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French speaking countries to hold film festival
Sri Lankan moviegoers would get an opportunity to experience a rare opportunity to see beautiful films of French speaking countries when a film festival of French speaking countries is to be held from March 17to 21 at the Lionel Wendt Theatre.

The festival is a joint cultural promotion effort organised by the Consulate of Belgium, the High Commission of Canada, the French Embassy and the Embassy of Switzerland with the collaboration of the National Film Corporation of Sri Lanka. In 2002 and 2003, the French Embassy organised the annual French-Sri Lankan Film Festival with success.

The Sri Lankan public’s enthusiastic response to last year’s event encouraged the diplomatic missions of Belgium, Canada, France and Switzerland to join their efforts to further extend this event in order to let the Sri Lankan public discover the richness and diversity of the cinema industries of several French speaking countries.

In addition to the French language films, three Sri Lankan films will also be screened during this year’s festival as a tribute to Dr. Lester James Pieris, Asoka

Handagama and young and upcoming film director, Vimukthi Jayasundara. Creations of all these directors have received official recognition and awards in France and these special screenings will allow the Sri Lankan public to discover these creations, some of them having never been publicly screened in Sri Lanka.

This year’s festival will feature a total of nine films and each film is scheduled to be screened once.

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