip-Hop Theatrical Dance Show

Two individuals, having no idea whatsoever of how to shape themselves, set off in search of inspiration. At the end of their quest, their portrait will inevitably have a false air of traversed paintings, invented dances. A journey that will prove to be completely self -revealing

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Design X Design – Talk | 29th November 2018 | 7:00pm

Design in its many manifestations forms an integral part of every culture. Civilizations evolve and attain their full potential because of it. Design based on creative industries in India are witness to a fascinating churning, necessitating a search for a vision that may inform their evolution beyond - spanning education, profession and industry. Thus, involving exposes, roundtables, exhibitions etc. Design by Design is a step in that direction.

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Ciné-Club: M: 27 November 2018 | 10am

Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden.

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Ciné-Club: CONTE D’ÉTÉ: 22 November 2018 | 6:30pm

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

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