Events

Ciné-Club: Direction Home – 10th Mar, 2016

  Initial release: 2015 | Director: Hilary Silver English | Free Entry. Open to all When an emergency shelter is demolished, what happens to the homeless people who lived there?  DIRECTION HOME follows seven chronically homeless people over seven years until they attain secure housing. The film also chronicles the struggles of activists and service providers who organize tent cities, conduct sit-ins …

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STREET SHOW: THE HORSEMEN: 3rd March 2016

A show which mixes performance, comic and visual. Three very smart French riders on horses, to prepare the next Olympic Games, make a demonstration of training. Even if, sometimes, they are a bit ridiculous, they always keep “The French Attitude” This show is played in English Language in France, and half English, half French when it’s played outside. The Horsemen …

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Ciné-Club: Le Salaire de la peur – 3rd Mar, 2016

Initial release: April, 22nd 1953  Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Running time: 2h11min Grand prix – Festival de Cannes 1953  | Golden Bear – Berlin Film Festival 1953 French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all   Plot: – In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. …

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Exhibition: ABOUTTURN : 27th February 2016

This independent project, experimental and enquiry based in nature saw the coming together of young creative persons from various mediums over a blog that was initiated by two young art practitioners, Nilanjana Nandy and Anni K Sharan (https://aboutturnproject.wordpress.com/). The Blog has served both as a platform for the participating artists to deliberate, discuss, debate and as the essential sketchbook, information …

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It’s Carnaval Time : 2016

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Ciné-Club: Jacquot de Nantes – 25th Feb, 2016

Initial release: 1991 | Director: Agnes Varda Running time: 1h58min | French with English subtitles Free Entry. Open to all The film is a portrait of the making of an artist; recreating the early life of Varda’s husband, Jacques Demy, in Occupied France and his interest in the various crafts associated with film making, such as casting, set design, animation and lighting. …

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Ciné-Club: Peau d’âne – 18th Feb, 2016

Initial release: December 16, 1970  | Director: Jacques Demy Music: Michel Legrand | Running time: 1h29min French with English subtitles | Free Entry. Open to all  A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry a man she doesn’t love.  

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Francophonie Photography Contest | 2016

Celebrating La Semaine de la Francophonie Alliance française de Delhi presents Francophonie Photography Contest Get your photographs exhibit at AF Delhi for a special 2 months exhibition. Open to everyone ! THEME: FRANCOPHONIE  “La francophonie, c’est un vaste pays, sans frontières. C’est celui de la langue française. C’est le pays de l’intérieur. C’est le pays invisible, spirituel, mental, moral qui …

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Exhibition: Design X Design: Exhibition on view: 12th Feb – 25th Feb 2016

Design in its many manifestations forms an integral part of every culture. Civilizations evolve and attain their full potential because of it .Design based 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 the industry. Thus, involving exposes, roundtables, exhibitions etc.. Design …

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Concert: Mathias Duplessey, Mukhtiyar Ali and Sabir Khan

Institut francais en Inde and the Alliance Francaise network India bring an exceptional musical collaboration at the crossroads of the Thar desert and Andalusia. From Asian deserts to Andalusia! Collaborations between the east and west such as Zakir and McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, have resulted in some of the finest music over the decades. Mathias Duplessy from France started …

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