Bonjour Cinéma offers a gift to Sri Lanka

Celebrating 60th birthday of Bonjour Cinéma , young Sri Lankan filmmaking gets a great gift from France. Bonjour Cinéma 2007 is to give a great opportunity to young Sri Lankan directors to participate in a high calibre Short Film Competition and to thrive the horizons in the Sri Lankan and the international film industries.

This competition of young and up-coming, talented Sri Lankan film directors is not only to enrich the cultural ties between Sri Lanka and the francophony world but also create a promising future to the Sri Lankan film industry.

The short films will be selected by a jury comprising Sri Lankan and Foreign specialists in the industry and the 5 winning films The best film will be awarded.

In order to participate in the competition, the young filmmakers are requested to apply with a DVD copy of the short film with English subtitles and duration of 0-30 minutes and the applications are to be forwarded before February 23 2007 to the Cultural Section of the French Embassy.