Events

Cancelled: Ciné-Club: Louise en hiver : 7th November 2017, 10am

Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from panicking, the fearless Louise decides to stay, no matter what awaits her. And the worst does await her: foul weather, heavy rains, high tides. Under such circumstances, will this new Robinson achieve her goal and manage to survive amidst the raging elements?

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Ciné-Club: Ridicule : 2nd November 2017, 6:30pm

Plot: Moved by the difficulties faced by peasants living in the mosquito-ridden swamplands near Lyon, aristocratic engineer Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) devises a plan to drain the boggy land. But to gain an audience with King Louis XVI (Urbain Cancelier) in Versailles, he learns he must impress the royal court with his verbal wit.

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Ciné-Club: La vie domestique : 31st October 2017, 10am

Plot: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night. Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.

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Art Exhibition: The Universe of Interconnected Experiences: Works by SABA HASAN

Saba Hasan, a noted contemporary artist. has always shown an astonishing variety of works spanning conceptual ideas with her book installations, masterful draftsmanship, composition and a long experience of organic materials. The artist's independence and her adventurous spirit have visibly come together to make her work idiosyncratic and powerful. 

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Concert: InChorus # 5 : Latin-Jazz duet and Carnatic rhythms

[InChorus] is a cycle of musical meetings organized by the Alliance Française de Delhi and the Kalasetu organization for the promotion of South Asian Traditional Performing Arts and exchanges between Indian and French artists. [InChorus] offers a platform for creation dedicated to young promising musicians, of all genres, settled in India and France through residencies, concerts and workshops. We encourage talented Indian musicians to take part in the development of a musical project or to strengthen an already existing collaboration with a French (or European) artist.

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Ciné-Club: Les Pépites : 26th October 2017, 6:30pm

Two worlds colliding for the best. The children of Phnom Penh scavenging the dump-site to survive and a recently retired couple discovering Cambodia. This is the extraordinary human story of Christian and Marie France and how they changed the lives of more than 10,000 kids over 20 years. For a Child Smile

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Ciné-Club: Le Nouveau : 24th October 2017, 10am

Plot: Benoit, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?

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Ciné-Club: Queen of Montreuil : 17th October 2017, 10am

It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband’s death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbour that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track…

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Ciné-Club: Polina, danser sa vie : 12th October 2017, 6:30pm

Rigorously trained from an early age by a perfectionist instructor, Polina (played by Anastasia Shevtsova, a professional dancer who has performed with Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre) is a promising classical ballet dancer. She is just about to join the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet when she discovers contemporary dance, a revelation that throws everything into question on a profound level.

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Juggling and Dance: Métamorphoses by François chat

Métamorphoses is a solo juggling piece on “Metamorphosis” a creation of Philip Glass. Seven little scenes based on the repetition of metamorphoses, subtle variations of time. Skin transformations, “beech” modifications. Metamorphosis: a change of physical form into another. Complete change of being, a person’s character, the structure of things.

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