Exhibition: Something about Hairs – Oriane Zerah
2013-05-18 11:00 - 2013-06-01 19:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Alliance Française de Delhi (Galerie Romain Rolland), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, KK Birla Ln, Lodhi Gardens, Lodhi Estate,, New Delhi, Delhi, 110003, Delhi, India
Alliance Française de Delhi presents 'Something about Hair' An Exhibition by Oriane Zerah.

18th May-- 1st June 2013 (11 am -- 7 pm) At Gallerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi 72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi -- 110 003

6th June -- 20th June 2013 (11am -- 7pm) At Alliance Française Gurgaon Centre, S-24/8 DLF Phase 3

Event Description :

“O fleecy hair, falling in curls to the shoulders! O black locks! O perfume laden with
nonchalance! Ecstasy! To people the dark alcove tonight
With memories sleeping in that thick head of hair.
I would like to shake it in the air like a scarf! “
Charles Baudelaire
The Hair (The Flowers of Evil - trans: William Aggeler)

Oriane Zerah is an independent photographer represented by WostokPress agency. She was born in Paris, where she followed Dramatical Art studies and dance. She has worked with the comedian Jean-Pierre Léaud, and then during a few years in a Franco-Polish group before joining the Théâtre du Soleil (1999-2001).
Since a dozen of years, she spreads her time between India, the neighbouring countries and France. Photography has revealed itself and then imposed itself to her through her journey. She tamed it with her own rhythm, through trips, getting advices and contacts of other photographers she met here and there.
Paris – Delhi – Lahore – Kabul …
Her chosen nomad life-style allows her to investigate, feel, immerse and to try to understand what is around her in the numerous countries where she takes a halt.
Since November 2012, Oriane Zerah has settled in Kabul. She works with different NGOs and Institutions, such as AFD (Agence Française de Developpement).
Website : www.orianezerah.com

Why the hair…

Hidden, revealed, ash, bushy or thinned out, sign of seduction, of strength and of power, the hair fascinate, inspire, subjects to its laws.
Taken on in her hair, the Woman become Flower, Foliage, River, Fawn …

The Vegetable hair, just like the Banyan or like the Willow branches of which cascade around
The Animal hair similar to an abundant mane
The River hair from which would ensue the universe.
In the Hinduism it is said that Ganga the goddess of the sacred river lives (lies) in the hair of Shiva and that the universe would have been weaved with the hair of this god...
The hair Finery symbol of the material world and the ego.
Mop of hair, fleece, undone or braided the hair is loaded with a carnal and erotic dimension. In the western societies the women covered themselves the head by entering the church not to disturb the angels with their hair. In the Islam the woman has to hide her hair in public not to Long brown, red or golden strands. The hair is become abyss, hideout, citadel. It can make disappeared the one who possesses it. The woman is not any more while long scattered hair.

Music : Fête de Musique 2013
2013-06-21 12:30 UTC | , ,
Fête de Musique 2013

Exhibition: Ways of the road – Fabien Charuau
2013-09-01 12:30 UTC | , ,
Ways of the road – Fabien Charuau

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Music: NORIG
2013-09-10 12:30 UTC | , ,
NORIG

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Film: Des filles en noir/ Young girls in black - Jean-Paul Civeyrac | Cine Club
2014-01-31 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club present Des filles en noir/ Young girls in black
Location: M.L Bhartia Auditorium
City: Delhi
Date: Fri, 2014/01/31 - 6:30pm
Price: Free

Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
present
Des filles en noir/ Young girls in black
A film by
Jean-Paul Civeyrac

Friday, 31 January 2014
6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
~Free entry for all~
French version with English subtitles

Noémie et Priscilla sont comme deux héroïnes tout droit sorties du romantisme français. Alors que leurs camarades de classes profitent de leur adolescence les deux jeunes filles, elles, appréhendent la vie comme un vide et veulent échapper à un quotidien qui les rend malheureuses. Emplies de haine et de déni, elles ont toutes deux le désir d’en finir avec la vie, comme si le suicide était la réponse absolue au mal-être qui les ronge…

Noémie and Priscilla are like two heroines who seem came straight from the French romanticism. While their classmates are enjoying their adolescence, these two girls are facing emptiness of life and want to run away from routine. Full of hatred and rejections, they both want to commit suicide as it seems their only and absolute answer to the ill-being they are confronted to…
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Ciné-Club: La belle personne
2014-02-07 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club present "La belle personne"
Type: Event
Location: M.L Bhartia Auditorium
City: Delhi
Date: Fri, 2014/02/07 - 6:30pm
Price: Free

Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
present

La belle personne
A film by
Jean-Paul Civeyrac

La belle personne
Friday, 7 February 2014
6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
~Free entry for all~
Après la mort de sa mère, Junie change de lycée et retrouve son cousin Matthias qui l’introduit dans son cercle d’amis. La jeune fille rencontre Otto, un jeune garçon calme qui tombe amoureux d’elle dès le premier regard. Mais c’est bientôt le professeur d’italien, Nemours, qui vient troubler la relation d’Otto et Junie. La jeune fille est partagée entre le respect qu’elle porte à Otto et sa passion naissante pour Nemours qu’elle tente de refreiner. Le film de Christophe Honoré s’inspire du célèbre roman de La Princesse de Clèves pour qui le sentiment amoureux se trouve emprisonné entre l’honneur qu’elle veut préserver et les sentiments qu’elle éprouve pour un autre que son mari.
Right after her mother’s death, Junie moves to a new High school where her cousin Mathias is studying. He introduces her to his circle of friends. One of them, Otto, falls in love with Junie at first sight but soon Junie’s teacher of Italian, Nemours, comes disturbing the relation between the two lovers. The young girl is torn apart between her loyalty towards Otto and her growing desire for Nemours that she wants to restrain. Christophe Honoré’s film is inspired by the famous French novel La Princesse de Clèves whose feelings are confined between the honour she wants to defend and the passion she feels for another man than her companion.

CHOSSAL INDIAMORE
2014-02-11 13:30 - 16:00 UTC | Auro kitchen & Bar, 201, DDA Shopping Complex Sri Aurobindo Marg Hauz Khas, Aurobindo Palace Market, New Delhi, India, 110016, India

Design X Design 4th Annual Exhibition 2014
2014-02-12 13:30 - 2014-02-28 14:30 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi & Studio IF invite you to
Design X Design
4th Annual Exhibition 2014, 20 under 35
Inauguration : 12th February 2014, 7pm
Exhibition on view till 28th February 2014, 12pm – 8pm

About Design X Design
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 X Design is a step in that direction.
The energy behind the design of a pin or a city being the same, this joint initiative of Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Studio IF is also geared towards raising levels of appreciation within and nurturing connections across various creative industries – architecture, urban/ landscape/ interior design, product/ industrial design, textile/ fashion design, graphic/ communication design etc.. Local and global in outlook, it is directed at the initiated and the uninitiated alike.
About: Design X Design Exhibition - 4 : 20under35
The exhibition component of Design X Design involves showcasing the work of Delhi based designers to facilitate a reading of emerging trends across various design based creative industries in the city.
Is Indian design recognizable? Is there a vision guiding it? Can tradition and modernity, continuity and change co-exist in it? Is it culturally relevant? Questions such as these are more alive today than ever before. One sure way of gaining an insight into this and more is by looking at the work of young upcoming designers. ‘Design X Design Exhibition: 20under35’ attempts to do just that by sharing the design philosophies, working methods and future aspirations of the twenty shortlisted designers under the age of thirty-five.

RIT CONCERT
2014-02-13 13:30 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
presents

RIT

Thursday 13 February 2014, 7.00 pm Alliance Française de Delhi 72 Lodi Estate - New Delhi 110003
Free entry
Rit (Riton) is a self-taught composer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist. He was born in the northern district of Marseille, in October 74. Renaud, Beck, G-Love, Ali Farka Touré, and Beastie Boys influenced him. His eclectic style moves on different projects like Reggae, “Chanson”, Dub, Hip-Hop, Trance, Electro, Rock…

As a one-man band, he played the first parts of many concerts: Maxime le Forestier, Sergent Garcia, Zebda, Tryo, Patrice…

The last year, he released his first album “Auprès de mon arbre” (Next to my tree), working with Vince from the band Zenzile. In 2004, they recorded together Rit’s second album “Sans tambour ni Trompette”. It is an intimist and uncluttered record, wavering between Chanson, folk and Dub. Nowadays, the Quintet-man starts on a new path, works again lonely and in home studio.

The album “Western Hip-Hop”, recorded in Reunion Island, perfectly summarizes Rit’s world: sample, “do it yourselfings”, guitar and a lot of self-mockery.

