The Progressive Writers Association (Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Musanifeen Karachi) is holding a discussion gathering and poetry session about the importance of writers in our society.
In La Surface de Réparation (On the Sly), Franck has been living for 10 years on the sidelines of a provincial football club. Without status or pay, he knows the players well and smiles as much as he watches them. One evening he meets Salomé, the exmistress of a player, who has set his sights on Djibril, an old football fame come to finish his career at the club. English subtitles.
French ensemble Stradivaria was created in 1987 in Nantes to revive the music of the greatest Baroque composers. They will be performing in Karachi in partnership with the Alliance Française de Karachi and the Goethe Insitut Pakistan.
We invite you to attend a talk on the colorful history of the French language with historian Didier Rolland. Free entry, all welcome.
In Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi’s Cat), a rabbi's mischievous cat learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot and expresses his desire to convert to Judaism. The film won the César Award for Best Animated Film.
The next round of the DELF & DALF exams will be administered between 19 and 23 November 2018 at the Alliance Française de Karachi.
The next round of the TEF Canada & TEFAQ exams will be administered on 24 November 2018 at the Alliance Française de Karachi.
Ouvrir La Voix (Speak Up) is a documentary about black women reclaiming the narrative around the identities: "woman" and "black". The film highlights the diversity of Afropean diasporas and documentary explores the intersections of discrimination, art and blackness. English subtitles.
In this 1987 film Brise-Glace (Icebreaker) filmed on the icebreaker Frej, three directors deliver their impressions: Rouch films the work on the ship, Törnroth gives the floor to the crew and Ruiz introduces a fantastic touch. English subtitles.
The Consulate General of Japan in Karachi is pleased to host a performance by Ms Sumie Kaneko, Japanese koto player, at the Alliance Française de Karachi as part of the Classical Music Without Borders concert series. By invite or registration only.
In the film La Villa (The House by the Sea), three grown children gathered at the picturesque villa of their dying father reflect on where they are, who they have become, and what they have inherited. English subtitles.
Join us for the trailer launch of Indus Blues, a film by Jawad Sharif telling the story of Pakistan's rarely seen musical instruments and their perhaps last remaining maestros. Free entry.
The exhibition constitutes a collection of more than 200 photographs submitted by over 70 participating members of Facebook Group ‘Aaj Ka Random’.
Join us at the Ciné Club at the Alliance Française de Karachi every Tuesday evening to enjoy a French film with English subtitles! In Lola Pater, Zino, who is the son of Algerian immigrants, learns at his mother’s funeral that his father has never returned to Algeria contrary to what he always believed. Instead he lives in the Camargue. He then goes to find him and discovers that he became a woman, 25 years ago...
Join us at the Ciné Club at the Alliance Française de Karachi every Tuesday evening to enjoy a French film with English subtitles! In Cherchez La Femme, Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, start dating. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen that has radically transformed him, he opposes the love relationship of his sister and decides to remove him from Armand at any cost. To get to know Mahmoud and to see Leila again, Armand has no choice: he must don the full veil!
