Alliance Française is delighted to welcome Samuel Jarry. He will conduct a workshop about animated movie. Then we will screen the movie that he created with young students from France and Pondichéry. At 2:00 pm, the workshop starts. A first part will focus mostly on the theory: different film excerpts will be shown so as to encompass the history and …

Episode 1: Adam Smith: the origin of the free market? Most economists and some historians suggest that what we call the free market capitalism was conceived by Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations and was created with the industrial revolution. Leaving aside the conventional view, this first episode takes us on a surprising journey around the world …

Miss Lovely directed by Ashim Ahluwalia, 2012 – Hindi – 110 min. Set in the lower depths of Bombay’s “C” grade film industry, Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sex horror films in the mid 1980s. A sordid tale of betrayal and doomed love, the film dives into the lower depths of the Bollywood underground, …

From PAIN to PAINT Paintings from the BINDU-ART-SCHOOL   The BINDU-ART-SCHOOL uses art to change the lives of people affected by leprosy. By painting pictures and selling them, the students attain financial independence without the discrimination of receiving alms.   “The immediate, innocent and spontaneous nature of their art-work is both touching and witty at the same time. “The simplicity …