25th French Film Festival 5 – 23 March 2014

26 Wednesday Feb 2014

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afSYDNEY PREMIÈRE OF THE FINISHERS

Tuesday 4 March 6pm Cocktail, National Art School 8pm Screening, Palace Verona

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Celebrating its 25th year in 2014, the Alliance Française French Film Festival is a popular event on the Australian cultural calendar.

It is not only the biggest film festival in Australia; it is also the biggest festival of French films outside of France.

Each year the festival curates a selection of the best contemporary French films, including comedies, dramas, documentaries and much more. Blockbusters and independent films alike screen over six weeks in seven cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Adelaide and Perth. The festival also includes glamorous opening nights, Q&As and special events with renowned figures of French film.

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Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia – 7 November 2013 to 10 March 2014

19 Wednesday Feb 2014

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Mapping our World, at the National Library in Canberra, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see rare and unique cartographic treasures from around the world.

Highlights of the exhibition include the magnificent Fra Mauro Map of the World; the remarkable Boke of Idrography presented to Henry VIII; an intricate world map by the Benedictine monk Andreas Walsperger (1448); a fifteenth-century Ptolemy manuscript; magnificent and controversial ‘Dieppe’ charts; one of only four surviving copies of Mercator’s groundbreaking 1569 projection, and original manuscript charts by Pacific navigators including Louis de Freycinet, James Cook and Matthew Flinders.