For more information, write to communication@afdelhi.org

CINE CLUB: L’enfant d’en haut
2014-02-14 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club present "L’enfant d’en haut".
Location: M.L Bhartia Auditorium
City: Delhi
Date: Fri, 2014/02/14 - 6:30pm
Price: Free

L’enfant d’en haut
A film by
Ursula Meier

Friday, 14 February 2014
6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
~Free entry for all~
Simon a 12 ans et vit avec sa sœur dans une plaine industrielle qui surplombe une station de ski. Ce jeune garçon issu d’un milieu populaire vole les équipements des riches touristes pour les revendre à moindre prix aux enfants de son immeuble. Sa sœur au chômage profite de ce trafic et devient de plus en plus dépendante de son petit frère mais leur relation se complique au même moment.
Simon is 12 years old; he lives with his sister in an industrial plain above a luxury ski resort. The young boy is from a popular background, he steals ski equipments from rich tourists in order to resell them to some neighbours in his building. His jobless sister takes advantage of this situation and becomes more dependant on him. At the same time their relation becomes complicated.

Film: Un monde sans femmes | Cine Club
2014-02-21 18:30 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Type: Event
Location: M.L Bhartia Auditorium
City: Delhi
Date: Fri, 2014/02/21 - 6:30pm
Price: Free

Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
present

Un monde sans femmes
A film by
Guillaume Brac

Friday, 21 February 2014
6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
~Free entry for all~
Sylvain est un jeune homme solitaire et attachant. Il vit sur une petite station balnéaire de la côte picarde. La dernière semaine d’aout, il remet les clés d’un appartement de location à deux séduisantes femmes, une mère et sa fille venues passer quelques jours de vacances. Ces dernières ne tardent pas à se lier d’amitié avec Sylvain chez qui les sentiments vont évoluer au gré de leurs escapades, le sortir de sa solitude et l’y confronter au même moment.
Sylvain is a young and sympathetic man living in a small seaside resort on the Picardie coast. In the last week of August, he gives the keys of a rented apartment to two seductive women, a mother and her daughter who come to spend some holidays. It won’t be long that they grow fond of him. But at the same time Sylvain’s feelings are growing towards them and bringing him out of his loneliness he has to face the reality.

Trabajo de Campo
2014-03-05 - 2014-03-16 | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
The Embassy of Mexico in India and Alliance Française de Delhi
in collaboration with the Embassy of Netherlands in India
present
Trabajo de Campo
An Exhibition by Jan Hendrix
Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi
Opening: 5th March 2014, 7pm
Exhibition on view: 6th march to 16th march 2014, 11am to 7pm

The travelling exhibition by Jan Hendrix, Trabajo de Campo reunites a large body of landscape prints made in the 1980’s and 1990’s. In the graphic oeuvre of Jan Hendrix, we can find a confluence of different layers: those who bring out the artist’s own itinerary and those that bring out essential forms discovered in the materiality of the external world. The encounters with the essential forms made by Hendrix are clues to the way he apprehends the inner strength in things but they also speak about the will and knowledge of the artist over the visible world.
About the artist
Jan Hendrix is a Mexican-Dutch artist born in Maasbree, Holand in 1949. He trained in the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht.

He has shown his work in the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico), the Imperial City Archives (China), the Tropen museum (Amsterdam), Oaxaca’s Contemporary Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland) and the Royal San Fernando Academy in Madrid, besides the extensive curricula in private showings of his work and collections Hendrix has been involved in.

Women in India: The Success Stories!
2014-03-06 12:30 UTC | , ,
Women in India: The Success Stories!
Thursday, 6th March 2014

The Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI) in partnership with the Alliance Française de Delhi is organizing an event on Women in India: The Success Stories

Thursday 6th March 2014 ay 6:00pm at the Alliance Française de Delhi.

This event brought together prominent women leaders from the corporate world. Ms Indira Jaising, the first Indian woman Additional Solicitor General of India and Human Rights lawyer will be the guest speaker at the event. This event aims to highlight the celebration of successful women in India.

A panel discussion on Leading Women in the Corporate World will bring together top women executives from the business world to discuss their position in the corporate world, the challenges and their rise to success. The panelists include:

Moderator: Ms. Anjali Patil, Head of Brand and Communications, BNP Paribas

Panelists:

- Dr. Shalini Sarin, VP HR – Country Partner, Schneider Electric

- Ms. Karuna Nundy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

- Ms. Kalyani Chawla, VP Marketing and Communications, Christian Dior

- Ms. Renu Sethi, Head of Corporate Affairs, Alstom India and South Asia

Au galop / In a rush
2014-03-07 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club present
Au galop / In a rush

A film by Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Released in 2012
Duration: 1h30
♦ French version with English subtitles
♦ Free entry
Ada est maman d’une petite fille de quatre ans et vit avec un homme qu’elle veut épouser. Heureuse et épanouie, elle rencontre Paul, un écrivain dont l’éditeur est aussi celui pour qui Ada travaille. Paul vit avec sa fille adolescente, a une mère envahissante et perd son père à l’aune d’une histoire naissante entre Ada et lui. Leurs deux vies s’accélèrent et la jeune femme se demande alors s’il est possible d’aimer deux hommes…Les mouvements de cette comédie douce et amère à la fois, épousent le vacillement de l’amour et des sentiments, entre engouement et retenue.
Ada is the mother of a four years little daughter, she lives with a man she wants to marry soon. Happy and blooming, she meets Paul, a writer whose publisher is her boss. Paul lives with his teenage daughter, his mother is invasive and he loses his father while an affair between him and Ada begins. Their two lives accelerate and the young woman wonders if it is possible to love two men at the same time…The course of this sweet and bitter comedy shapes the love and feelings that these characters share, between affection and restraint.
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Soirée Littéraire
2014-03-12 12:30 UTC | , ,
The Book Office of the Embassy of France in India, Institut français en Inde and Alliance Française de Delhi is pleased to announce the second edition of

“Soirée Littéraire”
a literary evening of contemporary writing in French.
Jointly organized by the Institut français en Inde, the Embassy of France in India, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, the Embassy of Switzerland, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium and the High Commission of Canada, in association with the Alliance Française de Delhi, the event will include conversations and readings from books by French author Hédi Kaddour, by Belgian author François Emmanuel, by Swiss author Pascale Kramer, and by Canadian author Kim Thuy. Martin Mégevand, Professor at the department of French Literature, Université Paris 8 (France), will be the Master of ceremony.

Wednesday, 12th March 2014, 6pm
6.30 pm : Opening of the 4 one-to-one sessions with the 4 francophone writers.
Venue: M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi.
The “Soirée Littéraire” will also be hosted by the Alliance Française dePondichéry on Monday, 10th March, and by the Alliance Française de Chandigarh on Friday, 14th March.
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Writers, Etc. – Session 28
2014-03-14 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde
and
The French Embassy in India
present
Writers, Etc. – Session 28
Vishwajyoti Ghosh
in conversation with
Indrajit Hazra
Friday, 14th March 2013, 6.30pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.
For our twenty eighth session, we are very delighted to invite Vishwajyoti Ghosh in conversation with Indrajit Hazra.

VISHWAJYOTI GHOSH is a graphic novelist and has curated This Side, That Side, an anthology on Partition with graphic narratives from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Ghosh is also the author of the critically acclaimed graphic novel Delhi Calm and Times New Roman & Countrymen, a visual book of classified ads. His comics and cartoons are regularly published in India's leading newspapers and journals. He lives and works in New Delhi.

INDRAJIT HAZRA is a writer and journalist. He is the author of the novels, The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Ravi Dayal Publisher, 2000), The Garden of Earthly Delights (IndiaInk, 2003) and The Bioscope Man (Penguin India, 2008), which have also been published in French translations. His first work of non-fiction, Grand Delusions: A Short History of Kolkata has been published by Aleph Book Company in 2013. His popular political and cultural column, Red Herring, appears in Hindustan Times every Sunday.
For any further information please write to communication@afdelhi.org.

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Tri- Angles
2014-03-19 - 2014-03-25 | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi
under the umbrella of Francophonie Week celebration
presents

Tri- Angles
3 Arts about India
Wednesday 19 March 2014, 7.00pm
Exhibition on view from 20th to 25th March 2014, 9.00am to 8.00pm
Alliance Francaise de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate, 110003 ND
What a better way to celebrate Francophonie, than to share the outcome of 3 French women unusual encounter initiated by Jean-Philippe Bottin, head of the Alliance française.
"Tri-Angles" has emerged from the exchanges and sharing of the Indian views of these 3 artists, living in India. Painting, photography and sculpture are brought up together to illustrate this highly colourful country.

