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SUMMARY:French Films with MUBI
DESCRIPTION:Catch an exciting line-up of French films on MUBI\nWe are collaborating with MUBI to bring you some great new cinema as part of the MyFrenchFilmFestival over the next few months!  Register below to access the platform for free for a period of 90 days. \nSign up now!Scroll down to discover the available films\nHoney Cigarde Kamir Aïnouz\, 2020\, available from 20th January \nIn 1993 Paris\, a French Algerian teenager falls for a new classmate\, only to realize for the first time how restrictive the rules of her patriarchal family are. As the terror of fundamentalism emerges in her homeland and her family crumbles\, she explores the powers and dangers of her own desire. \nSkies of Lebanonde Chloé Mazlo\, 2020\, available from 20th January \nIn the fifties\, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph\, a quirky astrophysicist intent on sending the first Lebanese national into space. However\, after years of bliss\, the civil war threatens their Garden of Eden. \nThe Monopoly of Violencede Durfresne\, 2020\, available from 4th February \nAs anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities\, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. Monopoly of Violence gathers a panel of citizens to confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State. \nThe Night Doctorde Elie Wajeman\, 2020\, available from 8th February \nMikaël is a doctor on night call. He looks after patients from underprivileged neighbourhoods\, as well as drug addicts. Torn between his wife and his mistress\, and embroiled in trafficking fraudulent prescriptions\, Mikaël is left with no choice: tonight\, he has to reclaim control over his life. \nOther titles:\n\nTitane (Julia Ducournau\, 2021)- available from 28th January\nPetite Maman (Celine Sciamma  – available from 18th February\n\nand lots of other French classics… \nHow to register? \n\nTo avail of this special offer register at https://mubi.com/promos/ifi\nSignup with Facebook or create an account with your email and password.\nAdd your credit card details and set up your account with your username \n\nImportant information: \n\nThe offer is valid till 31 July i.e. you can register anytime before the said date to avail of the 90-day free subscription.\nAfter a 90-day free subscription users can either revoke their credit card or continue to watch with MUBI as per their monthly charges.\nThe offer is only valid for users registering through the promo link
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Film Festival,film tv videos
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SUMMARY:Battle BD - Comics Wars
DESCRIPTION:A show promoting Comics through live drawing\, combining music\, humour and public participation. In Battle BD\, the authors are confronted with live drawing\, freehand with no time to think. \nMuch like an improvisation match\, the writers compete on stage via drawing. The host\, Tony Curien\, guided by the audience’s suggestions\, imposes a theme on them. In three minutes\, they produce a poetic\, funny\, offbeat or even committed work\, to the rhythm of the DJ’s playlist. \nTo win the competition\, the artist’s work has to tell a story and convince the audience. \nSession with Anaïs Depommier\, Pickmean (Cyril Nguyen Dinh)\, and Tony Curien with DJ. \nJoin us with your friends and family for two unique shows in India! \nDate: 7 and 8 May 2022\nTime: 4 pm to 5 pm\nVenue: DLF Mall of India\, Noida\nHow to join? A free walk-in spectacle for all age audiences! \nClick here to see the venue map\n \nBonjour India literary events\nFrench Literary FestMay 7\, 2022 - May 10\, 2022Eminent French authors\, graphic novelists and children’s writers bring forth a French literary weekend filled with round tables and debates. Battle BD – Comics WarsMay 7\, 2022 - May 8\, 2022A show promoting Comics through live drawing\, combining music\, humour and public participation French Authors’ India TourMay 7\, 2022 - May 15\, 2022Witness enriching sessions by eminent French and Indian authors\, experts\, as well as book launches\, children’s workshops and much more.
