Let’s celebrate Autism About the Artist: Amrit is a young, emerging artist with no formal training in art. Rather than become a debilitating factor, this lack of training transitions into an innocent, virgin rendition of her understanding of the world around her. Amrit has a unique style of her own. She mostly paints portraits and has also developed a penchant …

Initial release: 2014 | Director: Celine Sciamma Running time: 1h53min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, 16-year-old Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted …

A MUSICAL JOURNEY “Neel Sarkar Project is an evolving platform for freethinking musicians to collaborate and find musical expression for their thoughts and feelings about everything around them. The main aim of this project is to find new ways for stories to tell by interpreting traditional and classical Indian musical trajectories within an ambient context of global jazz harmonies and …

Initial release: 2010 | Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Running time: 1h32min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all Modern day Chad, Adam, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N’Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son Abdel. Terribly resentful, he feels …

In the month of June, the whole world celebrates music in its different forms and manifestations through the “Fête de la Musique”, a day dedicated to the promotion of music, created by the French Ministry of Culture which first took place in 1982 in Paris. Since this first edition, this event has known a growing success, and has become an …

The last World War, Marguerite Duras lived it all at once as the wife of a deported husband, as a resistant, but also as a writer. This play is an adaptation of two texts from her book La Douleur, the first one of course, along with the one about Monsieur X, alias Pierre Rabier. This second one is particularly striking. Pierre Rabier is a Gestapo agent who Duras has a dangerous affair with, obliged to see him to obtain intelligence which will help her resistance network. Duras is suffering from the decisions of that cold-hearted man, but as he is fascinated by French authors he will spare her life in the end.

Initial release: 2014 | Director:  Emmanuel Mouret Running time: 1h40min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all Bumbling fifth grade instructor Clement has a hard time putting a full sentence together, but that doesn’t stop him from winning over Alicia, a film and theater star whose nephew he’s been hired to tutor in math. The matinee idol and sheepish …

About the spectacle: Directed by Christian and François Ben Aïm, La forêt ébouriffée is an art performance for all ages. This spectacle, between dance, theatre and tale, is adapted from a children’s book written by Mélanie Thierry. Against a backdrop of video-projections made by the writer, two dancers narrate the story of Racine (Narated with English subtitles).

Initial release: 2014 | Director: Cédric Jimenez Running time: 2h15min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all 1975, Marseille is ruled by a brutal drug gang exporting heroin to New York under the gang name la French. Former Juvenile Court judge Pierre Michel is transferred to the organized crime unit, and will spend years trying to take down one …

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 …