Everything started in India, six years ago, when Mélanie Dornier became freelance photographer. Today her work in documentary and editorial is published worldwide through top agencies (Gamma). In 2011, she was selected as an emerging photographer at Salon de la Photo, Paris. Mélanie is also working with a fine art gallery in Paris (Salomon Duval) and had several group and solo exhibitions (France, China, Ukraine and India). www.melaniedornier.com.
Catherine Khosla has been living in India for more than 5 years.
She has always entertained her curiosity for manual work, but started sculpting clay only 2 and a half years ago. She developed a real taste for attempting to convey human beings' strengths and weaknesses, through movement and everyday life postures.
Her exposure to ordinary Indian scenes turned out to be a very exciting source of inspiration for her sculpture work.
Marie-Laure HUBERT is a French painter, born in 1973. Arrived in India in 2011, she has been deeply inspired by the colours, the smells and the everyday scenes of life of her new adoptive country and has recovered the passion she had to quit 15 years before to manage her work in a Parisian advertising agency and her 5 kids family. Enthralled by the beauty of a woman carrying a bundle of wood, of a sweeper or of a colourful cow’s horn, she tells in colours and material her Indian emotion.

About Cement Furniture:
Cement casted furniture is an unusual concept. These beautiful handcrafted pieces are made with great care focusing on the details and the harmony of the composition. These extraordinary creations are mostly found in high end boutique hotels or residences internationally but it is very rare to find such products in India. The Delhi Design store has brought in a limited but exclusive collection of cement furnitureand artifacts for their clients.
About The Delhi Design Store:

An amalgam of creativity and design, The Delhi Design Store is a destination that offers curated home décor and interiors with a contemporary and urban twist. Walk into this special space which brings together some of the most exciting global décor trends, as well as revivalist arts and crafts by Indian artisans
The Delhi Design store immediately transports you beyond the city spaces into a tranquil urban hub that brings alive eclectic and contemporary design. Walk into this delightful space, artistically
conceived on the Chatterpur Sau Foot Road, to soak in an ambience unlike any other in the city. The brainchild and creative vision of reputed Interior Designer, Monica Khanna, The Delhi Design store has been conceptualized to offer limited edition furniture and accessories that bring eternal style and classic design at one destination.
For any further information please write to communication@afdelhi.org

ON LES AURA
2014-03-21 13:30 - 16:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
presents

ON LES AURA
An exciting performance including music, speech, and live drawing projected on a screen.

Friday, 21 March 2014
7.00pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi
“On Les Aura!” (Line of Fire) is the onstage adaptation of a graphic novel based on the diary of a WWI French Soldier.

To bring back to life, orally and visually, a story which could have been forgotten. To convey a shard of collective memory. A rare witness which tells the everyday life of a simple man, with whom anyone can identify. He is not a hero.

In this performance, electric guitar sounds and brush strokes intertwine and answer one another, forming a surprise alchemy. This modern storytelling uses today’s media, and thus allows everyone to re-appropriate History. Music and drawings only suggest, leaving the spectator enough freedom to let his imagination wander, to build his own journey throughout this story, so distant but nevertheless so close.

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Before Leaving - Indian snapshots
2014-04-03 - 2014-04-11 | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
Before Leaving - Indian snapshots
An exhibition by Marie-Caroline Senlis
Opening: 3rd April, 7.00pm
On view from 4th to 11th April 2014
11.00am to 7.00pm
India is not a country that leaves people indifferent, either you like it or you hate it, either you feel at home here or not, either you blossom here or you don’t.
To live in India for a few months or a few years can transform a person.
The series “Before Leaving, Indian Snapshots” tells some stories, some slices of Indian life, people telling their story, talking about themselves. It’s the story of their Indian slice of life.
In the exhibition I’m showing black and white photographs, that I colored the ancient way, just like the Indian photographers did for a long time. It’s joining the Indian tradition of portrait photography.
I want to share these testimonies with you, with the full consent of their authors, hoping you will have as much interest and pleasure to read and to look at them, as I had to collect them.
Marie-Caroline Senlis
Exhibition on view from 4th to 11th April 2014, 1.00 pm to 7.00 pm
Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi,
72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003

Memory Lane
2014-04-04 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Cinéclub
Present
MEMORY LANE

Friday, 4th April 2014, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Director : Mikhaël Hers
Released in 2010
Duration : 1h38min
Comedy
Sept amis, la vingtaine passée et des vies qui prennent des chemins différents, se retrouvent le temps d’un été dans la ville où ils ont grandi ensemble.
Il y a ceux qui y vivent toujours, ceux qui viennent voir la famille et ceux qui cherchent à renouer avec une adolescence pas si lointaine. Leurs retrouvailles aux apparences inattendues et délicieuses se dissipent pourtant sur fond de mélancolie. Ces jeunes adultes qui ont le sentiment de retrouver l’adolescence dont ils peinent à se défaire sont vite rattrapés par leur présent et une réalité qui leur rappelle que cette époque juvénile et insouciante est désormais bien révolue.
Seven friends, in their twenties and their lives took different paths; meet up again for a summer in the city where they grew up together.
There are those who still live there, those coming to see the family and those who seek to reconnect with the teenage of not so old past. Their reunion with their unexpected and delicious appearances disperses yet on the bottom of melancholy. These young adults, who have the wish to find their adolescences for which they are struggling to dispose, are quickly overtaken by the present and a reality that reminds them that that youthful and carefree era is well over.
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Writers, Etc. – Session 29
2014-04-09 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde
and
The French Embassy in India
present

Writers, Etc. – Session 29
Vaiju Naravane
in conversation with
Pavan K. Varma
Wednesday, 9th April 2014, 6.30pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.
For our twenty ninth session, we are very delighted to invite Vaiju Naravane in conversation with Pavan K. Varma.

Vaiju Naravane is the The Hindu's Europe correspondent. She is also a lecturer, and broadcaster and is Foreign Fiction Editor with the French publishing house Albin Michel where she has published authors like Vikram Seth, Manil Suri, Alan Hollinghurst, Esther Freud, Daniel Alarcon, Anita Nair and Anita Brookner among others.

Writer-diplomat Pavan K. Varma joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. He has been Press Secretary to the President of India, the Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs, etc., and has now joined as Advisor (Culture) to Shri Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar, with the rank of Cabinet Minister. A writer of depth and insight, he has written over a dozen books including Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity (Penguin-Allen Lane, 2010) and When Loss is Gain (Rupa Books, 2012), currently on the ‘Best Sellers’ list in India. Mr. Varma has also translated the poetry of Kaifi Azmi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and Gulzar, all published by Penguin.
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J’AIME REGARDER LES FILLES
2014-04-11 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | , ,
Friday 11 April 2014, 6.30pm

J’AIME REGARDER LES FILLES
Director: Frédéric Louf
Released in 2012
Duration: 1h32min
Comedy-drama
Nous sommes dans le Paris des années 80. Mitterrand vient d’être élu et Primo, 18 ans, rejoint la capitale pour repasser le bac. Le jeune garçon est issu issu d’un milieu familial populaire et provincial. A Paris, il loge dans une chambre de bonne et vit de petits boulots. Il y rencontre aussi Gabrielle (dont il tombe amoureux) et son colocataire Malik. Bientôt Primo fréquente les quartiers bourgeois de la ville et ressent le besoin de mentir sur ses origines, s’inventant une nouvelle identité : celle d’un fils de grand photographe. C’est à partir de ce moment là que commencent les ennuis et les tribulations du jeune Primo.
We are in Paris of the 80’s. Mitterrand has just been elected and Primo, 18 years old, rejoins the capital to redo the baccalaureate. The young boy was born in a family environment provincial and popular. In Paris, he lives in a maid's room and does odd jobs. He also met Gabrielle (with whom he falls in love) and his roommate Malik. Soon Primo attends the bourgeois neighborhoods of the city and feels the need to lie about his origins, inventing a new identity: that he is a son of a great photographer. It is from this time when the troubles and tribulations of the young boy begin.