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CATEGORIES:Bonjour India,Bonjour India Books,Book,Debate & Ideas
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SUMMARY:French Literary Fest
DESCRIPTION:French LitFest 2022India was the Guest of Honour country at Paris Book Festival 2022. The Indian Pavilion witnessed a number of literary and cultural activities with Indian authors on tour in France. \nNow\, enjoy the spirit of literary encounters in your city. Meet contemporary French authors of novels and comics as part of Bonjour India. \nProgrammeEminent French authors\, graphic novelists and children’s writers bring forth a French literary weekend filled with round tables and debates on contemporary French literature and poetry at prestigious Bikaner House\, followed by interactions with children and book signings at some of Delhi’s most popular bookstores. A real treat for book enthusiasts! \nAlso\, witness a literary award ceremony with the announcement of the Romain Rolland Book Prize to award the best translation in 2021 of a French title into an Indian language\, including English. \nSaturday\, 7th MayFrench LitFest at Bikaner House\, New Delhi\n3:30 pm: Welcome refreshments \n4 pm: Introduction by Ms Eva Nguyen Binh\, President of Institut Français\, France\, and Ms Mugdha Sinha\, Secretary Science and Technology\, Government of Rajasthan\n \n4:15: Round table – TRENDS OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LITERATURE\nCome and meet 3 famous French authors who will discuss what it means to be a woman\, an author and “vagabonds” of the world. Christine Jordis was born in Algiers\, Patricia Loison in Delhi and Marie Darrieussecq in Bayonne. Three countries\, three identities\, one love: literature! \nWith Christine Jordis\, Patricia Loison\, Marie Darrieussecq\, in conversation with Arunima Mazumdar \n5 pm: Romain Rolland Book Prize Award Ceremony \nIn the presence of Ms. Dana PURCARESCU\, Deputy Head of Mission\, Embassy of France in India \n5:15 pm: Round table – LITERATURE\, POETRY & VISUAL WRITING \nWritings from far and near: how a former ice hockey player François-Henri; a French teenager in the hospices of Calcutta\, Tiffany; explore literature as alchemy between sport\, charity and immigration?! \nWith François-Henri Désérable\, Tiffany Tavernier\, in conversation with Kaveree Bamzai \nRegister to attendSaturday\, 7th MayRomain Rolland Book Prize ceremony\n5 pm | As part of the French LitFest at the Bikaner House\, New Delhi \nEvery year\, the Romain Rolland Book Prize awards the best translation of a francophone title into any Indian language\, including English. The winning publisher and translator are selected by an Indo-French jury. \nShortlisted titles for the 5th edition: \n\nPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi\nMeursault\, contre-enquete by Kamel Daoud\n\nRegister to attendSaturday\, 7th MayOh! Wonderful Childhood with Marie Desplechin\n5 pm | Eureka BookStore\, M-block Market\, Greater Kailash II\, New Delhi – 110048 \nChangemakers – some belong to legends\, some are from real life. They all were children once. Come and imagine the childhood of well-known personalities such as Santa Claus or the Fairy Queen\, with Marie Desplechin\, the author of Enfances. \nRegister to attendSaturday\, 7th MayThe Alcazar: book signing with Simon Lamouret\n6 pm | Bahrisons Bookstore\, 2nd floor\, R1\, Galleria Market\, DLF Phase IV\, Sector 28\, Gurugram \nMeet Simon Lamouret and grab the opportunity to buy a signed copy of his award-winning French graphic novel The Alcazar\, now available in English! The book follows the lives of migrant construction workers building a residential complex in Bangalore. \nRegister to attendSaturday 7th & Sunday 8th MayBattle BD / Comics Wars\n4 pm to 5 pm | DLF Mall of India\, Noida \nA show promoting comics through live drawing: combining music\, humour and interaction with the audience. Much like an improvisation match\, the authors compete on stage through drawing\, guided by the audience’s suggestions and the rhythm of a DJ’s playlist. Competing authors must create\, in