Francophonie Week Celebrating the joy of learning a French as a culture, Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad presents you a week full of activities, film screenings, get together and games to spread the joy of learning a new language, and a new culture. 21st March 2017 French Gastronomy Day To celebrate the French Gastronomy Day, Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad will be screening films …

No/Mad/Land A Painting Exhibition of a NoMad, who left his home country (Germany) years before in his youth and ever since, has been travelling around the world. Living in west of Gujarat from past few years, Ivan Koschimider, will be presenting his art works on the 3rd of March, 2017 for sale. Jointly organised by Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad and ZOCA …

Vincent is a quiet, unassuming man., who happens to have superhuman powers when exposed to water. He lives a life that keeps him away from others for the most part. Then he meets a girl. Then his powers are discovered. And his life changes. Director – Thomas Salvador Duration – 1h18min Date – 17 February, 7 pm

Her songs, the images of his life, are vibrant and sensual. She feeds on her roots of the world and the cultural multiples that have forged her musical identity. Lyrics, Russian and Oriental music, traditional or classical with affinities for blues and soul. Her texts, sung in Russian, Arabic, French, English, Armenian or Turkish, are much more than an invitation …

Cinéast(e)s is a 2013 French documentary film about filmmakers who are women. Julie Gayet interviews twenty-one French female filmmakers about the relevance of gender to filmmaking and the issues encountered by women in making films. It begins with the question: “is cinema gendered?” Director – Julie Gayet, Mathieu Busson Duration – 1h13 min Date and time – 3rd February, 7 …

La Haine (The Hate) Duration – 1h38 Date, Time – 27th January | 7 pm Director – Mathieu Kassovitz La Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white drama/suspense film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert, “La haine attire la haine!”, “hatred breeds hatred.” It stands as one of the best French …

Music Concert Magic Flute – Indo French Music (2 Flutists and 1 Percussionist) It is a meeting of two renowned flutists, Ravichandra Kulur and Jean Luc Thomas. They first met in July 2013 at a major international meeting at the TFE festival in Rudolstadt (Germany). They found themselves between 2013 and 2016, building an album together which is now acclaimed …

  A Traveller, A Poet, A Photographer Erik Vacquier also known as Nemorin, is a poet who travels long distances to discover new horizons, lights, landscapes and people. He expresses his emotions very vividly through his photographs and poems. Attending the World Poetry Festival to be organized in January, Nemorin with immense pleasure will be giving a conference at the …

Chat du Rabbin (Rabbi’s Cat) Duration – 1h 40 min Date – 13th January, 2017 Time: 7.00 pm Director : Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi’s cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.

Alliance Francaise d’Ahmedabad along with the cafe Rock Concepts brings you Cafe Philo. Café philosophique (“cafe-philo”) is a grassroots forum for philosophical discussion, founded by philosopher Marc Sautet (1947–1998) in Paris, France, on December 13, 1992.  The concept was to bring people together in a public friendly forum where they could discuss ideas. The Café Philo culture is still predominant …