DanSe DialogueS
2014-04-11 13:30 - 2014-04-29 13:30 UTC | , ,
DanSe DialogueS
Indo-French festival of contemporary dance
The French Embassy in India, Institut Français en Inde and Alliance Française de Delhi are delighted to announce the second edition of the Festival Danse Dialogues. In the wake of a first successful edition in 2011 and the recently concluded festival of France, Bonjour India 2013, the French Embassy has tied up with recognized dance professionals throughout the country. Danse Dialogues, the Indo-French platform for contemporary dance, intends to showcase the best of choreography from the two countries through a series of performances, workshops and video screenings.
Danse Dialogues will take place in seven major cities across India and will certainly be a memorable landmark in the performing arts agenda for the year 2014.
Delhi: April 11 – 29

Schedule:
Friday 11 April BLACK PULP (Xin Company)
7 pm (duration: 50min)
Contemporary
A young and promising company led by a talented ex-member of the Ballet National de Marseille presents a show inspired by famous American pulp magazines.
Monday 14 April Screening of recorded dance performance
Paradis - Alliance Française Delhi, 7 pm
Tuesday 15 April L’ÉTRANGER AU PARADIS INDIEN (“The Stranger In Indian Paradise”, David Roland Company)
- Kamani auditorium, 7 pm (duration: 1hr)
Contemporary
The Indian version of « L‘Etranger au paradis », a unique project which invites 10 different dancers for each show to perform a perfectly precise choreography after only a few hours of rehearsal. With the collaboration of famous Indian dancers and choreographers Padmini Chettur and Preethi Athreya.
Thursday 17 April RHYTHM DIVINE (Astad Deboo Company)
- Kamani auditorium, 7 pm
Indian Contemporary
A fusion of modern and traditional moves, Astad creates a universe of its own while dancing along with 8 Manipuri Thang-Ta dancers, an exciting dance form that has been adapted from the ancient martial arts form of Manipur, in North East India. The result is a magical work a style that bridges time and cultures.
Wed. 23 April CETTE IMMENSE INTIMITE (“This huge intimacy”, RetouramontCompany)
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 8.30 pm (duration: 25min)
Aerial
A beautiful outdoor show where the graceful dancer’s movements melt with light and gravity, placing the spectator very close to the dance, to verticality and to sensations.
Thursday 24 April A PANORAMA OF THE INDIAN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
- Film Screening - Alliance Française Delhi, 7 pm
Friday 25 April RECITAL (The Danceworx & Käfig Company)
- NSD Abhimanch Auditorium, 7 pm (duration: 50min)
Hip-hop
Number one in French hip-hop, Mourad Merzouki started his successful career with a show called « Récital », a funny union where the energy of hip-hop mingles with the tones of violin and a talk box, initiating a confrontation between two worlds: concerto and hip-hop dance. Concerned by the idea of sharing around the practice of dance and involving local dancers, Mourad transmited « Récital » to a troupe of Indian dancers from the Delhi based The Danceworx Repertory Company.
Monday 28 April BLANChe neige by ballet preljocaj
- Film Screening - Alliance Française Delhi, 7 pm
Tuesday 29 April NOS SOLITUDES (“Our Loneliness”, A.I.M.E. Company)
- Kamani auditorium, 7 pm (duration: 50min)
Contemporary
A reflection on loneliness and weightlessness by renowned dancer and choreographer Julie Nioche, « Nos solitudes » is a graceful choreographic work conceived around a suspended body. In this new space and gravity ratio, the moving body experiences loneliness while the strings of a guitarist resound in a dream-like dialogue.

DanSe DialogueS Festival/ screening of “Paradis”, Monday 14th April, 7.00 @AFDelhi
2014-04-14 13:30 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde and French Embassy in India
in the framework of DanSe DialogueS festival
present

PARADIS
Monday 14th April, 7.00pm
Alliance Française de Delhi – M.L Bhartia Auditorium
110 003 New Delhi
Duration: 52 mins
Chorégraphie: José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu
Movie: directed by Marie-Helene Rebois, produced byLes Films Penelope andARTE France (2004)
Paradis, created in 1997,is the ballet that revealed the style and flair of the Montalvo/ Hervieu company. It is a dance performance made sublime by artifice, inventiveness and sheer joy, driven by an enthusiasm that blends genres and cultures: hip-hop, classical ballet and African dance. Kind of musical, visual and danced collage, this choreography conjures up all sorts of universes, imaginaries and bestiaries. It is one of the French contemporary dance pieces that was the most shown in the world.
For more information, please contact afdculture@afdelhi.org

Le vice consul, a marguerite duras adaptation – 22nd april, 7.00pm @AFDelhi
2014-04-22 13:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
Presents

Le Vice-consul
adapté du roman de Marguerite Duras
Par Maud Andrieux / Compagnie du Barrage

TUESDAY 22 April 2014, 7.00pm
Alliance Française de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate
110 003 New Delhi
Free entry
L’Inde des années 30 et la diplomatie française. Le Vice-consul loin de chez lui, à l’autre bout du monde, au beau milieu d’une puanteur, d’une misère, d’une horreur sans nom, commet l’irréparable pour soulager d’autres hommes. A Calcutta, dans l’attente d’une nouvelle affectation, seule Anne-Marie Stretter, la femme de l’ambassadeur va s’en rapprocher. Dans l’indifférence générale, il est peut-être le seul à être encore humain. L’œuvre Le Vice-consul incarne le rôle de l’écrivain tout entier selon Duras qui est de dire l’inacceptable.
India in the 30’s and French diplomacy. The Vice-counselor, far from his home, at the other end of the world, in the middle of the stench, in the middle of a misery, of a nameless horror, commits an act from which he can’t go back, in order to relieve other people. In Calcutta, Anne-Marie Stretter, is the spouse of the Ambassador awaiting a new assignment, she will soon be the only one to approach the Vice-counselor. In general indifference, he might be the only one to be still humane. The master-piece The Vice-counselor embodies the whole writer’s role as Duras defines it: he has to say the unacceptable.
La Compagnie du Barrage was created in 2005, supported by the city of Bordeaux. Its creation was followed by many shows in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, in Duras for Marguerite Duras association, then in Cambodia, Thailand, Morocco, Turkey and in other French cultural network and abroad.
Passionated about French history in Indochina and drawn by the culture of South East Asia, Maud Andrieux made frequent trips there and permeates this special atmosphere. She conducts the stage adaptation of great writers and her conception of the “mise en scène” emphasizes on the text in an intimate relationship with the viewers.
For more information about the play, please contact Mitushi.khurana@afdelhi.org

DanSe DialogueS Festival/ A panorama of Indian contemporary dance (3 screenings), Tuesday 24th April, 7.00 @AFDelhi
2014-04-24 13:30 - 15:45 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde and French Embassy in India
in the framework of DanSe DialogueS festival
present

A PANORAMA OF INDIAN
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
presented by Kri Foundation
Thursday 24th April, 7.00pm
Alliance Française de Delhi – M.L Bhartia Auditorium
110 003 New Delhi
A PANORAMA OF INDIAN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Presented by Kri Foundation.Set up in 2003, Kri Foundation is a not for profit Trust that works in the three verticals of Arts, Social Development and the deepening of Knowledge. In the domain of the Arts it has created several key niche equities, one of which is Danzlenz, India’s only Festival of Dance and the camera.
SHARIRA
Duration: 30 min
Movie: directed by Ein Lal, for PSBT,
An iconic film on dance visionary, dancer and choreographer Chandraleka, which allows a glimpse into her mind.
BAANS DANCE
Duration: 5 min
Dance: Anusha Lall and Mandeep Raikhy
Movie: directed by Asim Warif
Made in 2008, this black and white short film shows an original dance improvisation with bamboo sticks.
BAHUDHA
Duration: 10 min
Choreography: Debashree Bhattacharya and Vikram Iyengor
Movie: directed by Ranjan Palit
Sound, light, rhythm and movement all come together in this audio-visual celebration of dance, focusing on the multiplicity of Kathak, its detailed precision in every minute movement as well as the overall beauty of its form. This film was nominated at the Dance for the Camera Festival at Lincoln Centre.
For more information, please contact afdculture@afdelhi.org

LA FLEUR DU MAL
2014-04-25 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | , ,
Friday 25 April 2014, 6.30pm

LA FLEUR DU MAL
Claude Chabrol
Released in 2003
Duration: 1h44min
La famille Cherpin-Vasseur est installée dans le bordelais depuis trois générations. Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, la tante Line était accusée d’un meurtre dont elle a été acquittée. Alors que sa nièce Anne Cherpin-Vasseur est en pleine campagne électorale des années plus tard, un tract anonyme circule et réveille les secrets et les mensonges de cette famille bourgeoise.
The Cherpin-Vasseur is a family settled in the Bordeaux’ region for three generations. At the end of the World War II, the aunt Line was accused of a murder from which she has been acquitted.
Many years after, while her niece Anne Cherpin-Vasseur is into an election campaign, an anonym leaflet begins to circulate and wakes up all the secrets and lies of this bourgeois family.