only three minutes\, a piece of art which can be poetic\, funny\, offbeat or even provocative. One of them will be declared the winner. Will their story and art convince YOU? \nLearn more to attendSunday\, 8th May The Night of Film and Literature\n6:30 pm to 9 pm | Alliance Française of Delhi\, 72\, Lodi Estate\, New Delhi\, 110003 \nTiffany Tavernier in conversation with Arunava Sinha\nFollowed by Screening of Ça commence aujourd’hui \nRegister to attendTuesday\, 10th May Discussion: Secularism in France and India\n6:30 pm to 8 pm | Alliance Française of Delhi\, 72\, Lodi Estate\, New Delhi \nPatrick Weil in conversation with Gurpreet Mahajan\, Neera Chandhoke\, and Hilal Ahmed\nSession moderated by: Laurence Gautier (CSH Delhi) & Gilles Verniers (Ashoka University) \nRegister to attendFrench authors' India tour | 7th May onwardFrench authors are travelling across India to meet their readers and exchange with Indian authors and publishers. Meet them during their tour in Delhi\, Ahmedabad\, Bengaluru\, Kolkata\, Chennai\, Pondicherry\, Pune\, Mumbai\, Jaipur\, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. \nTo know more about each writer and about their programme\, click here: French Authors India Tour \nVisiting authors: \n\nTiffany Tavernier\nFrançois-Henri Désérable\nPatricia Loison\nMarie Darrieussecq\nPatrick Weil\nMarie Desplechin\n\n\nSimon Lamouret\nAnaïs Depommier\nCyril Nguyen Dinh\nChristine Jordis\nJul Berjeaut\n\n\nMore resources: \nParis Book Festival: https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/paris-book-festival-2022
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CATEGORIES:Bonjour India,Bonjour India Books,Book,Books & Ideas
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SUMMARY:French Authors' India Tour
DESCRIPTION:Phillipe ClaudelPhillipe Claudel is a French author and film director who works as a Professor of Literature at the University of Nancy. He was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe\, Meurthe-et-Moselle\, and studied in Nancy\, where he then remained for eleven years to work as a teacher in prisons. His experiences with students there inspired him to write short stories\, novels\, and finally\, screenplays: his 2008 film I’ve Loved You So Long won the 2009 BAFTA for the Best non-English-language film. \nUdaipur | 8 AprilJaipur | 9 AprilTiffany TavernierShe is a novelist and screenwriter who spends her time between literature and cinema. She has a visual and aesthetic writing style that pleases the eye as much as the mind. In her first novel\, Dans la nuit aussi le ciel (In the Night you find the Sky)\, she looks back on her experience as a teenager in the darkest depths of Kolkata. Her book Roissy has been translated into English and published by Seagull Books. \nDelhi | 6 – 9 MayKolkata | 10 – 15 MayFrançois-Henri DésérableAn ice hockey champion\, François-Henri Désérable has moved towards literature. His work Mon maître et mon vainqueur is an impossible love affair between Vasco\, curator of treasures at the Bibliothèque National de France (National French Library) and Tina\, a poet. It reveals passion as a philosophical test. \nDelhi | 6 – 9 MayMarie DarrieussecqShe is an author\, a translator and a psychoanalyst. The body\, the feminine\, ecology and also language (Basque) are some of the themes she covers. Her characters travel to different continents. Truismes\, which brought her fame\, has been translated into English as Pig Tales. She received the Medicis Prize and the Prize of Prize in 2013 for her book Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes (Men). \nDelhi | 6 – 8 MayPondicherry | 9 – 12 MayChandigarh | 14 – 15 MayPatricia LoisonBorn in 1971 in India\, she is a French journalist and television presenter\, notably known for her show “Faut pas rêver” and for hosting the JT “Soir 3” on France Television. A resident of the Mother Teresa orphanage in Delhi\, Patricia Loison was adopted at the age of six months by a Franco-Belgian couple and grew up in a well-to-do environment in Paris. She tells the story of her search for her origins and her adoption