🎉 In celebrating the French language, the 5th most spoken language in the world, this year, France proudly hosts the 19th Francophonie Summit for the first time in 33 years.
📽 In relation to the Sommet de la Francophonie 2024, the Alliance Française de Colombo organizes a film festival, featuring French literary adaptations to cinema.
School Show
📅 Thursday the 03rd of October
⏰️3.00-4.40pm
🏠 Alliance Française de Colombo, 11, Barnes Place, Colombo 07
🎟 Free entrance
🔤 with English subtitles
The National Sports Museum presents its major exhibition in connection with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, inviting you to discover Les Elles des Jeux, which allows you to measure the spectacular progress made in more than 130 years, from the virtual exclusion of women to the fight for parity.
It will be on display at the Alliance Française de Colombo from the 03rd till the 14th of September.
Lydia, a dedicated midwife, is dealing with a romantic breakup while her best friend, Salomé, reveals her pregnancy and asks Lydia to support her through it. When Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while holding Salomé’s baby, she ends up caught in a lie that jeopardizes everything she holds dear.
Thursday the 12th September | 7.00pm | Alliance Française de Colombo
Ernest and Celestine go back to Charabia to repair Ernest’s violin, only to discover that music has been banned for years. To restore joy, they team up with allies, including a masked vigilante, to fight against the ban and bring music back to the land.
Saturday the 14th of September | 3.00pm | Alliance Française de Colombo
🌞 Legend says that Maestro Panchasika, as a 6-day old infant demi God, invented the traditional drum which is used in Sri Lankan dance and music to this day.
🙏Join Tikiri & Co and Meranga Finearts Ensemble to discover the enchanting origin story of the Sri Lankan drum through captivating tabletop puppet theatre, vibrant dance, and live drumming performances.
📅Date: Friday the 6th of September
⏰️Time: 7.00pm
🏠Venue: Alliance Française de Colombo
📝Free registrations through [email protected]
The French animation/ family film “La fameuse invasion des ours en Sicile” is about bears who invade the land of men who have kidnapped the son of the king of bears. Do come to the Alliance Française de Colombo with your families on Saturday the 13th of July at 3.00pm for the screening of this month’s Cine-Club | Kids.
The French drama film “Marinette” centered around the inspiring athletic achievements by the protagonist Marinette Pichon, will be screened at the Alliance Française de Colombo on Thursday the 18th of July at 7.00pm
Aadhithya Jayaseelan from Studio Kayamai conducts a visual storytelling workshop on Saturday the 27th of July from 10.00am to 01.00pm, based on her new clothing collection inspired by her ancestors and her motherland. She focuses on the concepts of history, memory, creativity and expression in getting the participants to create a piece inspired by their own memories and histories, on paper and other materials. The workshop is open to anyone with an artistic background.
Do get registered through [email protected].
SeaSisters- “Breaking Barriers, Making Waves”
The French photographer Emilien Buffard’s photographic project on inclusivity in sport, “Sport Friendly: The Field of Diversity” extends to Sri Lanka through this exhibition at the Alliance Française de Colombo.
It portrays the SeaSisters, a group of local female surfers based in Weligama, Sri Lanka, who break the boundaries set by their backgrounds, society and the surfing eco-system as they empower local women and girls to swim and surf.
Through the creative collaboration of the photographer Munira Mutaher, the exhibition will be launched on Saturday the 29th of June at 4.00pm with a panel discussion that highlights how SeaSisters exemplify the concept of the inclusivity in sports.
It will be on display from the 29th of June till the 20th of July from 9.00am to 5.30pm at the Alliance Française de Colombo.
📸 Alliance Française de Colombo and the Embassy of France take part in the international photography project by the French photographer Emilien Buffard , “Sport Friendly: The Field of Diversity” that seeks to redefine the classic values of sport, affirming that, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, gender or physical or social condition, there is a place for everyone in the realm of sports.
🏄♀️ The exhibition portrays the SeaSisters whose initiative is to break the boundaries set by their backgrounds, society and the surfing eco-system by empowering local women and girls to swim and surf.
🤝Through the creative collaboration of the Sri Lankan photographer Munira Mutaher , the homogeneous photographic portraits of the SeaSisters are the submission from Sri Lankan to this global photographic project.
📆The exhibition will be launched on Saturday the 29th of June with a panel discussion that highlights how SeaSisters exemplify the concept of the inclusivity in sports.
It is on display at the Alliance Française de Colombo from the 29th of June till the 20th of July from 9.00am till 5.30pm