COMME UN LION
2014-05-02 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
presents
COMME UN LION
Director: Samuel Collardey
Released in 2013
Duration : 1h42min

Friday 2nd May 2014
6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Free entry for all
French version with English subtitles
Mitri a 15 ans et vit dans un village au Sénégal. Comme tous les jeunes de son âge, il joue au foot en rêvant du Barça et de Chelsea. Lorsqu'un agent recruteur le repère, Mitri croit en sa chance. Mais pour partir à l'assaut des grands clubs européens, il faut payer. La famille se cotise et s'endette pour l'aider.
Une fois à Paris, tout s'écroule : Mitri se retrouve abandonné sans un sou en poche, et ne peut imaginer affronter la honte du retour au village. Une odyssée faite de débrouilles commence alors. Mais son rêve de foot le rattrapera.
Mitri is fifteen and lives in a Senegalese village. Like all boys his age, he plays football and dreams of Barça and of Chelsea. When a recruiting agent picks him up out, Mitri believes his chance has come. But to get seen by the great European football clubs, one has to pay.
His family chips in and puts itself into debt to help him. Once in Paris, everything collapses: Mitri finds himself abandoned, without a dime in his pocket, and unable to imagine dealing with the shame should he return to his village. An odyssey which will require all his resourcefulness hence begins. But his football dream will soon catch up with him...
For more information, please contact communication@afdelhi.org

Winning picture by Arindam Dutta, of the competition “On joue sur la terre/ The world is the playground”
2014-05-07 - 2014-05-21 | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi
presents
A photography Exhibition
by the participants of the AFD Photo Competition 2014

Preview on Wednesday 7th May 2014, 7pm
Exhibition-on-view from 8th to 21st May 2014, 9am to 8pm
Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Francaise de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110003
This exhibition is the result of a Photo competition organized by Alliance Française de Delhi -- On joue sur la Terre -- “The World is the Playground” with the support of Fondation Alliance Française
It will showcase first 36 Best Photographs (printed by Alliance Française de Delhi).
The theme of the exhibition is to showcase the games often played in many social and cultural functions (board games, gambling, video games, outdoor games, children’s games, sporting events, etc.). This collection of various photographs in different moods clicked by emerging talented people portrays a collage of playful feelings of society. This exhibition will become a platform to learn about the evolution of the playful customs in the world and had given an opportunity to all the photography lovers to showcase their talent world-wide.
Photographers have used their cameras to explore the faces of friends, loved ones, passing strangers etc.
On joue sur la Terre features the photographs worth a thousand words. The brilliancy and sharpness of some of them are highly remarkable. The photographers have tried their best to share their visual experience by every possible means. The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
Photography as a powerful medium of expression and communications offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. All the photographers are spreading some kind of feeling/emotions. That is why we say “Photography is an art of observation. Its about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…”
For further information please write to communication@afdelhi.org

Foxfire by Laurent Cantet - Friday 9 May, 6.30pm
2014-05-09 13:00 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi and Cinéclub Present FOXFIRE
Director : Laurent Cantet
Canada, France
Released in 2013
Duration :2h23min

Friday 9th May, 6.30pm
Alliance Française de Delhi – M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Free entry for all
French version with English subtitles
1953. Un quartier ouvrier d’une petite ville américaine. Dans cette culture où les hommes règnent en maîtres, des adolescentes rebelles échangent leur sang et deviennent la bande Foxfire, une société secrète réservée aux femmes. Menées par la fougueuse Legs, elles rêvent de vivre selon leurs propres règles. Mais elles réaliseront bientôt que leur désir de libération à un prix à payer.
In 1953, in a working class neighborhood in the United States, people are living in a post war violent environment where the men reign supreme. In this context, a group of young high school girls exchange their blood and become the foxfire gang. Foxfire stands for pretty girls but also for fire and destruction as these girls, leaded by the young Legs, dream of liberation. They will quickly realize that their vow of liberation has a price to pay off.
For more information, contact communication@afdelhi.org

Writers, Etc. – Session 30
2014-05-13 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde and
The French Embassy in India
present

Writers, Etc. – Session 30
Rana Dasgupta
in conversation with
Chiki Sarkar

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 6.30pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.
For our 30th session, we are very delighted to invite Rana Dasgupta in conversation with Chiki Sarkar .

Rana Dasgupta was born in Canterbury and studied at Balliol College, Oxford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After his studies he worked for an international marketing firm, which took him to London, Kuala Lumpur and then New York. In 2001, he moved to Delhi to write. Tokyo Cancelled, a cycle of contemporary folktales, appeared in 2005 and was shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize. Solo (2009) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Capital: a Portrait of Twenty-First-Century Delhi appeared earlier this year. The Guardian called it an ‘intense, lyrical, erudite and powerful book… Dasgupta has provided a welcome corrective to the reams of superficial travel writing describing the whimsical, the exotic, the booming or simply the poverty-stricken in India. His is a much more complex, darker story.’

Chiki Sarkar is the publisher of Penguin Random House India.
For more information, please contact communication@afdelhi.org

L'Escale/ Stop-over by Kaveh Bakhtiari - Friday 16 May, 6.30pm @AFDelhi
2014-05-16 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Cinéclub
Present

L'Escale/ Stop-over
Director : Kaveh Bakhtiari
Suisse, France
Released in 2013
Duration : 1h40min

Friday 16th May, 6.30pm
Alliance Française de Delhi – M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Free entry for all
French version with English subtitles
À Athènes, le modeste appartement d’Amir, un immigré iranien, est devenu un lieu de transit pour des migrants qui, comme lui, ont fait le choix de quitter leur pays. Mais la Grèce n’est qu’une escale, tous espèrent rejoindre d’autres pays occidentaux. Ils se retrouvent donc coincés là, chez Amir, dans l’attente de papiers, de contacts…
In Athens, Amir is an Iranian immigrant. His modest apartment became a place for transit for other migrants like him who decided to leave their country to reach occidental countries. Greece is only a stopover while they are waiting for papers, contracts and so on…
For more information, please contact communication@afdelhi.org

DELHI’S DIPLOMATIC DOMAINS A photography exhibition by Lalit Verma
2014-05-23 04:30 - 2014-06-04 14:30 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi, K K Birla Line , 72 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi presents
DELHI’S DIPLOMATIC DOMAINS
A photography exhibition by Lalit Verma

Friday 23rd May, 6.00pm
Exhibition-on-view from 24th May to 4th June 2014, 10am to 8pm
Galerie Romain Rolland, Alliance Française de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
New Delhi is home to the second largest bilateral diplomatic community in the world, second only to the United States' capital, Washington, D.C. Following the lead of the Apostolic Nunciature in 1955, over 50 embassies from Africa, the Americas, Australasia and Europe have established themselves in Delhi's unique diplomatic enclave, Chanakyapuri. Sixteen additional missions have remained in heritage buildings either as Chancery-cum-Residences or separate Residences in formerly requisitioned properties that were acquired in the area of Lutyens' Imperial Capital. These missions are the subject of this work. Enunciator
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to glimpse beyond the gates of 36 of New Delhi's purpose-built and heritage property foreign missions. In Lalit Verma's masterful photographs, taken for the book Delhi's Diplomatic Domains: Chanceries and Residences of Chanakyapuri and Imperial New Delhi, by Gladys Abankwa-Meier-Klodt, and published by Full Circle, the architecture, interiors and landscaping of the world's first exclusive, purpose-built diplomatic quarter are brought out from behind high boundary walls. Showcased are individual countries' use of various means and materials to transform architecture into statements of national identity, including several never-before-seen photographs from Lalit Verma's unpublished archive.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Lalit Verma, a former Tata Group executive, is the Founder and Director of Aurodhan Art Gallery in Pondicherry. A curator of numerous shows around the world, he has also hosted leading artists of local and international renown in his South Indian gallery. Lalit’s initial foray into photography was described by eminent American photographer Mary Ellen Mark as “beautiful work by a man who loves and understands lndia”.
CONTENTS
Diplomatic Domains
Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Holy See, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.For more information,
please write to communication@afdelhi.org

Writers, Etc. – Session 31
2014-05-28 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde and
The French Embassy in India
present

Writers, Etc. – Session 31
Florence Noiville
in conversation with

Naveen Kishore
Wednesday, 28th May 2014, 6.30pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.
For our 31st session, we are very delighted to invite Florence Noiville in conversation with Naveen Kishore.

Florence Noiville began her professional career in the financial sector, later becoming a journalist and literary critic for French newspaper Le Monde, where she has worked since 1994. She is now the Foreign Fiction Editor at the book section, Le Monde des livres. She received a Biography Award in 2004 for her biography of the Nobel Prize-winning American author Isaac Bashevis Singer. Her first novel La Donation was published in 2007 by Stock (and in English by Northwestern University Press under the title The Gift) and her second novel L’Attachement (Stock) came out in 2012 and will be published in English in 2015 by Seagull Books. She is the author of a dozen books for children and her books have been translated into 14 languages. From 2007 to 2010, she has hosted “Le Monde des Livres”, a literary show on French television channel LCI.

