Saluting les francophones
Ruwini Jayawardana
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Adult films
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* En
compagnie d’etrangers
(Strangers in Good Company) from Canada
- March 19 at 4.30 p.m.
* Folie privee (Private Madness) from Belgique
– March 19 at 7 p.m. and March 22 at 4.30 p.m.
* Le Premier venu (The first to come) from France
– March 20 at 4.30 p.m.
* L’age des tenebres (Days of darkness) from Canada
– March 20 at 7 p.m.
* La femme de Gilles (Gilles’s wife) from Belgium
– March 21 at 4.30 p.m.
* Home from Switzerland
– March 21 at 7 p.m.
* Roman de Gare (Airport Novel) from France
– March 22 at 7 p.m. and March 23 at 4.30 p.m.
* Pas les flics, pas les noirs, pas les blancs
(Not the cops, not the blacks, not the whites)
from Switzerland – March 23 at 7 p.m. |
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Children’s films |
* La
mecanique des anges (Mechanic angels) from Switzerland –
March 19
* Le Papillon bleu (The Blue Butterfly) from Canada
– March 20
* Loulou et autres loups (Loulou and other wolves)
from France – March 21 and 23
* Special enfants (Speical Children’s program)
from Belgium – March 22 |
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Scenes from the movies |
For the fifth consecutive year French-speaking countries in Sri Lanka
have got together to bring a collection of French films to the local
audience. The film festival titled Bonjour Cinema! will unfurl at the
Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), next to the BMICH,
from March 19 to 23.
Four children’s movies and eight adult movies from Belgium, Canada,
France and Switzerland will be screened. The kid’s movies will unspool
at 2.30 p.m. each day while the adult movies will be screened at 4.30
p.m. and 7 p.m. Movies encompassing the diversity and creativity of the
French-speaking nations had been chosen to take part in the festival.
All will be subtitled in English. Entrance is free. The festival will
open on March 18 at 6 p.m. with the Canadian movieL’age des tenebres.
The opening ceremony will be open for invitees only.
Speaking at the media briefing of the event, French Ambassador
Christine Robichon said the festival is organised to celebrate the
gathering of diverse cultures of the francophone countries.
“It is a mark of recognition of the diversity in linguistics,
traditions and openness of French speakers to other countries and
languages,” she said.
A French language competition for students and French teachers
between 18 and 25 will also be held to celebrate the Day of Francophonie
which falls on March 20. Alliance Francaise DG Bertrand Dufieux,
Consulate of Belgium Trade promotion officer Dominique Tanghe, Canadian
Acting High Commissioner Fred Jacques and Swedish Deputy Head of Mission
Franz Schneider also spoke. |