in a marvelous essay\, Je cherche encore ton nom (I am still searching your name). \nDelhi | 7 – 9 MayJaipur | 9 – 12 MayPatrick WeilA political scientist\, President of the Bibliothèque sans Frontières (Library without Borders)\, he defends secularism throughout the world\, whether or not one believes in God. His web series on secularism is a platform that invites everyone to define its contours. His most notable work is De la laïcité (On Secularism). \nDelhi | 8 – 10 MayDhaka | 11 – 13 MayJUL\, Julien BerjeautA press and comic artist\, he is also a history and sinology teacher. His press cartoons have appeared in several major French newspapers and magazines. His graphic novel series Silex & the city was adapted into an animated series. In January 2018\, he participated in the state visit to China and presented the Chinese edition of his album La Planète des Sages\, a world encyclopedia on philosophers and philosophy translated into 12 languages around the world\, to President Xi Jinping. Since 2013\, he’s the official scenarist of the patrimonial comic book series Lucky Luke\, created by René Goscinny. \nAhmedabad | 3 – 4 MayKolkata | 5 – 9 MaySimon LamouretHe is a graphic novelist and illustrator who spent 4 years in Bangalore\, India\, where he taught at a design school. Bangalore and L’Alcazar are two of his albums that capture the bustling city with its construction sites and workers on every corner. L’Alcazar is currently being published in English by Bharat Murthy. \nPondicherry | 19 – 22 AprilBangalore | 23 – 26 AprilChandigarh | 2 – 5 MayDelhi | 6 – 12 MayMarie DesplechinMarie Desplechin studied literature and journalism. In her novels for young people\, she explores different literary veins: the historical novel with Satin grenadine and Séraphine\, whose main themes are the 19th century and the emancipation of women; the novel with several voices where fantasy and contemporary reality meet with Verte et Pome; stories about adolescence today\, notably Le journal d’Aurore; fantasy and the strange with Le monde de Joseph and Elie et Sam. For adults\, she has published a collection of short stories\, Trop sensibles\, novels\, Sans moi\, Dragons\, La Vie sauve written with Lydie Violet (Prix Médicis 2005) among others. She works regularly as a journalist for various magazines and participates in the writing of film scripts. In 2020\, she was awarded the Grande Ourse Prize at the Children’s Literature Fair at Montreuil. \nDelhi | 6 – 9 MayPune | 10 – 12 MayChristine JordisBorn in Algeria\, she studied English literature at Sorbonne and at Harvard. She wrote a PhD thesis on English black humor and\, on her return to France\, was appointed head of the British Council’s literary meetings. After having directed the Anglo-Saxon section at Gallimard\, she is now a contributor to Le Monde des Livres\, a member of the reading committee at Grasset and a member of the Prix Femina. Her novels and essays\, Une passion excentrique : Visites anglaises\, Gens de la Tamise : Le roman anglais au XXe siècle\, Le paysage et l’amour dans le roman anglais\, introduce the reader to the multiple\, changing and eternal aspects of England through the eyes of the painters\, writers\, poets and philosophers who have inhabited the island. Very fascinated by Asia\, where she has frequently travelled\, she has also published Bali\, Java\, en rêvant\, Promenades en terre bouddhiste de Birmanie and is interested in the history of Gandhi (Gandhi\, Gallimard\, 2006). In Raisons et sentiments\, she brilliantly revisits Jane Austen’s classic by transposing it to contemporary France where two heroine sisters – one embodying restraint\, the other spontaneity – question themselves and the world. In Prudence et Passion\, she transposes this Anglo-Saxon material to modern-day France\, dominated\, she believes\, by the tyranny of the new moral order. \nDelhi | 6 – 8 MayKolkata | 9 – 12 May
URL:https://www.institutfrancaisindia.in/event/french-authors-india-tour/
CATEGORIES:Bonjour India,Bonjour India Books,Book,Books & Ideas,Debate & Ideas
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