Naveen Kishore, photographer and lighting designer, is also publisher at Seagull Books.

8 fois debout/ 8 times up by Xabi Molia - Friday 30 May, 6.30pm @AFDelhi
2014-05-29 18:30 UTC
Alliance Française de Delhi and Cinéclub
Present

8 FOIS DEBOUT/
8 TIMES UP
Director : Xabi Molia
Released in 2010
Duration: 1h43min

Friday 30th May, 6.30pm
Alliance Française de Delhi – M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Free entry for all
French version with English subtitles
Elsa vit de petits boulots et cherche à décrocher un véritable emploi, pour pouvoir obtenir la garde de son fils. Mathieu, son voisin de palier, enchaîne lui aussi les entretiens d’embauche avec un art consommé du ratage. Leur situation est de plus en plus précaire, mais tous deux s’efforcent de rebondir dans un monde qui ne semble pas fait pour eux : « Sept fois à terre, huit fois debout » ?
Elsa makes a living from odd jobs and is searching for a real job in order to have custody of her son.
Mathieu, who lives next door, also chains job interviews with a consummate art of failure. They live in a precarious situation but both try hard to start again in a world which apparently is not shaped for them: “Seven times down, eight times up”?
For more information, please contact communication@afdelhi.org

Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick/ All the boys are called Patrick by Jean-Luc Godard Les veuves de quinze ans/ The fifteen years old widows by Jean Rouch Petit tailleur/ Little tailor by Louis Garrel
2014-06-06 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Cinéclub
present
3 short films :
Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick/ All the boys are called Patrick by Jean-Luc Godard
Les veuves de quinze ans/ The fifteen years old widows by Jean Rouch
Petit tailleur/ Little tailor by Louis Garrel
Friday 6th June, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
Free entry. Open to all
French version with English subtitles

Tous les garcons s’appellent Patrick/ All the boys are called Patrick
Director : Jean-Luc Godard
Released in 1959
Duration : 21 minutes
France – comedy
Au jardin du Luxembourg, Charlotte fait la connaissance de Patrick qui l'invite à prendre un verre et lui donne un rendez-vous pour le lendemain. Elle apprend le soir même que son amie Véronique a fait une rencontre tout aussi excitante...Voici un court-métrage de la Nouvelle-vague qui capture parfaitement le Paris de cette époque.
In the gardens of Luxembourg, in Paris, Charlotte meets Patrick who invites her to have a drink and gives her a rendez-vous the next day. The same night, Charlotte finds out that her friend Véronique has also met someone? That sounds exciting…Here is one short film of the Nouvelle vague which perfectly captures the atmosphere of Paris of these times.
Les veuves de quinze ans/ The fifteen years old widows
Director : Jean Rouch
Released in 1967
Duration : 25 minutes
France – documentary
L’auteur de “Moi, un noir” et de “Chronique d’un été” se penche sur la jeunesse yéyé parisienne en suivant deux adolescents dans leurs aventures familiales et amoureuses. L’une est sérieuse et l’autre pas. Ce court métrage est tiré d’un film à sketches intitulé « La fleur de l’âge ou les adolescentes », présenté à Venise en 1964 et qui proposait à 4 réalisateurs de brosser un portrait de la jeunesse à travers le monde.
The director of « Moi, un noir » and « Chronique d’un été » focuses on the yéyé parisian youth by following the family and love life of two teenagers. One of them is serious and the other one is not. “The fifteen years old widows” intertwined four different movies by four directors who drew a portrait of the youth across the world.
Petit tailleur/ Little tailor
Director : Louis Garrel
Released in 2010
Duration : 44 minutes
France – Drama, comedy
Arthur a vingt-cinq ans, il est apprenti tailleur dans l’atelier d’Albert, quatre-vingt quatre ans. Albert aime Arthur comme son fils, qui le lui rend bien, et part bientôt à la retraite. Il a choisi Artur comme successeur. Mais un autre soir, Arthur est emmené au théâtre par son ami Sylvain. Il tombe fou amoureux de Marie-Julie, l’actrice principale de la pièce. Pour la séduire, Arthur lui fabrique une petite robe. Les deux amants décident de ne jamais se séparer, se lancent le défi de tout abandonner pour vivre leur amour. Mais Arthur peut-il assumer de faire défaut à Albert.
Arthur is twenty five years old, he is a tailor apprentice in the workshop of Albert who is eighty years old. Albert loves Arthur as his own son, and he will soon retire. He chooses Arthur as his successor. But one evening, Arthur goes to a theater play with his friend Sylvain. He falls madly in love with Marie-Julie, the main protagonist of the play. To seduce her, Arthur sews her dress. Te two lovers decide never to separate themselves and live for their love. But, how can Arthur follow his heart and be loyal to Albert at the same time?
For more information, write to communication@afdelhi.org

LA FUGUE/ THE RUNAWAY and ITINERAIRES
2014-06-13 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-club
present

LA FUGUE/ THE RUNAWAY
and
ITINERAIRES
Friday 13th June 2014, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium
72, Lodi Estate
110003 New Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry. Open to all.
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LA FUGUE
A short-film by Jean Bernard Marlin
Released in 2013
Duration: 23min

Un foyer pour mineurs délinquants à Marseille. Lakdar est éducateur spécialisé, il cherche Sabrina, une des jeunes dont il est responsable. Aujourd’hui, elle est jugée pour une ancienne affaire. Au début, elle ne veut pas y aller, puis ils sont pris de cours. C’est trop tard, mais Lakdar a confiance, il pense que tout va s’arranger. Sabrina en doute – elle ne sait même pas ce qui serait bien pour elle. Elle a besoin de plus de temps et elle le prend. Lakdar ne cède pas. Leur parcours à travers la banlieue de Marseille est comme une excursion dans un autre monde.
A detention centre for young offenders in Marseille. Lakdar, a committed young social workers is looking for Sabrina, one of the young people in his care. Today the court will pronounce judgment on Sabrina’s pas offences. At first she does not want to go and then they are delayed. It’s getting late, but ladkar is confident that things will work out. Sabrina is not sure – she does not even know what would be good for her. She needs more time and takes it. Lakdar refuses to give in. Their journey through suburban Marseille is an excursion into another world.

ITINERAIRES
A film by Christophe Otzenberger
Released in 2006
Duration: 1h40min

Thierry a fait un peu de prison, et cela le poursuit comme une marque maudite. Il essaie de reprendre une vie normale, mais le jeune homme, témoin d'un meurtre, est bientôt désigné comme coupable. Fuir devient son seul horizon et la clandestinité son quotidien.
Thierry spent a couple of times in jail, now he is haunted by this experience. Although he tries to get back to a “normal’’ life this young man, who witnessed a murder is soon declared guilty for the crime he saw. His only respite is to runaway and live in hiding.
For more information, write to communication@afdelhi.org

Electric Suites Jazz violin by Guillaume Blanc
2014-06-15 13:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
presents

Electric Suites
Jazz violin by Guillaume Blanc

Sunday, June 15 2014, 7:00pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi
72, Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
"Electricity is like an effort of some sort of living matter to turn into spirit and mind. It would almost appear as though matter is trying to get an ecstasy, using electricity." - Ernest Hello.
Playing in interaction with machines... learning to master their language... that is the challenge of Electric Suites... the sounds of traditional instruments closely intertwined with those of the electronic music... Folklore, Jazz, Beatmusic, traditional and ancient music, Electric Suites was inspired by this diversity in order to develop a new aesthetic, highlighting the profound aspirations of the creator and of the artist: to provide an artistic language that would be relevant to its time, while preserving a link to its past and origins. Revitalized with each live concert, Electric Suites takes its routes deep in the past and traditions of music, in order to better reinvent, whilst making the listener’s body vibrate… at the same time as the musician’s one does!
About the artist:-
Guillaume Blanc, violinist and composer
Born in 1981, Guillaume began playing the violin at age 5. After studying classical violin, he learns to know and love other musical aesthetics by joining the class of the great violinist and teacher of jazz improvisation Didier Lockwood. He also attended the class of Octavio Lopez, renowned contemporary music composer.
Since 2001, he participated in many music and film projects that allow him to perform regularly both in France and abroad. He was invited as a soloist by famous French artists, such as SportoKantes, Didier Lockwood, André Ceccarelli, Jool, Louis Winsberg, The Rabeats.
Since 2005, he has been playing his own compositions in various formations: a delicate mix of jazz and other musical styles, with a subtle touch of folklore. From 2007, he joined dance and theatre projects as a composer and performer.
Amongst his numerous collaborations, he had the pleasure of working with the choreographer Céline Pradeu-Kanagasabai on the choreographic pieces CPK-30ans (CPK-under 30 y.o) and Hybrid, around the theme of a shared identity between France and India (tour in the “Alliances Françaises” -French Alliances- in India and Sri Lanka in 2012 and 2013)
He also composed the original soundtrack for plays, such as Les parents terribles (Terrible parents) and Un numéro d’équilibre (A balancing act) for the Minuit44 company (Avignon Festival, in France, in 2012 and 2013).
He was also part of the painter & artist Xavier Ott’s performance on the theme of nature and the sacred, Le passage de Vénus (The passage of Venus).
In 2011 he was a finalist in Stéphane Grappelli’s Jazz Violin International Competition, winning the award for "Scenic Performance".
He holds a national degree (“Diplôme d’Etat”) in violin teaching, and teaches violin and viola in several conservatories in France.
He is currently working on the development of Electric Suites, a Dj Set combining live instrumental and electronic music.
"The Jazz violinists are not yet legions and Guillaume Blanc is certainly one of the best. In its Electric Suites project, he presents original compositions of a high and rare quality.
He deserves a great future, so do go see and listen to him!" Didier Lockwood
Free entry. Open to all.

