Video Game Evening: FIFA World Cup Wednesday, 16 July 2014 06:30 pm – 08:30 pm Open to all (required to pre-register and bring your laptop) July is the month to be talked about the most for the 2014 FIFA World Cup all set to take place in Brazil from 12 June. To celebrate this biggest tournament on earth, we invite …

Film Festival : Best of Cannes Check out the complete schedule in the following images       TRAILERS A Screaming Man / Un Homme Qui Crie On the Edge / Sur la planche The Pirogue / La Pirogue Granny’s Funeral / Adieu Berthe Stop-Over / L’Escale Giacomo’s Summer / L’Ete de Giacomo The Rendez-Vous of Deja vu / La …

CinéClub : “Comme un Lion” by Samuel Collardey Date: 4 July 2014 Time: 7:00 pm Venue : French Gallery Subtitles: English Runtime: 1h42m Genre: Comedy/Drama   Synopsis: Mitri is 15 and lives in a village in Senegal. Like most of his friends, he plays football and dreams of the Barça and Chelsea. When a recruiting agent shows him some interest, Mitri …

Cineclub: “La Bataille De Solferino” by Justine Triet Friday, 27 June 2014 Time: 7:00 pm Subtitled in English Genre: Comedy Duration: 1h 34m   Summary 6 May 2012, second round of presidential elections. Laetitia, television journalist, has to cover an event in the heart of a crowded place, rue de Solférino. It also happens to be the day when Vincent, …

Ciné Café: “La Grande Vadrouille” La Grande Vadrouille, literally “The Great Stroll”; is a 1966 French comedy film about two ordinary Frenchmen helping the crew of a Royal Air Force bomber shot down over Paris make their way through German-occupied France to escape arrest.  Summer 1941. Over Nazi-occupied France, a Royal Air Force B17 Flying Fortress becomes lost after a …

Karaoke Evening Open to all students of Alliance française and all those who have learnt French Completely different from a music festival, the Fête de la Musique is above all a free popular festival, open to any participant (amateur or professional musicians) who wants to perform in it. This Music day celebrated on 21st June every year, allows the expression …

Concert: “Guillaume Blanc in Violin Concert” Entry by invitation only Born in 1981, Guillaume began playing the violin at the age of 5. After studying classical violin, he learnt to know and love other musical aesthetics under the guidance of a great violinist and teacher of jazz improvisation Didier Lockwood. He also trained under Octavio Lopez, renowned contemporary music composer. Since 2001, he participated in many music and film projects …

Ciné Café: “La Grande Illusion” La Grande Illusion (also known as Grand Illusion) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape. The title of the film comes from the book The Great Illusion by British …

Kathak Workshop by Vaishali Trivedi Vaishali, can you introduce yourself? I am a Kathak dancer/singer for the past 25 years, had opportunity to dance in more than 45 countries around the world. I have worked with several well-known artists like Mrs. Kumudini Lakhia, Pt. Birju Maharaj, Pt. Ravi Shankar and choreographers from France, Germany, Italy, USA, Switzerland, Brazil, Pakistan. I practice and teach …