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French speakers and Francophiles from around the world unite to celebrate the French language and the diversity of francophone cultures and come together, despite their differences, to become citizens of the world for the Francophonie Festival.
The Atlanta Francophonie Committee invites Atlantans to take part in this celebration March 19-25.

**All proceeds from the programs of Francophonie 2010 will be donated to the red cross for Haiti earthquake relief.**

 For more information go to: http://www.consulfrance-atlanta.org/spip.php?article2258&var_mode=calcul

2nd Annual Phones Philes et Familles European Brunch

Sunday March 21, 12:30p.m.

173 Carlyle House, 173 South Peachtree Street Norcross, GA 30071

Business Breakfast at Emory University

March 23rd, 7:30-10 a.m.

Presented by EDI, SCEEN, The kingdom of Belgium, EEDI, and African Studies:

Doing Bussines with Francophone Countries and discussing global business practices with a purpose.

With the presence of Mayor Kasim Reed and City council president Caesar Mitchell, consuls of France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium, President of the French Chamber of Commerce,

W. Cliff Oxford, COE of Luxury Economics Jeffrey Rosensweig PHD.

For more information, please contact Geet at gbhatt@emory.edu

(Breakfast will be provided by the Belgian consulate)

Théâtre du Rêve Francophone Celebration

March 29th & 30th 

"Théâtre du Rêve will perform a staged reading of texts gathered from all over the French-speaking world, exploring the interplay between language and identity.  Music and drumming will round out the evening of works from Haiti, Martinique, Africa, Viet Nam, Quebec, Louisiana and other points on the globe.  This will be a truly international experience!  Texts will be read by actors and members of Atlanta's Francophone communities!
 
The mission of Théâtre du Rêve, Atlanta's unique French-language theatre company, is to bring the language and cultures of the French-speaking world to life on the American stage.  We strive to create a true dialogue between American and French-speaking artists."

 

Performance

Tuesday, March 30 6:30pm, 7:30

Imperial Fez 2285 Peachtree Rd - Atlanta/GA - 30309 | Reservation: (404) 351-0870

Tickets are $30 and include heavy tapas, 1 adult beverage and the performance. If you stay for dinner your ticket price will be applied to your dinner bill.
Drinks and food at 6:30 performance starts at 7:30..food continues.

 

Francophone Film Festival:

 
Movies shown at the High Museum of Art:

Rich Theatre

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
Tickets : $7 general admission; $6 for students, seniors and Museum and Alliance Française members

Welcome (France)

Friday March 19th, 7 p.m.

What do you do when the girl you hope to marry leaves Iraq with her family and moves to London? If you're seventeen-year-old Bilal (Firat Ayverdi) you trek all the way to Calais, France, try to get a trafficker to smuggle you into Britain by truck, and after that fails, decide to swim the English Channel.

That's the set-up in this finely acted, unsentimental drama about the friendship that develops between a homeless teenager and his swimming instructor. At first Simon (Vincent Lindon), who encounters the skinny, determined Kurdish kid at the community pool where he works, is strictly business. Then he realizes that helping Bilal might help him score points with his soon-to-be-ex-wife, a teacher who also serves free meals to the desperate immigrants who gather around the docks.

Director Philippe Lioret explores the bond between a young man yearning for love and an older one mourning its loss in this poignant, multi-award-winning film.

(2009, France, 110 minutes.)
In French, Kurdish, and English with subtitles.

J'ai tué ma mère (Québec)

Friday March 19th, 9 p.m.

Every adolescent has moments of wishing that their parents would just disappear, but few dare announce their death just to get out of a school assignment.

Such a lie comes easily to Hubert, the mortified teenager whose story is told in this daring first feature from Canada. A semi-autobiographical film about a young gay man coming of age while struggling with his tortured relationship with his mother, the film is the work of twenty-year-old Montrealer Xavier Dolan, who wrote, directed, and stars in the picture.

It's an inventive, darkly funny, and furious film, so it's no surprise that this confident debut was the talk of the Director's Fortnight at Cannes in 2009.

(2009, Canada, 100 minutes.)
In French with subtitles.