‘Mimi’ at Alliance Francaise

Internationally acclaimed documentary 'Mimi' by Claire Simon will be screened at 3 pm on Tuesday July 10 and 6.30 pm on Wednesday July 11 at Alliance Francaise at Barnes Place Colombo- 7.

A moving story which follows a woman in Nice as she recalls her past won the second prize at 4th Ecocinema International Film Festival and was the inaugural film at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival.

The documentary unfolds about an ordinary woman called Mimi Chiola, and her memories of an ordinary life as the owner of a restaurant in Nice, and a house in the country where she passes the time gardening. But unlike any woman, Mimi has a story to tell. A film which touches the issue of ecology through the emotional portrait of a woman's personal journey towards inner self and the true meaning of life which she finds in nature.