Art videos, etc On the move!
2014-06-19 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
presents
Art videos, etc
On the move!

Thursday 19th June, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate 110014 New Delhi
Free entry. Open to all.
This new screening from the series on video art emphasises the notion of changes choreographed with different point of views.
In the first video, “Véronique Doisneau’’, Jerôme Bel (dancer and choreographer, forerunner of the non-dance movement) is portraying a ballet dancer from the Opera de Paris, who is to retire soon. Bel gives the dancer a platform to confess about her work, about not being a star but only a "background" dancer, working and suffering from this harsh discipline. An intimate portrait and a premiere within the enclosure of the institution, the Opera de Paris.
In the second video "O seculo" by the Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle ( winner of the prestigious Future Generation Art Prize), there are no words, and no storyboard, the empty street 's changes are orchestrated through a series of colourful and original actions and movements.
Anne Maniglier is a curator and photographer from France.
For many years she worked in newspapers and news agencies and with the photography agency, Magnum.
In 2007 she settled in India, and started to curate and manage emerging Indian artists in between India Europe and the US.

La Terre Outragée/ Land of Oblivion
2014-06-20 13:00 - 15:45 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-club
present

La Terre Outragée/ Land of Oblivion
Director : Michale Bogamin
Released in 2012
Duration : 1h48 minutes
France, Ukraine - Drama

Friday 20th June, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry. Open to all.
Le 26 avril 1986, dans la ville russe de Pripiat. C'est un grand jour pour Anya et Piotr, qui célèbrent leur mariage. Au même moment, Valery et son père, Alexei, plantent un arbre et le garde-forestier Nikolay effectue sa tournée dans les bois. C'est aussi le jour où explose la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl, située à quelques kilomètres. Piotr meurt en luttant contre l'incendie, Alexei, qui est sommé de taire ce qu'il sait, disparaît. Tous les autres doivent évacuer la région. Dix ans plus tard, Pripiat est devenue une ville fantôme. Anya travaille comme guide dans la zone, Valery cherche des traces de son père et Nikolay continue de cultiver son jardin...
April 26th, 1986. On that day, Anya and Piotr celebrate their marriage. Little Valery and his father Alexei, a physicist at the power station in Chernobyl, plant an apple tree. Nikolai, the forest warden, makes his rounds in the surrounding forests. Then, an accident occurs at the power station. Piotr, a volunteer fireman, leaves to extinguish the flames. He never returns. A few days later, the population is evacuated. Alexei, forced to keep silent by the authorities, prefers to disappear. Ten years later, the deserted Pripyat has become a no man’s land and a bizarre tourist attraction. Anya comes to the Zone every month as a tour guide, while Valery goes there to look for traces of his father. And Nikolai continues to cultivate a poisonous garden…
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Fête de la Musique at Hauz Khas Village A musical feast
2014-06-21 13:30 UTC | Cafe Dalal Street, M 89/90, M Block, Outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi, 110001, India
Alliance Française de Delhi
in collaboration with

Hauz Khas Village Trader’s Association
presents

Fête de la Musique at Hauz Khas Village
A musical feast
On Saturday, 21st June 2014, from 9:00 pm onwards

On June 21, 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 international highlight of amateur and professional practice and of musical diversity. This is also a very special occasion for many people in many different countries to attend free live performances, in all kinds of places, even the most unusual ones.
This celebration of music has also reached the city of Delhi. Taking part in the world-wide festivities, Alliance Française de Delhi in association with Hauz Khas Village Trader’s Association is organizing, for the third time, a series of musical events at Hauz Khas Village. A wide range of genre, musicians and type of shows will be presented during all this evening, from 7pm onwards, to promote the diversity of music, so that everybody will find a performance to his liking.
The “Fête de la Musique” is a celebration open to everybody, to bring together all the music lovers at one place. This occasion will be celebrated in more than 35 venues in the same premises with 2 huge outdoor concerts and 40 indoor diverse performances with a target of gathering more than 10,000 people like last 2 consecutive years.
So come one come all and be a part this exclusive musical festivity!!!
For more information, please write to communication@afdelhi.org.
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MISSILL
2014-06-22 16:30 UTC | DLF CYBERHUB, DLF Cyber City, Phase 2, NH 8, Gurgaon, India, 122006, India
MISSILL
Sunday, 22nd June 2014, 10pm onwards
Kitty Su, Hotel Lalit, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110001

Missill, “The Super-heroine” , has created her own ultra-dynamic style, which also includes doing her own artwork, clothes lines, her own music instruments, video games, iphone app, videos clips , and has also decorated clubs in France, Moscow and Turkey with her designs. Her creations have no limits.
Missill spent the last few years playing over 800 gigs at every major festival, and countless clubs. Her sound is so versatile that she can happily play between all types of acts or dj’s. It is this versatility and her own style of music that saw her entertaining crowds of up to 100,000 and touring the world (over 35 countries across the 5 continents) to play at some of the biggest clubs, festivals where she has really made her mark , thanks to her innovative and dynamic style.
The sounds she makes are fresh, the mixes are original and her boundless energy is contagious. Missill's sound is like no other! Missill’s unique and captivating style called “Dj Mag”. She makes full use of her skills and the open minded sound of 'little miss magic ngers‘makes concessions to no-one. This borderless philosophy on life is evident in her music and style. Her live shows and albums kindled the global medium from french Tsugi mag to Mixmag even appearing front pages on Japanese's most trendy magazines.
With such strong drive, ambitions, energy and obvious talent, the world will certainly be hearing more of this young French mix-tress…
Make sure you don't miss out on the French phenomenon.
Mixes, music, videos, graphism, photos, presskit etc… on :
www.missill.com Dj Premier, M.O.P, Aluna Georges, Rye Rye, Dynamite MC, Rittz, Shadow Dancer, Dynamite MC,
Spoeck Mathambo, Blurum 13, Yarah Bravo, Sliimy, N.A.S.A, Reid Speed, South Central etc...
Nominal entry charges.
For more information, write to communication@afdelhi.org

Cinéclub: screnning of Pauline et François, 27th June, 6.30pm
2014-06-27 13:00 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-club
present
PAULINE et FRANCOIS
Director : Renaud Fély
Released in 2010
Duration : 1h35 minutes
France – Drama

Friday 27th June, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry. Open to all.
Les familles ont des habitudes difficiles à bousculer. Celle de François n’échappe pas à la règle. Autour de lui, personne n'avait prévu l'arrivée d'une femme dans sa vie. Pauline et François s'abandonnent à la promesse d’une histoire aussi belle qu’inattendue.Et ce bonheur les affranchit.
Families find it hard to change their habits. François’ s family is one example. Nobody had thought that a woman could enter his life. Pauline and François give themselves into this love story, meant to be as beautiful as unexpected. This happiness frees themselves from their past…
For more information, write to communication@afdelhi.org

Sur la planche/ On the edge by Leila Kilani - Friday 4th July, 6.30pm
2014-07-04 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
presents
Sur la planche/ On the Edge
By Leïla Kilani
Released in 2012
Duration: 1h46min
France

Friday 4th July 2014, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry – Open to all
Tanger aujourd’hui, quatre jeunes femmes de vingt ans travaillent pour survivre le jour et vivent la nuit. Elles sont ouvrières réparties en deux castes : les textiles et les crevettes. Leur obsession : bouger. «On est là» disent-elles. De l’aube à la nuit la cadence est effrénée, elles traversent la ville. Temps, espace et sommeil sont rares. Petites bricoleuses de l’urgence qui travaillent les hommes et les maisons vides. Ainsi va la course folle de Badia, Imane, Asma et Nawal...
Nowadays in Tanger, four 20 years old women work daily to survive and enjoy their life during the night. They are workers divided into two industries: textiles and prawns, but their only obsession is to move. From dawn to night, they follow a frenetic rhythm walking across the city. Time, space and sleep are rare things to them. They seduce men and steal empty houses. This is how a crazy race goes for Badia, Imane, Asma and Nawal…
For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org

Cine-Club Extravaganza - Quai d'Orsay -11th July 2014
2014-07-11 13:30 - 16:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi
cordially invites you to

Ciné Club Extravaganza
A special screening of
Quai D’Orsay
on Friday, 11th July 2014, 7:00 pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi
72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi 110003
Introduction of the film by Mr. Jean-Marc Sere-Charlet, Ministre Conseiller, Embassy of France. The Film Screening will be followed by a QnA session.

