Alliance Française de Trivandrum in association with the Embassy of France in India and filca is  organising a festival of French films titled “SPICE OF LIFE” from 6-27 February at Alliance Française de Trivandrum. The festival showcases modern-day fables about French society .The films take a close-up view of the pain, the frustration, the enthusiasm and the hopes of young people; where the power of friendship and love forms life-long bonds. Four films will be screened at the festival which is open to the public.

The films to be screened are Samia, Zim & Co, When You come down from heaven and Neighbours.

Samia : Sixth in a family of eight children of Algerian descent, Samia suffocates in the moralistic atmosphere made oppressive by beliefs and rules she respects but no longer shares… And Samia, a series of school failures in her wake, forced to take up technical studies that don’t suit her, obliged to keep her first romance secret, becomes aware that it’s absolutely necessary that she alone decides just what to do with her life.

Zim & Co : After a banal motorbike accident, twenty-year-old Zim must find a proper job if he wants to avoid prison. He’s got a gang of great buddies – Cheb, Arthur and Safia – who are ready to do anything, or almost, to keep him out of jail. It is an uplifting and emotional movie about resourcefulness and solidarity. It gives a message full of hope, showing how the powerful link that unites three boys can make them overcome obstacles

When You come down from heaven : Jerome has just arrived from his farm where there was not enough work. He’s hired by the town hall  to clean out the town centre of its homeless people and tramps during the Christmas period. Whereas most of his “colleagues” accept this disgusting work,it is not long before he takes a rebel stand,abetted by a young female journalist.

Neighbours : A rap musician finds inspiration right on his doorstep, in the often comic struggles of his neighbors in the Mozart Estate housing project, he sets the stage for a lively hip-hop fable, set to the beat of the banlieues. Voisins, Voisines’ is a movie about how the vision of an artist brings beauty and meaning to the lives of his entourage