LA MȎME (LA VIE EN ROSE) by Olivier DAHAN La Vie en Rose (La Môme) is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf. The film was co-written and directed by Olivier Dahan, and starred Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The US and UK title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf’s signature song. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised by her grandmother …

CINECLUB 3 Coeurs (2014) by Benoit JACQUOT Marc misses his train to return to Paris, in a small provincial station. He asks a young woman in a coffee shop for advise to find a hotel. Sharing secrets and jokes, both spend the night wandering the streets. They set up an appointment at the Tuileries Garden in Paris, the following Friday, …

    A maiden solo Art Exhibition by Ms. Vasudha Muralikrishna of Campus France India, will be going on from Friday, 29th June to Sunday 15 July at  Alliance Française Gallery, Banjara Hills,  from 9.30am to 8pm.  Open on all days.  About the Artist Vasudha is a contemporary realist who embraces abstract forms of art through her simplicity – simplicity …

Alliance Française Hyderabad, supported by Bharathi Cement / Vicat France and Keolis  welcomes you to celebrate  World Music Day 2018 on Sunday 24th JUNE 2018  at Auditorium, Alliance Française Hyderabad  from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm          World Music Day is a connected set of free music events which takes place each year on the 21st June. This “festival …

CINECLUB Cloclo (2012) by Florent SIRI   A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song ‘My Way’. Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978. It is the tragic fate of an icon of French music who died at the age of 39, …

CINECLUB THE CONNECTION (2014) by Cedric JIMENEZ   In the 1970s, Marseille became the world capital of heroin trafficking. Gaëtan Zampa is one of the most influential members of the French connection, a mafia network that manages it and thrives thanks to this very lucrative business. While he enjoys a luxurious life on the Côte d’Azur, Zampa finds on his …

CINECLUB THE RED CIRCLE (1970) by Jean-Pierre MELVILLE After five years of imprisonment in a penitentiary institution in Marseille, Corey is about to be released. Meanwhile, a thug named Vogel is escorted by Commissioner Mattei from Marseille to Paris by night train. Despite the vigilance of the policeman, Vogel escapes by jumping through the window of the train. At the …

CINECLUB SOLO (2013) by Christophe OFFENSTEIN   Yann Kermadec, ambitious skipper, finally touches his dream. He is allowed to start the Vendée Globe (a sailing race around the world) when his friend Franck Drevil is forced to give up. Everything is going very well: he even manages to reach second place. He is in a good position to win this …

PHOTO EXHIBITION by VIDYASAGAR   Vidyasagar Lakka, is an Alumnus of JNTU fine arts Photography and Hyderabad Central University.  He did a post-graduate diploma in TV Production, and is currently working as a Photo officer at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) where photography is not just a means of documentation and communication but also a tool …

  CINECLUB ALOUD: THE POWER OF SPEECH (2016) by Stephane DE FREITAS Each year at the University of Saint-Denis is held the contest “Eloquentia”, which aims to elect “the best speaker of the department” (suburbs of Paris). Students from this university, all from different backgrounds, decide to participate and to prepare themselves with professionals (lawyers, directors …) who teach them …