Quai D’Orsay is a parody of French diplomacy during the US-Iraq conflict (Iraq being substituted by the fictional country of Lousdemistan).
A comedy film by Bertrand Tavernier, Quai D’Orsay portrays the world of diplomacy and bureaucracy. Throughout the film Arthur, the freshly hired speech writer for the French Minister of foreign affairs Alexandre Taillard de Worms, is consistently hurled through a sea of endless rewrites and bureaucratic minutia, all the while, balancing the verbose personalities of the diplomats he is forced to work with.
Despite its intimate relation to French Culture and Politics, the film’s comedy is universal.
Free Entry. Open to all. For any further information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org.

Le Jardin Botanique Wednesday 16th July 2014, 6 pm,
2014-07-16 12:30 - 15:30 UTC | Ashok Amphitheatre, The Ashok 50 B, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, Delhi, 110021, India
Alliance Française de Delhi
cordially invites you to the Launch of

Le Jardin Botanique
Wednesday 16th July 2014, 6 pm,
at Alliance Française de Delhi, 72 Lodi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Programme:

5:45 pm – High Tea

6:00 pm – Presentation of the Project by Mr Grégory Beuve.

6:15 pm – Guided Tour of the Garden by Mr Grégory Beuve & Mr. Pradip Krishen.

6:45 pm – Conversation with Mr Pradip Krishen, author of the best seller, Trees of Delhi.

The project undertaken by Mr Grégory Beuve, a French Botanist, includes the scientific classification of the plants and trees in Alliance Française de Delhi alongwith emphazing their different properties and uses from the point of view of different cultures.

Mr Pradip Krishen gave up film making to photograph and write about trees for a general audience. Like Darwin, and a score of other naturalists, he has built a life through the simple business of walking. Published in 2006, his handbook, Trees of Delhi was followed in 2014 by Jungle Trees of Central India, a book which will turn you into an expert tree spotter.

Free entry

For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org

Les Lendemains - by Bénédicte Pagnot.
2014-07-18 01:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi and Ciné-Club
presents
Les Lendemains - by Bénédicte Pagnot.
Released in 2013
Duration: 1h55min
France - English Subtitles

Friday 18th July 2014, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry – Open to all
Audrey just got her baccalauréat. From now onwards she will study at the university in Rennes (Brittany). She leaves her family, friends, best friend and her boyfriend too. Through contact with her new flat mate, Audrey meets some young people of the GRAL, a group of squatters who offer her to live differently and give her a new worldview. Audrey chooses to share this experience with them and goes more and more radical into this change of life.
For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org

L’autre monde/ Black heaven Friday, 25th July 2014, 6.30pm
2014-07-25 13:00 - 15:30 UTC | , ,
L’autre monde/ Black heaven
By Gilles Marchand
Released in 2010
Duration: 1h40min
France

Friday, 25th July 2014, 6.30pm
M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry – Open to all
C’est l’été dans le Sud de la France. Gaspard est un adolescent heureux qui partage son temps entre ses amis et sa copine, Marion. Mais Gaspard va rencontrer Audrey et sa vie va basculer. Car Audrey est belle, sombre et double. Sur un jeu en réseau elle se fait appeler Sam et cherche un partenaire pour mourir. Pour tenter de l’approcher Gaspard se crée lui aussi un avatar, Gordon, et part la retrouver dans Black Hole.
It is summer in the South of France; Gaspard is a happy teenager who shares his time between his friends and his girlfriend, Marion. But soon, the young man meets Audrey who changes his daily life. Audrey is beautiful, gloomy and has a double personality. On a network game, she is called Sam and searches for a partner to die with. As Gaspard wants to be closer to Audrey he also creates an avatar, Gordon, and goes to meet her in Black Hole.
For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org

Cineclub: Nous Princesses de Clèves By Régis Sauder
2014-08-01 13:00 - 15:45 UTC | Alliance Française de Delhi (M L Bhartia Auditorium), Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate, K.K. Birla Lane,, New Delhi, India, 110003, India
Friday, 1st August 2014, 6.30pm
Nous Princesses de Clèves/
Children of the Princess of Cleves
By Régis Sauder
Released in 2011
Duration: 1h09min
France

M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
French version with English subtitles
Free entry – Open to all
L’action se déroule en 1558, à la cour du roi Henri II. Mademoiselle de Chartres, devenue Princesse de Clèves après son mariage, rencontre le Duc de Nemours. Naît entre eux un amour immédiat et fulgurant, auquel sa mère la conjure de renoncer. Aujourd’hui à Marseille, des lycéens s’emparent de La Princesse de Clèves pour parler d’eux.…
The scene is set in 1558, in the Court of King Henri II. Mademoiselle de Chartres became Princess of Clèves after getting married, and meets the Duke of Nemours. All of a sudden they fall in love, and Princess of Clèves’ mother summons her daughter to give up on this love. Today, in Marseille, high school students take hold of this romance to talk about themselves.
For more information, please write to culture@afdelhi.org

Writers, Etc. – Session 32
2014-08-08 13:00 UTC | , ,
Alliance Française de Delhi, Institut Français en Inde and The French Embassy in India
present

Writers, Etc. – Session 32
Kishwar Desai
in conversation with
Namita Gokhale
08th August 2014, 6.30pm
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Writers, Etc is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and their practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent.
For our thirty-second session we are very excited to welcome Kishwar Desai to be in conversation with Namita Gokhale.
Kishwar Desai’s debut novel, Witness the Night won the prestigious Costa First Novel Award (2010), was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize,the DSC South Asian Literary Prize, the Waverton Good Read Award and shortlisted for the UK Author’s Club Award, among others. It was shortlisted for a readers prize by Elle magazine in France,and has just been nominated for the Le Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere.It has been translated into over twenty languages and optioned for an international film. Her novels Origins of Love and The Sea of Innocence, and Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt , a biography of the iconic Indian film actors, covered 100 years of Indian cinema, have all received positive publicity and critical acclaim. She had previously worked in television as anchor/producer at various TV networks including NDTV, Doordarshan, TV Today and her last job in TV was as Vice President, Zee Telefilms. She is presently completing a book on Devika Rani and Himansu Rai and early Indian cinema. She is also a columnist for The Asian Age, The Week and The Tribune and has published articles in The Guardian as well The Daily Mail, among others. But her only real achievement is to be the lucky mother of Gaurav and Mallika Ahluwalia, wife to Meghnad Desai and daughter to Padam and Rajini Rosha. Her favourite occupation is daydreaming and coming up with impossible ideas.

Writer and publisher Namita Gokhale has written twelve books including several works of fiction. Her first novel, ‘Paro: Dreams of Passion’, which created a furor with its candid sexual humour celebrates its thirtieth anniversary edition in 2014. Other novels include ‘A Himalayan Love Story’, ‘The Book of Shadows’, ‘Shakuntala: The Play of the Memory’, and ‘Priya’, a recent sequel to Paro. Gokhale has worked extensively with Indian myth. She has written ‘The Book of Shiva’ and retold the Mahabharata for young readers. She also co-edited the landmark anthology, ‘In Search of Sita: Revisiting Mythology’. An edited anthology ‘Travelling In, Travelling Out’ was released in January. One of the founders and a co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival and of ‘Mountain Echoes’, the annual Bhutan Festival, Gokhale is committed to showcasing literature from across the Indian languages. She currently curates ‘Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond’, a multilingual book show on Doordarshan.

For more information, please contact culture@afdelhi.org
